by Dr. Bill Wilson | Jul 17, 2014 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
The case of Justina Pelltier is troubling on many different levels. She is the 16-year old girl from Connecticut who was removed from her home by the state of Massachusetts based on a flimsy and controversial psychiatric diagnosis. At one point in time Justina was a...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
As I was driving to work the other day a story caught my attention on WBUR, my local NPR station. Apparently the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is launching a $70 million program to help military personnel with certain key psychiatric disorders...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Jan 27, 2014 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
It’s the beginning of a new year, so it’s out with the old and in with the new. Let’s start with the most common disease in our modern world—type II diabetes mellitus. I like descriptive names but the term “diabetes mellitus” just doesn’t do the trick for me. For my...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Dec 11, 2013 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
A recent news article caught my attention where some students in New Orleans now eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at school. This is apparently part of the Federal Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, a program geared at eliminating hunger and improving nutrition in school...
by Dr. Bill Wilson | Nov 29, 2013 | Blog Articles, CARB Syndrome - Articles
The concept of aging has many dimensions. The simplest parameter we can measure is chronlogical age, the number of years you have spent on this earth since your birth. This is your so-called birthday age. Physiological aging is a much more nuanced yet more important...