Category Archives: Brain SPECT Imaging
I felt cautious excitement when I saw research published last week that attested to what I have been screaming from rooftops to psychiatry practitioners and patients for years: We should be looking at the brains we are treating. In a … Continue reading
Here’s an intriguing question posed by Ethan Watters in Pacific Standard magazine: If the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had compiled a new edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1880, which illnesses would it discuss? … Continue reading
If thirty years of practice and tens of thousands of brain scans have taught me anything, it’s that the most important step anyone can take to create better health, better relationships and a better life is to develop a raging … Continue reading
I first met Margaret when she was 68 years old. She lived alone, and her family was worried because she appeared to have symptoms of serious dementia. She was ragged and unkempt, she often forgot the names of her own … Continue reading
Addiction is vicious. Not only does substance abuse rewire our brains for the worse, it is also a relationship killer. Results of a study reported last week out of the University of Toronto indicates that offspring of parents who were … Continue reading
