Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Abilify, Depression, and the Memory Hole

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The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has a piece on Abilify for depression that illustrates many of psychiatry...
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Friday, March 06, 2009

Seroquel, Weight Gain, And the Pursuit of GAD and Depression Indications

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Jim Edwards at BNET dug through the Seroquel documents and found many instances of AZ employees noting that Seroquel causes weight gain....
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Monday, March 02, 2009

Internal Documents Suggest that Seroquel Data Were Not Presented Accurately

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A document dated March 9, 2000 titled "BPRS meta-analysis" shows that AstraZeneca, maker of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine (Ser...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Seroquel Becomes Zyprexa, Part 2. But With More Sex.

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I had a big post on Abilify ready to go for today, but I'll sit on it for a few days because Seroquel is the new Zyprexa, and that is th...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

What's Next for Schatzberg?

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An advertisement in the Psychiatric Times ( page 34 of .pdf) calls for applicants for the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavi...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Abilify For Depression: I'm Not the Only Skeptic

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In April 2008, findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology which claimed that the atypical antipsychotic aripipra...
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Zyprexa: Lilly Admits Guilt, But Also Blame Physicians

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In February 2007, I wrote a post in which I described evidence that Lilly's antipsychotic olanzapine (Zyprexa) was marketed off-label f...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

The Budget Crisis, Universities, and Key Opinion Leaders

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Everyone knows that state budgets across the United States are in a crunch. All state-supported universities are looking for sources of inc...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Sowing the Seeds of Lexapro

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I'm reading an article with my jaw completely agape and I thought I'd share the pain. The good people at Forest Pharmaceuticals have...
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Monday, January 05, 2009

We're All Mentally Disordered: College-Age Edition

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A study in the December 2008 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry concluded that almost half of college aged Americans suffered from...
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Friday, January 02, 2009

KOL Continues to Vanish

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Charles Nemeroff, about whom I have written much , continues to disappear. His latest vanishing act: From a psychiatric research gathering ...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The Incredible Vanishing Key Opinion Leader

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Charles Nemeroff, former chair of psychiatry at Emory University and key opinion leader extraordinaire has vanished. Not quite vanished fro...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Treatment Guidelines and GSK's Open Disclosure

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Last week, I noted that a recently published article had found that studies favoring GSK's "mood stabilizer" Lamictal tended...
Thursday, December 04, 2008

Lamictal: Break Out the Shovel

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GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of lamotrigine (Lamictal), the antiepileptic drug used widely for bipolar disorder, happily hid clinical tr...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Key Opinion Leader With A Very Short Fuse

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Psychiatrist Joe "Short Fuse" Biederman of Harvard University is really in hot water now. The sordid details can be seen in a fan...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Staying Alive

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The day job has been merciless lately and promises little relief in the near future. Thanks for the emails. I am surviving and hope to wri...
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Friday, October 31, 2008

You Really Can Report Safety Data

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A new study concluded that the combination of sertraline (Zoloft) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) worked better than either treatment...
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Monday, October 27, 2008

Psychiatric Diagnoses: Fact or Fiction?

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Below is a guest post from Tim Desmond. I do not necessarily agree with all of the the contents of the post below, but I thought the topic w...
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Saturday, October 18, 2008

The Latest on Kiddie Bipolar

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A recent study in the Archives of General Psychiatry claimed that kiddie bipolar tends to become adult bipolar. I have read the study and ...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

APA Membership Rejects Torture

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APA Membership Rejects Torture The American Psychological Association membership recently overrode their leadership (the Council of Represen...
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