Editorial Note: The image is of Science Media Centre funding from their website. This post links to Whats Going on Here, Honey I Shrunk the Shrinks, and to the two Prescription for Murder Posts on RxISK. When AF's email came in first, it seemed far from private as he now claims. The choice of people seemed anything but accidental - especially SW. It seemed likely SW would … [Read more...] about From the Grassy Knoll
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Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns
Editorial Note: This is part 1 of a lecture given at a British Neuropsychiatric Association meeting in London on February 22 under the heading of Psychopharmacology: 1952 - 2017. The lecture will feature here in 3 posts of which this is the first. Slides 1 -11 can be found HERE. The Birth This picture is taken from a newspaper in 1952. It features Jean Delay wearing navy … [Read more...] about Tweeting While Psychiatry Burns
Venomagnosia
Editorial Note: I was asked to review Peter Kramer's Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants for ISIS. The in print review is HERE. There is a sister post on RxISK - with a better cartoon and where the word Venomagnosia s explained - Come Back When you Have a Medical Degree. This book was very difficult to review. In Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants, Dr. … [Read more...] about Venomagnosia
Study 329: Republic to Empire
Editorial Note: This post is from Sally MacGregor. In depositions and lectures I commonly state that I have had more support and information from colleagues working for industry than from clinical colleagues. I loved the analysis of the derailment of medicine and research through the comparison between a Republican and Empire structure, and the take-over of the former by the … [Read more...] about Study 329: Republic to Empire
The Ghost of Research Future
Editorial Note: This post is by Johanna Ryan. As with all posts by Jo, it unearths angles on current stories that everyone else seems to have missed. A column here last month followed the legacy of Study 329 into the present. By taking apart one 2015 study of Vraylar, a new antipsychotic, I tried to show that clinical research in 2015 is even more ghost-written, and more … [Read more...] about The Ghost of Research Future
Study 329: Data Wars
Sensing the end of the Roman Republic and unhappy at the approach of Empire, Cassius approached Brutus to save the Republic. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." The Republic was a Democracy, with a Government answerable to its Electors. Caesar’s conquests meant that the Roman Government was now responsible for swathes of … [Read more...] about Study 329: Data Wars
Original Study 329 Team
MARTIN B. KELLER, M.D. Brown University Martin B. Keller Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Martin_Keller@brown.edu Martin Keller has made major research contributions to the understanding and treatment of mood disorders. He has performed research on the longitudinal course and neuropsychopharmacology of affective disorders … [Read more...] about Original Study 329 Team
42 or Thereabouts
See previous posts - Switch on Anti-Depression Today and So Long and Thanks for all the Serotonin. In response to the recent BMJ editorial on Serotonin and Depression, there were seventeen letters of which three were published, along with my response. These are copied below along with the best letter - by Barney Carroll - which wasn't published. Make your own mind up as to … [Read more...] about 42 or Thereabouts
Curriculum Vitae
Prepared March 2015 DAVID HEALY, MD FRCPsych North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine Hergest Unit, Ysbyty Gwynedd, BANGOR, Gwynedd LL57 2PW, Wales (UK) Tel: (1248) 384452 Fax: (1248) 371397 E-Mail: David.Healy54@googlemail.com Citzenship: Republic of Ireland Country of Residence: UK APPOINTMENTS January 2014 — Professor of Psychiatry, Bangor … [Read more...] about Curriculum Vitae
Articles
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications Healy D, Dunne M, Duignan J & Heffernan S J (1980). The use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of retroperitoneal abscesses of the appendix. Irish J of Medical Science, 149, 479. Healy D, Carney PA & Leonard BE (1983). Monoamine- related markers of depression: change following treatment. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 17, … [Read more...] about Articles