Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Looking at affected body parts reduces pain

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Here's an interesting little study showing that acute physical pain is diminished in intensity when one is looking at the affected body ...
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Working memory exercises for treating addictions?

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Here's a link to an interesting article from Biological Psychiatry this month: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20965498 It is bas...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Omega-3 deficiency and low dietary omega-3 to omega-6 ratio may exacerbate depression and reduce neuroplasticity

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Here's an interesting update on the dietary fatty acid issue, as it pertains to mood disorders and neuroplasticity: http://www.nature.c...
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Monday, January 24, 2011

"Outlier": The causes of high achievement

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Outlier by Malcolm Gladwell, is a brilliant book about the causes of success, outstanding achievement, and personal greatness. Gladwell d...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Writing about worries can ease exam anxiety

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Here's another simple research finding, published recently in Science by Sian Beilock:  students who spent ten minutes--immediately befo...
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GK
I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.
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