neuropsychiatry

Books in Focus: Controversies in Medicine and Neuroscience by Miguel A. Faria, MD

My objectives in writing Controversies in Medicine and Neuroscience: Through the Prism of History, Neurobiology, and Bioethics (2023) were to enlighten medical science researchers, edify life science scholars, entertain science enthusiasts by relating selective and controversial issues in medicine and medical history as well as fascinating topics in neuroscience and neuropsychiatry, and to educate novitiates […]

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The Temporal Lobes and the Limbic System in Neuropsychiatry — A book review by Miguel A. Faria, MD

ABSTRACT The material compiled in The Neuropsychiatry of Limbic and Subcortical Disorders was originally published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences in 1997. It was expanded and republication in book form was made possible by a grant from Hoechst Marion Roussel Pharmaceuticals. The book is the work of 26 contributors, recognized leading investigators

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‘Plants of the Gods’ and their hallucinogenic powers in neuropharmacology — A review of two books by Miguel A. Faria, MD

PART I: A Sorcerer’s Apprentice — The Teachings of Don Juan I discovered the tome, Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers [11], while researching and ascertaining the veracity of certain stories contained in an immensely celebrated series of books from the sixties and seventies by Carlos Castaneda, an anthropology student and

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