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Oroojzadeh, P., Bostanabad, S.Y. & Lotfi, H. Psychobiotics: the Influence of Gut Microbiota on the Gut-Brain Axis in Neurological Disorders. J Mol Neurosci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12031-022-02053-3 Psychobiotics are a probiotic strain […]

T Bhikram, P Sandor, Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratios as inflammatory biomarkers in psychiatric patients, Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, Volume 105, 2022, Pages 237-246, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2022.07.006. Conclusion: The consistent findings of elevated NLR across […]

In this companion to Dress Coded, an eighth-grader starts a podcast on climate activism and rallies her friends to create lasting change in their local community and beyond. The First Rule of Climate Club, a mid-grade novel, focuses on an eighth grader’s efforts to help diagnose her friend’s “mystery illness,” which eventually is identified as PANS from Lyme disease.

Pourshahid S, Khademolhosseini S, Giri B, et al. (July 12, 2022) A Case of Steroid-Responsive Severe Pneumonia Following a Recent COVID-19 Infection in a Patient With Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders […]

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions – autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain, and many more.

Until recently, microglia were thought to be helpful but rather boring: housekeeper cells in the brain. But a recent groundbreaking discovery has revealed that they connect our physical and mental health in surprising ways.

Eat for your mental health and learn the fascinating science behind nutrition with this guide from an expert psychiatrist. Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the aftereffects of trauma? That salami can cause depression, or that boosting Vitamin D intake can help treat anxiety?

Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here.

In the golden age of “talk therapy,” the 1950s and 1960s, psychotherapists saw no limit to what they could do. Believing they had already explained the origins of war, homosexuality, anti-Semitism, and a host of neurotic ailments, they set out to conquer one of mankind’s oldest and fiercest foes, mental illness. In Madness on the Couch, veteran science writer Edward Dolnick tells the tragic story of that confrontation.

Louisiana House Concurrent Resolution 89 -LA HCR89 LAHCR89 requests that the Louisiana Department of Insurance conduct a study concerning health insurance coverage for therapies and treatments including the costs and […]

Senate Bill No. 2203 SUB B Passes Senate Bill No. 2203 SUB B as amended and House Bill No. 7503  SUB B as amended have passed!! We are now waiting for […]