I had forgotten that the good Dr. Su sent me a link to a dietary trial of ketogenic diets in kids with autism a few months ago. He reminded me of this...
Monday, January 31, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
I Hate Homocysteine (Also It Is Elevated in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder)
There are some biochemical reactions that are just gorgeous. Poetry. Glycolysis and the citric acid cycle, for example. I used to be able to draw out...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Dietary Fat Intake and Depression Risk
More sleep coming soon, but a paper came out yesterday that ought to be blogged about (open access, too from PLoS One):Dietary Fat Intake and the Risk...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Appetite, Sleep, and Mood - The Connection
Whew. Between making up for my holiday vacation and the snow days (we might get yet another storm, up to 18 inches, tomorrow, and there is still...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders
Little update 3/2/11 - Just found this website with research updates on chronotherapuetics which may be of interest: http://www.chronotherapeutics.org/Index.html(end...
Friday, January 21, 2011
Sleep Architecture
At the risk of recreating a wikipedia article, we need to lay some groundwork here and discuss the structure of normal sleep. Of course it is never as...
Monday, January 17, 2011
Circadian Rhythm, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Pineal Gland Tumor
Today's Green Journal had an interesting letter to the editor. "Ivan," a 19 y/o, had a history of a pineal gland tumor (the pineal gland secretes melatonin)...
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Neurobiology of Sleep
There is quite a bit going on, and I'm not always capable of doing it all with one hand behind my back, especially when sleep-deprived. One of my colleagues...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Autism and Interpregnancy Interval
A paper came out earlier this week: Closely Spaced Pregnancies are Associated with Increased Odds of Autism in California Sibling Births.In short, the...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Snowpocalypse II Beef Stew
We're supposed to get another 14-21 inches of snow starting after midnight tonight, and despite several unseasonably warm days, we still have 8-10 inches...
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Evolutionary Psychiatry - the Key Posts
What with the very recent post link from PaNu, and Chris Kresser tweeting and facebooking (eesh is that a word?) my last post (thanks Chris!), it looks...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Alzheimer's, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Ketosis
Funny thing is, not even a month ago I was commenting over at Dr. Parker's Diabetic Mediterranean Diet blog that there weren't really any studies about...
Friday, January 7, 2011
The Power of a Woman's Tears
First off a big thanks to Kurt Harris over at PaNu for his props for my blog (at the same time he recommended Andrew's) - glad to see you back into blogging,...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Sex, and Drugs, and Sex
Not too terribly long ago, Jamie Scott made a mockery of Mr. Kellogg, who if legend holds true peddled breakfast cereal as an armament against masturbation...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Bipolar Disorder and the Psychiatry War of the 20th Century
I'm going to start with a little history of psychiatry in America and the DSMIV. Up into the 60s and 70s, psychiatry in America was heavily influenced...
