The brain needs certain ingredients to flourish or to life up to the expectations of every day problems. The brain has priority when it comes to certain ingredients. Some nutrients for the brain can't be made by the body it self. The brain is dependent on our intake of these essential nutrients. Now what does the brain need?The brain needs omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These fatty acids are essential to the brain. It is needed in equal quantities. An important omega-3 fatty acid is docosahexaeenacid (DHA). It is the main nutrient for neurons and their axons. For the hardware. .....read more »

Recently I wrote a post about 4 Pens and my fascination with pens. There is a new gadget pen that drew my attention.This pen is a:Mini TorchLaser PointerBank Note CheckerStylusBall Pen!You can see and buy it on gadget4all.com5 in 1 Gagdet Pen allows you to write conveniently in the dark. It also has a stylus for you to use on PDAs, mobile phones or even to play NDS. It also consists of red laser pointer and bank note checker, too. It is undoubtedly a multi-function pen. Thanks GearLiveRelated posts: Pens and Presentations 4 Pens or Doctor’s Fascination with Pens New Health Site for .....read more »

In this video introduction, Perspective author John Mattick, Stephen Buratowski, and Science editor Guy Riddihough discuss the new and increasing understanding of how RNA regulates DNA, and how RNA may have been the original molecule of life.Related posts: Gene Environment Interaction and Depression The God Gene explained by John Cleese Why Can’t We find a Gene for Depression? ..read more »

First episodes of depression are more likely to be precipitated by severe stressful life events than are recurrences of depression in unipolar disorder.This is most evident in patient samples compared to community samples. This might be explained by the fact that in community samples patients aren't experiencing clinical depression or patients in community samples may contain individuals with less episodes in the recurrence group compared to patient samples.As the mean age of a patient sample increases the recurrences of depression will be more easily initiated without severe stressful life events compared to first episodes. They will be more likely be .....read more »

Recently read this new book by Gina Trapani. Read the previous edition a while ago, lifehacker. This new book, upgrade your life, is a little smaller but thicker. The chapters are in a different order compared to the previous edition. This new book starts off with Control Your Email. Indeed an important chapter. In comparison with the previous edition in this chapter all the scattered information about e-mail and how to control it is put in one excellent and explanatory chapter. The chapters about: Organize Your Data, Trick Yourself into Getting Done, and Clear your Mind rely heavenly on Getting .....read more »

Interview with the Deep Brain Stimulation team of the Ceveland Clinic.The team exists of a small group of neurosurgeons, psychiatrists and neurologists.It is being studied as a treatment of last resort for disorders such as depression, Tourette's syndrome, obesity, anorexia, stroke recovery, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, cluster headaches, chronic pain and addiction.Nice insight into the history of this new treatment.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1997 approved deep brain stimulation for treatment of Parkinson's and essential tremor, a much more common disorder that causes trembling. It now also is approved to treat dystonia, a rare movement disorder that involves .....read more »

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to participate in a task force for the development of a web based portfolio for psychiatric residents. I still had two articles about this subject in my "To Blog" drawer. In medical education the focus has shifted from the acquisition of knowledge to the achievement of competence. Competence has been defined as the habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individuals and communities being served.One of the instruments to support the development of competence in an .....read more »

This new disease is somewhere in between attention deficit disorder, depression and anxiety disorder. It is only treatable with Havidol. This drug has side-effects:Side effects may include mood changes, muscle strain, extraordinary thinking, dermal gloss, impulsivity induced consumption, excessive salivation, hair growth, markedly delayed sexual climax, inter-species communication, taste perversion, terminal smile, and oral inflammation. Very rarely users may experience a need to change physicians.The disease as well as the drug (Have it all) are fake.Australian artist Justine Cooper created the marketing campaign for a non-existent drug called Havidol for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD), which she .....read more »

When I was a kid flying was still for the happy few. It was surrounded with luxury excitement and "going places". When someone from our family made a trip he or she would always return with a toblerone bar from the duty free shop of the airport.Did you know that:Toblerone is with us for 100 years this yearThe recipe was never changed and is secret. It is a mix of almonds, nougat, honey and chocolate invented by Theodor Tobler in 1908 together with his nephew Emil BaumannIt is available in 122 countriesIt is the last chocolate bar still produced in .....read more »

Some of these ways to de-stress your life have been discussed on this blog. Exercise everyday, there are 21 reasons why exercise is good for your health, not only mental health.Exercise can be of help when suffering from depression. I wouldn't go that far that exercise is an antidepressant but it is to my opinion a valuable adjunctive treatment to several other treatments such as antidepressants or cognitive behavioral therapy.Exercise addition is an effective strategy when treatment with antidepressants is not satisfactory enough. Three times a week 50 minutes walking is enough. Says recent research.For the other 14 ways to .....read more »