“GABA” stands for “Gamma Amino Butyric Acid,” a neurotransmitter long known for its relaxing, anticonvulsant (meaning “anti-seizure”) activity. We have certainly found ways to increase its presence with drugs that operate on, well, “lateral pathways” to increase its presence quantitatively. Unfortunately, these usually involve addictive substances, like benzodiazepines, which are pretty heavily addictive for most folks.
I am really glad those loveable Brits at U. Cambridge are saying they help “repress” unwanted thoughts. This is to me, a direct validation of Freudian Thought. We “repress” thoughts, and this seems to be linked to the way we do so. Read more on The Function Of GABA…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Research by on Jun 13th, 2018. Comment. 
You probably haven’t heard of low-dose naltrexone, but it could help you.
You may not even have heard of regular naltrexone. Read more on Low-Dose Gives A Big Boost…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Doctors, life, medicine, News by on Jun 12th, 2018. Comment.
Here it is — I strongly recommend downloading the video.
It must be true, because it is presented by Robin Roberts, apparently anchorhuman of ABC’s Good Morning America.
Whether it is a prosthetic hand for a little girl or someday a human heart made of human heart type cells that beat, this application of 3d printing is to me the most dramatic use of computer technology on humans yet. Read more on 3D Printing Is Changing Medicine…
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She is confused and hurts but does not want to take the time to change her antidepressant now.
She tells me that all of her doctors, her pain management doctor and now her new consultation endocrinologist, are doing more and more of the same thing and it is making her worse. Read more on Doctors and Knowledge…
Filed under Diagnosis, Doctors, medical errors, medicine, News by on May 22nd, 2018. Comment.
The easy part is the FDA congratulating itself for an initial effort in 2004 to diminish the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents by adding the black-box warning that such medication may increase suicidal ideation.
Equally easy is blaming physicians who treat children and adolescents for becoming “inured” to warnings. Read more on More Kids On Antidepressants…
Filed under depression, medicine, News, Psychiatrists by on May 18th, 2018. Comment.
I often think of Emma Bovary.
In 1856, Gustave Flaubert’s first novel was helped along in sales by a trial for obscenity. And yet the school of thought Flaubert embodied was called “literary realism.” Read more on Literature and Psychology…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, Diagnosis, Disease, medicine, News, Psychology by on May 17th, 2018. Comment.
I recently started seeing a patient whose previous psychiatrist ran him through absolutely every antidepressant drug that his (expensive) genetic testing suggested he would respond to. He had no improvement with any of them.
I will admit to having been an enthusiastic supporter of genetic testing not long ago. The science was sound on paper. Read more on Bipolar Genetics…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Diagnosis, Doctors, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Psychiatrists by on May 9th, 2018. Comment.
When push comes to shove, any psychiatrist can prescribe anything they damned well please.
Oh, there are a few particularities. Like needing to have a “triplicate’ pad if you are going to prescribe speed, or a “tamper proof” pad if you are going to prescribe something wildly addictive. But any licensed MD can just phone those in legally if you give your “magic numbers” like your DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) number — even if not a psychiatrist. Read more on Antipsychotic Medication For Children With Autism…
Filed under Doctors, medicine, prescription drugs, Psychiatrists by on Apr 27th, 2018. Comment.
America has created wonder drugs for the world.
Then it rendered them unusable.
Both antibiotics and corticosteroids are not what they once were. Read more on Meds To Cure (or Harm) The World…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Diagnosis, Disease, Doctors, medicine, News by on Apr 23rd, 2018. Comment.
What do you love? Do more of it with Meet-Up.
The key is that you have to love it first before you look for it on meetups.
Love includes belief. Read more on Self-Improvement Meetups…