Paul Whiteley: The Gut-Brain Axis and Schizophrenia

Paul Whiteley, who blogs at Questioning Answers (mostly on autism research), posted this intriguing research summary from Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry on the relationship between the “gut-brain axis” and schizophrenia, which is not a new avenue of research, but is nonetheless still considered a fringe notion in the mainstream schizophrenia research. It only … Read more

Lifestyle Medicine for Depression

This is wonderful to see, finally – even if it is less than honest about the existing evidence for lifestyle interventions to affect depression levels. Drugs for depression are not treating the depression, they are creating an effect of feeling better through making people, for lack of a better word, stoned. I have seen, firsthand, … Read more