Beatrice Golomb is one of my favorite researchers. She is holding the line that statins might, just maybe, be rotten for the brain and cause cognitive difficulties. And here she shows up as the primary author on a cool little observational study linking trans fats and aggression.The weaknessess of the study: observational, food frequency questionaires, not too many confounders accounted...
Jumat, 23 Maret 2012
Kamis, 22 Maret 2012
Lessons in life are often repeated, and we may not get it the first time around. A high school reunion is coming up, and I've had the opportunity to chat with some old friends not in touch for 20 years. And despite those decades they are still the same, still terrific people. When I find such friends I do try to keep in touch nowadays,...
Minggu, 18 Maret 2012
Sitting here at the DFW airport waiting for my connection home seems like a good opportunity to put up a second post inspired by my experience at PaleoFx12, Theory to Practice Conference. The previous post covers the first couple of days. The final conference day proper began with my putting on my watch upside-down in the dark, so I arrived half an hour early, just in time to be asked...
Sabtu, 10 Maret 2012
In the past week or so there has been a deluge of papers relevant to the sphere of this blog. And it is March, as in "beware the Ides of." Any psychiatrist readers (northern hemisphere and likely accentuated at the higher latitudes) will know exactly what I mean. As the sunlight returns the agitation and anxiety and insomnia are awakened. The phone at clinic is ringing off...
Minggu, 04 Maret 2012
One of the perks of having a relatively well-read blog (here and on Psychology Today) is getting free copies of recent books that come out. Some of them are from the Psychology Today bloggers, others from the paleosphere. I also purchase Evolutionary Psychiatry-related books, mostly textbooks, and nowadays I can use my blog income and donations to do so, so I've about broken even with...
Sabtu, 03 Maret 2012
Framingham, Massachusetts, founded in 1700, is a manufacturing area somewhat to the north of where I live. Most folks interested in the medical sciences have heard of Framingham because it houses the subjects of one of the longest-running and famous studies of all time, the Framingham Heart Study. Begun in 1948, scientists have followed several generations of residents assessing diet,...
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