I'm going to go an unusual direction today and swerve from my normal focus on psychiatry to comment on the general direction of medicine. In some...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
More Evidence for a Gut-Brain Connection
Someone (Stephen B) emailed me via Google +, which I didn't know was possible, mostly because I have yet to bother to figure out anything about Google...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Autism and Antioxidants -- A Wee Little Explanation

To start off, here is Elvis Presley's last Number 1 hit: A Little Less Conversation (right click to open in new tab)Yesterday I put up a little...
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Tylenol and Autism?
I know. The link seems silly. Tylenol is for babies, right? Far safer than aspirin for fever, after all. Pediatricians recommend...
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Diet and ADHD - A Literature Review
Last Thursday I had to report for jury duty. Fortunately my number was on the higher side, so it involved me sitting in a room for a while reading...
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Just Eat Fish

I've covered the importance of omega 3 fatty acids in the brain a number of times. However, when anyone asks me for specific recommendations, I've had...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
New Study on Vitamin D and Depression
Quite a bit of feedback on my rant from yesterday. In truth I would probably keep these rants to myself, except I keep getting asked about what...
Friday, January 6, 2012
The Glorious Cause
Evolutionary medicine is important. A common sense, evolutionary based approach to general preventative health care and diet advice could...
Sunday, January 1, 2012
More on Diet and Dementia
Thanks to Oregon, another diet and dementia study hit the press (or internet-prior-to) last week. A modest number of seniors were tested for levels...