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Repost: Francis “Frank” J. Underwood From Netflix’s House of Cards: A...
Last week, Netflix released Season 3 of House of Cards. In light of this, I am reposting a blog I wrote about the second season of the series last year: “Frank” J. Underwood From Netflix’s House of...
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Repost: Claire Underwood From Netflix’s House of Cards: Narcissistic...
Last month, Netflix released Season 3 of House of Cards. In light of this, I am reposting a blog I wrote about the second season of the series last year: “Claire Underwood From Netflix’s House of...
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What the pot and pain pill overdose study teaches us about ecological fallacies
I am delighted to offer Mind the Brain readers a guest blog written by Keith Humphreys, Ph.D., John Finney, Ph.D., Alex Sox-Harris, Ph.D., and Daniel Kivlahan, Ph.D. Drs. Humphreys, Sox-Harris, and...
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Developments in the Treatment of PTSD Nightmares
“What Dreams May Come: Treating the Nightmares of PTSD” was a blog post I published in November 2013. It remains a very popular post, which continues to receive many views and comments. Since...
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Consistently poor coverage of mental health issues in The Guardian
Issuing a readers’ advisory: The Guardian provides misleading, badly skewed coverage of mental health issues vitally important to mental health service users. Stories in The Guardian can confuse and...
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Prions, Memory and PTSD: A conversation with Nobel prize winning...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been described as a disorder of memory. It has become quite apparent that there are two types of memory in PTSD: the first being the involuntary intrusions of...
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The Holocaust intrudes into conversations about psychiatric diagnosis:...
The President-elect of the British Psychological Association drops the N word and invokes the Holocaust in denouncing mental health professionals who embrace the biomedical model. The conversation...
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The National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study (NVVLS) and the implications...
The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) was conducted in 1983 as a response to a congressional mandate for an investigation of PTSD and other postwar psychological problems among...
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PTSD and the DSM-5: A conversation with Dr. Matt Friedman
More than thirty-five years after the 1980 recognition of PTSD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the data are unequivocal: Today there can be no doubt about the...
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Stalking a Cheshire cat: Figuring out what happened in a psychotherapy...
John Ioannidis, the “scourge of sloppy science” has documented again and again that the safeguards being introduced into the biomedical literature against untrustworthy findings are usually...
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Remission of suicidal ideation by magnetic seizure therapy? Neuro-nonsense in...
A recent article in JAMA: Psychiatry: Sun Y, Farzan F, Mulsant BH, Rajji TK, Fitzgerald PB, Barr MS, Downar J, Wong W, Blumberger DM, Daskalakis ZJ. Indicators for remission of suicidal ideation...
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Deep Brain Stimulation: Unproven treatment promoted with a conflict of...
“Even with our noisy ways and cattle prods in the brain, we have to take care of sick people, now,” – Helen Mayberg “All of us—researchers, journalists, patients and their loved ones–are desperate for...
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Study protocol violations, outcomes switching, adverse events misreporting: A...
An extraordinary, must-read article is now available open access: Jureidini, JN, Amsterdam, JD, McHenry, LB. The citalopram CIT-MD-18 pediatric depression trial: Deconstruction of medical ghostwriting,...
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Cortisol, the Intergenerational Transmission of Stress, and PTSD: An...
Source: http://www.dissociative-identity-disorder.net/w/images/PTSD.png Cortisol, a stress hormone, is a key player in the subtle hormonal changes that have come to be associated with PTSD, and Dr....
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Military Sexual Trauma, Rape, PTSD, and Suicide: A conversation with Katie Webb
Among Americans, rape is the trauma that is most likely to lead to PTSD. The medical profession is becoming increasingly aware that sexual trauma represents a serious medical and mental health concern....
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Why Lancet Psychiatry study didn’t show locked inpatient wards ineffective in...
A well-orchestrated publicity campaign for a Lancet Psychiatry article promoted the view that locked inpatient wards are ineffective in reducing suicide. This interpretation is not supported by data...
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Perinatal Psychiatry, Birth Trauma and Perinatal PTSD: An Interview with Dr....
It is now blatantly clear that a woman’s increased vulnerability to developing PTSD is closely linked to that fact that, when compared to a man, she is much more likely to be the victim of the toxic...
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The Golden Years: Traumatic Stress and Aging – An Interview with Joan Cook
Dr. Joan Cook is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. She has specific expertise in the areas of traumatic stress and geriatric...
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Psilocybin as a treatment for cancer patients who are not depressed: the NYU...
The well orchestrated promotion of a modest and misrepresented pair of studies of using psilocybin with cancer patients raises lots of issues and should leave lots of people embarrassed. A breakdown in...
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Complex PTSD, STAIR, Social Ecology and lessons learned from 9/11- a...
Dr. Marylene Cloitre is the Associate Director of Research of the National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division and a research Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry...
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