Now that Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Merck, and Sanofi have either scaled back or (in the case of GSK and AZ) abandoned any further Central Nervous System (CNS) R&D, the hand-wringing has begun, with distinguished professors like Dr. Steven E. Hyman writing alarmist editorials about the imperiled future of psych meds and articles in the media talking of a "crisis" in psych-med research. (The opening sentence of a recent editorial in Schizophrenia Bulletin was: "Psychopharmacology is in crisis." The headline of Dr. Hyman's piece is "Psychiatric Drug Development: Diagnosing a Crisis.")
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