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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
by Chris Harrop
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/elec...
by Chris Harrop
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/elec...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
www.madinamerica.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): It’s Not Just the Memory Loss
by Chris Harrop
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/elec...
by Chris Harrop
A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/elec...
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Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
by Lisa Morrison
The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/wome...
by Lisa Morrison
The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/wome...
Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
The use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective. When I was most vulnerable, my rights were not protected.
www.madinamerica.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
by Lisa Morrison
The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/wome...
by Lisa Morrison
The widespread use of ECT on women needs to be understood from a trauma-informed perspective.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/wome...
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Ketamine Continues to Fail to Beat Active Placebo for Depression
Researchers find that ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression.
By Peter Simons
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/keta...
Researchers find that ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression.
By Peter Simons
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/keta...
Ketamine Continues to Fail to Beat Active Placebo for Depression
Ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression
www.madinamerica.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Ketamine Continues to Fail to Beat Active Placebo for Depression
Researchers find that ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression.
By Peter Simons
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/keta...
Researchers find that ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression.
By Peter Simons
www.madinamerica.com/2025/11/keta...
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The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
UN Says Emissions Will Drop In The Next 10 Years But Not ‘Fast Enough’—Bill Gates Urges New Approach
The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
www.forbes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The projections still fall short of the 60% reduction in emissions needed to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
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Universal School Mental Health Lessons Can Backfire, Review Warns
A new review finds that universal, school mental health programs can worsen symptoms for some students and urges trials that measure harm as well as benefit.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/univ...
A new review finds that universal, school mental health programs can worsen symptoms for some students and urges trials that measure harm as well as benefit.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/univ...
Universal School Mental Health Lessons Can Backfire, Review Warns
Oxford researchers say classroom-wide mental health interventions can backfire and call for designs that identify who benefits and who is put at risk.
www.madinamerica.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Universal School Mental Health Lessons Can Backfire, Review Warns
A new review finds that universal, school mental health programs can worsen symptoms for some students and urges trials that measure harm as well as benefit.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/univ...
A new review finds that universal, school mental health programs can worsen symptoms for some students and urges trials that measure harm as well as benefit.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/univ...
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He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?
Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18
#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑
Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18
#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?
Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18
#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑
Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18
#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑
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Rajvinder Samra calls for an ontological turn in mental health research that values how people live their realities—not just how they explain them.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/from...
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/from...
From Knowledge to Being: Expanding What “Lived Experience” Means
Rajvinder Samra calls for an ontological turn in mental health research that values how people live their realities—not just how they explain them.
www.madinamerica.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Rajvinder Samra calls for an ontological turn in mental health research that values how people live their realities—not just how they explain them.
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/from...
By Ally Riddle
www.madinamerica.com/2025/10/from...
Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care
YouTube video by Cleveland Clinic
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
Full interview here: buff.ly/IHKmnSu
Full interview here: buff.ly/IHKmnSu
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Joining us on our #podcast are Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff to discuss a recent FDA panel on potential harms caused by #antidepressant use during pregnancy. #mentalhealth #psychology #psychiatry
Full interview here: buff.ly/IHKmnSu
Full interview here: buff.ly/IHKmnSu
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Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
by Robert Nikkel, MSW
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/peer...
by Robert Nikkel, MSW
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/peer...
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a viable alternative.
www.madinamerica.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Peer Advocates Who Made Things Happen in Oregon
by Robert Nikkel, MSW
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/peer...
by Robert Nikkel, MSW
We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a vision for system change.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/peer...
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Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
by M. Tehsin Satti
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/beyo...
by M. Tehsin Satti
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/beyo...
Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
www.madinamerica.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Beyond Medication: Meeting People in Their Worlds
by M. Tehsin Satti
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/beyo...
by M. Tehsin Satti
Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/beyo...
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If dementia policy continues to be dictated by a few, then the real crisis—the collapse of social care, the exploitation of unpaid labour—will remain unaddressed. The breakthrough we need is political, cultural, sociological, and moral.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Alzheimer's disease outlook: controversies and future directions
For the first time, reductions in cerebral β-amyloid pathology load and rate of cognitive
and functional decline have been achieved in Alzheimer's disease, through pharmacological
intervention in rand...
www.thelancet.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
If dementia policy continues to be dictated by a few, then the real crisis—the collapse of social care, the exploitation of unpaid labour—will remain unaddressed. The breakthrough we need is political, cultural, sociological, and moral.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I do find the campaigning by the corporate dementia charities entirely vacuous, intellectually and emotionally tone deaf, and stigmatising. #WorldAlzheimersDay
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I do find the campaigning by the corporate dementia charities entirely vacuous, intellectually and emotionally tone deaf, and stigmatising. #WorldAlzheimersDay
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How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
An MIA Essay by Bruce Levine, PhD
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/how-...
