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Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry: PsyTAR: a Corpus of Patient-reported Adverse Events - PsyTAR SSRI and SNRI study summary and AskaPatient download
A Case study for SSRI and SNRI medications by Zolnoori, et.al using AskaPatient data.

Camino S, Strejilevich SA, Godoy A, Smith J, Szmulewicz A. "Are all antidepressants the same? The consumer has a point."
Psychol Med. 2022 Mar 29:1-8. doi: 10.1017/S0033291722000678. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35346413.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35346413/

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Sears, Richard. "Patient Reports Reveal SSRI Antidepressants Often Lead to Emotional Blunting." Mad in America, April 19, 2022.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/04/patient-reports-reveal-ssri-antidepressants-often-lead-emotional-blunting/

Zolnoori M, Fung KW, Fontelo P, Kharrazi H, Faiola A, Wu YSS, Stoffel V, Patrick T. "Identifying the Underlying Factors Associated With Patients' Attitudes Toward Antidepressants: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Patient Drug Reviews." JMIR Ment Health. 2018 Sep 30;5(4):e10726. doi: 10.2196/10726. PMID: 30287417; PMCID: PMC6876546.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876546/

Alarifi M, Jabour A, Foy DM, Zolnoori M. "Identifying the underlying factors associated with antidepressant drug discontinuation: content analysis of patients' drug reviews." Inform Health Soc Care. 2022 Jan 20:1-10. doi: 10.1080/17538157.2021.2024835. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35050827.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17538157.2021.2024835?journalCode=imif20

Shi X, Zhao S, Wang Y, Chen X, Zhang Z, Zheng Y, Che W. Understanding Patient Query with Weak Supervision from Doctor Response. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform. 2021 Dec 9;PP. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2021.3133667. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34882565.

"Pharmacovigilance in Psychiatry: PsyTAR: a Corpus of Patient-reported Adverse Events"
Zolnoori, M., Fung, K. W., Patrick, T. B., Fontelo, P., Kharrazi, H., Faiola, A., . . . Hamideh, M. (in press). A systematic approach for developing a corpus of patient reported adverse drug events: A case study for SSRI and SNRI medications, Journal of Biomedical Informatics. research summary and download
See "Withdrawal Effects from Antidepressants" that presents withdrawal data from the research: https://www.askapatient.com/news/antidepressant-withdrawal.asp

Bell, Kirsten and Helen Keane. "Nicotine Control: E-cigarettes, Smoking and Addiction." International Journal of Drug Policy, 23, no. 3 (May 2012): 242-247. http: //dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2012.01.006

Basset, Herve and David Stuart and Denise Silber. From Science 2.0 to Pharma 3.0. Oxford, England: Chandos Publishing Social Media Series, 2013. p. 83. Science Direct article

Delbaere, Marjorie. "Metaphors and Myths in Pharmaceutical Advertising." Social Science and Medicine, 82 (April 2013): 21-29. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953613000452

DeMonaco, Harold J. "Patient- and Physician-Oriented Web Sites and Drug Surveillance: Bisphosphonates and Severe Bone, Joint, and Muscle Pain." Archives of Internal Medicine 169, no. 12 (2009): 1164-1166. citation link (accessed July 31, 2011).

Duh, Mei Sheng and Pierre Cremieux and Marc VanAudenrode et. al. "Can social media data lead to earlier detection of drug-related adverse events?" Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 25, no. 12 (2016): 1425-1433. HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/PDS.4090. (accessed 6/13/2017).

Eysenbach, Gunther. “Credibility of Health Information and Digital Media: New Perspectives and Implications for Youth." Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility. Edited by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Serieson Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 123–154. doi: 10.1162/dmal.9780262562324.123

Gopalakrishnan, V. and  Ramaswamy, C. "Patient opinion mining to analyza drugs satisfaction using supervised learning." Journal of Applied Research and Technology  Volume 15, Issue 4, August 2017, Pages 311-319 (accessed September 15, 2017).

Herrick, Devon. "Shopping for Drugs: 2007." NCPA Policy Report (National Center for Policy Analysis) No. 293 (November 2006): 1-44. http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/20627.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Herrick, Devon, and John Goodman. "The Market for Medical Care: Why You Don’t Know the Price; Why You Don’t Know about Quality; And What Can Be Done about It." NCPA Policy Report (National Center for Policy Analysis) No. 296 (February 2007). http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/st296.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011). 

