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"The term "orthomolecular psychiatry" was coined by Linus Pauling in 1968 to refer to the treatment of psychiatric illnesses with substances (such as vitamins) that are normally present in the body. In orthomolecular psychiatry, high amounts of vitamins are sometimes used, not to correct a deficiency per se, but to create a more optimal biochemical environment. The mainstay of the orthomolecular approach to schizophrenia is niacin (page 598) or niacinamide (page 598) (vitamin B3 [page 598]) in high amounts." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"Psychiatry (Salzman 1990) ] Clin. psychiatry (Schatzberg 1991) ] Clin. psychiatry (Cain 1992) J Clin. psychiatry (Louie et al. 1993) Conn's Current Therapy (Rakel 1993) N. Engl. J. Med. (Gram 1994) about every other antidepressant. "The sales representatives for most antidepressants are now giving out sample packs starting with half-strength doses," Dr. Anthony Weisenberger, a top psychopharmacologist, recently said. "They lose so many sales because patients get side effects and quit treatment, the drug companies have finally caught on that the dose makes a big difference." - The Life Extension Editorial Staff, Disease Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Internal jogging' is the way Dr William Fry, a psychiatry professor at Stanford University's School of Medicine, described laughing. Laughing involves i:he same muscle activity as exercising. It brings more oxygen into the lungs and cells and helps rid the body of carbon dioxide. It relaxes you. And, as Dr Fry observed, 'You can laugh a lot more times a day than you can do push-ups.' Sound the letters M and N, mmmm...nnnnn..., as you breathe out long and slow. You will feel a resonance from the breathing muscles in the lower torso. These are the ones you should be using and need to develop." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Although the point has been wholly missed by psychiatry, a satisfying and potentially happy life requires sound principles of living, including the courage and determination to maintain ethical, loving relationships with the people around us. Sages have advocated the most important principles for many centuries, usually focusing on the road to becoming a more loving and responsible human being who pursues higher ideals." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The British Journal of psychiatry (2000) 176: 299 Antidepressant drugs cause a variety of sexual side-effects. However, antidepres-sant-induced changes in sexual sensations are rare. We report a case of fluoxetine-induced loss of sensation of vagina and nipples. A 48-year-old married woman with recurrent depression had good antidepressant response to fluoxetine 20 mg. However, her compliance with the medication was poor resulting in recurrences. While euthymic and on no antidepressants, her sexual function was normal. When depressed she has moderate decrease in libido." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Chapter 3 The Toothless Watchdog Growls DURING THE TIME that most of the men, women, and children in this book were having their lives ruined and sometimes destroyed by antidepressant drugs, what position was being taken by the pharmaceutical companies, organized psychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and legions of so-called medication experts? Despite mountains of evidence, they were avidly denying that antidepressants can cause mayhem, murder, and suicide." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Orthopedic surgeons are clueless about psychiatry. Add to that the fact that most of today's doctors spend more of their time filling out paperwork and arguing with insurance companies than they do treating patients and you have a perfect storm for information overload. In today's medical marketplace, it's unrealistic to expect your plastic surgeon to know much about bone diseases, or your ear, nose, and throat specialist to know much about OB-GYN. So how could we expect any of them to know about naturopathy, acupuncture, or vitamins?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, this is an idea that has not yet come of age in psychiatry. One of the few upsides to depression is that it may cause patients with illnesses like FM to seek medical care. Whenever I diagnose depression in one of my patients, I explain that having depression on top of CFS, FM, or IBS is like turning up the stove under a pot: everything gets hotter. The symptoms of fatigue and pain increase, while the patient's ability to cope with them in the face of other daily demands decreases. So an important component of my evaluation is to consider the possibility of depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Still, throughout what was an orthodox training in psychiatry, she'd never forgotten her father's lessons: received wisdom was the enemy of good science. As a student she would seek out dusty psychiatric writings of the nineteenth century, before the advent of modern psychopharmacology, when psychiatrists lived in sanatoriums, writing down the rantings of their patients in an attempt to gain further understanding of their conditions. Somewhere in the raw data, Targ believed, separated out from the dogma of the times, lay the truth." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"At the new millennium, psychiatry was the fourth largest medical specialty in the United States.8 The best estimate of the number of active clinically trained practicing psychiatrists in the private sector is 45.000,9 only a small proportion of whom (3—6%) restrict themselves to inpatient practice. The specialty has grown rapidly (from 1970 to 2002, the number of psychiatrists increased by 86%), though recent evidence shows a downward reversal of that trend." