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93:. While there he set up The Center for Anxiety and Depression and became the foremost "clinical expert in bipolar disorder and treatment-resistant depression in the Seattle area". Since his medical residency he has been "involved in clinical studies of every single drug on the US market at least once, if not many times". He has also conducted studies of manualized 131:
Dunner was on a 1991 FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee which advised that there was not sufficient evidence to support a proposal that antidepressant drugs could cause suicidality or other violent behaviors. However, 5 of the 9 members had financial links to pharmaceutical companies
140:(seroxat) and suicide/violence. When called to testify in 2001 regarding prior inaccurate data analyses used to conclude there was no link, he claimed to have published without seeing the actual data but only tables provided to him by employees of the drug manufacturer 123:. He has won the Samuel Hamilton Award and the Morton Prince Award from the APPA, the Robert Jones Lectureship from the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the Ward Smith Award from the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry. 97:
compared to or combined with medication. He has remarked that he is disappointed they have not discovered the bipolar gene, which he and Elliot Gershon thought they would discover in the early 1970s.
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for first noticing the connection a year prior). Dunner then moved back to Washington becoming professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and chief of psychiatry at
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treatment, and developed the concept of 'rapid cycling' for bipolar disorder which was found to show less response to Lithium (he credits Canadian scientist
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and Dunner in particular had extensive financial links both before and after the hearings with Prozac manufacturer
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and their treatment. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 articles and more than 10 books.
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Scandal of scientists who take money for papers ghostwritten by drug companies
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Sarah Boseley, health editor. The Guardian, Thursday 7 February
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He then went to New York for eight years to work with
187:for the ANCP, Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 13, 2001 81:on studies of Bipolar disorder and the emerging 243:Washington University School of Medicine alumni 22:(born May 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is a 70:he developed the concept of what they called 62:for two years. Along with fellow researchers 34:, who has conducted pioneering research into 8: 185:DAVID L.DUNNER Interviewed by Thomas A. Ban 52:Washington University School of Medicine 153: 107:American Psychopathological Association 197:Lawyers and Settlements, Feb 12th 2008 180: 178: 176: 7: 117:. He has been editor of the journal 60:National Institute for Mental Health 14: 161:Center for Anxiety and Depression 105:Dunner has been president of the 115:Society of Biological Psychiatry 1: 127:Pharmaceutical controversies 111:Psychiatric Research Society 259: 109:(APPA), president of the 91:Harborview Medical Centre 120:Comprehensive Psychiatry 144:(now GlaxoSmithKline). 238:American psychiatrists 113:and president of the 16:American psychiatrist 64:Frederick K. Goodwin 72:Bipolar II Disorder 166:2014-09-03 at the 142:SmithKlineBeecham 101:Titles and awards 68:Elliot S. Gershon 40:anxiety disorders 250: 212: 206: 200: 194: 188: 182: 171: 158: 258: 257: 253: 252: 251: 249: 248: 247: 218: 217: 216: 215: 207: 203: 195: 191: 183: 174: 170:, Mercer Island 168:Wayback Machine 159: 155: 150: 129: 103: 95:psychotherapies 79:Ronald R. Fieve 50:Dunner went to 48: 20:David L. Dunner 17: 12: 11: 5: 256: 254: 246: 245: 240: 235: 230: 220: 219: 214: 213: 201: 199:Evelyn Pringle 189: 172: 152: 151: 149: 146: 128: 125: 102: 99: 87:Harvey Stancer 47: 46:Career outline 44: 36:mood disorders 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 255: 244: 241: 239: 236: 234: 233:Living people 231: 229: 226: 225: 223: 210: 205: 202: 198: 193: 190: 186: 181: 179: 177: 173: 169: 165: 162: 157: 154: 147: 145: 143: 139: 135: 126: 124: 122: 121: 116: 112: 108: 100: 98: 96: 92: 88: 84: 80: 75: 73: 69: 65: 61: 57: 53: 45: 43: 41: 37: 33: 32:United States 29: 25: 21: 204: 192: 156: 130: 118: 104: 76: 49: 24:psychiatrist 19: 18: 228:1940 births 222:Categories 148:References 56:Eli Robins 28:Washington 134:Eli Lilly 164:Archived 83:Lithium 138:Paxil 66:and 26:in 224:: 175:^ 38:, 30:,

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psychiatrist
Washington
United States
mood disorders
anxiety disorders
Washington University School of Medicine
Eli Robins
National Institute for Mental Health
Frederick K. Goodwin
Elliot S. Gershon
Bipolar II Disorder
Ronald R. Fieve
Lithium
Harvey Stancer
Harborview Medical Centre
psychotherapies
American Psychopathological Association
Psychiatric Research Society
Society of Biological Psychiatry
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Eli Lilly
Paxil
SmithKlineBeecham
Center for Anxiety and Depression
Archived
Wayback Machine



DAVID L.DUNNER Interviewed by Thomas A. Ban

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