by Chris Gilbert | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured, Homepage, Psychology Today
Finding hope from conflicting data. When my husband started drinking diet sodas and using artificial sweeteners (AS) in his coffee, his weight went up. I didn’t think much of it until I attended a Continuing Medical Education (CME) conference for physicians...
by Chris Gilbert | Nov 1, 2017 | Featured, Psychology Today
Some fruits and vegetables are better than others. In a JAMA Internal Medicine article published online on October 30th, 2017, Yu-Han Chiu MD and colleagues studied the association between pesticide residue intake from consumption of fruits and vegetables...
by Chris Gilbert | Oct 23, 2017 | Featured, Homepage, Psychology Today
The story of acquired savant syndrome and what we can learn from it. Derek was a 39-year-old sales trainer with no musical skill when he dove head first into a very shallow swimming pool while visiting his mom. He suffered a severe head concussion and was taken to the...
by Chris Gilbert | Oct 6, 2017 | Featured, Psychology Today
New consequences and what you can do about it. A study, published this week in Vital Signs, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and based on data from the 2005-2014 United States Cancer Statistics, confirms that being overweight puts...
by Chris Gilbert | Oct 2, 2017 | Featured, Homepage, Psychology Today
Source: Nadezda Parizskaya/Shutterstock Joy could smell a musky odor coming from her husband’s neck area, but she didn’t think much of it, until six years later, when he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Joy and her husband were attending a Parkinson’s disease...
by Chris Gilbert | Oct 1, 2017 | Featured, Psychology Today
Carla came to see me a few years ago after four separate physicians had failed to help her. When she shuffled into my examining room –the first appointment of my day– I could see right away she wasn’t well. Stylish clothes hung loosely on her 5’11’ frame,...
