Sanctioned Psychiatrist Off Restriction
By Jef Akst
Excerpt: Charles Nemeroff, who was barred from receiving grants for 2 years in 2008, snags $401K from the NIH to study PTSD.
My comment:
The obvious role of odors, like smoke odor, in PTSD suggests that we welcome Dr. Nemeroff back to the time when others were interested in examining the role of olfactory/pheromonal input and its epigenetic effects on behavior via the “biological core” of mammalian behavior, the hypothalamic gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal niche, as in:
Moss, R. L., Dudley, C. A., & Riskind, P. N. (1991). Gonadotropin releasing hormone and human sexual behavior. In C. B. Nemeroff (Ed.), Neuropeptides and Psychiatric Disorders. Washington, D.C: American Psychiatric Press.
Given the otherwise ignored importance of GnRH to oxytocin secretion, with reports on its cause and effect all-the-rage, even those formerly involved with social bonding and autism research can appreciate what it means to have Nemeroff back. In a word, it means progress.
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.