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Tag: Psychiatry

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What does it mean when a clinical trial fails? Probably not what you think.

Posted on April 17, 2018 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...

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A Sane Person’s Privacy Nightmare

Posted on September 25, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

At Slate today I examine the potential privacy nightmare posed by the emerging healthcare sector that wants to use data gathered from smartphone use to spot men...

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Smartphone psychiatry? How NIMH director Tom Insel turned from brain scanners to social tech

Posted on June 22, 2017 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

Around this time, Insel told me recently, he’d just finished a talk describing the wonderful things the NIMH was discovering about the brain when a man in the a...

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...

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Talking Genetics and Writing with David Goodman

Posted on July 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...

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Can Bergdahl’s statements in therapy be used against him?

Posted on July 2, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

That’s what this story from the LA Times appears to say. If that’s true, seems something is amiss. Surely a POW being debriefed has some a right to ...

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Psych Symptoms Less Biology “Than a Kind of Language”

Posted on March 18, 2014 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

  Is mental illness a product of biology or culture? Ethan Watters, over at Pacific Standard, argues that whatever the biology involved in mental illness, ...

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My Problem With John Horgan’s Problem With Optogenetics

Posted on August 30, 2013 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

There’s been a fair flap lately about John Horgan’s argument that optogenetics and its potential have been overhyped by both scientists and some jou...

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 —...

Biology/Brains and Behavior/Psychiatry

Spring’s Darkest Bloom: Suicide

Posted on June 25, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

On average, about 700 Americans kill themselves each week — but in the fine-weather weeks of May and June, the toll rises closer to 800, sometimes higher. Every...

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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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