Ketogenic diets have been prescribed for seizures for a long time. The actual research diets used in the past were pretty dismal and seemed to involve...
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Proof that Our Ancestors May Have Practiced an Early Form of Yoga
She called the pose, "I'm being a bunny fro...
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Family Tree
(Right click to open in new tab this lovely version of Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz)That song reminds me of home. Though, oddly enough, it was...
Friday, August 27, 2010
Ketogenic Diets and Bipolar Disorder 2
Yesterday I made a brief introduction to the topic of ketogenic diets and bipolar disorder. Today I want to discuss some of the issues raised in...
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Ketogenic Diets and Bipolar Disorder 1
Bipolar disorder is a challenging illness, with various clinical presentations. In "type one" people struggle with alternating symptoms of mania and depression....
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Yoga (ba) GABA
One of my standard recommendations for people who have anxiety is to practice yoga. There are controlled clinical trials demonstrating its efficacy (1)(2),...
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Zombieland
Back in the day, we ate a lot of brains. Stands to reason. All animals come with one, after all. And we certainly wouldn't leave behind...
Friday, August 20, 2010
Chronic Stress is Chronic Illness - Wherefore Art Thy Regulatory Mechanisms?
So here's how mammals roll. We perceive a threat, and then our brains jump into action. First step - the brain's fear center, the amygdala,...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Stress is Metabolic Syndrome
In a previous post I described a little bit about the HPA axis. That's hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, or master glands of stress and how they rule...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Love and Opium
First a few interesting tidbits from the news. The stories reference presentations of data at a conference, so I don't have more specific information....
Sunday, August 15, 2010
More about sunlight, food, and serotonin
The problem with mucking about with our biochemistry is that you are never really sure what exactly is going to happen. For most substances there is a...
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Theory of Mind and Evolutionary Psychiatry
We are human because we are social. There is some debate as to why we became quite so social, but the predominant theory is that when we left the...
Friday, August 13, 2010
The Evolution of Serotonin
Jamie Scott's Midwinter Blues post was the fourth of four (unplanned) complementary fructose/fructan posts on Primal Muse and Evolutionary Psychiatry....
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Western Diet and ADHD
Thanks again to Dr. Hale for pointing out a new study on diet and ADHD. And thanks again to Australia for studying diet and psychiatric issues observationally,...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Circles of SAM-E
Figuring out biochemistry is rather like watching a group of kids playing on the playground. Lots of kids bounce off each other, swing from jungle gyms...
