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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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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
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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.
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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...
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.
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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 👑
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...
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.
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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
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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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...
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I do find the campaigning by the corporate dementia charities entirely vacuous, intellectually and emotionally tone deaf, and stigmatising. #WorldAlzheimersDay
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-...
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.
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“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)
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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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...
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.
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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
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.
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What writing my memoir taught me. @kateswaffer.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i...
What I learnt about changing from clinical academic research to writing my story
For almost two years, I have been writing my memoir about caring for my late mother. It is strange to look back at the early stages of this project and remember how naïve I was about what it would inv...
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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
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.
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Dementia Rehabilitation update kateswaffer.com/2025/09/02/p...
Progress on Rehabilitation for Dementia
Image source: The right to rehabilitation of everyone, including people with dementia is one of my pet topics, and anyone who’s followed me here for a while will know I’ve been writing …
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In Colombia, Disability Rights Advance on Paper but Stigma Endures in Daily Life A preprint study shows that legal recognition has not dismantled deep cultural and institutional biases against people with psychosocial disabilities. By Justin Karter www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/in-c...
In Colombia, Disability Rights Advance on Paper but Stigma Endures in Daily Life
A preprint study shows that legal recognition has not dismantled deep cultural and institutional biases against people with psychosocial disabilities.
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Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety by Allan Leventhal The safe and effective treatment for depression is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs. www.madinamerica.com/2025/08/publ...
Public Citizen, the FDA, and SSRI Safety
The safe and effective treatment for depression recommended is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs.
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Feed: "Mad In America" By: Rob Wipond on Saturday, August 2, 2025
The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon
A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. So why did Oregon implement more forced treatment instead?
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The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon An MIA Report by Rob Wipond A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. Then the politicians and those invested in forced treatment splintered off and implemented the exact opposite. buff.ly/YIPcdRJ
The Deceptive Politics of Civil Commitment in Oregon
A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. So why did Oregon implement more forced treatment instead?
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