This is post 5 in my ongoing, now-approaching-behemoth-size series of posts on depression. I’ve got other posts available on the etiology of depression, the current pharmacotherapies, studying depression in the lab, and the serotonin theory of depression, which of course you can read and refer to if you’re curious. This post will be on what […]
Yeah, today’s a big day, there’s a LOT I’ve written on depression, but do not fret, we will get through it all!!! You can’t get through a whole day on depression without talking about some serotonin a little! Hang on to your hats: Serotonin Oh yeah, she went there. Photo courtesy of The Loom […]
Welcome to depression post three, part of Back to Basics week at Neurotic Physiology! Previously I covered the symptoms and etiology of depression, and some of the most common antidepressant medications and how they work. Now I’d like to go into some of the research behind it. After all, it’s not like we just grab […]
Welcome to day 3 of Back of Basics Week! And it’s Wednesday. Hump Day. The boring, most depressing day of the week (except possibly for Monday). What better day to get some basics on depression? So here’s the first one, the first in a trio of posts on clinical depression:
I’m sure that most people know that anorexia occurs more often in women than in men, though overall in about 0.3-0.6{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} of the population. What a lot of people DON’T know is that anorexia nervosa is a highly heritable disease. In fact, cases of anorexia nervosa have been reported as early as the 16th century […]
It’s been a while since Sci covered a good post on stimulants, and I’ve begun to feel the lack. I start to get the shakes, as it were. And this post covers something particularly interesting about cocaine, something VERY interesting about refined sugars, and even more interesting, this paper looks at some of the bugs […]
Sci would like to start this whole thing off on the right foot, and introduce you all (if you’re new to Scientopia and to Neurotic Physiology) by reposting one of the best posts Sci ever wrote. Unfortunately it was also about the 3rd or 4th blog post that I ever wrote as well. I guess […]
Let it be known that Sci, like many a young, bright-eyed little scientist, tries to keep up on her reading. TRIES is the operative word, but every week Sci gets the Tables of Contents for all the major journals in her field (and all the major ones in her subdisciple) emailed straight to her for […]
Today’s post comes to you from several tweets that Sci received way back in the mists of time (that is…two weeks ago. Three? Something like that). Sci got wind of this paper and has been meaning to blog it for a while, but other things get in the way, like other things will. And when […]
Sci was incredibly excited to see this paper come out. It’s got lots of stuff going for it, and all its powers combined were enough to send Sci bouncing around in her seat and sending emails to Ed Yong saying “OMG COOL PAPER!!”. What’s it got, you say? It’s got the meaning of life, the […]