I just checked my blog email account for the first time in months. It's possible - not likely - that I will sort through the spam and actually read and reply to your emails. It's also possible an...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2011/02/alive-but-inactive.html
Remember the hype around the serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs)? Effexor and Cymbalta impact both serotonin and norepinephrine, so they should be more effective than SSRI’s ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/10/cymbalta-and-effexor-hype-over-science.html
These folks at Lilly must think we are exceptionally stupid. As in can't tie our own shoes. A study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research recently found that their experimental antidepressant ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/05/eli-lilly-our-drug-failed-so-it-has.html
The key opinion leader of key opinion leaders. Or Boss of Bosses , if you prefer. In any case, take a peek at the following from Charles Nemeroff's page on the University of Miami's website . See...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/04/charles-nemeroff-consultant.html
Holy cow, I've been nominated for an award?!? Under the category of best health blog, with eight other nominees. Voting is already closed, and I can pretty much guarantee I didn't win, but it'...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/research-blogging-awards.html
By now, everyone who has been paying attention should know that a journal article which lists "editorial support" is an article that was ghostwritten. Yet the average reader of these articles is ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/editorial-support-cme-and-primary-care.html
I'm short on time, so I apologize for the lack of details. The short of it: A researcher at the University of Sheffield (Guirong Jang) submitted research findings regarding Procter & Gamble's ost...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-you-dont-learn-your-lesson-first.html
The buzz around the new version of the DSM is already starting. The draft version is now online and it features a new condition with the ungainly moniker of "Temper Dysregulation Disorder with Dy...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/02/say-hello-to-temper-dysregulation.html
Yet another meta-analysis with the same damn result -- antidepressants for most cases of depression are placebos. This is in a paper with authors including Jay Amsterdam, Richard Shelton, and Jan...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2010/01/do-you-have-mild-moderate-or-severe.html
I've been wanting to write about this for months. Here goes. We know that antipsychotics are the new panacea for all things mental health-related, including depression (1 , 2 , 3 ). But critics...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/12/atypical-antipsychotics-for-depression.html
Apparently, the FDA will approve just about anything as an antidepressant. Despite patients indicating that they don't perceive Abilify to work as an antidepressant, the FDA approved it, likel...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/10/transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-for.html
Journalism regarding the horrors of ghostwritten papers in medical journals is all the rage these days (1 , 2 , 3 ). Here's my very small contribution. The document shown below from a medical wri...
Daniel Carlat from the Carlat Psychiatry Blog received an invitation to the key opinion leader club from the good people at Schering-Plough. The company wanted him to read their slides to other ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/09/wanted-drug-pimpkey-opinion-leader.html
I ran across a rather hilarious article from Medical Hypotheses , in which David Healy described "Krapelin-Fraud Syndrome", which I have also dubbed "Key Opinion Leader Syndrome." See below for t...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/08/key-opinion-leader-syndrome.html
I'm not sure what to make of this. A lot of documents have become available on the Shearlings Got Plowed blog, which deal with the new antipsychotic drug asenapine. If I had the time, I'd be bur...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/07/asenapine-chronicles.html
According to a freshly published study, one in five depressed patients receiving services through the VA healthcare system in the United States is taking an antipsychotic. Of those taking antipsy...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/07/thanks-for-your-service-now-take-this.html
Dan Neil has an absolutely marvelous column in the LA Times about pharma's bitching/moaning regarding increased regulation of its advertising and its potential loss of tax writeoffs associated w...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/07/will-pharmas-tax-free-speech-be-limited.html
Erroneous reporting wins prestigious award, starring Charles Nemeroff. Oy. Brought to you courtesy of Health Care Renewal . Read the full story and shake your head. Teaser: > Something about ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/07/award-winning-journalism.html
In a recent speech , incoming American Psychiatric Association president Alan Schatzberg was quoted as saying: > "As the recent attacks on APA and leaders of the profession have > o...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-american-psychiatric-association.html
Story one: Zachary Stowe, psychiatrist at Emory University becomes Charles Nemeroff, Jr. Read all about it the Carlat Psychiatry Blog and University Diaries . And check out the WSJ Health Blog ...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/06/greedy-and-ghostly-scientists.html
Abilify for depression: you've seen the ads. You've hopefully read this blog (1 , 2 ) and the excellent series in the LA Times from Melissa Healy. The advantage over placebo is nothing to get pa...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/06/abilify-for-depression-patients-give-it.html
If you follow professional basketball, you've probably noticed that LA Lakers forward Lamar Odom has a well-deserved reputation for inconsistent play. When he's good, he's close to amazing, and w...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/06/pseudoscience-candy-and-lamar-odom.html
Yeah, I know the economy is in very bad shape and possibly getting worse. But for the kind of fantastic investigative journalism we get from the inimitable Philip Dawdy at Furious Seasons, one re...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/open-up-yer-wallets.html
If you've been reading about Abilify for depression on this site, you've probably noticed that I've been down on Abilify for causing akathisia in a frighteningly high percentage of patients. In t...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/05/if-youve-been-reading-about-abilify-for.html
Furious Seasons has a rather distressing piece of news from a recent Bristol-Myers Squibb conference call . To sum it up quickly, BMS claims that 10.6% of depressed patients are now receiving at...
http://clinpsyc.blogspot.com/2009/04/abilify-runs-amok-runs-stealth-safety.html