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Deprescribing antidepressants: An integral and neglected component of high-quality prescribing practice

Evgeny Legedin 02/04/2025

The Editorial by Looi and colleagues provided a one-sided view of the need to consider deprescribing antidepressants in Australia. They overlooked clear evidence that at least a third of patients

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Is mental illness still “in brackets”? 

Evgeny Legedin 21/10/2024

Reflections on recent bills for discussion in the Italian Parliament, on the current psychiatrisation of society and on possible remedies By Pino Pini, 11 August 2024. In the current 2024

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Joanna Moncrieff addressing British psychiatrists

Evgeny Legedin 04/07/2024 6 Comments

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GP Monitoring of Those on Antidepressants

Evgeny Legedin 26/06/2024 1 Comment 1 Comment
By DUNCAN DOUBLE Tony Kendrick, who I have mentioned before (see eg. previous post) is the first author of a paper about antidepressant withdrawal in general practice. It found that
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Mainstream Psychiatry Continues to Minimise Significance of Antidepressant Withdrawal

Evgeny Legedin 11/06/2024 No Comments Leave a comment
By DUNCAN DOUBLE Mainstream psychiatry has minimised the significance of antidepressant withdrawal, as I first pointed out in a BMJ letter in 1997. My complaint then was that the Defeat
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On the Neuroplasticity Hypothesis of Antidepressant Action

Evgeny Legedin 29/02/2024 No Comments Leave a comment
By MARK HOROWITZ On the neuroplasticity hypothesis of antidepressant action – I worked in a neurogenesis laboratory for 4 years and completed my PhD partly on this topic (For SSRIs). 
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Busting Myths about Psychosis & Antipsychotics with Prof Joanna Moncrieff

Evgeny Legedin 29/02/2024 7 Comments

In this talk, Prof Joanna Moncrieff (University College London) looks at the evidence behind some common myths relating to psychosis and ‘antipsychotic’ drugs: the idea that psychosis or ‘schizophrenia’ are

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Adapting to Individual Differences

Evgeny Legedin 20/01/2024 No Comments

// By Duncan Double // Rach Idahu has a blog ‘Adulting with ADHD’. BBC News reports that she told BBC Podcast ‘Access All’ that she lost £200 when she late

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