Three simple ideas for overcoming childhood obesity

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, offers parents and caregivers three simple family-oriented goals…

Clasado and University of Oxford demonstrate effect of prebiotics on brain and gut in pre-clinical study

Clasado, the manufacturers and suppliers of the second generation prebiotic Bimuno®, and The Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, have announced the results of pre-clinical research demonstrating prebiotics affect the relationship between the gut and the brain. This collaborative research will complement and serve as a precursor to current human trials.

Muscle-Building Dietary Supplement Creatine Can Fight Depression

According to a new study published in the August 3 edition of the online issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, women who suffer from major depression may benefit from creatine, a muscle-building dietary supplement to feel better…

Chronic High Cholesterol Diet Produces Brain Damage

Research from the Laboratory of Psychiatry and Experimental Alzheimers Research at the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) demonstrated that chronic high fat cholesterol diet in rats exhibited pathologies similar to Alzheimer’s disease. The results were published in Molecular Cellular Neuroscience (45(4):408-417, 2010) with lead author Dr. Christian Humpel…