Behaviorism and Mental Health

Alternative perspective on psychiatry's so-called mental disorders | PHILIP HICKEY, PH.D.

Antidepressant-induced Seizures in Children

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There’s an article in the current issue of Clinical Toxicology, titled Drug-induced seizures in children and adolescents presenting for emergency care: Current and emerging trends, authored by Y. Finkelstein et al. The authors conducted an observational study, on 37 sites, of all pediatric Emergency Room reports which included a chemical or drug-induced seizure and required… Continue Reading

SSRI’s Impair Learning.

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There’s an interesting article on Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.  It’s called Learning from Negative Feedback in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder is Attenuated by SSRI Antidepressants. The researchers evaluated learning ability in three groups: medication-naïve individuals who met the criteria for Major Depressive Disorder individuals who met the criteria for MDD and were receiving the… Continue Reading

Overall Efficacy of Mental Health Treatment

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There’s an interesting article by J. Sareen et al on Cambridge Journals Online, September 2013.  It’s call Common mental disorder diagnosis and need for treatment are not the same: findings from a population-based survey.  Five of the six authors are working at universities in Canada, the sixth at a university in California.  [Thanks to Mad… Continue Reading