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Major Mental Illness Biochemical Subtypes

HOME ABOUT CONDITIONS ARTICLES NEWSLETTER PERTH EVENTS LINKS CONTACT Want more articles? You may wish to join our FREE e-NEWSLETTER. Articles Major Mental Illness Biochemical Subtypes As described by Dr. Carl Pfeiffer and the Pfeiffer Treatment Center. These symptom lists are generalizations and are not suitable for diagnosis of most people due to the wide… Read More »

Vitamin B6 Pyridoxine/P-5-P information:

This is a huge article and note the date 1982: Quote: Q Rev Drug Metab Drug Interact. 1982;4(4):289-331.Links Drug-pyridoxal phosphate interactions. Ebadi M, Gessert CF, Al-Sayegh A. In this review it has been pointed out that vitamin B6 and its vitamers can be involved in many interactions with a number of drugs, as well as… Read More »

Reversal of learned helplessness by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in rats is not dependent on 5-HT availability

Reversal of learned helplessness by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in rats is not dependent on 5-HT availability Arturo Zazpe, Inés Artaiz, Luis Labeaga, María Luisa Lucero, Aurelio Orjales, Serotonin (5-HT) and 5-HT1A receptors have been suggested to play a pivotal role in the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs, particularly in the case of selective… Read More »

Evidence for a serotonergic mechanism of the learned helplessness phenomenon

Pharmacology Biochemistry and BehaviorVolume 17, Issue 5, November 1982, Pages 877-883Cover imageEvidence for a serotonergic mechanism of the learned helplessness phenomenon Loren Brown, Robert A. Rosellini, Owen B. Samuels, Edward P. Riley S The present experiments examined the role of the serotonergic system in the learned helplessness phenomenon. In Experiment 1, a 200 mg/kg dose… Read More »

Chlorovirus ATCV-1 is part of the human oropharyngeal virome and is associated with changes in cognitive functions in humans and mice

Chloroviruses (family Phycodnaviridae) are large DNA viruses known to infect certain eukaryotic green algae and have not been previously shown to infect humans or to be part of the human virome. We unexpectedly found sequences homologous to the chlorovirus Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus 1 (ATCV-1) in a metagenomic analysis of DNA extracted from human oropharyngeal… Read More »

The Human Brain – Proteins

Most neurotransmitters are made from amino acids obtained from the protein in food you consume. Neurotransmitters are the brain chemicals that motivate or sedate, focus or frustrate. Their complex interaction is what shifts your mood and changes your mind. Neurotransmitters wag the tail of tadpoles and wage the tale of humanity. Proteins Topics: Proteins and… Read More »

Could body posture during sleep affect how your brain clears waste? — ScienceDaily

Source:Stony Brook UniversitySummary:Sleeping in the side position, as compared to on one’s back or stomach, may more effectively remove brain waste and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases, new research suggests.Share:   Total shares:  7744 FULL STORY The brain’s glymphatic pathway clears harmful… Read More »

Robert Reich: Medicare Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Solution

Some background: Medicare faces financial problems in future years because of two underlying trends that will affect all health care in coming years, regardless of what happens to Medicare: The first is that health care costs are rising overall—not as fast as they were rising before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, but still… Read More »

The Thorium Powered Car – EPautos

Here’s another, more recent one: The thorium-turbine powered car.thorium CaddyHeat energy from the thorium – a weakly radioactive element named after the Norse god Thor that is estimated to be 3-4 times more naturally abundant than uranium and which contains 20 million times the energy as an equivalent lump of coal – is used to… Read More »

New Push Ties Cost of Drugs to How Well They Work – WSJ

a large manager of prescription-drug benefits for U.S. employers and insurers, is seeking deals with pharmaceutical companies that would set pricing for some cancer drugs based on how well they work. The effort is part of a growing push for so-called pay-for-performance deals amid complaints about the rising price of medications, some of which cost… Read More »