Category Archives: dietary

Air pollution – some PLOS abstracts to ponder

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Maurice Preter MD

The following posts feature some interesting abstracts on air pollution, not necessarily related to neuropsychiatry (but then, what isn’t?).

Posted in Aging, China, epigenetics, Events, Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Health, keto, News, Psychiatry/Neurology |

Serotonin and the marketing of a depression myth

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Maurice Preter MD

Serotonin and the marketing of a depression myth Serotonin and depression BMJ 2015; 350 doi: http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/10.1136/bmj.h1771 (Published 21 April 2015)Cite this as: BMJ 2015;350:h1771 Article Related content Metrics Responses David Healy, professor of psychiatry Author affiliations david.healy54@googlemail.com The marketing of a myth The serotonin reuptake inhibiting … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, China, dietary, epigenetics, Events, Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Health, keto, News, Psychiatry/Neurology | Tagged Depression, Inflammation, long-term effects, Medication effects - wanted and unwanted, suicide |

Benzodiazepine use and risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Maurice Preter MD

Benzodiazepine use is associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The stronger association observed for long term exposures reinforces the suspicion of a possible direct association, even if benzodiazepine use might also be an early marker of a condition associated with an increased risk of dementia. Unwarranted long term use of these drugs should be considered as a public health concern. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, China, Events, Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Health, keto, News, Psychiatry/Neurology | Tagged Depression, healthy brain aging, informed consent, long-term effects, Medication effects - wanted and unwanted, Memory and Memory Loss |

Benzodiazepine use associated with increased risk of dementia.

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Maurice Preter MD

Conclusions In this prospective population based study, new use of benzodiazepines was associated with increased risk of dementia. The result was robust in pooled analyses across cohorts of new users of benzodiazepines throughout the study and in a complementary case-control study. Considering the extent to which benzodiazepines are prescribed and the number of potential adverse effects of this drug class in the general population, indiscriminate widespread use should be cautioned against. Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, China, Events, Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Health, keto, News, Psychiatry/Neurology | Tagged healthy brain aging, informed consent, keto, long-term effects, Medication effects - wanted and unwanted, Memory and Memory Loss |

Preter Klein Panic disorder theory now available on PubMed Central (PMC)

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Maurice Preter MD

[nihms] Manuscript #585187: Your manuscript is available in PMC Dear Maurice Preter, Manuscript NIHMS585187 (“Lifelong opioidergic vulnerability through early life separation: A recent extension of the false suffocation alarm theory of panic disorder”) has been loaded into PubMed Central (PMC) … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Health, keto, News, Psychiatry/Neurology | Tagged adverse childhood events, functional symptoms, medically unexplained symptoms, Pain and Headache, Panic, Panic Disorder |

Category Archives: dietary

Air pollution – some PLOS abstracts to ponder

Serotonin and the marketing of a depression myth

Preter Klein Panic disorder theory now available on PubMed Central (PMC)

Maurice Preter, MD

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