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My Mother's Mental Illness and the Mental Health System by Kathryn Esplin-Oleski views: 101 | rating: 9.6 | comments: 62

July 20, 2006 07:55 AM EDT -- My mother passed a few years ago, but when she was with us she carried a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The World Health Organization has termed schizophrenia as one of the top 10 most disabling . . . more

Bipolar friend by Joe T. views: 112 | rating: 9.7 | comments: 43

January 06, 2007 05:35 PM EST --      He called to tell me of his troubles. He is taking his medication but they don't seem to be working any more. He hates the disease. It is troubling to always feel as if he . . . more

Making Use of Adult A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) by Anitra Raging Granny / Raging Moderate Freeman views: 42 | rating: 9.3 | comments: 27

June 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT -- I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and there is a flip side to ADD that not many people know about: when our attention does get fixed on something, it stays fixed!  This is called "hyperfocus" . . . more

A Cruciverbalist Among Cruciverbalists--Will Shortz by Robert W. Stock views: 130 | rating: 9.4 | comments: 9

June 29, 2006 06:36 AM EDT -- Every Saturday morning, in households around the country and the world, millions of people of every age and circumstance do battle -- literally, head to head -- with a slim, mustachioed, mischievous genius . . . more

The Boston Diet by Craig Olson views: 3 | rating: 5.5 | comments: 4

February 04, 2006 12:03 PM EST --                                       . . . more

Life Isn't Easier with Tardive Dyskinesia by Craig Olson views: 2 | rating: 1 | comments: 4

February 06, 2006 09:02 AM EST -- Why Orthomolecular Medicine?   One of the reasons I favor orthomolecular medicine is that you can't get tardive dyskinesia from it.     This is the late great Linus Pauling, who invented . . . more

They're Waiting for You at Bellevue! by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 1 | comments: 1

February 23, 2006 09:01 AM EST --   Shown below is a drawing of Bellevue Hospital in New York. This image is presented courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. more

Facts on Drug Side Effects by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 1

February 05, 2006 01:23 PM EST -- Pharmacopsychiatry. 2000 Jul;33(4):155-6. Related Articles,   Links Risperidone-induced tardive dyskinesia. Bassitt DP, de Souza Lobo Garcia L. Instituto de Psiquiatria do Hospital das Clinicas . . . more

Evidence for COMT Abnormality in Psychiatry by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 1 | comments: 1

February 05, 2006 12:16 PM EST -- Am J Psychiatry. 2003 Apr;160(4):680-6. Related Articles,   Suggestive linkage to chromosomal regions 13q31 and 22q12 in families with psychotic bipolar disorder. Potash JB, Zandi PP, Willour VL, . . . more

A Possible Cure for Bipolar Disorder by Craig Olson views: 7 | rating: 5 | comments: 4

March 17, 2006 08:56 AM EST -- Glutamic Acid "Glutamic acid (glutamate) is an amino acid used by the body to build proteins. Under normal circumstances, humans are able to meet bodily glutamate requirements either from the diet . . . more

Bipolar Disorder by Craig Olson views: 10 | rating: 1 | comments: 3

April 23, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --     This drawing illustrates bipolar disorder.         Shown here is another illustration of the disease. I pasted it from the internet.       . . . more

Abuses by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 5 | comments: 2

March 26, 2006 10:51 AM EST -- Introduction   There is an interesting book by Clifford Beers documenting his stay in a mental institution. The book is entitled "A Mind That Found Itself". Beers graduated from Yale and . . . more

Gather Exclusive: Where There's a Will (Shortz), There's a Way by Robert W. Stock views: 118 | rating: 10 | comments: 4

July 06, 2006 07:57 AM EDT -- Once a year, a West Coast family goes camping to get away from it all: no newspapers, no cell phones, no radio. But once a week, on demand, the husband hikes miles back to the car and turns on the radio. . . . more

References on Taraxein by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 1

February 05, 2006 01:40 PM EST -- Heath RG, Guschwan AF, Coffey JW. Related Articles, Relation to taraxein to schizophrenia. Dis Nerv Syst. 1970 Jun;31(6):391-5. No abstract available. Science. 1963 Aug 16;141:646-7. Related Articles, . . . more

Tea Consumption by Craig Olson views: 3 | rating: 1 | comments: 2

February 12, 2006 01:09 PM EST -- Pak J Pharm Sci. 1998 Jul;11(2):55-60. Related Articles,  Links Neurochemical and behavioural effects of long term intake of tea. Haider S, Yasmeen A, Parveen T, Haleem DJ. Department of Biochemistry, . . . more

Tom Cruise by Craig Olson views: 3 | rating: 1 | comments: 6

January 26, 2006 11:15 AM EST --   Although I don't agree with Tom Cruise on psychiatry, the abstract pasted below supports his point of view. Cruise is wrong about biochemical imbalances. He has blasted psychiatric drugs. . . . more

The Vegan Diet by Craig Olson views: 31 | rating: 7 | comments: 5

July 17, 2006 10:09 AM EDT --                The Vegan Diet as a Treatment for the Terrible Brain Diseases                                                        . . . more

Clozapine by Craig Olson views: 4 | rating: 1 | comments: 1

February 05, 2006 12:51 PM EST -- Nervenarzt. 2005 Feb;76(2):205-8. Related Articles,   Links   [Pharmacological strategies for clozapine-induced hypersalivation: treatment with botulinum toxin B in one patient and review . . . more

Stanley Research by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 1 | comments: 1

February 11, 2006 11:56 AM EST -- "Until recently, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were assumed to be diseases of brain neurons. Although there are ten times more glia than neurons, the glia had been relatively neglected. Cotter . . . more

Tryptophan Metabolism Abnormal in Psychiatric Diseases by Craig Olson views: 1 | rating: 5.5 | comments: 3

February 12, 2006 12:58 PM EST -- Brain Res. 2006 Jan 27; [Epub ahead of print] Related Articles,  Links   Upregulation of the initiating step of the kynurenine pathway in postmortem anterior cingulate cortex from individuals . . . more