by John Mekrut | Apr 14, 2018 | ADD / ADHD, Medications, Uncategorized, Videos
I am very interested in how discoveries in neuroscience can affect changes in our educational system to make it more responsive to the needs of our kids and how they actually learn. I was watching PBS one night and I saw this animation from Sir Ken Robinson,...
by John Mekrut | Aug 22, 2017 | Depression, Medications, Neurofeedback
The commonly prescribed anti-depressant Zoloft has been found to affect the volume of brain matter in key areas of the brains of depressed and non depressed patients. This finding was published in the journal Neuropharmacology. The problem is that Zoloft is...
by John Mekrut | Jun 23, 2017 | Blog, Medications, Neurofeedback
There are two systems that govern how our brains operate, electrical and chemical, and they engage in an elaborate dance to determine how we interact with the world. How we work with those two systems is the subject of this fascinating article by Adrian Van...
by John Mekrut | Oct 1, 2013 | Chronic Pain, Medications, Neurofeedback
“Pain is 100% produced by the brain” says Dr. Adriaan Louw, PT in a recent article. For chronic pain, the medical community is beginning to embrace the concept of “top down” pain management, “top down” meaning that pain, because it is completely produced in the...
by John Mekrut | Sep 23, 2013 | Anxiety, Blog, Medications, Neurofeedback, Sleep Disorders, stress, Uncategorized
Sleep medications and driving We’ve all seen the warning on many of the medications we purchase and I usually think to myself, I’m not working with a dump truck or road grader but they mean your car. I ran across a New York Times article talking about the...
by John Mekrut | Sep 9, 2013 | Blog, Medications, Neurofeedback, Uncategorized
Why have drug manufacturers largely abandoned seeking out new psychiatric drugs? Why did Stephen Hyman, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health state last year “it is hard to think of a single truly novel psychotropic drug that has emerged in...
