Is There A Core Emotional Component To Illness?

Many people remark they have done all the tests, the examinations, diagnosing the symptoms that get a fancy label….. And all of this means having a label will bring the correct health care to ‘cure’ it. The results only leave you in the dark searching for an answer. A question that is consistently asked, ‘What is wrong with you?

Guest Blog: How antipsychotic medications cause metabolic side effects such as obesity and diabetes

In a paper published January 31 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham) reveal how antipsychotic drugs interfere with normal metabolism by activating a protein called SMAD3, an important part of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) pathway.