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What Brain Genetics Says About Mental Health

July 19, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Brainstorms Heard of the Brainstorm Consortium?  A worldwide group of dozens of researchers is trying to understand diagnosis from the bottom up, starting with your genes. In a recent paper in Science, the group looked at 25 “brain associated” disorder, ten of them psychiatric, fifteen neurologic.  They sorted them through  GWASS – genome wide association […]

Marketing Medical Marijuana

March 15, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Mother’s Milk California’s Big Daddy Jesse Unruh often intoned, “money is the mother’s milk of politics,” yet today we can say “money is the mother’s milk of medicine.”  Any industry which takes up 17-18% of the economy leaves a lot of cash slashing around.  And the latest entrant to the giant cash prize of $3.3 trillion a year […]

Unsafe: Surviving the New Age of Anxiety

October 26, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

A different, new age of anxiety is brewing.  To understand why, look around. One of the world’s favored centers of “chill” just burned to the ground.  In the peacefully pleasant California wine country residents woke to winds whipping fire.   Within minutes their homes reduced to ashes, their vehicles melted.  They had no warning.  In the morning light […]

Noisy Anxiety

July 2, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Anxiety is all around us, the air noisily electric with it.  The environment is filling with noxious sound. And an era stuffed with massacres of the innocents does not induce calm.  So it’s instructive to see how one major sense – hearing – affects our ability to rest and self-soothe.  And to see how we do it, […]

Depression — Cheap Ways to Treat

January 25, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Depression costs. It’s generally ranked among the top three illnesses in the world in economic carnage. Depressed people don’t work well and often get physically sick,  while their illness frequently wrecks careers, marriages and families. Perhaps 30% of Americans will become clinically depressed during their lifetimes – a proportion that is rising. Public efforts to […]

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