Tag: brain
group name: depression
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July 16, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
Psychotherapists know that psychiatric disorders always involve activity in the brain. In this era of psychopharmacology, brain imaging, and therapeutic electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, . . .
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May 24, 2008 11:09 AM EDT --
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Dr. Abram Hoffer of Canada has advocated for "super nutrition". Hoffer & Osmond created "megavitamin" therapy. This cannot be done with fat-soluble vitamins . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:02 AM EDT --
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Many medical conditions can mimic schizophrenia including amphetamine psychosis, methamphetamine intoxication, mescaline intoxication, hypoglycemia, acute intermittent porphyria, . . .
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April 05, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
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There have been numerous positive neuropathology reports in schizophrenia and related diseases. These reports prove Scientology to be wrong. Scientology has accused psychiatry . . .
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June 07, 2008 10:48 AM EDT --
"Proper nutrition is essential to prevent deficiencies and toxicosis. Exogenous toxins are particularly likely to accumulate in the hypothalamus and in some cases may be the primary cause of symptoms. . . .
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February 02, 2008 11:44 AM EST --
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Psychology is the science of behavior. The science of normal behavior was studied extensively by Wilhelm Wundt of Germany. He wrote many versions of a text called Physiological . . .
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May 16, 2008 10:02 AM EDT --
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In 1981 Dr. Paul Averback reported positive findings in schizophrenia. "... the Nissl substance may not be recognizable in the extreme examples." . . .
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July 30, 2008 09:55 AM EDT --
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The bibliography gives a broad background on both mental health issues and neurology issues. It also gives a background on normal brain functioning and brain chemistry. Also there . . .
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November 23, 2007 02:04 PM EST --
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In 1968 Linus Pauling introduced orthomolecular medicine. At the time he was interested mostly in vitamin C, a substance found mostly in plant foods. He favored the right amounts . . .
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January 30, 2008 09:41 AM EST --
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One of my controversies in psychiatry is also a controversy in animal rights. I am advocating a vegan diet to treat mental illness, cancer, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, . . .
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February 12, 2008 12:14 PM EST --
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An old joke is that neurologists know everything and do nothing, neurosurgeons know nothing and do everything, and psychiatrists know nothing and do nothing. This is not a kind . . .
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May 21, 2008 09:44 AM EDT --
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The neuropathology of schizophrenia has been discussed in various editions of Greenfield's Neuropathology. In the 1976 version, published in London, Jan Corsellis . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:51 AM EDT --
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One point of view is that schizophrenia is a disease of the neuron.
My own view is that both neurons and glia are involved. My view is based on the results of many neuropathology . . .
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September 27, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
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I am interested in psychiatry, but I am also interested in other brain diseases such as brain tumors. Many clues can be obtained from physical diseases with psychiatric symptoms. For . . .
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April 07, 2008 03:03 PM EDT --
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In the Seventies the APA created a task force to investigate orthomolecular psychiatry. They appointed Dr. Morris Lipton to this "force", which I call a "farce". . . .
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April 05, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
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I have written so many articles on psychiatry that I decided to use long titles so as not to repeat the same title.
Averback started his career in the United Kingdom . . .
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January 19, 2008 11:43 AM EST --
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There has been quackery in neuroscience just as there has been quackery in cancer research and all branches of medicine, unfortunately.
Brain Anatomy
Early investigations . . .
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February 09, 2008 10:51 AM EST --
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The first great German psychiatrist was Wilhelm Griesinger of the 19th century. After Griesinger came psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, who reviewed work prior to 1902 in his book Physiological . . .
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October 15, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
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Winston Churchill's son, Randolph, was a writer. Churchill himself was a great writer who wrote several volumes on World War II and the events leading up to it. Randolph claimed . . .
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October 17, 2007 02:28 PM EDT --
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There is a recent book which claims that both Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd, had "melancholia", which was the 19th century term for what is now called "depression". . . .
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