For this post I'm reviewing a paper from Neurology, October 2010, "Homocysteine and holotranscobalamin and the risk of Alzheimer's disease" along with...
Minggu, 31 Oktober 2010
Jumat, 29 Oktober 2010
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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...
Kamis, 28 Oktober 2010
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It seems like a straightforward topic. How does obesity affect the brain? The associations are complicated, chicken and egg sorts of problems. Does...
Senin, 25 Oktober 2010
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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...
Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010
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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,...
Jumat, 22 Oktober 2010
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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...
Kamis, 21 Oktober 2010
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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? ...
Senin, 18 Oktober 2010
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Brand new paper today in Nature Medicine - "A negative regulator of MAP kinase causes depressive behavior." I know that doesn't sound particularly exciting,...
Sabtu, 16 Oktober 2010
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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...
Kamis, 14 Oktober 2010
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As I mentioned in my last post, the first Biosphere 2 closure experiment in 1991-1993 was rough going. Considering the circumstances (starvation, suffocation,...
Selasa, 12 Oktober 2010
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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...
Minggu, 10 Oktober 2010
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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...
Sabtu, 09 Oktober 2010
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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...
Kamis, 07 Oktober 2010
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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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