Ketogenic diets have been prescribed for seizures for a long time. The actual research diets used in the past were pretty dismal and seemed to involve...
Senin, 30 Agustus 2010
Minggu, 29 Agustus 2010
She called the pose, "I'm being a bunny fro...
Sabtu, 28 Agustus 2010
(Right click to open in new tab this lovely version of Mark O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz)That song reminds me of home. Though, oddly enough, it was...
Jumat, 27 Agustus 2010
Yesterday I made a brief introduction to the topic of ketogenic diets and bipolar disorder. Today I want to discuss some of the issues raised in...
Kamis, 26 Agustus 2010
Bipolar disorder is a challenging illness, with various clinical presentations. In "type one" people struggle with alternating symptoms of mania and depression....
Selasa, 24 Agustus 2010
One of my standard recommendations for people who have anxiety is to practice yoga. There are controlled clinical trials demonstrating its efficacy (1)(2),...
Minggu, 22 Agustus 2010
Back in the day, we ate a lot of brains. Stands to reason. All animals come with one, after all. And we certainly wouldn't leave behind...
Jumat, 20 Agustus 2010
So here's how mammals roll. We perceive a threat, and then our brains jump into action. First step - the brain's fear center, the amygdala,...
Kamis, 19 Agustus 2010
In a previous post I described a little bit about the HPA axis. That's hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, or master glands of stress and how they rule...
Selasa, 17 Agustus 2010
First a few interesting tidbits from the news. The stories reference presentations of data at a conference, so I don't have more specific information....
Minggu, 15 Agustus 2010
The problem with mucking about with our biochemistry is that you are never really sure what exactly is going to happen. For most substances there is a...
Sabtu, 14 Agustus 2010
We are human because we are social. There is some debate as to why we became quite so social, but the predominant theory is that when we left the...
Jumat, 13 Agustus 2010
Jamie Scott's Midwinter Blues post was the fourth of four (unplanned) complementary fructose/fructan posts on Primal Muse and Evolutionary Psychiatry....
Kamis, 12 Agustus 2010
Thanks again to Dr. Hale for pointing out a new study on diet and ADHD. And thanks again to Australia for studying diet and psychiatric issues observationally,...
Selasa, 10 Agustus 2010
Figuring out biochemistry is rather like watching a group of kids playing on the playground. Lots of kids bounce off each other, swing from jungle gyms...
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