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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

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Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made drug companies like Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer very rich. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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Armata Pharmaceuticals Offices – Marina Del Rey

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for life science research and manufacturing because it is culturally diverse and is home to a multitude of diverse ways of thinking. The design is influenced by the natural surroundings on which the 56,000 square foot building sits in Marina Del Rey. There is an attraction to L.A.

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The study was authored by Judith J.

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A kaleidoscope approach to leading: Five perspective shifts that can foster innovation

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Relying solely on a narrow set of approaches can limit the breadth and depth of your influence and hinder the full potential of your organization. In Tony’s work as a leadership coach, he worked with a pharmaceutical CEO who realized that her company’s long-term vision had become blurred.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst. 10:20 He calls this “scientism”.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

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For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.