Garth Kroeker

Questionnaires are certainly in vogue in mental health research.  Often they are referred to in technical-sounding jargon, for example it is...

This is a continuation of my thoughts about this subject.  Statistical analysis is extremely important to understand cause & effect!  ...

A visitor's comment from one of my previous posts reminded me of an issue I'd thought about before. In mental health research, sympt...

I've been thinking of a way to describe the interaction between genes, environment, and phenotype qualitatively as a mathematical surfac...

Here is a link to the abstract of an interesting article by Fowler & Christakis, published in the British Medical Journal in December 2...

This is a response to a reader's comment on my post about positive psychology: http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2009/10/positive-psychot...

This is a topic I was meaning to write a post about for some time. I encountered this topic while doing some social psychology reading last...

Social psychology is a wonderful, enchanting field. It is full of delightful experiments which often reveal deeply illuminating facets of hu...

This is a sequel to a previous posting ( http://garthkroeker.blogspot.com/2009/06/increasing-anxiety-in-recent-decades.html ) A visitor sugg...

A supplement written by Christoph Correll for The Canadian Journal of Diagnosis (September 2009) was delivered--free--into my office mailbox...

Here's another article from "the last psychiatrist" on CME: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/07/who_should_pay_for_continui...

This is a brief posting about biostatistics. In clinical trials, some subjects drop out. The quality of a study is best if there are few dro...

Here is another critique of medication marketing trends in psychiatry: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/04/how_dangerous_is_academic_psyc...

I was looking at an article in JAMA from 2006, which was about pregnant women taking antidepressants. They were followed through pregnancy,...

There is a good debate presented in the September 2009 issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (pp. 637-643), about the importance of r...

There are examples of "micronutrient treatments" being marketed to help various mental health problems. These treatments may be ma...

In most of the better clinical studies, a "placebo group" acts as a control. The placebo would consist of something totally inert...

There is evidence that research studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies produce biased results. Here is a collection of papers suppor...

Most research findings include a lot of statistical analysis of data, and many of the conclusions or assertions made in research papers are ...

Here are some sites I recommend when researching medical evidence: 1) the U.S. national institute of mental health; their research is funded...