Caroline F. Pukall, PhD, CPsych Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Sexual Health (CIHR) Professor, Department of Psychology, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University, Kingston ON K7L 3N6, Canada Email: caroline.pukall@queensu.ca Lab website: https://www.sexlab.ca Twitter: @QSexLab; Instagram: qsexlab; Facebook: /sexlab.ca Editor of Human Sexuality: A … [Read more...] about Queen’s University PSSD Research Project
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What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex
This brief post links to a development since the last - Everything you Want to Know about Sex - post. Twitter like Woody Allen seems to believe you shouldn't be allowed to ask certain questions. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Liz Tucker on her What Your GP Doesn't Tell You podcast series - which has a lot of stellar interviews. It took a while to edit, finally … [Read more...] about What Twitter doesn’t Want you to Know about Sex
Everything You Want to Know about Sex *
Lost in Medication. Ask your doctor about the sexual side-effects of your meds. Based on Adam and Eve painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder in 1526. © Billiam James 2014 The title for the post comes from the W Allen movie Everything you Wanted to Know about Sex * But were Afraid to Ask. Not a title that has worn well with time. We have things we don't know about sex. You … [Read more...] about Everything You Want to Know about Sex *
Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
In some of the comments after the last post, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: An interview has also appeared on Demystifying Science podcast with Anastasia & Michael Shilo The Podcast called … [Read more...] about Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
A Cure for PSSD, PFS and Post-Isotretinoin Syndrome
The Holy Grail © Nina Otulakowski June 2022 You need to click on the image to get the full effects. In recent months, RxISK has been working closely with Luisa Guerrini in Milan, whose background is in research on regulatory proteins like p 63 and p 53, on which Thalidomide works. This discovery led to excitement a few years ago when it was thought the mechanism through which … [Read more...] about A Cure for PSSD, PFS and Post-Isotretinoin Syndrome
Science, Kansas and Pancakes
A long time ago, following work on the Restoration of Study 329, I was approached by Peter Goetzsche, featured above, to work on restoring the two trials that had got Prozac (fluoxetine) approved for children for depression. I may have suggested this idea to Peter in that from 2004 or so I was aware that reviewers in the US FDA had concluded that although they were going to … [Read more...] about Science, Kansas and Pancakes
PSSD Patients Needed for Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation
We recently ran a couple of blog posts about the possibility of a link between post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) and small fibre neuropathy: Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy Antidepressant Neuropathy and the Color of Life The posts recapped some of the things we had previously discussed on the blog and also included new information about a Finnish … [Read more...] about PSSD Patients Needed for Small Fibre Neuropathy Investigation
Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy
RxISK began in 2012. One of its main goals was to offer people an opportunity to report problems they had on treatments – any treatment – and generate a report they could take to a doctor in the hope this might get the doctor to take their problem seriously. I had seen my first cases of Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) in 2000, had been writing about withdrawal since the … [Read more...] about Sensory Receptors, Small Fibres and Neuropathy
New Sex and Drugs Research Forum
RxISK Research Forum for Enduring Sexual Dysfunction RxISK is pleased to announce a new Research Forum. This was trailed in a recent post Our Love Life Needs you to be Wi(c)ked. Since this post we have had a lot of input from many folk offering to help out - mostly advising us to keep it simple. The original idea was an App but this became a Wiki and now has become … [Read more...] about New Sex and Drugs Research Forum
Our Love Life Needs You to be Wiked
Our Love Life Needs You © Nina Otulakowski August 2022 RxISK regularly gets enquiries about what can be done to find an answer to the sexual dysfunctions following SSRIs, Finasteride and Isotretinoin - PSSD, PFS and PRSD. RxISK and Sharks outlined the likely Endgame. This outcome would be terrible - especially as its highly likely there is someone out there who has the … [Read more...] about Our Love Life Needs You to be Wiked