CorePsych Updates: Crossroads

by Dr Charles Parker on March 15, 2010 · 2 comments

Crossroads - Clarksdale, MS

Image by JMazzolaa via Flickr

Notes from the CorePsych road
It’s been busy here, so I’ll take just a moment to keep you updated.

Brief report from the Mississippi Delta:
Imagine this – I took a vacation… The White Boys and Wives Blues Excursion: Five, count them, surprisingly compatible couples in a White Van for a full 7 days, touring up the Blues Highway in the MS Delta from New Orleans, through Natchez, Vicksburg, Yazoo City, Greenwood, Greenville, Clarksdale and Memphis – a memorable trip through a heartland of change. Our guide: a native of Yazoo City who grew up to become an ad man in Va Beach.

We hit many plantations [including Linden where the closing scene from Gone With the Wind was filmed], the Natchez Trace, blues clubs, [most notably Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS], Eudora Welty’s home in Jackson to name just a few. We also stopped for pictures at this Crossroads> in Clarksdale where many of the Delta Blues originals such as Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, and BB King passed through heading north to Memphis – Highways 61 and 49 both head north out of the dramatic social and economic challenges associated with king cotton. I told you I picked cotton for several years in my childhood, so the trip brought back some interesting memories. If you have the time, The Blues Highway is a trip back in time to an important piece of our collective history.

Changes At CorePsych
1. Good News: I have finished oft mentioned ADHD Medications book! If you haven’t signed up for the notification and discounted special, do so right now, as I plan to have it out in the next 2 weeks.
2. Keep your eyes peeled for the CoreBrain Wellness Store coming very soon – it will facilitate your keeping up with supplements without having to work through our Patient Care Coordinator. It has many bells and whistles, including simple scheduling for appointments, right there on the Internet.
3. I have several interesting training modules that will be available soon -
a. The Brain School 101, a DVD discussing the use of SPECT imaging for diagnosis that makes it easy to understand how SPECT is used effectively.
b. The Impulsive Brain will be on DVD and out soon – all 6 hrs on ADHD, Bipolar, Brain Injury and Addictions.
c. Several CD’s on ADHD, Holistic Psychiatry and the use of neurotransmitter precursors will be available soon – are in production.

Next project: more specific blog postings on the why and how with measuring neurotransmitters and using neurotransmitter precursors to augment challenging psychiatric presentations.
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DSM 5 Diagnosis: Psychiatric Institution Lockdown

by Dr Charles Parker on February 14, 2010 · 8 comments

Must see!
Even if you are only slightly interested in the DSM 5 validity flap, you must absolutely listen to this piece by Clay Shirky from Nibipedia.

The issues that arise with change and continuity
1. Institutions vs Collaborative models
2. Economics of Institutional Challenges the 80-20 Rule
3. The Negative Impact of Institutions with Collaborative Change
4. The Challenge with Collaboration

Take a look, and then drop your comment – 20.46 min, goes very fast – tighten your seat belts!

So what do you think… which is your perspective? Are you a journalist? This is interesting…
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Psychiatric Diagnosis and DSM 5: Maps to Nowhere

February 13, 2010 Beyond ADHD

If you are lost, forget being found with this bible. Don’t be worried, you won’t have to change anything you are doing… it’s the same old 19th Century stuff, trimmed up to tweak the descriptive language, with no improvements there for patient care, and no new science. Boring.

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Intuniv for ADHD: Metabolic Challenges

February 1, 2010 Autism Spectrum

This post is the fifth, with four others, documenting Intuniv Overview, Dosing Details, Drug Interactions and Addiction Indications. Please review all of these posts for more informed use of Intuniv

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Holistic Reviews At CorePsych

January 24, 2010 Autism Spectrum

Do consider attending the Holistic Health Virtual Conference, – I look forward to presenting there on Wednesday Jan 27, and am sending out this unique offer for folks who attend.

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Comprehensive Psych Medication Strategies

January 17, 2010 Brain/Body Evidence

We’re Way Beyond Labels at CorePsych – Psychiatric meds simply won’t work if we don’t understand the entire neurotransmitter process. In this new game of pure neurotransmission, numbers matter.

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Holistic Psychiatry is CorePsych

January 4, 2010 Beyond ADHD

Neuroscience evidence changes thinking: This January 26 & 27, just a few weeks away, you will have an opportunity to take a deeper step into that change process: The Holistic Health Virtual Conference: Empowering Whole People – I hope you can join me there.

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Sam McGee and Christmas – Family Fun

December 21, 2009 Blog

I had the bright idea that we should celebrate Christmas by reading poetry by the fire, as FDR did with his family. It was a good plan, hatched with two other families, to read poetry every Christmas Eve

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Intuniv for ADHD: Avoid Drug Interactions

December 16, 2009 Beyond ADHD

Intuniv Driving And Watching: Possible Interactions Detailed – Regular CorePsych Blog readers already know that we don’t like wrong medication turns. Intuniv dosing is important. Intuniv safety has been carefully explored. Maps do help, but watching where we are going is even better.

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Intuniv Answers: ADHD & Addiction Indication

December 15, 2009 Beyond ADHD

Intuniv For ADHD & Substance Abuse – As we move down the early ADHD road of experience with Intuniv some interesting additional indications appear.

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