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Did the gene-drug revolution just arrive?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Did the genomic revolution arrive last week, or was that just the snowstorm? The answer depends on whom you listened to and what they thought of a study publish...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/History of science/Psychiatry

Paxil shown unsafe for teens, drugmaker congratulates self for sharing damning data it hid for years

Posted on September 17, 2015 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

This post got an upgrade: The revised, expanded version is now at The Atlantic. Many thanks to the folks at The Atlantic for picking it up. If you need a teaser...

Books/Brains and Behavior/Genetics/Medicine/Psychiatry/Readings

Whence Comes Anxiety? Scott Stossel Explains

Posted on January 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Scott Stossel’s fine vivid account of his spectacular struggles with anxiety — an Atlantic article excerpted from his new book —carries, among other pleas...

Books/Brains and Behavior/History of science/Medicine/Psychiatry/Readings/Writing

A Book Almost Impossible to Have Lived and Written: Roberta Payne’s “Speaking to My Madness”

Posted on December 5, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

I wanted to kill myself.  Almost.  In my mind I went right to that edge and knew that I wanted to try to kill myself but be found while I was still alive.  But ...

Biology/Biotech/Culture of Science/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Uncategorized

I Got Your 23andMe – FDA Food Fight Links Right Here

Posted on November 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 11 Comments

Below find my ever-growing annotated collection of online responses to the FDA’s recent shot across the bow of 23andMe, the consumer genetics company. Unt...

Biology/Genetics/History of science/Medicine

FDA Muzzles 23andMe After Talks Break Down

Posted on November 25, 2013 by David Dobbs / 13 Comments

Note: If you’re here for the annotated links to other perspectives on the 23andMe/FDA dust-up, you should go instead to I Got Your 23andMe – FDA Food Figh...

Brains and Behavior/Medicine

Stephen Fry on Suicide, and Wanting Both to Be Alone and Be Left Alone

Posted on June 25, 2013 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

The wonderful actor and writer Stephen Fry attempted suicide last year. Yesterday — by chance the same day a story of mine about suicide came out in the Times —...

Brains and Behavior/Medicine/Psychiatry

Talk Therapy or Pill? A Brain Scan May Tell What’s Best

Posted on June 13, 2013 by David Dobbs / 6 Comments

In a new paper out yesterday in JAMA Psychiatry, a team led by Emory University neurologist Helen Mayberg, whom I’ve written about several times, identifi...

Brains and Behavior/Culture of Science/History of science/Medicine/Writing

“The Book of Woe” – Gary Greenberg’s Romp of a Read About the DSM Debacle

Posted on June 10, 2013 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

Note: This review first appeared in Nature, 2 May 2012. My thanks to Nature for the commission and fine editorial support. When it is published later this month...

Medicine/Uncategorized

A Geek Manifesto for America

Posted on January 2, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Yesterday, the U.S. Congress, like Wyle E. Coyote on an especially lucky day, scrambled back onto the fiscal cliff that Congress itself had jumped off of, havin...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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