Antidepressant drug use & the risk of suicideDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Hergest Unit, Bangor, Wales LL57 2PW, UK
Int Rev Psychiatry 17:163-72. 2005
..It would seem likely that explicit warnings and monitoring in the early stages of treatment could greatly minimize these hazards...
Is academic psychiatry for sale?David Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor LL57 2PW, UK
Br J Psychiatry 182:388-90. 2003
Antidepressants and suicide: risk-benefit conundrumsDavid Healy
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor, United Kingdom
J Psychiatry Neurosci 28:331-7. 2003
..Further studies or further access to data are indicated to establish the magnitude of any risk and the characteristics of patients who may be most at risk...
Shaping the intimate: influences on the experience of everyday nervesDavid Healy
University of Wales, College of Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor, Wales LL57 2PW, UK
Soc Stud Sci 34:219-45. 2004
..The result is a transformation and growth in disorders tailor-made to fit ever more visible drugs...
Service utilization in 1896 and 1996: morbidity and mortality data from North WalesDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor, LL57 2PW, UK
Hist Psychiatry 16:27-42. 2005
..General factors related to changing health care and expectations and specific factors linked to the mental health appear to have led to an increased rate of service utilization in the modern period...
The clinical pharmacologic profile of reboxetine: does it involve the putative neurobiological substrates of wellbeing?D Healy
Institute for Medical and Social Care Research, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
J Affect Disord 51:313-22. 1998
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Trajectory of Psychopharmacology : The role of the clinician and IndustryDavid Healy
DAVID HEALY, Director, North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit Ysbyty, Gwynedd, Bangor, North Wales, LL572PW
Indian J Psychiatry 45:49-56. 2003
..In our efforts to govern ourselves through psychopharmacology, we have set up a future of cosmetic psychopharmacology. These developments have been largely unscrutinized...
Lifetime suicide rates in treated schizophrenia: 1875-1924 and 1994-1998 cohorts comparedD Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor LL57 2PW, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:223-8. 2006
..Recent interest in suicide rates in schizophrenia has been considerable...
The latest mania: selling bipolar disorderDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 3:e185. 2006
Manufacturing consensusDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Hergest Unit Bangor, Wales LL57 2PW, UK
Cult Med Psychiatry 30:135-56. 2006
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Did regulators fail over selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?David Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Bangor LL57 2PW
BMJ 333:92-5. 2006
Antidepressants and violence: problems at the interface of medicine and lawDavid Healy
Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Bangor, United Kingdom
PLoS Med 3:e372. 2006
The engineers of human souls & academiaDavid Healy
Cardiff University, Hergest Unit, Wales LL57 2PW, United Kingdom
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 16:205-11. 2007
..There has been recent concern about interactions between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. This article seeks to explore the basis for the current sense of crisis...
Historical overview: Kraepelin's impact on psychiatryDavid Healy
Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Hergest Unit, Ysbyly Gwynedd, Bangor Gwynedd, LL57 2PW, UK
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 258:18-24. 2008
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Trussed in evidence? Ambiguities at the interface between clinical evidence and clinical practiceDavid Healy
Cardiff University, Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor, Wales, UK
Transcult Psychiatry 46:16-37. 2009
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Conflicting interests in Toronto: anatomy of a controversy at the interface of academia and industryDavid I Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, North Wales, UK
Perspect Biol Med 45:250-63. 2002
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Lines of evidence on the risks of suicide with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitorsDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor, UK
Psychother Psychosom 72:71-9. 2003
..There has been a long-standing controversy about the possibility that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants might induce suicidality in some patients...
In the grip of the python: conflicts at the university-industry interfaceDavid Healy
North Wales Dept of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor LL57 2PW, United Kingdom
Sci Eng Ethics 9:59-71. 2003
..Many of the tensions evident in this case, therefore, can be linked to company abilities to keep clinical trial data out of the public domain--this is the point at which the pharmaceutical python gets a grip on academia...
Interface between authorship, industry and science in the domain of therapeuticsDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Bangor, UK
Br J Psychiatry 183:22-7. 2003
..Changes in the character of medical authorship. Aims To compare the impact of industry-linked and non-industry linked articles...
The incidence and prevalence of diabetes in patients with serious mental illness in North West Wales: two cohorts, 1875-1924 & 1994-2006 comparedJoanna Le Noury
Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Bangor, Wales, LL57 2PW, UK
BMC Psychiatry 8:67. 2008
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Mood-stabilizers: the archeology of the conceptMargaret Harris
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor, UK
Bipolar Disord 5:446-52. 2003
..An alternative to the currently dominant paradigm is that these agents have treatment effects, which need to be matched more precisely with patients' constitutional types in order to optimize outcomes...
Conflicting interests: the evolution of an issueDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor, Wales
Monash Bioeth Rev 23:8-18. 2004
..Initial efforts to manage the problems have focused on authorship declarations, but recent controversies with the SSRIs suggest the only way to manage the problem is by placing all clinical trial data in the public domain...
The once and future psychiatryDavid Healy
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Acad Med 84:418-20. 2009
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The effect of serotonergic and noradrenergic antidepressants on face emotion processing in depressed patientsRichard Tranter
Department of Psychological Medicine, Hergest Unit, North West Wales NHS Trust, Bangor, UK
J Affect Disord 118:87-93. 2009
..It has been proposed that this may underlie therapeutic effects of antidepressants, but to date this has not been tested in clinical populations...
Presentation and frequency of catatonia in new admissions to two acute psychiatric admission units in India and WalesPadmaja Chalasani
Hergest Unit, YSBYTY-Gwynedd, Bangor, North Wales, UK
Psychol Med 35:1667-75. 2005
..The differing clinical presentations may be due to differences in demographic features rather than cultural or aetiological factors...
National suicide rates 1961-2003: further analysis of nordic data for suicide, autopsies and ill-defined death ratesSvein Reseland
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University, Hergest Unit, Bangor, Wales, UK
Psychother Psychosom 77:78-82. 2008
..These concerns have led to a series of recent studies exploring national rates of suicide and correlating these with data on antidepressant consumption...
Neuroleptics and mortality: a 50-year cycle: Invited commentary on... Schizophrenia, neuroleptic medication and mortalityDavid Healy
North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Hergest Unit, Bangor, North Wales LL57 2PW, UK
Br J Psychiatry 188:128. 2006