The current issue of Biological Psychiatry offers a trenchant study titled “Are There Differences in the Symptoms that Respond to a Selective Serotonin or Norepinephrine Reuptake inhibitor?” by Jay Craig Nelson, Laura Portera, and Andrew C. Leon (Volume 57(12), June 15, 2005, 1535-1542). Remarkably, in two sequential, independent, randomized controlled large-scale studies (253 and 168 […]
Biological Psychiatry 57, #11, June 1, 2005 I had hoped to review the latest issue of Biological Psychiatry, focusing on ADHD, for our readers, but the project is too much for one issue of the newsletter. So we will take it in smaller bites. Joseph Biederman’s overview: ADHD is seen as “multi-factorial” and “clinically heterogeneous.” […]
I decided to attend the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine, meeting this year in Colorado Springs, in order to catch up with where this organization is presently, and while the principals that gave life to the organization originally (Elmer Green and the Menninger group) are […]
Last week we had a visit from Martha Mack, a Tomatis practitioner in Melbourne Australia. Martha and her husband George have been running the Listen and Learn Center where both auditory training and neurofeedback are being offered. (See www.ListenAndLearn.com.au) Martha emigrated from Argentina some years ago to take up her psychology practice in Australia. The […]
Recently we had occasion to revisit with Dr. Daniel Amen at his clinic in Newport Beach. His colleague Dr. Earl Henslin, a psychologist, happened to be giving a lecture that day on the relevance of brain regulation to relationships. It’s not always a matter of denial, avoidance, or resistance—it could simply be a matter of […]
A couple of weeks ago, in the article “What does Psychology have to do with it?” I mentioned a new research program getting launched at Misericordia Hospital on ADHD. I had welcomed the study earlier as a beneficial fallout of our having taught our course there in September 2001. I had a number of facts […]