Monthly Archive for February, 2007
Psychiatry & Psychology | By February 28, 2007 | By Shaheen E Lakhan, MS, MEd, PhD | 5 Comments
Call for Answers from Scientologists
Our last roundtable incited much commentary on the anti-psychiatry movement, especially from Scientology perspectives. I find that the movement is gaining popularity (at least, online) from circles even beyond followers of the Church. The topic should be intensively discussed to understand all sides of the issue and Brain Blogger will harbor an open forum. Read more →
- Brain Implants: Become a Borg or Get Healthy?
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Brain Blogging, Third Edition
- Shazeda Khan Appointed New Editor of Brain Blogger
- Brain Blogging, Second Edition
Brain implants, or neural implants, have been around since the 1940’s. They can allow people who are paralyzed, deaf or blind to function again. Such an implant is a type of biomedical prosthesis that circumvents areas in the brain which are dysfunctional, perhaps as a result of a stroke or head... Read more →
The psychiatric profession is under attack by the Church of Scientology. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Scientology advocacy group, released an intense “documentary” called “Psychiatry: An Industry of Death” in 2006. Recently, I stumbled upon a video clip of this pointed... Read more →
Welcome to the third edition of Brain Blogging - a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” Read more → Read More →
To our readers: As a new editor and as an activist for public awareness, I shall be promoting knowledge in this field to its fullest extent for all to enjoy. Currently, I am studying psychology at Baruch College in New York City. Psychology has long been an area of passionate intrigue for me; with its... Read more →
Welcome to the second edition of Brain Blogging - a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” Read more → Read More →
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- The Bipolar Trend
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Rabies Virus Helps Deliver Drugs into the Brain
- China’s Tainted Reputation
- The Silent Epidemic of Health Illiteracy
- Managed Care Kills a Provider’s Reputation
- Writing Away Your Worries
- Sleep Deprivation, Behavior, and the Young
- Preventative Care in Medicine
- Cheating Husbands - What His Genes Tell Us
- Reduced Empathy Following Traumatic Brain Injury
- Craniosacral Therapy – Healing Through Touch
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Ninth Edition
- Are Doctors Super Human?
- Taking Care of Those Who Take Care of Us
- Water - How Much is Too Much?
- Involving Physicians in Military Interrogations
- What Does Your iPod Say About You?
- HIPAA Doesn’t Exist For Doctors
- Is the Primary Care Physician Becoming Extinct?
- George Huntington and the Disease Bearing His Name
- Physiological Effects of Alcohol Consumption
- Antipsychotics May Decrease the Risk of Suicide
- While I agree providers are going non par because of low reimbursements, I do no...
- Our perceptions, emotions, and reactions to the world around us begin at birth, ...
- Those measure that have been used have been formulated by insurance companies ai...
- Obviously, you've never had to work with lawyers who are dealing with/appealing ...
- For depression, I recommend that one sees a counsellor to ascertain the source o...
- simple...those things do really happen. End....
- doctors are still normal people you know......
- so...does it mean that people with Type 2 Diabetes Millitus are less anxious and...
- Sleep deprivation is a common lack of the required amount of sleep. This may ari...
- The medical tourist usually chooses to have the surgery or procedure done overse...
- Are any tests to be conducted in the Tyler, TX area?...
- Links (between insomnia and other 'problems') are NOT causal correlates, they ar...
- yah it's sum what true
when i was in kings wood my doctor never talked to me,...
- humans like to kill. at one point in every persons life we have the urge to kill...
- religion is a troubling parodox that waist time trying to figure out.
and the...
- To answer your questions: No, the authors did not really consider the "uniquenes...
- Doctors are working in a broken health care system. They're not exactly having a...
- Hello,This may be true for most with frontal lobe injury but for many with other...
- Doctors call for antibiotics to treat our disease. Antibiotics shoo the bacteria...
- It would be interesting to see whether learning and practicing Dr Herbert Benson...
