Fatty Acids:The Skinny on Fish Oils and Brain Health
MAKING SENSE OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS: The Skinny on Fish Oils and Brain Health [caption id="attachment_634" align="alignleft" width="279" caption="ISNR.Daniel Johnston MD"][/caption] Personally, I take a lot of nutritional supplements, but it is difficult to know which of these is really necessary. When patients ask what they ought to be taking I can only answer confidently that only Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs, Fish Oil) and possibly Vitamin D seem to be necessary for the typical well-nourished American, methyl-folate may be needed for people on anti-depressant drugs, and B12 sublingual may be important for ...
Brain Plasticity: Culture Has Shifted the Brains of Teenagers in Today’s Era.
An elegant notion about the modern teenage brain and brain plasticity from Dr. Alison Gopnik. Notions of brain plasticity are no longer new. The marvelous book The Mind and the Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley came out a decade ago, in 2002. Norman Doidge extended that study with his excellent 2007 The Mind That Changes Itself. Psychologist Alison Gopnik recently wrote the following article for the Wall St. Journal. In the article, she advances the elegant notion that balance of power in the ...
