There are 108 genetic variants that map into 8 major psychiatric conditions. This is valuable information. Unfortunately, this information has no relevance to how patients are treated today. We can't use this information to diagnose mental health problems and we can't use it to determine how to treat patients. On ...
Understanding the various roles that are played in assisting families with mental health concerns is a first step in addressing these complex problems. To fix the wiring in your house, you need an electrician. To fix the pipes, you need a plumber. To address mental health problems in a multi-generational ...
Tonight on 60 minutes, there was a story about several familes who had lost a family member to COVID. It was very sad to hear their stories of loss. One family had lost their husband and father. He was 53. A loving, caring and previously healthy father of 4. The ...
The Coup We Are Not Talking About We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both. By Shoshana Zuboff Dr. Zuboff, a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, is the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” Two decades ago, the American government left ...
Mental health starts at the beginning. The infant coming home and becoming attached to the primary care provider is where mental health starts. The quality of the attachment is felt by modern brain researchers to be one of the key determinants of future mental health for the child. Unfortunately, if ...
With COVID, with the hype and distraction and disappointments of social media, with heightened isolation, with increased depression and anxiety, with the loss of social contact and social intimacy, with burnout, with easy access to drugs and alcohol and with little or no accountability, there are going to be mental ...
Betsy, not her real name, is 55 years of age. She tested negative for COVID in early January. Her 5 family members all tested positive. She did develop symptoms of COVID with productive cough, loss of sense of smell and taste, muscle aches, myalgia, gut pains and intermittent headaches. This ...
My radical curiousity has lead me to ask where are the Canadian manufacturers of COVID vaccine. We used to hae Connaught Labs at Steeles Avenue and Dufferin St in North York. Then it disappeared. No more vaccine capacity of significance in Canada. Then recently, I learned about Medicago and its ...
Dr Vincent Lam writes in the Globe & Mail that not involving Canada's 40,000 family doctors in the distribution of COVID 19 vaccine is a huge and tragic mistake. If family doctors give about 50% of all flu vaccines, then why would Public Health not involve family doctors in the ...
Our smart phones leave a digital foot print. This foot print can be used to assess the mental health of the user of the smart phone. We call the foot prints a form of digital phenotyping. Let's define phenotype in order to be clear. The sum of an person's observable ...