Researchers have been chasing the elusive links between gluten and major mental illness for decades. Despite some hyperbolic coverage in Wheat Belly and slightly more convincing coverage in Grain Brain, there is, so far, quite a bit of smoke, but no fire outside a few case studies. Curt Dohan had quite a few papers back in the day (including this one), and much more recently Faith Dickerson, now armed...
Jumat, 01 November 2013
Kamis, 31 Oktober 2013
New post over at Psychology Today about the possible benefits of sleep flushing the brain like a cranberry bog harvest. And some gluten and psychosis and toxoplasma mash-up here in the next couple of days, once I clean the house and get all the candy and mouldering pumpkins put away.Even Michael Stipe thinks sleep is important in this odd homage to the 7th interval�Happy Halloween! Don't let...
Minggu, 22 September 2013
On the personal front we are going full speed ahead into fall, school, apple picking, corn mazes, and sweater weather. I also decided to participate in a little n=1 experiment of caffeine elimination for 24 days along with Dallas Hartwig, who apparently does an elimination of this sort at least once a year. He drinks quite a bit of coffee and the occasional...
Minggu, 15 September 2013
Terribly busy between back to school (both kids now have homework!) and my sister getting married last weekend (which required me to be a bridesmaid and also to supply a few adorable flower girls and some quick cross-country flying and jetlag). Also trying to get in our American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting abstracts on time�my medical school...
Jumat, 30 Agustus 2013
I'll be on the Creative Live video podcast later today (3pm pacific, 6pm eastern) on the topic of happiness (Dave Asprey invited me to participate, and while he is going into some of the technology he uses to monitor his brain and functioning, I'll be talking about some of the research about happiness and different Eastern and Western perspectives.)Just...
Minggu, 25 Agustus 2013
This study made big news last week, but I was in the midst of AHS13 in Atlanta, and besides the normal conference exhausting insanity, I also had either food poisoning or some sort of gastroenteritis. Only now I'm recovered enough to unbury myself (more or less) from the usual home and work chores.U2 Some Days Are Better Than OthersI'll do a companion...
Jumat, 09 Agustus 2013
First off, I can't believe this blog is over three years old. Figured that out when I linked an old zinc post, because I completely missed the three year anniversary a few months ago. In any event over the past three years I have seen a greater acceptance of employing grain-free diet interventions along with avoiding processed food, and some more skepticism...
Minggu, 04 Agustus 2013
I rather liked The Bourne Legacy, though it is certainly formulaic and silly in parts, but Jeremy Renner is amazing. He's not the most ripped or handsome action hero out there (most of them are comically ripped and/or handsome), but there's something about his acting that is very emotionally appealing. I also have a soft spot for parkour stunts...
Minggu, 28 Juli 2013
None other than the amazing Dallas Hartwig sent me a link to this paper about OCD and serum mineral levels a while back. It's hard to know what to make of the paper. In Bangladesh, 48 folks with OCD (mostly men) and matched controls had serum measures of minerals zinc, copper, magnesium, manganese, iron, and calcium taken. And, low and behold, the serum levels of those anti-anxiety metals zinc and...
Kamis, 04 Juli 2013
A brand new post is up at Psychology Today:Zoo HumansHat tip to John Durant for the idea and to Erwan Le Corre for the name (and also to the originator, of course, published in 1969 of which I was unaware�The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris which I have now ordered from Amazon. John tells me his new book, The Paleo Manifesto has quite a bit more about...
Selasa, 18 Juni 2013
Last year the daughter of one of my patients called me. "Mom is acting really strange. She's being aggressive, and she thinks my Dad is still alive. I don't think she slept last night. Do you think she needs an increase in her medication?"Tame Impala: ElephantMy patient was a sweet 70 year old woman with a psychosis-heavy bipolar disorder who could get paranoid from time to time, but was never violent,...
Minggu, 02 Juni 2013
A long time ago, when I was an intern, I would drive into the hospital for ultra long shifts. Day went into night into the next day. You might be lucky to get one day off in a month. It's illegal now to work interns as much as we were worked, and I understand the sleep science behind the laws. But at the same time, you learn something about yourself and your patients in the long march over a day and...
Kamis, 23 Mei 2013
Many months ago, psychiatrist extraordinairre Drew Ramsey, MD of Columbia University asked if I would be part of a group to present information in a workshop format at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in San Francisco. He submitted an abstract, rounded up a reputable mentor on the scientific advisory board and collected not only...
Minggu, 05 Mei 2013
Hi there. Yes, it has been a while. I am spending several hours each day working on the book, so other writing has taken a back seat for the moment. In addition, I am preparing for the upcoming American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, where I will be presenting as part of a group on food and the brain (on Sunday afternoon, before the Clinton speech, for anyone who will be...
Minggu, 21 April 2013
I've always worked on Marathon Monday until this year, when we went to California to visit my sister for the week. Otherwise, since my oldest is now in school and had the day off, we may well have been downtown to see the festivities. For four years I lived about a half mile from where the bombings took place. I've walked down Boylston Street hundreds...
Jumat, 12 April 2013
First off, a brand new post is up on Psychology Today (one never before seen on this blog):Sunlight and ADHDSecondly, the blog has been a bit quiet of late because I am busy trying to get some real work done on the book. The deadline for a solid first draft is fast approaching.In light of some shake-up in the blogosphere and the recent paleo debunking fad, I do plan a little post about what I think...
Selasa, 02 April 2013
Last weekend I went down to Austin for the PaleoFx13 conference. While I enjoyed PaleoFx12, I had a bit of trepidation at the idea of going back, mostly because the science talks were exceptionally fringe. However, I really enjoyed the people, and since I�m originally from Austin, it�s a nice excuse to get down for a few days and see my family and...
Minggu, 24 Maret 2013
Respighi: Fountains of RomeCarson McCullers wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter when she was 23. It became a literary sensation, though she was already suffering from rheumatic fever and would live most of her remaining life handicapped by a series of strokes. She wrote most often of love, loneliness, and empathy for the human condition.I haven�t written a philosophical post in a while. Maybe because...
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