Mad in America

There is a rising mental health crisis happening in the United States right now, but it’s a difficult one to name for many. People are experiencing degrees of overwhelm and freeze in the face of extraordinary political chaos. All the while, the social constraints of needing to carry on with the business-as-usual of our lives creates a kind of dissonance that’s deeply disturbi...

Since 2013, a practical solution has been available in the Netherlands to help doctors and patients taper medications gradually and safely. This solution consists of so-called tapering strips: medication packaged in a sequence of daily doses that allows patients to reduce their dosage in very small steps over a period of weeks, months, or, if necessary, years. The key innovat...

Neither the FDA nor Neurovalens have provided the results from the clinical trial of the device showing how well the device works or its risks.

The FDA has granted marketing authorization for a new device, Modius Spero, fo...

When I was 25, and the world still seemed full of promise for me, a very unfortunate thing happened. I went ‘crazy’. Or, at least, I fully believed I was losing my mind, that I had inherited a dreadful and debilitating illness, which was beginning to manifest itself, and which would steadily progress until it ultimately robbed me of all the positive attributes I possessed: in...

Jussi Valtonen is a neuropsychologist, an adjunct researcher with the Finnish Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics (FICEBO), a professor of writing at the