Peter Simons

More than half of young adults began to think they had ADHD after awareness campaign—despite not meeting criteria for this disorder.

Research is piling up: once doctors use artificial intelligence, they begin to lose vital skills, and trainees may never learn them.

It reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and barriers preventing it.

In NUTRIMUM, newborns ended up with fewer complications than even the newborns of women who didn’t have depression at all.

Herbal supplements like St. John's Wort, saffron, vitamin D, and probiotics beat placebo more consistently than antidepressants.

“Horticulture therapy,” CBT, and exercise all beat usual care for the elderly, while antidepressants led to worse outcomes than usual care.

The researchers raise "concerns about the long-term implications for human intellectual development and autonomy."

The studies are of short duration and are riddled with methodological issues like unblinding and failure to assess withdrawal.

Researchers: Fetal exposure to vilazodone hampers neurodevelopment and leads to "long-lasting neurodevelopmental impairments."

A model that is wrong 90% of the time is not a success.

Screen time in childhood worsens mental health but exercise seems to improve it, Finnish study finds.

With a number needed to treat (NNT) of 2, exercise looks much better than psychiatric drugs for depression.

A new meta-analysis finds no evidence that psychiatric drugs effectively treat chronic pain in the long term, while highlighting serious potential harms like deadly falls in older adults.

BMJ investigation reveals financial conflicts of interest among FDA advisory committee members who approved Alzheimer’s drug donanemab.

In one analysis, those on a high dose of prescription amphetamines were more than 13 times more likely to develop psychosis and mania.

Good “mental health” comes from having fewer bad things happen to you, not genetics or brain chemistry.

Employment—with the social and financial benefits that it brings—is crucial to the well-being of veterans.

The researchers found an increased risk of fetal death with SSRI use at any stage of pregnancy.

Forty percent of newborns exposed to psychiatric drugs in utero required immediate medical care after birth, compared to less than 3% of unexposed newborns.

Harms of antiseizure drugs are “largely overlooked by psychiatry despite widespread usage,” according to the researchers.