It is no secret that on this blog, I am a reductionist. All psychiatric illness (shoot, all of chronic Western disease) has the same pathology (inflammation)...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
New Studies: Nutritional and Pathologic Clues in Autism
I've devoted quite a few entires to autism (more properly called the autism spectrum disorders). Perhaps because the illness can be so devastating,...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
More Exciting News
Yesterday I received an email from Brent Pottenger offering up an open spot as a presenter at the Ancestral Health Symposium in a couple of months. ...
Monday, May 23, 2011
A Testimonial
Posted over at Robb Wolf's site with a commentary by Mat Lalonde - a child with significant improvement in autism symptoms mere days initiating a casein...
Friday, May 20, 2011
More About the Mysteries of Cannabis
In my last post on cannabis, I reviewed some observational evidence that smoking marijuana could be seriously bad news if you have psychosis or relatives...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Dopamine Series at Psychology Today
Dopamine PrimerDopamine, the Left Brain, Women, and MenGenius and Madn...
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Cannabis and Psychosis
One of the best things about my blogging gig over at Psychology Today is that I've now attracted the attention of more researchers in the field from all...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Inositol - The Nervous System's Pony Express
At long last! Between Blogger going kaput for a couple of days and the usual stuff, my inositol post had to wait a bit. I'm sure more people...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Couple Things...
I have some more refurbished posts up on Psychology Today - some are updated, and/or combined posts, and a couple of them have some pretty intense information...
Saturday, May 7, 2011
What We Do Can Change the Brain - Trauma, Genes, and Epigenetics
Back in 2003, Avshalom Caspi published a paper in Science that rocked everyone's world (at least in psychiatry): Influence of Life Stress on Depression:...
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Nature and Nurture - The Basis of Mental Illness
"So what's more important, doc? Genes or how you were raised?" I'm asked that question or a variation thereof quite frequently. Some people wonder how...
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Diet and Violence 2
Back in Diet and Violence, I presented evidence from two decently-sized randomized controlled trials of adding a multivitamin/multimineral/essential...
Housecleaning
A little post to keep me somewhat organized - though in many respects I don't like organization as it stomps my thinking patterns a bit. However, as life...
