First off, please go by and read That Paleo Guy's account of being in the middle of the latest Christchurch earthquake. Fortunately he and his loved...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Lithium and Longevity
A new paper was published this week - Low-dose lithium uptake promotes longevity in humans and metazoans. Now, as a psychiatrist, I'm a lithium...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
More on Wheat and Serious Mental Illness
All right. Tuesday. Yesterday at noon local time a big earthquake hit Christchurch, and all of our good wishes are with the people there,...
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Basic Science - Energy is Everything
Let's review. Some 9 months ago, an excitable young psychiatrist of reasonable pedigree launched Evolutionary Psychiatry as a means to explore how...
Friday, February 18, 2011
Healthy Skepticism
Among the papers from the last post fell out this letter in Science, The Potential of Nutritional Therapy. (unfortunately, limited access). However,...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Mental Health and Omega 3/6 Ratio, A New Review
Twitter is a black hole for time spitting out information like Hawking radiation. (I may have achieved the geekiest simile ever!) I've been a bit...
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The Neurobiology of Insomnia - How I Learned to *Start* Worrying and Love Orexin
The sleep and insomnia literature is vast enough to make one... well, overwhelmed. New textbooks, then, can be a nice resource. But textbooks...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Some Thoughts and Some Tchaikovsky
Certain composers seem to be able to understand the music that floats in the air between molecules, the music that describes the light, wind, war, and...
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Food Elimination Diet and ADHD
There is little argument that diet has a contribution in the major diseases of civilization, such as heart disease and type II diabetes. However,...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Sad Monkeys Hopped Up on Omega 6 PUFAs
Today, the amazing Victoria sent me a paper that is way too great to pass up: Depression and altered serum lipids in cynomolgus monkeys consuming a Western...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Appetite Regulation and the Brain
Before we get back to sleeping, there's a bit of brain signaling that it is important to get a handle on. Most of this information is derived from...
