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Metabolic Syndrome Causes Mental Health Symptoms?

How? What’s the connection? Recent reviews emphasized that there seems to be a “two-way street” between metabolic syndrome […]

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Chapter 4: The Biologic Basis of Depression

In contrast to mania, depression is now quite well understood at a molecular and cellular level. Even some […]

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Chapter 2: Brain Differences in Bipolar Disorder

This is a hard chapter. If there are any in this series of five chapters you might wish […]

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Chapter 1: The Genetic Basis of Bipolar Disorder

Whereas 10 years ago it was hoped that a single gene for bipolar disorder might be found, it […]

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What is BCL-2?

BCL-2 stands for B-cell lymphoma/leukemia-2, one of a large family of proteins that regulate cell death and growth. […]

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Chapter 9, continued: Changes inside the cell

(if you didn’t get here from the middle of Chapter 9, go back to the beginning of that […]

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Chapter 3: Short Genes, Alcohol, and Childhood Experience

This story is dramatic, but shown only in monkey research so far. Be cautious in interpretation of this […]

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Depression is Not a Moral Weakness

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Brain Changes in Mood Disorders Two things I’d love for you to learn here: Psychiatry isn’t about Freud […]

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Aripiprazole, risperidone, ziprasidone

Are these really mood stabilizers”? The term “mood stabilizer” is starting to get a little misleading itself, though […]

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What’s an Antipsychotic?

Careful now, don’t throw these off your list right away because of that name. Antipsychotic” refers to a […]

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Omega-3’s and Prostate Cancer

(August, 2013) Summary: As shown on NBC News and elsewhere, high blood levels of some omega-3’s (such as […]

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Who is Dr. Phelps?

In response to a very brave disclosure by a fellow physician (JAMA 2004), here is my own, regarding […]

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How is this Website Funded?

Sbort Answer There is none. It doesn’t take much to run a website (hosting, that’s about it). We […]

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