Monthly Archives: October 2012

Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder: Association With Histories of Sexual Abuse

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Maurice Preter MD

Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder: Association With Histories of Sexual Abuse Adomas Bunevicius, MD, Jane Leserman, PhD and Susan S. Girdler, PhD + Author Affiliations From the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina … Continue reading →

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A Population Study of Childhood Maltreatment and Asthma Diagnosis: Differential Associations Between Child Protection Database Versus Retrospective Self-Reported Data

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Maurice Preter MD

A Population Study of Childhood Maltreatment and Asthma Diagnosis: Differential Associations Between Child Protection Database Versus Retrospective Self-Reported Data. Kate M. Scott, PhD, Don A.R. Smith, MA and Pete M. Ellis, PhD, BM BCh + Author Affiliations From the Department … Continue reading →

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and brain hemorrhage

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Maurice Preter MD

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and brain hemorrhage A meta-analysis Daniel G. Hackam, MD, PhD, FRCPC and Marko Mrkobrada, MD, FRCPC + Author Affiliations From the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre (SPARC) (D.G.H.) and Clinical Trials Unit (M.M.), Robarts Research … Continue reading →

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Findings reveal brain mechanisms at work during sleep, and other sleep news from the SFN Annual meeting

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Maurice Preter MD

Sleepiness disrupts the coordinated activity of an important network of brain regions; the impaired function of this network is also implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (Andrew Ward, abstract 909.05). via Findings reveal brain mechanisms at work during sleep.

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From the Society for Neuroscience Meeting: Microglial acid-sensing t-cell death associated gene-8 (tdag8) receptor in co2 evoked behavior and physiology: Relevance to panic

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Maurice Preter MD

  Their finding supports our position that panic/anxiety and predator stress/fear are two different phenomenological&biological animals. A true translational moment indeed. Not sure if I am allowed to post the whole abstract, but the link is here.   Program#/Poster#: 68.14/V18 … Continue reading →

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.