Déjà vu
The recent publication in JAMA Psychiatry: Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis made me feel that I had been here before. Once again, a … Continue reading Déjà vu
Tag: Carmine Pariante
2024 Psychopharmacology Committee of RCPsych: transparency at an all time low.
Over the last decade I have looked at the governance of the Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. My hope was to find improvement in relation to transparency. … Continue reading 2024 Psychopharmacology Committee of RCPsych: transparency at an all time low.
Sailing blithely: Paid opinion leaders in psychiatry
Summer 2013: Professor Carmine Pariante invited Professor Charles Nemeroff to give the Inaugural lecture for the new centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry: Around this time I … Continue reading Sailing blithely: Paid opinion leaders in psychiatry
Carmine Pariante: “This question is very difficult to disentangle”
May 2021: The above response was made by Professor Carmine Pariante to this question: “Could the immune response be triggered by a reaction to antidepressants?” July 2024: The Wellcome Trust … Continue reading Carmine Pariante: “This question is very difficult to disentangle”
“Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
An old post from August 2018. Shortly after this was published to Royal College of Psychiatrists no longer made any Minutes of their meetings open to the public: The Minutes … Continue reading “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
Patient safety: a letter to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
16th June 2024 To: Dr Lade Smith, CBE, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Copied to: Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Subodh Dave, Dean, Royal … Continue reading Patient safety: a letter to the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Suffer such severe withdrawal symptoms
The full article can be found here. It was the news that many had been waiting for. Earlier this month, world-renowned medical journal The Lancet published a study that ‘proved’ … Continue reading Suffer such severe withdrawal symptoms
failed once again
My wife wrote down these notes after reading this published opinion: Please read this for more.