Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?” A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S.

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Clear Behavioral Health

MAY 2, 2025

Depression commonly refers to a mental health disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a loss of interest in activities that you once enjoyed. Depression can be caused by acombination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. 877.799.1985 What is Depression?

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Epidemiology & Pathogenesis 4 , 5 Genetics , environmental influences , and mental health comorbidities contribute to vulnerability. Prevalence : Data from the 2023 United States National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) 10.2% Exclude other causes of altered mental status (e.g.,

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Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access). In this sense, everything is somehow genetic.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Professor Cathy Creswell , from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and lead for the NIHR ARC OxTV’s mental health across the life course theme, recently visited Chile to establish the project. In February 2023, it was recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 19, 2025

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This heterogeneity makes it difficult to generalise.

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Child Mind Intitute

APRIL 23, 2025

Yet, it persists, and that can weigh on families trying to make the best decisions about their childrens health. Low immunization rates driven in part by parents choosing not to vaccinate their children led to a 20% increase in measles cases worldwide between 2022 and 2023.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Another paper confirmed that, like the public but unlike most psychiatrists, the majority of people who are prescribed antipsychotics have psycho-social rather than bio-genetic causal explanations for their difficulties 11. Perhaps they have personally had a bad experience with mental health services but not with this particular treatment?

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Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Mad in America

MAY 6, 2025

2 Or you are told you have a lack of insight into your disease, which is a symptom of your mental illness, a catch-22 situation from which there is no escape. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Health issued a licence to kill. Depression and antidepressants in Australia and beyond: a critical public health analysis (PhD thesis).

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I didn’t know Wallace was a poster boy for antidepressant withdrawal because I didn’t know that antidepressant withdrawal was common, or that I would be experiencing it myself and understanding firsthand the hellish bodily and mental feelings that make one long for death, for everything to stop. Down from 40mg.

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Bullet Psych

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

It influences one or more mental functions, including memory, orientation, mood, judgment, and behavioral and social functioning. Epidemiology: The "Who" and the "Why" 5 , 6 , 7 SUDs are a major public health issue, leading to substantial morbidity, mortality, and economic burden.

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ADDitude

MAY 27, 2025

To advance our understanding of ADHD in females, research that seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying how sex hormones may influence ADHD symptoms is essential, they wrote, calling for a multi-disciplinary approach that combines assessments of hormone levels with neurocognitive, brain imaging, genetic, or neurophysiological investigations.

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ADDitude

MAY 18, 2025

Similar results were found in a 2024 systematic review of 55 studies investigating the role of pubertal hormones on mental health conditions. The review concluded that most of the studies that exist on hormones and mental health outcomes were at high risk for bias and involved many confounding factors. J Health Soc Behav.

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Clear Behavioral Health

APRIL 2, 2025

Genetic predisposition, a history of trauma, mental health disorders, and even the accessibility of opioids all contribute to an individuals vulnerability to addiction. Sleep Disturbances: Insomnia, restless sleep, and vivid dreams are common, further adding to the physical and mental strain. What is Opioid Detox Like?

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

As an example, the Danish Board of Health has warned that adding a benzodiazepine to a neuroleptic increases mortality by 50-65%. Genetic association studies have come up empty-handed and so have brain imaging studies, which are generally highly flawed. Deadly medicines and organised crime: How big pharma has corrupted health care.

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