Washington Center For Psychiatry

Chapter 1 – Meet Your Brain Fuels
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
GABA (GABA-GAMMA-AMNIOBUTYRIC ACID)
GABA is an elegant force of your calm and inner peace.  For example, a brain with sickly GABA has recurrent seizures and is almost always irritable, edgy, and combative.  In less traumatic cases, sickly GABA may make you fearful, easily reactive, and may [...]

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
“No way I’ll take that pill,” muttered the young man in his 30s, who had admitted himself voluntarily to the Psychiatric Institute’s adult treatment center because of cocaine abuse. “Why not,” I inquired, watching his protruding cheekbones and wondering whether his frail frame and skinny features were complications of his cocaine [...]

By Alen J. Salerian, MD
Soon after The Lancet – the British symbol of scholarly medical research – declared Zoloft and several other antidepressants ineffective, unsafe and potentially deadly for children and adolescents with depression in April 2004, my patient, Ann, quit her Zoloft.
Before Zoloft, Ann had been withdrawn, depressed and had problems with her 8th [...]

Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression
The Lancet, Vol 364, No. 9435, August 2004
By Alen J. Salerian, MD
Craig Whittington and colleagues (1) should be commended for alerting all health-care professionals to the potential dangers in the treatment of depressed children and adolescents. However, they should have discussed the potential limitations in their [...]

Sildenafil for Psychotropic-Induced Sexual Dysfunction in 31 Women and 61 Men
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy
April 2000
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