An MIA Essay by Bruce Levine, PhD
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/how-...
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.
www.madinamerica.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
How “Garbage-In-Garbage-Out” Academic Psychiatry Research Has Become Even More Ridiculous, and How Taking It Seriously Impoverishes Critical Thinkers
An MIA Essay by Bruce Levine, PhD
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/how-...
An MIA Essay by Bruce Levine, PhD
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/how-...
“Doctors in Canada have said euthanasia for newborn babies who are born with disabilities “may be an appropriate treatment”, as concerns grow about the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme.” (Shared from X)
September 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“Doctors in Canada have said euthanasia for newborn babies who are born with disabilities “may be an appropriate treatment”, as concerns grow about the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia and assisted suicide programme.” (Shared from X)
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A Call for Retraction: How a Journal Condoned Psychedelic Therapy Abuse
MIA Essay By Will Hall
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/a-ca...
MIA Essay By Will Hall
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/a-ca...
A Call for Retraction: How a Journal Condoned Psychedelic Therapy Abuse
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
www.madinamerica.com
September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A Call for Retraction: How a Journal Condoned Psychedelic Therapy Abuse
MIA Essay By Will Hall
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/a-ca...
MIA Essay By Will Hall
The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/a-ca...
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Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
By Kelly McFadden
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
By Kelly McFadden
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...
Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
www.madinamerica.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
By Kelly McFadden
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...
Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.
By Kelly McFadden
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...
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Labeled, Medicated, Misdiagnosed — Until I Rewired My Own Brain
by Michael W.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/labe...
by Michael W.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/labe...
Labeled, Medicated, Misdiagnosed — Until I Rewired My Own Brain
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
www.madinamerica.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Labeled, Medicated, Misdiagnosed — Until I Rewired My Own Brain
by Michael W.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/labe...
by Michael W.
I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.
www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/labe...
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John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. In this #podcast interview, he discusses the extensive bias that pervades scientific research.
#Science #Research #STEM #ScienceNews
➡️ buff.ly/uUJ5QlP
#Science #Research #STEM #ScienceNews
➡️ buff.ly/uUJ5QlP
September 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
John Ioannidis is a Stanford professor, a physician, and one of the most eminent scholars in the world in the field of evidence-based medicine. In this #podcast interview, he discusses the extensive bias that pervades scientific research.
#Science #Research #STEM #ScienceNews
➡️ buff.ly/uUJ5QlP
#Science #Research #STEM #ScienceNews
➡️ buff.ly/uUJ5QlP
Beauty is everywhere 🌺🌺🌺
September 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Beauty is everywhere 🌺🌺🌺
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The deck of cards that is frailty
Looking at frailty is a question of perspective, obviously, doh
open.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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The decision could limit Trump’s ability to send the National Guard to other cities, as he threatens to send troops to Chicago.
Trump’s Los Angeles Takeover Violated Federal Law, Judge Rules
The decision could limit Trump’s ability to send the National Guard to other cities, as he threatens to send troops to Chicago.
www.forbes.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The decision could limit Trump’s ability to send the National Guard to other cities, as he threatens to send troops to Chicago.
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ChatGPT Doesn’t Identify Well-Known Retracted Studies, Claims They Are “Internationally Excellent”
The researchers also found ChatGPT claimed known falsehoods from retracted articles were true.
By Peter Simons
The researchers also found ChatGPT claimed known falsehoods from retracted articles were true.
By Peter Simons
ChatGPT Doesn’t Identify Well-Known Retracted Studies, Claims They Are “Internationally Excellent”
ChatGPT correctly identified none of the most well-known study retractions. Most of the time, it claimed these studies were world-leading.
buff.ly
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
ChatGPT Doesn’t Identify Well-Known Retracted Studies, Claims They Are “Internationally Excellent”
The researchers also found ChatGPT claimed known falsehoods from retracted articles were true.
By Peter Simons
The researchers also found ChatGPT claimed known falsehoods from retracted articles were true.
By Peter Simons