A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities.

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.

Ketamine is no better than placebo for improving depression, cognition, or quality of life in patients hospitalized for depression

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.

Oxford researchers say classroom-wide mental health interventions can backfire and call for designs that identify who benefits and who is put at risk.

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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We must keep the histories of peer advocates alive, lest they be forgotten for their part in making the recovery model a viable alternative.

Dementia strips away memory and function, but it does not erase the longing for meaning. If anything, it exposes it more starkly.

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...

An interview with a leading academic psychiatrist reveals that psychiatric researchers are clueless about the scientific method.

The concealing of relevant data from a research project is a form of fraud and the grounds for retraction of the JHP study.

Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.

I’m not a doctor. I’m a patient. But I solved what six psychiatrists could not.

Looking at frailty is a question of perspective, obviously, doh

The decision could limit Trump’s ability to send the National Guard to other cities, as he threatens to send troops to Chicago.

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...

ChatGPT correctly identified none of the most well-known study retractions. Most of the time, it claimed these studies were world-leading.

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 …

A preprint study shows that legal recognition has not dismantled deep cultural and institutional biases against people with psychosocial disabilities.

The safe and effective treatment for depression recommended is psychotherapy and social support, not prescription drugs.

A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. So why did Oregon implement more forced treatment instead?

A workgroup in Oregon unanimously recommended rights-based mental health care. So why did Oregon implement more forced treatment instead?