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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

Mad in America

I sent her several book reviews that appeared in scientific journals praising the book; I told her of the impact that the book has had; and I noted how the Investigative Reporters and Editors Association had given Anatomy its best investigative book of the year award in 2010.

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What I Have Learned in Working With 300+ People in Their Journey of Tapering

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I am a psychiatrist in the US who completed residency in 2010. I always felt that there was something off with my profession. Yet I didnt know how to question the specifics of my formal psychiatric training. I performed as a psychiatrist the way I was expected to, in the way I had been taught.

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

Mad in America

In 2010, Ed Pigott and colleagues published their first review of the STAR*D findings, telling of how, at the end of the one year, only 108 of the 4041 patients who had entered the study had remitted during the acute phase of the study and then stayed well and in the trial to its one-year end.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

Indeed, as Pigott and collaborators reported in their 2010 paper , of the 4,041 patients who had entered the study, only 108 were well and still in the study at its end, a documented stay-well rate of less than 3%. The New Yorker, famed for its fact-checking, did so in a 2010 article. 9 ↩ This history is excerpted from R.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

2010 Jan-Feb;3(1-2):27-34. 2010 Aug 10;8(8):e1000451. Psychiatry 15, 810(2010). Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Aug 10;91(2):275-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.06.014. 2012.06.014. PMID: 22883143; PMCID: PMC3415543. 11: Shearin AL, Ostrander EA. Leading the way: canine models of genomics and disease. Dis Model Mech. doi: 10.1242/dmm.004358.

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Study: Non-Medication Treatments for ADHD Not as Effective as Stimulants

ADDitude

[link] 2 Westwood, S.J., Aggensteiner, P., Neurofeedback for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. link] 3 Faraone, S. V., & Buitelaar, J. Comparing the efficacy of stimulants for ADHD in children and adolescents using meta-analysis. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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NY Times Prints Fraudulent STAR*D Result Yet Again

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However, as Ed Pigott and colleagues have reported, in publications dating back to 2010, the investigators violated their own protocol in numerous ways to inflate the remission rate. .” That was the result publicized by the STAR*D investigators in their 2006 report on the study outcomes.

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