Minggu, 31 Oktober 2010

For this post I'm reviewing a paper from Neurology, October 2010, "Homocysteine and holotranscobalamin and the risk of Alzheimer's disease" along with...
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Jumat, 29 Oktober 2010

Quick review. The hypothalamus in our brains secretes CRH, a hormone that tells our pituitary gland to secrete ACTH, which then travels down through the...
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Kamis, 28 Oktober 2010

It seems like a straightforward topic. How does obesity affect the brain? The associations are complicated, chicken and egg sorts of problems. Does...
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Senin, 25 Oktober 2010

My interview with Leslie Irish Evans is at 3pm EST today (Monday Oct. 25th) on Blog Talk Radio. I have the honor of being her last guest on Blog Talk...
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Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010

I made some pretty bold claims the other day in my post on Alzheimer's and ApoE.  I want to look more closely at some of the studies cited yesterday,...
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Jumat, 22 Oktober 2010

I believe the hierarchy of medicine explains everything. Cardiologists had the EKG as soon as some poor soul was convinced to dunk his feet in (dilute)...
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My friend Leslie Irish Evans of Peeling Mom Off the Ceiling is having me on her radio show next Monday, October 25th.  You can hear it live at noon...
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Kamis, 21 Oktober 2010

I promise that one of these days I will get back to Alzheimer's and saturated fat and ApoE.   Though y'all already know the punchline, right? ...
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Senin, 18 Oktober 2010

Brand new paper today in Nature Medicine - "A negative regulator of MAP kinase causes depressive behavior." I know that doesn't sound particularly exciting,...
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Sabtu, 16 Oktober 2010

First, some possible bad news for Paleo/Primal diet fans. See, there's a prospective cohort study of people >65 out of New York City. 2148 elderly...
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Kamis, 14 Oktober 2010

As I mentioned in my last post, the first Biosphere 2 closure experiment in 1991-1993 was rough going. Considering the circumstances (starvation, suffocation,...
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Selasa, 12 Oktober 2010

Do you guys know Martin Levac? I don't either. He's someone who has been active and entertaining in the comments section of Denise Minger's big China...
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Minggu, 10 Oktober 2010

A little nubbin of a post tonight, mostly to get my brain churning about a topic that I need to do a bit more reading on. The Journal of Affective Disorders...
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Sabtu, 09 Oktober 2010

Back in July, I wrote a number of posts about zinc.  There was Zinc! (which remains one of my most popular posts - perhaps it was the exclamation...
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Kamis, 07 Oktober 2010

Found two more studies measuring diet pattern and mood disorders!The first one is Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age from the British...
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