Psychiatry Gone Awry

June 22, 2010

Are Certain Behaviors-- And Jobs-- More Masculine? And Out Of Our Control?

wouldn't you know it, all the best derivatives traders are lesbians

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June 10, 2010

There Is No Link Between ADHD And Organophosphate Pesticides

come on you guys: what do the authors want to be true?

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May 27, 2010

NY v Junco: Sex, Civil, Hygiene, and Mental, All In One Post

when you lay down with dogs, you come up with fleas

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May 20, 2010

What US v. Comstock Means To You

phew... won't be needing this anymore

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January 14, 2010

Everyone Goes Crazy In A Different Way, As Long As That Way Is The Same

"yeah, everyone in America is so fake"

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November 19, 2009

Fearless Kids Go On To Become Criminals

so he was wrong?

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November 11, 2009

Stanford Prison Experiment Redux

it appears I'd lay there too if I were you

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October 16, 2009

The Neurobiology of Wisdom

It's always in the last place you look.

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October 8, 2009

More On Amygdala, Anxiety, and MRIs

After the last post, I thought, "perhaps I was too broad. Maybe too political, maybe I didn't have enough concrete examples."

Then I opened my mail.

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September 9, 2009

"Are there really so many people with such troubles in your country to make such medicine such an important matter?"

A reader writes:

"I'm from Europe, Romania...you speak about a medicine intended to declare/sell that medicine as "mood stabilizer"... However, are there really so many people with such troubles in your country to make such medicine such an important matter? I didn't think of America as being such a sad/depressed country and a medicine called "mood" something seems to me such a stretch..."

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July 19, 2009

Who Should Pay For Continuing Medical Education?

The money is in the C, not the E.

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July 13, 2009

A Surprising Number Of Teens Think They'll Die Young, Or Live Forever, Whichever Comes First

An unsurprising number of adults don't care either way.

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May 27, 2009

Ramachandran's Mirror

And I don't like what I see.

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March 4, 2009

Impulsivity In Kindergarten (Does Not) Predict Future Gambling

Here's how (not) to read a study.

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January 19, 2009

DSM-V Controversies

If the front page of Psychiatric Times ran a story called DSM-V Controversies, and it contained this picture, what would you think the article would be about?

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December 17, 2008

Is Internet Addiction Really An Addiction?

Depends on your definition. Wovon man...

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December 15, 2008

Should Hubris Be In The DSM-V?

Certain psychiatrists carry considerable weight in determining the policy, the spirit, of psychiatry. Henry Nasrallah is one of those men, which is why, if you see him write an editorial called, "Should psychiatry list hubris in the DSM-V?" -- especially if it is tongue-in-cheek--- you should strike yourself in the head with a brick until you are unconscious. You are about to be manipulated with words, and then it will be too late.

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December 8, 2008