by Alison Bass | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Brown University’s student newspaper, The Daily Herald, reported this week that Martin Keller had announced his decision to step down as Brown’s chair of psychiatry in August 2007. In a letter he apparently sent to faculty in his department, Keller said he...
by Alison Bass | Apr 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week, Senator Charles Grassley announced a probe into the nation’s largest advocacy group for people with mental illness, the National Alliance for Mental Illness, asking the nonprofit group to disclose the funding it has received in recent years...
by Alison Bass | Apr 6, 2009 | Uncategorized
Martin Keller is finally stepping down as the long time chief of psychiatry at Brown University. Brown University officials made the announcement in a Dear Colleagues letter dated today from Edward J. Wing, Brown’s new Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences....
by Alison Bass | Apr 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
When people exhibit signs of psychosis – they hear voices, they think someone is out to get them – more often than not, they are referred to psychiatrists who immediately put them on powerful drugs like Haldol, Depakote, Abilify or Seroquel. These drugs sometimes tamp...
by Alison Bass | Mar 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thanks to unsealed documents from legal proceedings, we now know that many drug makers routinely hid negative findings about antidepressants and anti-psychotics (ranging from Paxil to Seroquel) from doctors and consumers. Now comes evidence that the researchers who...
