This book is Dr. Diamond’s attempt to explain to his two boys how humans and chimps can be […]
Author: Jim Phelps
Imagine your friend Cindy stands in front of you looking to her right, so that you can look […]
Emotion and memory are very closely related. You know this from your experience. Go to a party, meet […]
Hormone control is a complex process, but some simple parts of the process are understood. The “command center” […]
Where are mental health problems located? Think about it: if you had pain in your toes, you’d be […]
MRI is a fantastic tool. It’s a kind of like an x-ray, without the radiation of the x-ray.The […]
PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography. A tomograph is a “slice”. You’ve […]
You may have thought all you had was one, but inside there are two more brains. Actually, you […]
This is a rough picture of how memories for particular names are distributed in the left temporal lobe […]
These drawings are the work of Dr. Frank Netter, of course, for those of you who saw his […]
This is a very important area, which cannot be spoken of properly in a brief little essay. I’ll […]
The current working model is some sort of a defect in a circuit that involves the frontal cortex […]
What to Look For and Questions to Ask (This is a whole chapter on the subject which didn’t […]
Here is the trick that makes this a story worth telling. Medications disappear more quickly at first, when […]
(updated 12/2014) [mwm-aal-display] Introduction You may be reading this chapter as a “significant other” (S.O.) of some sort, […]
(reviewed 11/2014: amazingly, I think this is still needed) [mwm-aal-display] Lots of doctors have big egos. Not me […]
From the desk of James Phelps, M.D. Corvallis, Oregon Believe it or not, I’m not doing this to […]
Randomized Trials of Antidepressants in Bipolar Disorder If you arrived here from somewhere other than the Antidepressant Controversies […]