Two recent studies report risks associated with anti-depressant and other psych med use during pregnancy and how that impacts offspring. First, a Norwegian study appearing in the British journal BJOG looked at 38,602 kids born between 2000 and 2005 and...
Yep this one http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/ that got 72,234 people calling on the snot muncher to fuck the fuck off. Well he got the job just because Blair pissed off to walk on water or somesuch an no one, not a single person ever got the chance to vote on Cyclops. Anyway No.10 has replied http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page21213 The Prime Minister is completely focussed on restoring the...
A new work advancing a radical theory of the motivation behind suicide bombers is almost bizarrely off the mark. Stitching together thought and observation from disparate and often dissonant sources, Georgetown theology professor Ariel Glucklich’s book would be laughable were he not a consultant to the defense community. Suicide Bombers and the Prozac God: A Review of Dying for Heaven By Bruce...
Welcome to Women Who Rock Wednesday! Today my guest is an agency mate whose book is at the top of my TBR pile because it sounds freakin' awesome. Let's meet Pam Bachorz author of Candor ! Q: Tell us about Candor. What is the story about and what inspired you to write it? CANDOR is the story of 17-year-old Oscar Banks. Oscar lives in a small Florida community that his father built. The secret? Everyone...
The woman -- a police detective -- realized the tea was drugged after her 3-year-old son drank the rest of the beverage and then spit a white substance back into the mug. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Why we're depressed? Maybe "it's an adaptation - not a malfunction." But Nature doesn't care if you make it to work on time: Interesting item in Newsweek: Sharon Begley discusses new findings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
In reply to Channeling your righteous Lib Dem anger towards Nutt 'n Johnson : David Nutt on increasing the links between Big Pharma and mental health treatment: http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/29/3/88.pdf And some interesting stuff on Big Pharma and Prozac promotion in which you will find him under the "Academic Stalking" link: http://www.healyprozac.com Far from being dismayed as to why...
Speed freaks, coke heads, and antipsychotics. Last week, writing on the Daily Beast web site, reporter Jeff Deeney profiled a startling underground market for the antipsychotic medication Seroquel (quetiapine). Deeney described street transactions in North Philadelphia for Quells or Suzie-Qs, as the drug is sometimes called. Seroquel, a drug developed for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar...
Lexapro affects chemicals in the brain that helps maintain mental balance. Lexapro is x astonishint antidepresssant medication that can help many types fe depressiob and hepls depressed individuals live the kind of life thqt non-depressed people take fir granted. The ffastest growing anti-depressant on the prescription drug market today, thanks in large [...]
Dont you think the Nobel peace prize is in the wrong hands? I mean Obama? Whay should he get Nobel prize for Peace? I rather award the Prize to the little blue pill,or if its against the law to give Nobel prize to non living things then to Viagra's inventors. Imagine how many frusterated men would be in the world without the magic pill.How much anger is smothered every night by the blue wonder. How...
WP5.2 Transmission and behavioural function: project title: 5-HT receptor-mediated signalling in the hippocampus in cognitive function and depression-like behaviour. The aim is to perform molecular and biochemical studies on serotonin receptors, adaptor proteins and signal transduction pathways and to elucidate their role in hippocampus-dependent cognitive functions and depression-like behaviour. An...
I don’t know why I’ve been having such a hard time lately. School has been fine, but it feels like I can’t handle anything else I have to do. I did finally get my insurance card, which meant I could finally refill my antidepressant prescription. Probably my current depressive state is due to the weeks [...]
Today has been brilliant. At 12.30 I had an appointment with a psychiatrist to review my anti depressants, and if I'm honest I was pretty nervous. It went better than I could have hoped. The doctor was a lovely woman who, despite having never met me before, was able to tell me things about myself that made me smile, as well as challenge some of my perceptions. She helped put me at ease, and made me...
I'm trying to schedule my posts around ClinkShrink's AAPL updates. From the NYTimes, here's a piece by Gordon Marino on....What if Kierkegaard were alive today? Would he YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, take Prozac and be done with it? Marino writes: Each of us is subject to the weather of our own moods. Clearly, Kierkegaard thought that the darkling sky of his inner life was very much due to his father’s...
The people of Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur (PACA) are being consulted on a name change for the region. Tired of being responsible for an acronym, the President of PACA Michel Vauzelle has decided it is time to change the name of the region, and he has sought the views of its inhabitants to help him decide. He has barely made a secret of the fact that his own personal preference is the more economical