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"David Burns, an adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, when he was asked about the serotonin imbalance theory in 2003. "In fact, we cannot measure brain serotonin levels in living human beings so there is no way to test this theory. Some neuroscientists would question whether the theory is even viable, since the brain does not function in this way, as a hydraulic system." Wrote Dr. Elliot S." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Joseph Biederman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard who was considered one of the nation's leading experts in childhood attention disorders. For years Dr. Biederman had worked closely with Novartis, as well as with most of the other manufacturers of ADHD medicines. In 2006 he disclosed that he was a paid adviser to six drug companies, a paid speaker for six companies, and a paid researcher for ten companies. Dr. Biederman coauthored the article with eight other scientists, including five employees of Novartis. In 2005, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"As a 13-year-old, she'd even wangled a place working in Karl Pribram's brain research laboratory at Stanford University, examining differences between left and right hemisphere activity, before deciding on an orthodox course of study in psychiatry at Stanford. Nevertheless, Elisabeth had been highly impressed by the Soviet Academy of Science during a visit she'd made there with her father, and the fact that laboratory study of parapsychology could be so openly carried out by the establishment. In officially atheist Russia, they had only two categories of belief: something was true or not true." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"As one of the textbooks in the field, psychiatry in the Elderly, puts it: "The pathology of [AD] defies precise definition at present. This is because its individual components all occur to some extent in normal aging."14 This means that any diagnosis given during your or a loved one's life can only be probable—the best judgment of neurologists like me. There is never any point at which you or a loved one becomes an Alzheimer's victim. No one common set of symptoms or quantifiable pathological characteristics can establish a human being as having Alzheimer's disease." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "In several months, Alzheimer's lecture in Tubingen appeared, in full, in the General Journal of psychiatry and Psycho-Forensic Medicine under the rubric "Proceedings of Psychiatric Associations." And in early 1907, Alzheimer published a three-page report, "On a Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex," officially presenting the case of Auguste D.'s presenile dementia to the world." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Jack Gorman, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Gorman was also a consultant to Forest Laboratories and a dozen other drug companies, although his audience did not learn those facts. He told viewers that 80 percent of the compulsive shoppers in the study slowed their purchases after taking Celexa. The flurry of publicity caused the American Psychiatric Association to put out a statement saying it had no intention of adding such a disorder to its next revision of the DSM." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"He suspected that senile dementia could be brought on by the thickening of the blood vessels of the brain—a condition called atheriosclerosis—and published an article, "Dementia Senilis and Brain Disease Based on Atheromatous Vessel Disease," in the Monthly Journal of psychiatry, 1898. Nearly a year into Auguste D.'s illness, Dr. Alzheimer reviewed her hospital admission sheet, which would remain hidden away for the next ninety years." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Prog Neuropsychophar-macol Biol. psychiatry 27, 741-749. 245. Zhu, X., Raina, A. K, Lee, H. G, Casadesus, G, Smith, M. A., and Perry, G. (2004). Oxidative stress signalling in Alzheimer's disease. Brain Res. 1000, 32-39. 246. Hensley, K, Floyd, R. A., Zheng, N. Y., Nael, R., Robinson, K. A., Nguyen, X., Pye, Q. N., Stewart, C. A., Geddes, J., Markesbery, W. R., Patel, E., Johnson, G. V., and Bing, G. (1999). p38 kinase is activated in the Alzheimer's disease brain. J. Neurochem. 72, 2053-2058. 247. Yrjanheikki, J., Keinanen, R., Pellikka, M., Hokfelt, T., and Koistinaho, J. (1998)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Forty years ago, Barry Sterman, professor emeritus of the departments of Neurobiology and Biobehavioral psychiatry at UCLA, accidentally discovered that this anticipatory emotion sent cats into a meditative state; their brains slowed to an EEG rhythm of 8-13 hertz, corresponding to human alpha brain frequencies, moments before they got their reward.52 Eventually, he was able to get the cats to re-create this state at will, not simply when they were awaiting food. It was tantamount to the animals' being able to control their own brain waves. But could a human being do the same?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "But Peter Fen-wick, consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and the Institute of psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, gathered evidence to show that speech and many other functions are produced in both sides of the brain and that the brain works best when it can operate as a totality. During meditation, both sides communicate in a particularly harmonious manner.24 Concentrated attention appears to enlarge certain mechanisms of perception, while tuning out "noise." