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May 2023: When interviewed* for this podcast about antidepressants Professor Carmine Pariante said: “It is important that when we have this media debate it is always balanced”. June 2024: Professor … Continue reading “It is important that when we have this media debate it is always balanced”
In my previous post I shared a transcription of the latest podcast in the At the Back of Your Mind Series for Inspire The Mind: In this post I would … Continue reading ‘Medicine remains a conflicted as ever’
As a production for the digital magazine Inspire The Mind the latest podcast in the At the Back of Your Mind Series was titled: Serotonin: What is its role in … Continue reading Serotonin: What is its role in treating depression?
The following evidence on suicide prevention was given by Professor Carmine Pariante and Professor Louis Appleby to the House of Commons on the 29th November 2016. What is shared here … Continue reading Suicide Prevention: oral evidence given to the House of Commons
Professor Carmine Pariante contributed to a recent Radio 4 consideration on antidepressants. Today I have sent this communication to Professor Pariante: Sent: 9 March 2019 Subject: “Explaining the position of … Continue reading Professor Pariante “explains the position of the Royal College of Psychiatrists”
On the 21st February 2018 Professor Carmine Pariante was quoted across the world: “this meta-analysis finally puts to bed the controversy on antidepressants . . . “ The Science Media … Continue reading “Put to Bed”
This is the title of a recently published book by Professor Ed Bullmore of the University of Cambridge. This book gained generally uncritical reviews, such as this : Almost a … Continue reading ‘The Inflamed Mind’
The Minutes of the Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists provide some insight into high-level decision making on the education of psychiatrists and their approach to prescribing. The … Continue reading “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”