TI Best Evidence Webinar TITLE: Sex and Post-SSRI Evidence-based Medicine Dysfunction PRESENTER: A professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, Dr. David Healy studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed … [Read more...]
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff: What do psychiatric drugs really do and how can we use them rationally?
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff MD gave this presentation on October 5th, 2019 in Vancouver, BC at the "Bringing Best Evidence to Clinicians" medical education conference marking the 25th anniversary of the UBC Therapeutics Initiative. Dr. Moncrieff is a Senior Academic and Practicing Psychiatrist at the Mental Health Unit, University College of London; she is the author of "Myth of the Chemical Cure" and … [Read more...]
[112] Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome
Antidepressant drugs are associated with drug tolerance, dependence and a discontinuation syndrome similar to other drug classes such as the opiates and benzodiazepines. The effects of stopping any antidepressant should be more precisely termed “withdrawal syndrome” instead of “antidepressant discontinuation syndrome.” What is it? Antidepressant withdrawal syndrome refers to physical and … [Read more...]
