In recent years, science is finally beginning to grasp the obvious fact that the human body is a system, so that when something goes wrong in one part of the organism, it has effects in other parts of the organism as well. The most obvious example of this is the new focus on the microbiome … Read more
This is an interesting overview of the current research on how inflammation can play a role in depression, schizophrenia, and autism. I suspect there is much more research to be done in this realm, but I believe they need to stop using pharmacological interventions targeted at a specific molecule or hormone in the immune response … Read more
I Tuesday I shared the Bessel van der Kolk article from the New York Times Magazine. From the same issue is this article on how we are learning to “hack” the nervous system to turn on the immune system and to change brain states. Another recent article, “How the ‘Gut Feeling’ Shapes Fear,” identified the … Read more