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1. Venlafaxine: an enduring SNRI myth

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants/SNRIs
  • Post published:22 March 2020
  • Post last modified:26 November 2023

These commentaries are based on Dr Gillman’s peer reviewed scientific papers, see Publications, Venlafaxine (Effexor, now out of patent) and its ‘badge-engineered’ metabolite off-spring (desvenlafaxine, Pristiq- in patent, which is even…

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How Your Mind Works: It is Magic Part 2

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:For Review
  • Post published:8 March 2020
  • Post last modified:12 October 2022

“Fools say they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other people's experience.” Otto von BismarckWhy Even Bother with Freud?My reason for discussing Freud’s influence in the medical sphere…

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Alcohol how much, how harmful?

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Odds & Ends
  • Post published:8 March 2020
  • Post last modified:26 November 2023

These commentaries are based on Dr Gillman’s peer reviewed scientific papers, see Publications, How much is safe?The literature concerning how much it is safe or desirable to drink is contaminated with…

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Taste, Wine, food, and combinations: Advances, and insights from science

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Odds & Ends
  • Post published:2 March 2020
  • Post last modified:26 November 2023

These commentaries are based on Dr Gillman’s peer reviewed scientific papers, see Publications, IntroductionThe pleasures of the table belong to all men and to all ages, and of all natures’ gifts…

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Recent Posts

  • Lithium in the Environment, Diet and Body Pt 1
    14 November 2011/
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  • Lithium – Patient information
    14 November 1999/
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  • Lithium – Brief management protocol for doctors
    14 November 2003/
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  • Dietary Lithium: A critique of the claimed effect on depression and suicide
    23 February 2019/
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  • Lithium levels in tap-water & suicide
    12 August 2017/
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