We’re all weary of hearing about COVID and mask wearing precautions. Aren’t we? About the negative impact of isolation. And while we see improvement on the horizon through wide spread vaccinations, there are still imminent risks, and new cases as well as deaths every day. Those risks add to your daily stress in ways you […]
Keep Your Eyes on AKT: It Might Explain How We Learn and Forget Fear
You may hear people say, “Antidepressants and other psych meds just don’t do anything…” Some people say, “…placebos work better…” Oh please. But why do they say that? Maybe their own experience with prescribed medicines was disappointing. So — of course — they’re disillusioned about these medicines. We get it. And we know that any given […]
Every Body Deserves a Seat at the Table: Let’s Ensure They Have It
This is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week — NEDAwareness Week People come in a wide variety, don’t they? No one more deserving than another. Whether there are differences in skin color, differences in gender, differences in sexual orientation, differences in religion…or differences in IDEAS. And no matter the differences, no matter the variety, every body […]
Case Report Featured in Faculty Opinions
See the Faculty Opinions and Recommendations featured in Faculty Opinions HERE Our work was was also featured in Faculty Opinions Blog — such a great piece with wonderful interviews with Barbara Scolnick MD and Caroline! Jump in and read it HERE Read our full case report in Frontiers in Psychiatry HERE
Don’t Let Stressors You Can’t Control Hurt YOU: Add Resilience
Turns Out Winter 2021 Hasn’t Run Out of Stressors to Throw at You Yet… People like you have been finding ways to adapt and endure this historical and very strange year. Never think that major factors in society, and in science, and in government, have no effect on you and your personal life. In fact, […]
You Can Call It Seasonal Affective Disorder or Any Other Name, It’s Still Depression
Across the country, extreme winter storms have descended upon us. Even in the Gulf states, short sleeve weather is suddenly shifting to snow. Temperatures are dropping from 70 degrees to 17 degrees. And the gray skies that bring snow, also contribute to Seasonal Affective Disorder. Gray on the outside can turn some people gray on […]
Remission from Chronic Anorexia Nervosa With Ketogenic Diet and Ketamine: Case Report
1Internal Medicine & Addiction Medicine, Waban, MA, United States 2Consultant-Ketogenic Diet Therapy LLC, Elm Grove, WI, United States 3Innovative Psychiatry, South Windsor, CT, United States 4Center for Neural Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, United States 5The Neuroscience Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, United States 6Center of Excellence in Eating and Weight […]
A look at a potential treatment for Chronic Anorexia Nervosa
By Hannah Towfiq 5 February 2021 Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that can affect people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, and ethnicities. It is characterized by extreme weight loss and consequent difficulties maintaining an appropriate body weight for the height and age of the sufferer. It is not a new condition, and many historians […]
Resilience: Key to Your Wellbeing Through COVID 2021 and Beyond
Resilience is doing well when you shouldn’t be doing well. — Dr. Sood, executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Well-being. We’ve passed the 1-year mark of this pandemic, and it’s time to draw from our personal stores of personal strength to maintain our pace through the rest of the pandemic triumphantly. And […]
A Few Words of Reassurance
Our Nation is in Crisis, but We’re Here to Help You Get Through This The current Coronavirus – COVID-19 pandemic has increased fear and intensified depression and other psychiatric symptoms for many. News about COVID-19 evolves daily – thank goodness! We’ve never appreciated more how medicine can move so fast, how scientists can work at […]