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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. There was one other red flag.

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Image-Based Memory May Heighten Symptoms of PTSD 

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In the first study, participants ranged in age between 18 and 83. 2006), whereas a question measuring spatial imagery may have asked participants if they could easily rotate three-dimensional geometric figures in their mind. Mental imagery in depression: Phenomenology, potential mechanisms, and treatment implications.

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Study: Rise in ADHD Diagnoses Reflects Greater Education, Not Prevalence

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In 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) changed the maximum age of onset from 7 to 12 and added the first-ever qualifier symptoms for ADHD in adulthood. 2 On May 22, the MAHA Commission , spearheaded by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Child Adolesc Ment Health.

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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The screening test recommended by the World Health Organization is so poor that for every 100,000 healthy people screened, 36,000 will get a false diagnosis of depression. If the suicide rates had remained stable at the rate they were in 2006, there would have been 10,000 to 15,000 fewer suicides among US veterans.

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Mastery of Language Could Predict Longevity

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Everyone ages, but, sometimes, people outlive all predictions. Previous research has uncovered an unlikely factor related to longevity: intelligence (Bckman & MacDonald, 2006; Bosworth & Siegler, 2002). It tracked 516 people aged 70 to 105 from enrollment to their death, over as long as 18 years in some cases.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

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In 2008, BMJ recognized her as one of 100 international scientists journalists could count on for unbiased reviews of health research. Brooke Siem: Gretchen, I didnt know you were recognized as one of 100 international scientists journalists can rely on for unbiased reviews of health research. LeFever Watson: In 2006.

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