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Original article:  http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychotherapy/best-and-not-so-great-articles-2017  By Jerald Kay. MD. December 2017 issue of the Psychiatric Times. A few points regarding the articles presented: 1.    On the Roy-Berne et al. article on “highlighting the myth of precision psychiatry”. I think Dr Kay and others need to have a long-term perspective. While genetic testing is a […]

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Link to Article:  Innovative Strategies for Addressing Substance Use Disorders: The Classic Hallucinogens Dr Bogenshultz describes this study: Residential psychedelic (LSD) therapy for the narcotic addict. Savage C, McCabe OL. A controlled study. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1973 Jun;28(6):808-14. Bogenshultz is taking the value of the results too far without looking […]

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Psychiatric Times, April 29, 2017 By Lauren M. Osborne, MD, Katherine McEvoy, MB ChB, and Jennifer L. Payne, MD Original Article’s URL: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/special-reports/antidepressants-pregnancy-balancing-needs-and-risks-clinical-practice Dear authors, you mention that psychotherapy, yoga, acupuncture are “evidence-based nonpharmacological treatments” for mood disorders during pregnancy. I wonder if you can reference any study of these 3 […]

Doug Berger, psychiatrist in Tokyo comments on: “Antidepressants in Pregnancy: ...





The open-label GeneSight and unblined Genomind studies are at high-risk for researcher bias and should be suspect to extreme caution. We would never allow anti-depressants to be approved with these kinds of studies (although unblinded/no-blindplacebo psychotherapy studies are unreasonably and widely “accepted” as robust data by our profession all the […]

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Psychiatric Times, April 03, 2017,  By Ronald W. Pies, MD http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/blogs/deferring-mastery-death-hippocrates-judge-gorsuch-and-autonomy-fallacy We all know about the slippery slope of giving psychiatric patients to right to request suicide from a medical professional. However, terminally ill medical patients who have terrible pain and suffering and are near death (perhaps on a respirator, […]

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http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/psychopharmacology/quiz-headaches/page/0/2 Dr. King, regarding acupuncture, perhaps you can comment on this article: Research Casts Doubt on the Value of Acupuncture, Scientific studies show that the procedure is full of holes, Scientific American, August 2016 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/research-casts-doubt-on-the-value-of-acupuncture/ The article makes these statements below, and it seems to me that because of the […]

Dr. Douglas Berger Psychiatrist Tokyo’s response to THE QUIZ: Headaches: ...