A Grand Unified Theory of Psychiatry?

It is no secret that on this blog, I am a reductionist.  All psychiatric illness (shoot, all of chronic Western disease) has the same pathology (inflammation)...

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New Studies: Nutritional and Pathologic Clues in Autism

I've devoted quite a few entires to autism (more properly called the autism spectrum disorders).  Perhaps because the illness can be so devastating,...

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More Exciting News

Yesterday I received an email from Brent Pottenger offering up an open spot as a presenter at the Ancestral Health Symposium in a couple of months. ...

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A Testimonial

Posted over at Robb Wolf's site with a commentary by Mat Lalonde - a child with significant improvement in autism symptoms mere days initiating a casein...

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More About the Mysteries of Cannabis

In my last post on cannabis, I reviewed some observational evidence that smoking marijuana could be seriously bad news if you have psychosis or relatives...

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Dopamine Series at Psychology Today

Dopamine PrimerDopamine, the Left Brain, Women, and MenGenius and Madn...

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Cannabis and Psychosis

One of the best things about my blogging gig over at Psychology Today is that I've now attracted the attention of more researchers in the field from all...

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Inositol - The Nervous System's Pony Express

At long last!  Between Blogger going kaput for a couple of days and the usual stuff, my inositol post had to wait a bit.  I'm sure more people...

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Couple Things...

I have some more refurbished posts up on Psychology Today - some are updated, and/or combined posts, and a couple of them have some pretty intense information...

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What We Do Can Change the Brain - Trauma, Genes, and Epigenetics

Back in 2003, Avshalom Caspi published a paper in Science that rocked everyone's world (at least in psychiatry): Influence of Life Stress on Depression:...

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Nature and Nurture - The Basis of Mental Illness

"So what's more important, doc? Genes or how you were raised?" I'm asked that question or a variation thereof quite frequently. Some people wonder how...

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Diet and Violence 2

Back in Diet and Violence, I presented evidence from two decently-sized randomized controlled trials of adding a multivitamin/multimineral/essential...

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Housecleaning

A little post to keep me somewhat organized - though in many respects I don't like organization as it stomps my thinking patterns a bit. However, as life...

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