Depressed Fish I recently came across this quote from an article titled: Advances in How to Think About and Treat Depression. “A new way to identify medicines that might make it into the clinic is to use fish to screen rapidly through chemicals that act like existing antidepressants. When placed in stressful situations, zebrafish displayed...
Coming of Age My son, Max, got his driver’s license today! At the age of 12 he stood before the North Adams City Council, a hostile group of elders, and asked for the impeachment of George W. Bush. On that day, he became a man. Today, he can drive.
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Personal responsibility key to health Letter to the Editor Sunday December 5, 2010 The Nov. 25 article “Family history key to health” is misleading. While the family history can contribute to understanding the clinical picture and, in some cases, may help guide diagnostic and treatment decisions and protocols, it far from ‘the secret to great...
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Understanding the Brain Over the past several years I have read many fascinating books about the human brain, including: The Brain That Changes Itself, The Accidental Mind, Evolve Your Brain, Mapping the Brain, The Other Brain, The Mind and the Brain, Phantoms in the Brain, The Synaptic Self, and more. But, there is no better,...
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Looking @ LENS Neurofeedback I’ve been a chiropractor since 1986. Using the powerful combination of chiropractic and good advice, I have seen, and will continue to see, many wonderful and amazing patient responses and results with a wide range of body aches and pains. I’ve been a LENS practitioner for about a month. I have...
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Dr. Peter D May, Certified LENS Neurofeedback Practitioner MINDbody Health Dr Peter D May has completed training and is now certified as a LENS Neurofeedback practitioner. LENS Neurofeedback is a revolutionary treatment. Whereas other forms of traditional neuro and biofeedback require active patient learning, and use some form of sensory feedback to specifically train the...
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My Journey Into LENS Neurofeedback In December of ’09 I began investigating LENS (Low Energy Nerve Stimulation) Neurofeedback by going to LA to shadow my friend, Dr David Dubin. He has been working with neurofeedback for over four years, and LENS, specifically, for the past two. His enthusiasm and stories of dramatic and fast results...
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Re-Defining Quackery II First it was Extreme Makeover, and now we have BridalPlasty; the marriage of medicine and reality TV. As hard as this is to believe, I am not making this up. ———————————— E! orders plastic surgery bridal competition EXCLUSIVE: ‘Bridalplasty‘ contestants vie to be ‘perfect bride’ By James Hibberd Sept 16, 2010, 01:19...
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Toxic Chemicals; A New Evolutionary Pressure Never having read Darwin in depth, I can only offer my simple summary of evolution as ‘natural selection and adaptation/descent with modification’ over long periods of time. I recently finished reading Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things. My primary walk-away point: Nothing is solid,...
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Tainted Eggs and Scrambled Tubes Two recent news stories caught my eye. Both are fairly common stories of public health hazards, but the results and reaction to both are stunningly different. Where do the real dangers lie? You decide. Headline #1: AP:Associated Press, updated 8/20/2010 Recall expands to more than half a billion eggs “Investigation...
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