Category Archives: Affective Neuroscience

Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids: Can panic research inform clinical neurology? October 9, 2013 Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Neurology Grand Rounds

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Invitation to my Grand Rounds Talk at Mount Sinai, Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 8am

Please join us for our next Neurology Grand Rounds on Wednesday, October 9th at 8 AM in Davis Auditorium (Hess Center for Science and Medicine) at 1470 Madison Ave between 101st and 102nd streets. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 AM so please feel free to arrive early.

Title: “Panic, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms and Endogenous Opioids: Can panic research inform clinical neurology?”

Presenter: Dr. Maurice Preter, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry,
Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Associate Professor of Neurology (Adj.),
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads: Scientific American

Flatworms Recall Familiar Environs, Even after Losing Their Heads: Scientific American. Highly recommended reading. As it turns out, one does not have to go all the way down the evolutionary ladder to be reminded that even brain-impaired or brain-damaged individuals … Continue reading

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Concussion epidemic linked to underreported US military suicide – study

New research suggests a link between concussions and suicide in the US military, two frighteningly common issues that the Armed Forces have struggled to explain and curtail since rates started soaring 12 years ago. Earlier this year the military released … Continue reading

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Adults with depression and who take specific anti-depressants more likely to develop C. difficile

Interesting applied psychoimmunology study. Apparently depressed people’s guts don’t watch direct-to-consumer chemical-imbalance ads. Here is the abstract. Depression, antidepressant medications, and risk of Clostridium difficile infection Mary A M Rogers1*, M Todd Greene1, Vincent B Young1, Sanjay Saint1,2, Kenneth M … 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.