Balancing body and mind: selecting the optimal antipsychotic

Neuropsychiatry: grasping the body-mind and mind-body problems.

I f the brain is the most complicated material object in the known universe, the mind is its most wondrous product (1). Precisely how the brain generates mental events is an unsolved mystery. The field of neuropsychiatry concerns itself with psychopathology caused by structural brain disease, brain electrical malfunction, and extrinsic toxic metabolic disturbances. As such, neuropsychiatry is i...

Antipsychotic long-acting injections: mind the gap.

Long-acting injections of antipsychotic medication (or depots) were developed specifically to promote treatment adherence and are a valuable option for maintenance medication in psychotic illnesses. Approximately 40-60% of patients with schizophrenia are partially or totally non-adherent to their antipsychotic regimen, but only 30% or less are prescribed a long-acting injection. The use of such...

Mechanisms of Mind-Body Interaction and Optimal Performance

Energizing the Mind and Body

Insulin can get a bum rap. Although a mainstay of diabetes treatment, when secretion increases in response to a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet or insulin resistance, insulin has been purported to raise blood pressure, potentiate cardiovascular risk, and, to make matters worse, promote weight gain (1,2). But many in the lay public, popular media, and health care are not aware (or choose not to ...

The Body-Mind Relation

[Michael Polanyi's "The Body-Mind Relation" was a paper delivered at a 1966 conference sponsored by the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and the University of California, San Diego .. The conference and the book that grew out of it, Man and the Sciences of Man, edited by William R. Coulson and Carl R. Rogers (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Pu...