mental health reporter, former Moscow, Delhi, London, now at home in New England. reach out w ideas: [email protected]
Ellen Barry
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Neuroscience folks should check out this lovely piece
“He just doesn’t like S.S.R.I.s."
Psychiatry has been shaken up by Robert F. Kennedy's push to curb Americans' use of antidepressants. I reported last week at the APA's annual meeting. Comments are open.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/s...
Powerful personal essay meets fascinating science reporting in this exploration of what dementia takes from us. @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's favorite this week by @ellenbarry.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/s...
As usual, the reader comments on this report about RFK Jr's push to help Americans wean off SSRIs are worth spending time with, both those that say SSRIs were lifesaving & those saying withdrawing from them was awful.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
As RFK Jr. sets out to rein in the use of SSRIs, a group of top psychiatrists are developing ground rules for helping patients get off medications, acknowledging that patients are often "parked" on a drug for years without any endpoint in sight. Comments are open.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/s...
Some good news: New research from Harvard Medical School found youth suicides were 11 percent lower than expected after the launch of the 988 hotline in 2022.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
Today RFK Jr. rolled out a multi-pronged effort to help Americans wean off SSRI antidepressants. Do they want to? Comments are open.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
Ellen Barry
An extraordinary thing from @ellenbarry.bsky.social; memoir and inquiry, the neuroscience of this century and the history of the last, a quiet facing of things, hope. Give thanks that there are still spaces for work like this. (Gift link)
Idaho cut wraparound services for people with schizophrenia. In the weeks after the service was discontinued, there was a preventable death among the program's former clients. And another. And another. And another.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/h...
During the last years of his life, my father woke up nearly every day convinced that he had to set off on a journey. Could brain science explain what had happened?
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/s...
During the last years of his life, my father woke up nearly every day convinced that he had to set off on a journey. Could brain science explain what had happened?
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/s...
