BIG PHARMA’S COVERT STRATEGIES AND THE SUBVERSION OF PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS.
EDITORIAL Many physicians assume they are immune to the advertising and marketing strategies of pharmaceutical companies. Physicians are confident in their own knowledge and judgment and believe that they will not be overly influenced by a p..
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BETWEEN DSM AND RDoC: THE SYNAPSES TO SYSTEMS PARADIGM
ALAN EPPEL Psychiatry is a dynamic and rapidly evolving medical speciality. It is now at a transition point in its history. The limitations of the DSM and ICD systems have become apparent while at the same time the promise of the neuroscience ..
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WHY EVOLUTIONARY THEORY SHOULD GUIDE THE NEW PARADIGM SHIFT IN PSYCHIATRY
Tinbergen (1963) famously described a framework for understanding behavior in which he emphasized that in order to understand behavior we must appreciate not only its proximate but also its ultimate or evolutionary causes. While evolutionary t..
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BORDERLINE PERSONALITY: TIME FOR A REDEFINITION
Vol 2 # 4 Alan Eppel Borderline personality continues to be a major focus of mental health services. This is in large part due to the high rates of presentation to outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services. The term borderline per..
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Prazosin First Line for PTSD
Vol 2 # 5 Traitement des etats de stress post-traumatique par un antagoniste alpha-1-adrenergique, la prazosine: une revue des etudes d’evaluation. Simon P, Rousseau P. Can J Psychiatry, 62 issue: 3, 186-198 March 2017 Abstract This review..
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MIXED UP ABOUT MIXED STATES?
Vol 2 #10 Alan Eppel The introduction of a category for “Depression with Mixed Features” in DSM 5 has opened a Pandora’s box of confusion. This new category threatens to undermine Leonard’s original division of manic-..
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RESEARCH FUNDING IN PSYCHIATRY : HAVE NIMH AND CIHR OVERLOOKED SYSTEMIC BIAS?
Vol 2 #11 Mona Gupta MD CM, FRCPC, PhD University of Montreal Introduction The psychiatric research enterprise has grown considerably over the last two generations and the quest to link the clinical manifestations of mental illnesses to und..
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Does Generalized Anxiety Disorder Exist?
Vol 3 #4 Alan Eppel MB, FRCPC “The diagnosis of generalised anxiety disorder is a distraction of no value. It is highly unreliable, co-occuring with many other disorders of firmer diagnostic status……..classification would be ..
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ICD 11 Takes Centre Stage
Vol 6 #2 Alan Eppel In May of 2019 the World Health Organization adopted the eleventh edition of the International Classification of Diseases, ICD 11. This is the first revision of ICD in 30 years and was developed with wide-ranging i..
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