Tag Archives: Nutritional Neuroscience

B12 Deficiency And The Amazing Shrinking Brain: Don’t Let It Happen To You

Posted on 10. Nov, 2008 by .

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photo credit: SOCIALisBETTER Neuropsychiatric symptoms (impaired memory, irritability, depression and personality changes) are well known complications of vitamin B12 deficiency. Pernicious anemia caused by intrinsic factor deficiency, decreased stomach acid or gastric by-pass surgery is another classic presentation. Now with better research tools, scientists have established a link between B12 deficiency and brain volume loss. [...]

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Depression: A Novel Nutritional Neuroscientific Approach

Posted on 11. Jun, 2008 by .

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Depression can be difficult to treat. Even with the most effective medications, a sixty percent response rate is considered exceptional. Worse yet for most people, continued treatment revolves around minimizing side-effects rather than aggressively addressing the circumstances that allowed the depression to develop in the first place. To confound matters even more, recent studies suggest [...]

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