Psychopathology and particularly psychosis has had a bit of a research dance with immunology over the past several years. For example, women with post-partum psychosis are more likely than controls to have anti-thyroid antibodies. And folks with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are more likely to have strange anti-wheat protein antibodies than controls. In the recent, very large CATIE trial, 23.%...
Minggu, 27 Januari 2013
Jumat, 25 Januari 2013
I know it has been a while.The Kooks. Naive.I've been really sick. Flu I think! Though I've never had the flu before. Fever and malaise and all that crap, for a week. Not like me at all. Caught it from my children, who caught it from my husband, who works at a hospital. Once the kids are sick and keep me up at night and cough in my face, I'm a sitting duck. I haven't been to the gym. I've...
Sabtu, 12 Januari 2013
Cocoa and Cognitive Decline
Posted on 11.25 by chorili
One of the most heartbreaking fields of medicine is that of cognitive decline. I presented to journal club of behavioral neurologists last fall and felt eviscerated� but I know why. There are all these families with loved ones struggling with dementa and hardly any evidenced-based treatments. It's an area rife for fraud and false hopes. Enter cocoa, among other miracle foods (like curcurmin).New...
Senin, 07 Januari 2013
The Primal Connection
Posted on 17.52 by chorili
A few weeks ago, Mark Sisson's company sent me his brand new book (the seventh in The Primal Blueprint series) which is going to be released tomorrow: The Primal Connection.**I've always liked Mark's readable, organized writing. He has a knack for taking complicated and scientific subjects and distilling some common sense truth out of them. It doesn't mean I agree with him about all things, but I...
Jumat, 04 Januari 2013
Your Brain on Fructose
Posted on 11.21 by chorili
Right on the heels of the little case study I wrote about last time came a paper in JAMA that made a bit of a splash in the news: Effects of Fructose vs Glucose on Regional Cerebral Blood Flow in Brain Regions Involved With Appetite and Reward Pathways.I know. Sounds like a nail-biter.Stone Temple Pilots: Pretty Penny (from 1994! Ancient history. I like the fresh time signature used in the song.)The...
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