Garth Kroeker

 Robert Sapolsky is a great scientist with deep wisdom to share about humanity.  His recent book, Determined , is another must-read.   The f...

Here's an interesting update on the dietary fatty acid issue, as it pertains to mood disorders and neuroplasticity: http://www.nature.c...

Doidge devotes a chapter to discussing obsessive-compulsive disorder. He claims that a treatment developed by Jeffrey M. Schwartz is "...

Doidge devotes a chapter to the work of Edward Taub. I think Taub's ideas are simple but brilliant. He developed a treatment called &qu...

This post begins my review of Doidge's references from his book on neuroplasticity. The first references I have looked through pertain t...

This is an important book which I highly recommend: The Brain that Changes Itself , by Norman Doidge (Penguin, 2007). Doidge is a psychoanal...

There are some novel therapies such as vagal nerve stimulation or deep brain stimulation, which can improve symptoms of depression. These t...

I think modern technology is wonderful. We now have machines which can image the living brain and measure activity in different parts of the...

I'm always interested in analogies & thought experiments. One of them last year was to consider the following: What would a brain c...

I should caution the reader that this particular post is less directly related to psychiatry--it's more of what I would call a "phi...