One of my favorite Copland pieces is the second movement from Rodeo - the Corral Nocturne (right click in new tab to play). It's on most of my lullaby...
Friday, December 31, 2010
Closing Out 2010
For many, like my beloved Texas Longhorns, 2010 was a difficult year. I started the year in a plateau, having gained and lost (and gained and lost) quite...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Your Brain On Creatine
Thank you, good paleo fairy, Melissa McEwan. By my count, next time I'm in NYC I owe you a half dozen NorCal Margaritas. And thank you also former primal...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The Vulnerable Substantia Nigra
Blogging while out of town has proved more difficult that I thought. For one thing, we have free babysitting, so we've obviously been going out at night...
Friday, December 24, 2010
Secrets of the Synapse
Merry Christmas Eve, y'all! I'm in Texas and therefore blogging in a Texas accent currently. Also, I ate some Tex-Mex, which aside from the vegetable...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Alzheimer's and HDL
There are a number of December papers I've been wanting to blog about, but other things came up along the way. But here I have a moment before the...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Compulsion (with opera)
In this post I mean to review the basic neurobiology of compulsive behavior (uh oh, 90% of you just turned off your computers and started watching past...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Scratchy
Purdue University and its mice hit the nutrition news this week with the work of Dr. Joseph Garner and his team. Their paper, "Nutritional up-regulation...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
That Tapeworm Ate Your Depression
I'm a little embarrassed that Mark Sisson got to this one before I did. But I'm sure he has several minions to scan the literature for him, whereas...
Saturday, December 11, 2010
The Monolith
Where evolutionary psychiatry meets history and anthropology is where we become modern humans. It is a tricky question when that happened, because as...
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Pleasure, Pain, Wheat, and Psychopharm
There is something of an addiction theme out in the blogosphere today. Mark Sisson is talking kicking the junkfood habit, and Dr. BG is talking...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Your Brain Loves Cholesterol (Don't Go Too Low)
Sometimes this blog writes itself. Today I was sitting around minding my business, spreading happiness and serenity, when I got an email from the...
Genius and Madness
In the Dopamine Primer 2, I covered the four major dopamine tracts in the brain. Today I'll break down the two most important ones to psychiatrists...
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Rant
Pubmed is awesome. It makes us all into research giants from home. I've even made my own username and password in "My NCBI" and programmed in some automatic...
Friday, December 3, 2010
Brain Efficiency, Pediatric Edition
Back in November, I wrote a post titled Brain Efficiency that detailed some of the links between mitochondrial dysfunction and Parkinson's Disease. ...
