Probiotics for adults with major depressive disorder compared with antidepressants: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Author Archive: Editorial
The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations
How Animals Help Us Heal with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
Saving psychiatry from itself: will young psychiatrists choose authoritarian power or authoritative respect?
This editorial comment from John Read appears in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. It begins: “In their important paper, ‘Images of psychiatry and psychiatrists’, Stuart et al. 1 document the negative beliefs about psychiatrists and psychiatric treatments held by other medical disciplines in 15…
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Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis
Antidepressant withdrawal should be taken seriously – we’re investigating ways to help people come off the pills
This article from Mark Horowitz, Joanna Moncrieff and Katharine Wallis has been published by The Conversation. It begins: “Misinformation about antidepressants is rife and is probably fuelling their rise in use. Chief among these false ideas are: Antidepressant withdrawal effects are mild and…
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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All
The influence of paid opinion leaders on the prescribing of antidepressants in the UK
A former NHS psychiatrist has submitted two rapid responses to the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in relation to this published letter : Reversing the rate of antidepressant prescribing. The first response begins: “I see that there have been a number of responses to this letter: Reversing the rate…
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Time-dependent effect of antipsychotic discontinuation and dose reduction on social functioning and subjective quality of life–a multilevel meta-analysis
This study has been published in eClinicalMedicine (part of The Lancet Discovery Science) The summary says: “Background Meta-analyses indicate superiority of antipsychotic maintenance treatment over discontinuation within up to 24 months after treatment initiation for patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. In terms…
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Conflicts of interest in clinical guidelines, advisory committee reports, opinion pieces, and narrative reviews: associations with recommendations
“This study has been published in the Cochrane Database Syst Rev. The abstract says: “Background Treatment and diagnostic recommendations are often made in clinical guidelines, reports from advisory committee meetings, opinion pieces such as editorials, and narrative reviews. Quite often, the…
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