Over the weekend a little case study popped up on pubmed. Free full text paper, voila:A case study of cola dependency in a woman with recurrent depressionIt's not the world's greatest paper. It's a simple case study, just an introduction that proves nothing. The most fascinating thing about the paper is what we don't know about the consumption of cola, addiction, and mood.So let's jump in. There is...
Senin, 31 Desember 2012
Kamis, 27 Desember 2012
Hi all� a rare post that is only going live over at Psych Today without making an appearance here first.Three Evolutionary Solutions for 2013Image courtesy Flickr Creative Comm...
Selasa, 25 Desember 2012
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! We awoke to full stockings and a bit of snow on the ground.Yesterday, my sister-in-law gave me a sheet she copied while reading David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman.Truman was the thirty-third president of the United States. In his seventh year in office, when he was 67, he was described as a "picture of...
Sabtu, 15 Desember 2012
I will get back to OCD. In the mean time a new paper came out called Nutrient-Based Therapies for Bipolar Disorder, A Systemic Review. And this paper is not written by some press agent working out of the basement of a supplement company. It's the Massachusetts General Hospital bipolar research clinic. I've been in meetings with some of these folks and heard them speak.Psychiatry in Boston (and the...
Sabtu, 08 Desember 2012
ZZ Ward Put The Gun Down (right click to open in new window, ad at the beginning, my apologies, but song is rad.)I haven't done much on OCD for this blog, which is silly. I mean, ask any psychiatrist about "organic" mental health disorders and OCD will top the list. It is highly inherited, and there are forms of it that, like rheumatic heart disease, even start after a bacterial infection. Is OCD...
Jumat, 30 November 2012
Attention Deficit Disorders more than most I feel are diseases of civilization, particularly our hypermodern civilization. Certainly they are inherited, and many folks will show up at my office after a child has been diagnosed with ADHD, telling me, "you know what, I've always had trouble focusing as well." I've even seen old grade school report cards from the seventies, with neat teacher's script:...
Minggu, 11 November 2012
I'm a little few and far between here lately. Besides the day job and the children, between my weekly class, natural disasters, and presenting (almost every week, it seems), all my spare time for looking up papers and blogging has been sucked away. I'm eager to engage on another bigger project instead of doing these posts on single papers, and in that vein I'm hopeful to pursue OCD and then a lot...
Jumat, 02 November 2012
I've been sitting on this study for a while. It was published in Pediatrics in May, 2012:Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental DisordersIn California, many children aged 2-5 between 2003 and 2010 were involved in population based cohorts with the CHARGE study. I've covered a previous paper from this study before�Captial Cities: Safe and SoundDiagnoses of children...
Sabtu, 27 Oktober 2012
I am in the midst of a new academic year of talks. Last week I went to the Brigham and Women's Hospital behavioral neurology interest group talk, and last Thursday to Boston University Medical Center Psychiatry Grand Rounds. I do like these academic talks, though naturally the audience is much more skeptical than the Ancestral Health Symposium and PaleoFx folks. Skepticism is good. Keeps me...
Kamis, 18 Oktober 2012
"Fake it until you make it." This phrase, though often met with derision, constitutes some practical advice when dealing with a devastating problem like chronic depression.There are, at the base of it, two major psychotherapeutic approaches to the treatment of depression. One way to explore relationships and history to find past trauma and metabolize it in order to get through it and better under...
Jumat, 12 Oktober 2012
New study seen on twitter (as I see most cool stuff, partly because I can't really bear facebook and am pretty bad about checking out the usual blogs these days).The Strokes. Last Night.The Study (free full text): Older Women, Depression, Omega 3 Ratios, Inflammation, and SupplementationBam. I'm getting all Emeril about it because finally we are getting some thoughtful and complete studies. We're...
Senin, 08 Oktober 2012
Researching the viability of ketogenic diets for therapeutic usage was one of the original interests that launched this blog. And while there is growing data for brain cancers and even a Cochran review for the use of ketogenic diets in epilepsy, the bipolar story has always been theoretical.Churchill: Change (song starts at about 30 secs)Ketogenic (very low carbohydrate and low protein) diets...
Jumat, 28 September 2012
One great mystery in this nutritional debate is how the Harvard School of Public Health and their epidemiologists keep finding such links between the omega 6 polyunsaturates and all manner of good health. My confusion comes in part because in all likelyhood the most omega 6 fats will be eaten by people eating a load of processed crap who by all accounts should not be the healithiest. If the epidemiologists...
Sabtu, 22 September 2012
I'm doing a little studying up on binge eating and the brain, so this post is more of a notation aid for me. So if you aren't a neuroscientist, you might want to just listen to this music.From "Dissecting components of reward: 'liking', 'wanting', and 'learning''."Rewards ranging from sweet taste, IV cocaine, winning money and smiley face activate many brain regions (orbitofrontal cortex,...
Jumat, 21 September 2012
At the beginning of September, there was a bit of a twitter about this new paper in Neurology. In fact, some folks emailed me links and tweeted it to my attention. And the paper turns out to be very interesting. You can tell by the way it was written that the researchers were pretty stoked at the results, and that doesn't always sneak...
Jumat, 14 September 2012
Terribly busy. My oldest child went to kindergarten. I swear she was a baby just yesterday.And she was auditioning for Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies.Actually, much of her life has been something like the following:Your long summer is over, kiddo. Enjoy kindergarten!After a long podcast hiatus, I went on to Doc Femento last week....
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