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Stimulants Do Not Cause Psychosis: New Research

ADDitude

The study found that patients admitted to McLean Hospital for psychosis were 2.7 According to the study’s own authors: “Use of hospitalized control subjects excludes individuals with less severe disease, leading to selection bias.” 2024-069142. 2024 Oct 1;181(10):901-909. Epub 2024 Sep 12. Pediatrics.

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sNDA Submitted: Lumateperone for the Prevention of Relapse in Schizophrenia

Psychiatric Times

“For people living with schizophrenia, relapses can be devastating as they disrupt lives, undo hard-earned treatment progress toward patients' goals, and increase the risk of hospitalization with each episode,” said Christoph U. December 3, 2024. points (effect size 0.61) in study 501 and 4.5 News release. July 8, 2025.

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Centanafadine Study: New ADHD Drug Effective for Adults and Kids

ADDitude

Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in an Otsuka-sponsored event at the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) conference in January 2025. Poster #149. 3 Mohammadi, M. R., & Akhondzadeh, S.

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99 Pubs and Zero Followers? Psychiatric Leadership in the Age of Influencers

Psychiatric Times

2-6 I have spent the past 3 years since I finished training working on one of the inpatient forensic psychiatry units at Bellevue Hospital treating patients admitted from Rikers Island for acute stabilization. She is also an attending forensic psychiatrist at Bellevue Hospital Center. October 19, 2024. September 3, 2024.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

Mad in America

T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Robert Whitaker: Your longitudinal study of outcomes for chronic patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital wasand isof landmark importance.

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Mad Camp Europe: My Journey from Ward Violence to Healing and Community

Mad in America

I got two diagnoses, borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder with ultra-rapid cycling, a fact that I hid throughout my whole time of service for the hospital. It was a warlike situation; we couldn’t leave the ward, we couldn’t leave the hospital, and we were all stuck inside there. I worked a lot.

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They Called It Psychiatry – I Call It Punishment

Mad in America

I n 2024, I was forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric institution — not because I was a danger to myself or others, but because I spoke out. I was then forcibly deported back to Libya and transferred to a public psychiatric hospital. I am a Libyan doctor and entrepreneur. I built my company from nothing. No legal hearing.