Sometimes, symptoms of depression or mania are a side effect of certain drugs, such as steroids or blood pressure medication. If you’re taking antidepressants, tranquilizers, or stimulants such as the amphetamines or Ritalin, it’s fairly obvious that they are going to affect your mood. But what about less obvious medication such as the hundreds of […]
Ayurvedic Herbalism and Mental Health
Ayurveda is a comprehensive natural health care system that originated in India more than 5,000 years ago. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India (mid-second millennium BCE). Over the following centuries, ayurvedic practitioners developed a number of medicinal preparations and surgical procedures for the treatment of various ailments, […]
Experience and Happiness
While scientists have found evidence that income is linked with a person’s satisfaction with their life and other measures of happiness, less is known about the link between how a person spends their money and happiness. According to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder spending money in the pursuit of happiness is best […]
Nutrition and Mental Illness
Believing that drugs and psychoanalysis were not always the best course of treatment for a variety of mental illnesses, Carl Pfeiffer began an extensive program of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, and in 1973 opened the Brain Bio Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Here, with a team of scientists, he found […]