Some dysfunction with your pathophysiology?

Apologies for abandoning this blog for several weeks there while I coped with the end of the school year at work, my own youngest son’s high school graduation, my husband’s return from overseas, and other fill-in-the-blank.

Here I’ve been meaning to share some recaps of some of the sensational speaker programs arranged by my friend Kathy and sponsored by my local cause, DBSA NCA.  Last year, former New York Times reporter, Jayson Blair, attended the annual presentation of our DBSA chapter adviser, Dr. Fred Jacobsen.  Dr. Jacobsen offers the low down on research trends and treatments presented at the annual American Psychiatric Association convention.  Within 24 hours of attending Dr. Jacobsen’s presentation, Jayson published this recap on the DBSA Northern Virginia website:
http://www.dbsanova.org/news/n00001.html

How does Blair do it?

I’ve got nine pages of notes from Dr. Goldstein’s talk from several months ago on psychotherapies for mood disorders.  I’ve got a notebook full of scribbles under a big pile of mental health conference swag on Dr. McMahon’s talk on the genetics of mood disorders (that talk was over a year ago),  I’ve got doodles from Dr. Norman Rosenthal on seasonal affective disorder, SAD, from last fall.  I’ve got a hot link to Dr. Kay Jamison’s spring talk transcribed word for word by another friend, Cristina.  I’ve got the life saving wisdom of Dr. Fred Goodwin from two talks, one strictly Q & A with the audience…I blogged about some of that in my Mood Garden blog, but the language in there is too informal for this blog.

Struggling with the recap of Dr. Jacobsen’s presentation of the findings from unpublished research studies and brain imagery slides (brain images of mice and men), I came across something Depakid wrote in Mood Garden, my online home:

“Bottom line: looks like we have dysfunction in our prefrontal-limbic-subcortical circuitary with pathophysiology in our hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis … geek.”

That’s exactly what Dr. Jacobsen was saying!  LOL  Dr. Jacobsen offered many useful treatment approaches and tips for better living.  I’ll share these soon.  My recaps tend to be untimely and incomprehensible because this is brain science, you know?

And now for something completely different.  Here’s a nifty little poster generator from Despair Inc.:

http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php

Simply browse through photos stored on your PC, upload one to the Despair Inc. poster generator and compose a de-motivational message.   Here’s my first attempt:

Enjoy!

 Tagged: Despair Inc., Dr. Fred Goodwin, Dr. Fred Jacobsen, Dr. Kay Jamison, Dr. Norm Rosenthal, Jayson Blair, Mood Garden, SAD