Two more heavily publicized papers came out in the past week or so, just in time to be fodder for questions at my talk on Evolutionary Psychiatry and Alzheimer's Dementia in the upcoming week.Have you ever heard the Adagio from Spartacus? Hang in there for a little bit. Around 1:09 you get the early rendition of one of the more romantic themes in classical music, repeated with greater power later...
Minggu, 20 Mei 2012
Sabtu, 12 Mei 2012
Mom's Wheat Sensitivity and Offspring's Schizophrenia Risk
Posted on 12.30 by chorili
In the midst of all the chaos this week came a very interesting diet/mental illness risk paper. Particularly good because it comes from the premier psychiatry journal (that we in the biz call the "Green Journal" because the cover is� well�anyway): The American Journal of Psychiatry (and looks like the full text is available for free) --- Maternal antibodies to dietary antigens and risk of nonaffective...
Rabu, 09 Mei 2012
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Posted on 20.14 by chorili
I hate the impracticality of magical realism. It seems like hubris to swallow the laws of time and physics in poetry but expect a reader to care about the story. And yet sometimes there is a phrase or paragraph of such power, such wisdom, that you feel gut-punched. Your breath is gone. For that reason a book like One Hundred Years of Solitude should be read. Here is how...
Minggu, 06 Mei 2012
Some New Observational Studies and Alzheimer's Dementia
Posted on 12.02 by chorili
I'm gearing up for a talk later this month for the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society Geriatric Interest Group, which means I'm trying to keep abreast of all the latest diet and dementia studies. A couple new big ones came out, both from groups with which we are familiar. The first is from the Nurse's Health Study which purports that eating berries can protect us from cognitive decline...
Kamis, 03 Mei 2012
Depression, Antidepressants, and the Endocrine System
Posted on 13.11 by chorili
It's all connected. I know it, you know it. Hormones and mood and the brain and inflammation� precisely how and precisely what to do about it? Well, that is surely the sticking point.Santigold: LES Artistes (right click to open in new tab)I'm working from a paper today (as always) but it is not the world's greatest paper (1). A small study hardly worth mentioning, but the discussion...
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