Mad in America: Science News
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Science News: No Link Between Serotonin and Depression - What Does That Mean for Antidepressants?
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this 30-minute podcast, Peter Simons reports on the latest scientific articles in psychiatry. The goal is to provide more detail than is usually fo...
Science News: Pharma Corruption, Dangers of Antidepressants, And More
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this 30-minute podcast, Peter Simons reports on the latest scientific articles in psychiatry. The goal is to provide more detail than is usually fo...
Science News: Psychology: Flawed as a Science and as Evidence-Based Medicine
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this 30-minute podcast, Peter Simons reports on the latest scientific articles in psychiatry. The goal is to provide more detail than is usually fo...
Science News: Brain Imaging Results False; Unpublished and Missing Trials; Why Meditation May Not Work for You
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Simons covers a study in Nature finding that the positive results of psychiatry's brain imaging studies are false; a study demonstrating that...
Science News: How Effective Are Therapy and Medication, and What Do They Treat?
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Simons covers a study that found both therapy and medication to have very limited effectiveness; an article suggesting that general practition...
Science News: Lithium, Antidepressants, Esketamine—All No Better Than Placebo?
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Simons covers a clinical trial that found lithium ineffective at preventing suicide attempts, an essay by Allen Frances on the overdiagnosis ...
Science News: Unscientific Diagnoses Medicalize Normal Human Experiences
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Simons covers articles about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses, the medicalization of normal human experiences like grief, and how the pha...
Science News: Antidepressant Research - Placebos and Withdrawal
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study about the controversial practice of placebo run-in periods in antidepressant studies, a study about withdrawa...
Science News: Reducing Stigma/Psychotherapy for Depression in Children
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers studies examining whether mental health literacy and essentialist thinking are associated with stigma against those w...
Science News: Antipsychotics and Cancer, Screening for Depression, and Alzheimer's Drug Controversy
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study that found prolactin-increasing antipsychotics associated with increased breast cancer risk, an analysis that...
Science News: Antipsychotics and Dementia, Antidepressant Effects on Serotonin
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers studies on the biological mechanism behind antipsychotic drugs' association with dementia; surprising brain imaging f...
Science News: Conflicts of Interest Create Biased Medical Research
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers three studies about financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry in editorial and commentary writers in medical jou...
Science News: Industry Influence on Drug Regulators
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers two articles about the pharmaceutical industry's influence on drug regulators, and an article finding that newborn b...
Science News: Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal, Not Relapse
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers three new articles which suggest that "relapse" in the drug trials for both antidepressants and antipsychotics is lik...
Science News: Biogen and the FDA
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a BMJ investigation that found the FDA's "accelerated approval" process has left ineffective drugs on the market, so...
Science News: Fraudulent Health Research
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a BMJ story that concluded 20% of health research is fraudulent, as well as a Lancet Psychiatry piece that critiques...
Science News: Two Critiques of Psychiatry's Medical Model
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers two articles in which researchers critique the medical model of psychiatry and propose alternatives. Researchers Cri...
Science News: FDA Update, ADHD, Poverty and Suicide, and Antidepressant Withdrawal
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons provides an update on the FDA's controversial approval of Alzheimer's drug aducanumab, a new guideline for psychoeducation ab...
Science News: Screening Harms, No Genes for Suicide, and Animals for Grief Support
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers an article from a trauma survivor who describes the harms of screening, an article that found no genetic links to suic...
Science News: FDA Approves Failed Drug Against Advisory Committee Recommendation
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers the latest news on the FDA's approval of failed Alzheimer's drug aducanumab, against the recommendation of its own advi...
Science News: Psychotherapy Can Prevent Relapse When Discontinuing Antidepressants
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
 This week, Peter Simons covers an article finding that short, simple psychotherapy when discontinuing antidepressants is just as good at preventing...
Science News: Anticholinergic Medications Linked to Cognitive Impairment
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers an article finding that anticholinergic drugs are linked to cognitive impairment, an article by Allen Frances about ov...
Science News: Ethical Issues Raised Over FDA Collaboration with Biogen on Failed Drug
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers an article in JAMAÂ by FDA advisory committee members that reveals ethical issues with the FDA's collaboration with ph...
Science News: Do Men Just Need to Talk to Prevent Suicide?
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study that found evidence for overdiagnosis of ADHD in children and adolescents, a study about suicide prevention in...
Science News: Antidepressant Withdrawal, Antidepressants for Back Pain, and the Impact of Debt on Mental Health
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a Cochrane review that found no good evidence on how antidepressant withdrawal, a study that found that antidepressant...
Science News: Publication Bias and Outcome Reporting Bias Common in Psychiatry Research
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study that found the validity of RCTs on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder treatments is very often severely compro...
Science News: Stimulant Prescribing Patterns Are Not Impacted by Scientific Evidence
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study that found prescribing rates for ADHD drugs did not increase after positive evidence from the MTA study was pub...
Science News: Does Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Reduce Suicide?
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers a study of almost 15,000 ECT users which found that the treatment did not reduce suicide risk compared with usual care,...
Science News: First Scientific Guidance on Tapering Antipsychotics Published
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers the first peer-reviewed scientific article with specific guidance for discontinuing antipsychotic drugs, a study that ...
Science News: Study Finds Antidepressants Increase Suicide Risk
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Peter Simons covers an article that finds antidepressants linked with increased suicide risk, an article that describes the ways in which d...