Jumat, 22 Juni 2012

Anti-inflammatories and Schizophrenia

Short little post on a paper from a few weeks ago from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry:  Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Schizophrenia: Ready for Practice or a Good Start?  A Meta-Analysis.Nothing spectacular here, just some interesting arguments and correlations to add to the literature that major mental illness has an inflammatory pathology, and that searching for anti-inflammatory...
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Jumat, 15 Juni 2012

Hey, I'm back!  Looks like when I don't blog new stuff, the archives get more reads, though, which is good.  They ought to be useful for something, anyway.  Lots of action on the Evolutionary Psychiatry front behind the scenes, some of it still super secret and all very exciting.  AHS12 is coming up and with it reunions with a bunch of my best evo med-loving buddies, along with...
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Sabtu, 02 Juni 2012

I first met Dallas and Melissa Hartwig at AHS11 at UCLA. They are formidable, friendly, bubbly, beautiful, and very tall. I first heard of them several months earlier from Jamie Scott, and then remembered a spat back and forth between Kurt Harris and someone named Dallas over dairy in the comments of Kurt's blog (then named PaNu). Shortly after that,...
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Jumat, 01 Juni 2012

Glutathione: We Loves It (NAC and Autism)

I love twitter.  And I'm nearing 10,000 tweets, which is probably diagnostic of something.  But twitter is a great way to find articles and studies and things of interest tweeted by others with similar interests.  And twitter is how I found this new study from Biological Psychiatry, A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Oral N-Acetylcysteine in Children with Autism.  Everyone...
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