Sperhaps the main reason why SRIs are among the most widely prescribed drugs in the world is that they have relatively few side effects. A recent study involving more than six thousand patients showed that far fewer patients (13.9 percent) stopped SRIs because of side effects than stopped standard antidepressants. In my own clinical practice [...]

Most are not poisonousMore than 45,000 people are bitten by snakes each year, but only about 8,000 of those are by poisonous snakes. Fewer than 15 fatalities result from snakebites annually, and many of those occur because the bites are not treated. Determining if the snake is poisonousMost venomous snakes in the United States (such [...]

The Effect of Psychiatry’s Problems on the Patient Present treatment methods which, as a general rule, are devoted to the individual patient are not only divided within themselves but are also frequently pitted against the city officials whose major interest is removing the ‘disturbance’ from the public eye. Thus, psychiatry is split within itself, divided [...]

Most people don’t think of wisdom, or for that matter competence or expertise, as biological categories, but they are. Most people understand, generally and vaguely, that our mind is the product of our brain. But it is not always easy to realize just how intimate the relationship is. Despite their acceptance of the mind-brain connection [...]