Evolutionary Psychiatry

I'm not a huge fan of so-called superfoods...diversity is probably the key to a truly healthy human diet in an ancestral and mictobiome sense, but hey, chocolate may be an exception to the rule. ...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2015/05/cocoa-love.html

Next month will mark the 5th year anniversary of this blog. Hard to believe I would still be at it after all this time. Back in the beginning, an interest in ancestral health felt like a very lon...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2015/05/five-years-of-evolutionary-psychiatry.html

We've been struck by a harder than usual winter here in the Boston suburbs, and the spring bounceback, where increased light meets slow-clogged sidewalks and freezing temperatures, has been worse...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2015/03/genetics.html

Hello there. We've had a record month of snow around these parts, which paradoxically does not make me more productive, but rather makes me want to sit on the couch wrapped in a blanket, sipping ...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2015/02/snowed-in.html

I meant to do even more posts, but I've been down for the count with a horrible cold that felt like a combination of rhinovirus and chikunguna . Finally I'm feeling better, though weak as a kitte...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/11/more-new-blog-posts-everywhere-but-here.html

Another new post is now live at Psychology Today, discussing how magnesium is a physiologic counterpart to the powerful drug ketamine:   Magnesium and the Ketamine Connection Folks interes...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/10/magnesium-and-ketamine-connection.html

There's been a bit of upheaval at the house...all will be well, but in the mean time, I'm trying to blog more and get some more clicks over at Psychology Today. Clicks support the writing and res...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/10/ketamine.html

First off there is a brand new post over at Psychology Today. A new case study was recently published about the use of ketone esters, a supplement that raises blood ketones to levels in humans fo...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/10/ketone-esters-and-dementia.html

Hey there...I know. Here's a great song: Left Hand Free The first new post over at Psychology Today is about the big, recently released study shedding some real insight as to how schizophren...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/10/two-new-posts-over-at-psychology-today.html

New post on minerals at Psychology Today...expecting to write some new ones on magnesium and some more on genetics here or at Psych Today in the near future. Ele-mental Health Here's a new so...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/07/elemental-health.html

Several weeks ago, I got an email from one of my best friends from medical school. She graduated top honors in the class and went on to Johns Hopkins, where she was a chief resident, then a fell...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/06/human-microbiota-and-depression.html

Last weekend, I presented a workshop and symposium at the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting in New York City . This meeting is enormous…as many as 15,000 psychiatrists and resear...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/05/lessons-from-apa-2014.html

I'm still in the midst of reviewing a ton of literature on psychobiotics in time for the APA Annual Meeting in New York City this year. Our Evolutionary Psychiatry talk has been moved from two to...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/04/more-on-gut-brain-connection.html

Excuses, excuses...haven't blogged in a while. The kids keep me busy, and I've been working on some personal projects that make me happy, not to mention some major work going on with the practice...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/03/tylenol-in-pregnancy-and-adhd-in.html

One of the primary messages out of public health agencies and nutrition gurus from Walter Willett to Michael Pollan is to eat more plants. And, indeed, in many studies, vegetarian* diets are asso...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/02/here-we-go-again-vegetarian-diets-and.html

Last Sunday I put out yet another new post on Psychology Today , but failed to link it here. It is a discussion of a very interesting long term cohort study in Crete, where the researchers used a...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-directions-in-autism.html

Today I took the youngest to a preschool friend's birthday party. It was at a gymnastics center, and even after an hour of bouncing and running around, the eager children began doing laps of the ...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/02/raise-glass-to-mutual-trust.html

A brand new post is up over at Psychology Today: Brains, Spirituality, and Depression . It discusses the links between…well, guess. There are some interesting anatomical findings in the brain t...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/01/spirituality-and-depression.html

Hello 2014! This blog post probably makes more sense if you have seen Man of Steel . Seriously, spend $1.50 at redbox. It’s awesome. Though perhaps ethically disappointing .  I know it has ...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2014/01/man-of-steel.html

Researchers have been chasing the elusive links between gluten and major mental illness for decades. Despite some hyperbolic coverage in Wheat Belly and slightly more convincing coverage in Grai...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/11/gluten-and-schizophrenia-again-with.html

New post over at Psychology Today  about the possible benefits of sleep flushing the brain like a cranberry bog harvest. And some gluten and psychosis and toxoplasma mash-up here in the next cou...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/10/get-your-sleep-on.html

Brand new post is up at Psychology Today: Depression and a Broken Heart It is an introduction to the concept of healthy heart rate variability, about which Grayson Wheatley had a featured tal...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/10/heart-rate-variability-pig-roasts-and.html

On the personal front we are going full speed ahead into fall, school, apple picking, corn mazes, and sweater weather. I also decided to participate in a little n=1 experiment of caffeine elimina...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/09/more-zinc-nitty-gritty.html

Terribly busy between back to school (both kids now have homework!) and my sister getting married last weekend (which required me to be a bridesmaid and also to supply a few adorable flower girls...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/09/zinc-at-psych-today.html

I'll be on the Creative Live video podcast later today (3pm pacific, 6pm eastern) on the topic of happiness (Dave Asprey invited me to participate, and while he is going into some of the technol...

http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2013/08/pathophysiology-of-depression-and.html