Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…

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Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…

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While Brown officials insist that the decision to step down was Keller’s, my understanding from several sources is that the university has been under pressure to take action ever since Side Effects was published last June and Sen. Charles Grassley began investigating Keller’s undisclosed conflicts of interest in July. Keller is the latest psychiatry kingpin to fall. In recent months, Stanford’s chief of psychiatry Alan Schatzberg and Emory University’s chief Charles Nemeroff were forced to step down after reports that they too failed to disclose years of lucrative financial payments from the pharmaceutical industry.
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In addition, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the pre-eminent journal of the profession, just published a review of Side Effects,[...]

Alison Bass: Brown psychiatry chief Martin Keller to step down in June…

Google Attempts to Acquire itself, Shares Plummet

Google Attempts to Acquire itself, Shares Plummet
By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions

Mon Dec 1, 2008 3:38pm PST

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (Mental Dimensions) – The market lost confidence in Google (GOOG) today after a press release announced Google failed in a takeover bid to acquire Google. A spokesman for the Internet giant apologized publicly for the error, and assured investors the cause would be addressed by the end of the next trading day.

Google is best known for its search engine and its benevolent goal to own everything on the Internet by using smiles and handshakes.

Advertising Ingenuity | Humor

By Andy Alt / Mental Dimensions

Aug 4, 2005 – An observation I’ve had recently is about the commercialization of… everything. There are advertisements for curing depression/anxiety, and advertisements for learning to speak and write better; or as I like to say, “write more weller better good.” Well, yesterday on the radio, I heard an advertisement for a program/product which claimed to help people speak better in social situations. It added that you would not have to worry or be anxious anymore about saying the wrong thing to someone.