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...
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