More Clues to Systemic Inflammation in Mood Disorders

Continuing from the discussion of bipolar disorder and adipokines, There's a lot of intriguing information in various studies about the systemic inflammation found in bipolar disorder.  One of the more interesting papers was done by Kapczinski et al and published in 2011 in Psychiatric Research:  Peripheral biomarkers and illness activity in bipolar disorder.(Classical today  - Bizet,...

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Obesity, Systemic Inflammation, and Bipolar Disorder

Mental illness is not invented, and psychiatry is not all in your head.  Today an exploration of the link between bipolar disorder and obesity.  And there is a link, despite the tremendous confounding fact that most of the medicines used to treat bipolar disorder definitely cause obesity, researchers separate out the medication component (and also look at reports from history, prior...

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Are You Cool Enough to have a Healthy Immune System?

What is blogging for, anyway?  Posturing on the internets, vying for position, trying to prove to others that we have optimal genetic material in order to further the chances of our offspring.  I'm not a member of a boy band, so I duke it out in my own niche of esoteric intellectuals�Adagio from Concerto Grosso Op 6. No. 8 in G minor (I could listen to this piece over and over forever,...

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Fast Food Only Makes Us Happy via the Power of Clowns

Just in time for my Easter dinner of Slim Jims and Mickey Ds (kidding!  I ate grassfed steak and potatoes with spices and kerrygold in honor of Walter Willett) comes this downer of a news article:  Link Between Fast Food and Depression Confirmed.That science daily piece is based upon a study newly published in Public Health Nutrition, Fast-food and commercial baked goods consumption and...

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Stress Kills via Inflammation (Possibly)

What a week.  And more busy weeks to come.  I've been neglecting the blog and have only now moderated several days worth of comments, so they have been published now if you were waiting.  I'm starting to feel a bit Kurt Harrisy about comments over time, but for now I am leaving them open.  For the most part things aren't too rambunctious, but I am more easily annoyed these days....

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