Medicine Is Still an Art

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...

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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...

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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...

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Tylenol and Autism?

I know.  The link seems silly.  Tylenol is for babies, right?  Far safer than aspirin for fever, after all.  Pediatricians recommend...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Glorious Cause

Evolutionary medicine is important.  A common sense, evolutionary based approach to general preventative health care and diet advice  could...

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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...

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