The food we eat has a significant effect on our physical and mental health. Food is its own pharmaceutical compound, and more information is known about its effects than ever before. Professor Fernand Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science, has reviewed over 160 studies about the effect of food on the... Read more
The very fact that bipolar disorder has a
history of being underdiagnosed may be sensitizing clinicians to avoid missing
the diagnosis altogether. This is resulting in an equal if not greater problem
of overdiagnosis, according to a recent study published in the Journal of
Clinical Psychiatry.
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