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "A fascinating study by David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, offers a glimpse of what happens to the brain when an intention is given under hypnosis. His participants were shown a colored grid painting, similar to a Mondrian, and were asked to imagine the color draining from the picture, leaving only black and white." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Archives of General psychiatry, 2001, 58:1049-1052. The researchers used a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover model to assess the effectiveness of 10 mg per day of melatonin for six weeks in 22 patients with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia. Beneficial effects were found, as measured by the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). Thyroid Disorders_ Late-onset Bipolar Disorder due to Hyperthyroidism Nath J; Safar R. Acta Psy-chiatrica Scandinavica, 2001, 104:72-75. The researchers determined that thyroid disorder could mimic late-onset bipolar disorder." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Journal of Clinical psychiatry, 2004 January, 65(l):92-96. Treatment with branched chain amino acids (BCAA) significandy decreased tardive dyskinesia symptoms in children and adolescents. The Effect of Vitamin E Treatment on Tardive Dyskinesia and Blood Superoxide Dismutase: A Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial. Zhang XY; Zhou DF; et -A. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2004 February, 24(l):83-86. The findings of this study confirmed previous research indicating that vitamin E is safe and effective in the treatment of tardive dyskinesia." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Progress in Neuro-Psy-chopharmacology & Biological psychiatry, 2005 July, 29(6):878-888. Supplementation with polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids (PUFA) can improve mental health rating scores in people with schizophrenia. Altered PUFA levels may contribute to the abnormalities in neurotransmission seen in the disorder. Can Perinatal Supplementation of Long-Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Prevent Schizophrenia in Adult Life? Das UN. Medical Science Monitor, 2004 December, 10(12):HY33-HY37." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"On July 16, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally signed the certificate of appointment, and Alzheimer rose to his chair in psychiatry. The move fatigued Alzheimer and he became acutely ill on the train journey to Breslau. From the moment he arrived, Alzheimer suffered from exhaustion, experiencing shortness of breath and cardiac palpitations at even the slightest exertion. Lingering symptoms hampered his body, but the doctor, a robust and otherwise vigorous man, still had his mental acuity and pressed on with his work." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Am. J. psychiatry. 160, 255-261. 91. Smathers, S. A., Wilson, J. G, and Nigro, M. A. (2003). Topiramate effectiveness in Prader-Willi syndrome. Pediatr. Neurol. 28, 130-133. 92. Heal, D. J., Aspley, S., Prow, M. R., Jackson, H. C, Martin, K. F, and Cheetham, S. C. (1998). Sibutramine: A novel anti-obesity drug: a review of the pharmacological evidence to differentiate it from amphetamine and d-fenfluramine. Int. J. Obes. 22(suppl. 1), S18-S28. 93. Astrup, A., Hansen, H. L., Lundsgaard, C, and Toubro, S. (1998). Sibutramine and energy balance. Int. J. Obes. 22 (suppl. 1), S30-S35. 94." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"THE NEW BUZZ In 1970, fresh out of college, I landed a job at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and walked right into this sea change happening in psychiatry. Schildkraut was a mentor to me, and I was lucky enough to have a firsthand look at the scientific inquiry into the biological theory of mood disorders. Two years later, I was off to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, where I started my own daily psychoanalysis and steeped myself in the emerging brain science." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Thus, our conclusion: were psychiatry and its related disciplines and professions to disappear, not much would change, at least in terms of mortality and morbidity. 7 Ml N D-BODY in which we explore the strange world of placebos and mind-body medicine, and explore the possibility of an expanded medical model Recall our discussion from chapter 1, in which we decided to disappear mind-body medicine along with the other major specialties." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The brain-damaging effects of modern electroshock treatment (ECT) are discussed in my book Brain-Discussing Treatment in psychiatry (2008). Addiction from Short-Term Treatment with Therapeutic Doses Xanax and Halcion are so short acting that withdrawal can take place during the day in between doses. This leads people to take the drug more frequently, encouraging abuse, and outright addiction. Under warnings, the FDA-approved Xanax label states:4 Even after relatively short-term use at the doses recommended for the treatment of transient anxiety and anxiety disorder (i.e., 0." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"His technique is called behavioural kinesiology, and integrates psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine with kinesiology. Dr Diamond explained his philosophy in a book Your Body Does Not Lie (Warner Books, New York): 'I would practise preventative medicine, which meant raising the patient's energy to overcome the earliest manifestations of disease or better to act to prevent disease from occurring in the first place.' Such an approach is common to many workers in the field of complementary medicine." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

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