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Anxiety Disorders Take on Many Forms
Excerpt from Healing The Mind and Body, Volume 2. If more people paid attention to their level of anxiety, they could avoid a great deal of unhappiness resulting from ongoing rumination, ill health, and disruptions in relationships with family members and co-workers. Typically, the agitation and irritability are the body’s way of
How Do You Treat a Man Like Robin Williams?
It was devastating news to all of us when news broke that popular funny man Robin Williams had committed suicide on Aug. 11th. Just 63 years of age, it was not widely known that Robin Williams had suffered years of addiction struggle with alcohol and drugs. In July, admitting to
The reward in actively treating neurochemical imbalances
An excerpt from Dr. Paul Corona’s upcoming book, Healing the Mind and Body: The Doctor and Patient Guide I have found that treating patients with neurochemical disorders is by far the most interesting and impacting area of medicine as compared to any other medical problems that I’ve had the opportunity
Doctor offices should be in the business of caring
An excerpt from Dr. Paul Corona’s upcoming book, Healing the Mind and Body: The Doctor and Patient Guide All aspects of the office are important, but the front doctor office is the key to ensure good customer service. It all starts at the front. The most important roles for the
Understanding the real symptoms of bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is much more common than the healthcare community has realized. Bipolar disorder is grossly misunderstood and misdiagnosed. When you read in the paper or hear in the news that someone, who has been known as a fairly normal person, suddenly – and without reason – went off the
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Drug Abuse: Underlying Imbalance
Yesterday, Feb. 2nd, the talented actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of a heroine overdose. For years, Hoffman struggled with drug abuse …and for years, Hoffman struggled with depression symptoms. There are a staggering number of people with depression or bipolar disorders who abuse drugs – well over 50%
Chronic Skin Symptoms Are Often Your First Alert
By now, you’ve probably figured out on your own that the skin that wraps our bodies is serviced by the nervous system. Therefore, chemical imbalances related to mood disorders can cause reactions in the skin. Some chronic skin symptoms are itchy (such as eczema), annoying (like acne), dangerous, or extremely
Feeling Post-Holiday Blues?
Many people congratulate themselves for making it through the chaos, busy-ness, family battles, loneliness and over-imbibing of the holidays but then drop into the Post-Holiday Blues just days after the last New Year’s horn is blown. At the first of the year, I see more patients suffering from depression (what
Norepinephrine Imbalance
The second neurochemical I will discuss is norepinephrine. If you haven’t read the last two blogs, I would advise reading those before this one: About Serotonin Neurochemical Imbalances Norepinephrine is an important chemical to recognize when it is imbalanced. There are certain symptoms and history that suggest the need to
Symptoms of Serotonin Imbalance
In my last blog I explained how and why neurochemical imbalances happen, so read that first if you haven’t yet. Over the next several blogs I will discuss each neurochemical separately, and the typical symptoms that occur when each becomes imbalanced. I will also discuss the medications available that are
Neurochemical Imbalances
Let’s go back to basics to review what happens in the body when neurochemical imbalances occur. The nervous system is the fundamental control center of the body, like the “computer” of the body. Its center is the brain, which continues with the spinal cord, and then nerves branch off from