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Cases of Munchausen’s by proxy—Meadow R. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1982;57:92–8.
CHAPTER 9: EYES WIDE SHUT
With classic hysterical conversion symptoms—Murphy GE. The clinical management of hysteria. Journal of the American Medical Association 1982; 247:2559–64.
CHAPTER 10: BRAIN FOG
Studies have shown that genes—Small GW. What we need to know about age-related memory loss. British Medical Journal 2002;324:1502–5.
Our group was doing a lot of research with PET scan technology—Small GW, Kepe V, Ercoli LM, et al. PET of brain amyloid and tau in mild cognitive impairment. New England Journal of Medicine 2006;355:2652–63.
In 1964 a psychiatric journal first described—Weintraub W. “The VIP syndrome”: A clinical study in hospital psychiatry. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders 1964;138:181–93; Parker-Pope T. When the patient is a V.I.P. The New York Times, August 27, 2009.
my leading diagnostic theory—Hiramatsu R, Takeshita A, Taguchi M, Takeuchi Y. Symptomatic hyponatremia after voluntary excessive water ingestion in a patient without psychiatric problems. Endocrine Journal 2007;54:643–5; Farrell DJ, Bower L. Fatal water intoxication. Journal of Clinical Pathology 2003;56:803–4.
psychogenic polydipsia—Rae J. Self-induced water intoxication in a schizophrenic patient. Canadian Medical Association Journal 1976;114:438–9.
CHAPTER 11: DREAM WEDDING
doctors are less likely to use illicit drugs—Hughes PH, Brandenburg N, Baldwin DC Jr, et al. Prevalence of substance use among U.S. physicians. Journal of the American Medical Association 1992;267:2333–9.
In Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams—Freud S, Brill AA. The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud. Basic Books, New York, NY, 1995.
CHAPTER 12: GASLIGHT
cognitive-behavioral therapy—March JS. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, in Sadock BJ, Sadock VA (eds). Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 8th ed. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 2005, pp. 2806–13.
Freud used the term—Gelso CJ, Hayes JA. Countertransference and the Therapist’s Inner Experience: Perils and Possibilities. Lawrence Ehrlbaum and Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 2007.
Sociopaths, or what psychiatrists call antisocial personalities—American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1994, pp. 645–50.
CHAPTER 13: SHOP TILL YOU DROP
These euphoric feelings are linked to brain chemical changes—Kalivas PW, Volkow ND. The neural basis of addiction: A pathology of motivation and choice. American Journal of Psychiatry 2005;162:1403–13.
CHAPTER 14: MOUNTAIN HEIR
Chronic amphetamine or cocaine abuse is a well-known cause—Cherland E, Fitzpatrick R. Psychotic side effects of psychostimulants: A 5-year review. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 1999;44:811–3.
a classic case of spontaneous panic attacks—Bienvenu OJ, Onyike CU, Stein MB. Agoraphobia in adults: Incidence and longitudinal relationship with panic. British Journal of Psychiatry 2006;188:432–8.
National Alliance on Mental Illness—http://www.nami.org/.
One of the earliest psychiatric genetic studies involved Amish families—Egeland JA, Shaw JA, Endicott J, et al. Prospective study of prodromal features for bipolarity in well Amish children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2003;42:786–96.
Of the various forms of anxiety, panic disorder—Smoller JW, Gardner-Schuster E, Covino J. The genetic basis of panic and phobic anxiety disorders. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2008 15;148C:118–26.
CHAPTER 15: SIGMUND FRAUD
To determine whether or not he needed an antidepressant—Bender S, Messner E. Becoming a Therapist: What Do I Say and Why? The Guilford Press, New York, NY, 2003.
SIG E CAPS—SIG E CAPS was devised by Dr. Carey Gross at Massachusetts General Hospital as a mnemonic for the criteria of major depressive disorder.
Several studies have shown—Alexopoulos GS, Meyers BS, Young RC, Mattis S, Kakuma T. The course of geriatric depression with “reversible”: A controlled study. American Journal of Psychiatry 1993;150:1693–9; Devanand DP, Sano M, Tang MX, Taylor S, Gurland BJ, Wilder D, Stern Y, Mayeux R. Depressed mood and the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly living in the community. Archives of General Psychiatry 1996;53:175–82.
Larry was referring to the new chemical marker—Small GW, Kepe V, Ercoli LM, et al. PET of brain amyloid and tau in mild cognitive impairment. New England Journal of Medicine 2006;355:2652–63.
anti-Alzheimer’s drug—Alzheimer’s Disease Medications Fact Sheet: http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers/Publications/medicationsfs.htm.
AFTERWORD
Doctors callously discussing cases on elevators—Small GW. That boorish, insensitive, loudmouthed, crass physician in the elevator. Journal of the American Medical Association 1985;253:2645.
Although most people rank technical skill—Dibbelt S, Schaidhammer M, Fleischer C, Greitemann B. Patient-doctor interaction in rehabilitation: The relationship between perceived interaction quality and long-term treatment results. Patient Education and Counseling 2009;76:328–35; Kim SS, Kaplowitz S, Johnston MV. The effects of physician empathy on patient satisfaction and compliance. Evaluation & the Health Professions 2004;27:237–51.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
WE WISH TO THANK THE PATIENTS and mentors who inspired us to write this book, as well as our friends and colleagues who contributed their energy and insights, including Rachel Champeau, Michela Gunn, M.D., Jeff Gandin, M.D., Melinda Gandin, Robert Gandin, D.D.S., Jonathan Hiatt, M.D., Shirley Impellizeri, Ph.D., Don Seigel, and Lawrence Warick, M.D., Ph.D.
This book would not have been possible without the support and input from our longtime editor and friend, Mary Ellen O’Neill, as well as our dear friend and literary agent, Sandra Dijkstra. We also want to thank our children, Rachel and Harry, as well as our parents, Dr. Max and Gertrude Small, and Rose Vorgan and Fred Weiss, for their love and encouragement.
GARY SMALL, M.D.
GIGI VORGAN
About the Authors
DR. GARY SMALL is director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Center at the university’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior. He is also professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. His research, supported by the National Institutes of Health, has made headlines in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s leading innovators in science and technology. Dr. Small lectures throughout the world and frequently appears on Today, Good Morning America, PBS, and CNN. He has written five books, including the New York Times bestseller The Memory Bible.
GIGI VORGAN wrote, produced, and appeared in numerous feature films and television shows before teaming up with her husband, Dr. Gary Small, to cowrite The Memory Bible, The Memory Prescription, The Longevity Bible, iBrain, and The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head. She lives in Los Angeles with Dr. Small and their two children.
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