Category Archives: Psychiatry/Neurology
Anxiety, depression with glaucoma. Is isolation/loneliness the link?
Psychol Rep. 2010 Apr;106(2):343-57. Anxiety, depression, and quality of life in Turkish patients with glaucoma. Tastan S, Iyigun E, Bayer A, Acikel C. Source School of Nursing, Gülhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey. Abstract The purpose was to investigate the … Continue reading
Acquired synesthesia?
I came across this interesting article Colizoli O, Murre JM, and Rouw R (2012). Pseudo-Synesthesia through Reading Books with Colored Letters. PloS one, 7 (6) PMID: 22761905 posted at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-you-learn-to-be-synaesthetic.html I agree with the blogger and some real syn-esthetics who commented … Continue reading
Pain affect in the absence of pain sensation: evidence of asomaesthesia after somatosensory cortex lesions in the rat.
Pain. 2012 Feb 23. [Epub ahead of print]Pain affect in the absence of pain sensation: evidence of asomaesthesia after somatosensory cortex lesions in the rat.Uhelski ML, Davis MA, Fuchs PN.Source Department of Diagnostic and Biological Sciences, University of Minnesota Twin … Continue reading
Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk : current opinion.
Swiss Med Wkly. 2012 Jan 20;142:0. doi: 10.4414/smw.2012.13502.Psychosocial stress and cardiovascular risk : current opinion.von Känel R.Source Division of Psychosomatic Medicine, Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern, Switzerland. roland.vonkaenel@insel.chAbstract Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is … Continue reading
Psychoneuroimmunology meets neuropsychopharmacology: translational implications of the impact of inflammation on behavior.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Jan;37(1):137-62. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.205. Epub 2011 Sep 14.Psychoneuroimmunology meets neuropsychopharmacology: translational implications of the impact of inflammation on behavior.Haroon E, Raison CL, Miller AH.Source Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.Abstract … 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.