Comments on: Psychiatry affects human psychology: e.g., ‘bipolar’ children

By: Is Facebook rotting our children’s brains? « Neuroanthropology

Is Facebook rotting our children’s brains? « Neuroanthropology — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:34:11 +0000

[...] including that these disorders are substantially over-diagnosed (for a similar argument, see our Psychiatry affects human psychology: e.g., ‘bipolar’ children or Neurotosh, Neurodosh and Neurodash). But one interesting note of caution would be that some [...]

By: Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology

Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:19:19 +0000

[...] also got into the critical spirit with Psychiatry affects human psychology: e.g., ‘bipolar’ children, which covered how the psychiatrist Joseph Biederman took money from big pharma while pushing [...]

By: Trepanation and technologies of the self at The Banana Peel Project

Trepanation and technologies of the self at The Banana Peel Project — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:24:29 +0000

[...] Perry’s story reveals several amazing things about the choices people make about their selves and their brains, and about the kinds of technologies that we turn to make ourselves into the kinds of people we’re supposed to be? Her story is gory and gruesome, to be sure–the kind of experiment that we will probably not soon be watching on Mythbusters–but is self-trepanation any more violent than dumping atypical antipsychotics into the brains of 2-year-olds? [...]

By: The science of Happiness and bullshit! « My agnostic views

The science of Happiness and bullshit! « My agnostic views — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:03:29 +0000

[...] here is the original blog post describing scandals related to researchers that pointed me to this gem! Possibly related posts: [...]