MindFreedom International announced that its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
is being revitalized. The Board played a crucial role in the success of
MindFreedoms Fast for Freedom hunger strike in August, 2003.
Category: NeuroPsyche
Neuropsychiatry: Past, Present, and Future Descriptions: An Expert Interview With Jonathan Silver, MD (MedScape)
Biological psychiatry involves examining the role of how the brain functions
in the production of psychiatric disorders. It could be chemical (such as in
depression), anatomical (such as in schizophrenia or brain trauma), or
genetic.
Those things are important in neuropsychiatry too, but biological psychiatry
does not focus on the treatment of those individuals with neurologic disorders.
Neuropsychiatry does.
Why are More Americans Taking Drugs for Mental Illness? (Mercola.com)
Since depression can be a terminal illness, why would you want to take a drug
that would actually increase your risk of killing yourself or someone else? …
Vitamin D ‘key to healthy brain’ (BBC)
“Taken together with similar data that shows its importance in reducing
arthritis, osteoporotic fractures, as well as heart disease and some cancers,
this underscores the importance of vitamin D for humans and why evolution gave
us a liking for the sun. …
Article: “Minnesota mental health patient Ray Sandford forced into electro-shock therapy”
A three-second burst of 140 volts blasts through Sandford’s brain.
While
he’s totally unconscious, Sandford’s torso jerks up and down.
His arms and
legs writhe only slightly, steadied by muscle relaxants
coursing through his
veins. Sandford’s toes curl downward, as if his
feet were trying ball up
into fists. He’s experiencing a grand mal
seizure. …
MINDFREEDOM NEWS UPDATE – please forward: RAY SCHEDULED FOR ANOTHER SURPRISE FORCED ELECTROSHOCK on 5-13-2009
And if we fail tomorrow, let us all witness — and never forget — the
incredible brutality being forced on Ray, over his wishes and the
wishes
of his family, even though he has been living peacefully out in
the
community in his own home.
…
Rebecca Riley’s doctor now the target of a grand jury (Patriot Ledger)
Kifuji diagnosed Rebecca as bipolar with attention deficit disorder when she was
2½. Kifuji prescribed the powerful blood pressure medication Clonidine and
anti-seizure drug Depakote. …
75% DECREASE IN ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGGING OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN FLORIDA (Parents Against Teen-Screen)
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Brown’s psych chair is latest to step aside (FiercePharma)
Top psychiatrists are dropping like flies these days. …
Grassley Probes Financing of Advocacy Group for Mental Health (Bloomberg News)
The group identifies itself as the largest grassroots organization in the U.S.
for people with mental illness and their families. The group came under scrutiny
in 1999, when the magazine Mother Jones reported that 18 drug companies gave the
group $11.7 million from 1996 to mid-1999. …