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Alzheimer's Association Press Release at 0700 hrs EDT on 22 July 2015. - Longer-Term Analysis of Phase 3 Solanezumab (Lilly) Up to 3.5 Years - Biomarker Results from Phase 3 Gantenerumab (Roche) Trial - New Data from Aducanumab (Biogen) Phase 1b Study Video released by the Alzheimer's Association: Video from press briefing Article in The Guardian: Scientists find first drug that appears to slow Alzheimer's disease Solanezumab blocks memory loss in patients with mild version of the disease, making it the first medicine ever to slow pace of damage to patients’ brains Read the article here

Here is a link to the statement: British Psychological Society statement on APA Hoffman Review "We condemn and repudiate such practices and repeat our longstanding and principled stance that there is an overriding ethical responsibility on all psychologists and other healthcare professionals to protect and defend fundamental human rights."

Spencer Ackerman of The Guardian has written a fine piece about a psychologist who tried and tried hard to defeat Torture Psychology and the complicity of the American Psychological Association (APA). In doing so, she had to experience a smear campaign by the powers of the American Psychological Association who were hell-bent on their path of complicity. 'A national hero': psychologist who warned of torture collusion gets her due by Spencer Ackerman The Guardian 13 July 2015 Read this fine article here Dr. Arrigo was also interviewed earlier today on Democracy Now! Here is additional information about Dr. Arrigo from her Coalition for Ethical Psychology website: Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo

Today is opening day for a new Coursera MOOC on the topics of systematic reviews and meta-analysis. The course is from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Here is an overview to the course: Read Course Overview Here

I've been curating tweets about this using a hashtag I started using back in April: #TorturePsychology

An excellent overview written by Tom Bartlett in the Chronicle of Higher Education about Torture Psychology and the APA. What a Bombshell Report Tells Us About the APA’s Abetting of Torture by Tom Bartlett (@tebartl) Chronicle of Higher Education 13 July 2015 Read the article here

Dr. John Grohol at his "PsychCentral" blog 11th July, 2015 Read the full blog entry [snip] "My Membership in the APA" "While I’ve enjoyed the collegiality of having other like-minded psychologists to turn to over the years of maintaining my APA membership, this report has made it clear that the APA in its current form is an organization that has lost the plot. "I feel that it is shameful that I’m a member of an organization that has stifled and dismissed dissent, while covering up its own unethical practices. If the APA were a professional of its own organization, it would have kicked itself out years ago for its unethical behavior and lies. "In short, my APA membership is actually a liability now. I refuse to be a member in any organization that has spent so much time, effort and focus on defending its unethical practices than in doing much of anything to help my profession. I can no longer trust it to act responsibly and ethically, nor ...

One of the day's essential reads: "Opening Comments of Stephen Soldz and Steven Reisner to the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Directors" 02 July 2015 Washington, DC Read document here

An excellent Comment is free by Dr. Steven Miles, writing in The Guardian: Psychologists' collusion with US torture limited our ability to decry it anywhere Dr. Steven Miles The Guardian 11 Jul 2015 Read article here

Today's New York Times editorial: Psychologists Who Greenlighted Torture The New York Times New York Times editorial

"Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds" By James Risen The New York Times article The public and all psychologists who opposed such work and who felt that the APA was not being forthcoming with truth and reality owe a huge thank you to brave journalist James Risen for the persistence and quality of his work in and of itself, but also in the face of APA's Nixonesque dismissal of his reporting. Here is a .pdf of the report by the APA about America's Torture Psychology and the complicity and involvement of the American Psychological Association: Report text (.pdf) In addition to the NYT link, here is a link to The Guardian's article: "US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion'" by Spencer Ackerman The Guardian article

The 9th IBRO World Congress on Neuroscience is underway. Here is the conference website , which is rich with information about the conference. Twitter hashtag is #IBRO2015.

$150 million slap: Laguna Beach firms, parent company fined for false advertising of Procera AVH dietary supplement The Orange County Register 6th July, 2015 Read full article here [snip] The Federal Trade Commission has issued a judgment of more than $150 million against distributors of dietary supplement Procera AVH for falsely advertising the product’s ability to restore memory loss and improve brain function, according to documents filed in Santa Ana’s federal courthouse. The settlement, filed last Wednesday, acknowledges distributors violated sections of FTC rules that prohibit “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” in commerce. Brain Research Labs (BRL) and its collaborators, 20/20 Brain Power Partners, 20/20 Brain Power Founders, and MedHealth Direct, all of which are based in Laguna Beach, were fined $91 million. Key View Labs, the Florida-based company that bought BRL in 2012, was fined $61 million. A majority of each judgment will be suspended in lieu of $2.8 m...

"UC San Diego sues USC and scientist, alleging conspiracy to take funding, data" Los Angeles Times 06 July 2015 article The complaint filing: pdf of the complaint

The 5th INS/ASSBI Pacific Rim Neuropsychology Conference is underway. Here is the conference homepage . Follow the action on Twitter at the hashtag #insassbi2015.

The homepage for the AAIC15 conference: http://www.alz.org/aaic/ (includes attendee information, program, abstracts and more).