Dr. Maura Boldrini looked at the brains of 28 deceased people aged 14 to 79 to see whether aging affects neuron production and concluded that human brain continues to make neurons even into old age.
For World Bipolar Day, we spoke with Dr. Diana Samuel, assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, about the basics of this mental illness.
Most physicians who prescribed opioids received payments from pharmaceutical companies and these payments increased with the more opioids that doctor prescribed writes Dr. Robert Klitzman.
Dr. Barbara Stanley explained that stressors like extreme financial duress, sleep deprivation, working extremely long hours, and exhaustion are known to be associated with suicidal thoughts.
Potentially “tainted” votes by people who don’t have the “mental capacity of understanding an election,” can make a big difference in a close race, said Dr. Paul Appelbaum.
