Cola, Depression, and Addiction

Over the weekend a little case study popped up on pubmed. Free full text paper, voila:A case study of cola dependency in a woman with recurrent depressionIt's...

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Evolutionary Solutions for 2013

Hi all� a rare post that is only going live over at Psych Today without making an appearance here first.Three Evolutionary Solutions for 2013Image courtesy...

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Merry Christmas and Harry Truman

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! We awoke to full stockings and a bit of snow on the ground.Yesterday, my sister-in-law gave me a sheet she copied...

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The New "Perfect Health Diet" and "Sex At Dawn"

One of the perks of being a Psychology Today blogger (besides a small quarterly paycheck) is that I get a ton of newly released books sent my way. Unfortunately,...

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Alternative Therapies and Bipolar Disorder

I will get back to OCD. In the mean time a new paper came out called Nutrient-Based Therapies for Bipolar Disorder, A Systemic Review. And this paper...

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Is OCD an Autoimmune Disease

ZZ Ward Put The Gun Down (right click to open in new window, ad at the beginning, my apologies, but song is rad.)I haven't done much on OCD for this blog,...

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ADHD: Stimulants, Alternative Treatments, and Criminality

Attention Deficit Disorders more than most I feel are diseases of civilization, particularly our hypermodern civilization. Certainly they are inherited,...

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Inflammation and Depression: Cause or Effect

Longest hiatus ever. We've been out of town, and then there is the business involved in preparing to go out of town and all the stuff piled up to do when...

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B12 Deficiency and Psychosis, A Case Study

I'm a little few and far between here lately. Besides the day job and the children, between my weekly class, natural disasters, and presenting (almost...

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Autism and Maternal Metabolic Health

I've been sitting on this study for a while. It was published in Pediatrics in May, 2012:Maternal Metabolic Conditions and Risk for Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental...

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What is Evolutionary Psychiatry?

I am in the midst of a new academic year of talks. Last week I went to the Brigham and Women's Hospital behavioral neurology interest group talk, and...

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Depression: A Cosmetic Cure?

"Fake it until you make it." This phrase, though often met with derision, constitutes some practical advice when dealing with a devastating problem like...

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Omega 3, the Elderly, and Getting It Right

New study seen on twitter (as I see most cool stuff, partly because I can't really bear facebook and am pretty bad about checking out the usual blogs...

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Ketogenic Diets and Bipolar Disorder: New Case Studies

Researching the viability of ketogenic diets for therapeutic usage was one of the original interests that launched this blog. And while there is growing...

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Omega 6, Obesity, and Endocannabinoids (Again)

One great mystery in this nutritional debate is how the Harvard School of Public Health and their epidemiologists keep finding such links between the...

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