Category Archives: Affective Neuroscience
Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis Function in Women With a Menstrually Related Mood Disorder: Association With Histories of Sexual Abuse
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
A Population Study of Childhood Maltreatment and Asthma Diagnosis: Differential Associations Between Child Protection Database Versus Retrospective Self-Reported Data
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
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
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
Maternal migraine is associated with increased risk of infant colic.
One wonders if an updated view of genetics, i.e. one that includes epigenetics would make more sense. We mentioned the nexus of migraine, panic disorder, separation anxiety and abdominal symptoms in childhood in our 2008 paper [Preter M, Klein DF. … Continue reading
Endogenous opioids may protect against minor TBI symptoms
This is an interesting finding. We have shown that people (even “normal” people) with early separation events (early parental divorce, parental loss) have a totally different endogenous opioid reactivity in a challenge test. It would make sense if they therefore … Continue reading
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.