Hong, Song Hee and Woojung Lee and Yazed AlRuthia. "Health Care Applicability of a Patient-Centric Web Portal for Patients' Medication Experience." Journal of Medical Internet Research (2016) 18 (7):e202. http://www.jmir.org/2016/7/e202/.

Hughes, Shannon and David Cohen. "Can Online Consumers Contribute to Drug Knowledge? A Mixed-Methods Comparison of Consumer-Generated and Professionally Controlled Psychotropic Medication Information on the Internet." Journal of Medical Internet Research (2011) 13(3):e53. http://www.jmir.org/2011/3/e53

Johnstone, Lucy. "Psychological effects and meanings of neuroleptics." The Use of Antipsychotic Medication. Bristol: Bristol Local Involvement Network, 2011. http://www.linkbristol.org.uk/assets/files/Issues%20and%20Concerns/Lucy%20Johnstone%20Presentation.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Kaplin, Arline. "Statins, Cholesterol Depletion—and Mood Disorders: What’s the Link?" Psychiatric Times, November 30, 2010: 1-5. http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/mood-disorders/content/article/10168/1743257?GUID=E5C71E21-93E1-4516-8A9C-CD126946FBDA (accessed July 31, 2011).

Karimi, Sarvnaz and Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Madonna Kemp and Chen Wang. "Cadec: A Corpus of Adverse Drug Event Annotations." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 55 (June 2015) p73-81. http://www.j-biomed-inform.com/article/S1532-0464%2815%2900053-2/abstract

Li, Yueyang Alice. Medical Data Mining: Improving Information Accessibility Using Online Patient Drug Reviews. Master's Thesis, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge: Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/sls/publications/2011/AliceLiThesis2011.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Miller, George. "Askapatient.com visitors reported Fosamax effects years before medical lit." FierceBiotech IT. April 1, 2010. http://www.fiercebiotechit.com/story/askapatient-com-revealed-fosamax-effects-years-medical-literature/2010-04-01 (accessed April 1, 2010).

Moncrieff, J, D. Cohen, and J.P. Mason. "The subjective experience of taking antipsychotic medication: a content analysis of Internet data ." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2009: 1-10. http://www.mentalhealth.freeuk.com/acta.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Pray, W. Steven. "New Nonprescription Weight Loss Product." U.S. Pharmacist. October 18, 2007. http://www.uspharmacist.com/content/d/consult%20your%20pharmacist/c/10234/ (accessed July 31, 2011).

Quinn, Catherine. The Pharmacist’s Right of Refusal in Dispensing Morally Objectionable Medications. Paper, Detroit, MI: http://rxethics.org/Quinn%20Edited%20PDF.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Rice, Sabriya. "Are you taking too many meds?" http://edition.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/med.nation.too.many.meds/ (accessed June 13, 2017)

Sarker, Abeed et. al. "Utilizing Social Media Data for Pharmacovigilance: a Review." Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 54 (April 2015) p202-212. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046415000362

Smith, Dean G. Prescription Drug Importation, Investment and Employment in Michigan. Manuscript, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2004. http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/pdf/rx_importation_30aug04.pdf (accessed July 31, 2011).

Tarnow, Eugen. "Internet drug ratings: AskaPatient.com & WebMD correlate well but Drugs.com does not." Predictive Analytics blog by Eugen Tarnow, Avalon Business Systems. July 21, 2015. http://avalonanalytics.com/check%20big%20data%20blog.nsf/dx/internet-drug-ratings-askapatient.com-webmd-correlate-well-but-drugs.com-does-not/ (accessed 6/13/2017).

Zeng, Xiaoming, and Bambang Parmanto. "Web Content Accessibility of Consumer Health Information Web Sites for People with Disabilities: A Cross Sectional Evaluation." Journal of Medical Internet Research 6, no. 2 (April 2004). http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550595/ (accessed July 31, 2011).

AskaPatient welcomes medical institutions, academic research, and non-profit health care research community to make use of AskaPatient information according to our terms of use, and require that you contact us for permission to use limited data in your studies. Perhaps we will even be able to provide assistance for your research.