Christopher Palmer, MD | Mental Healthcare Innovations Summit 2023
Dr. Christopher Palmer is a Harvard psychiatrist and researcher working at the interface of metabolism and mental health. As the Founder and Director of McLean Hospital’s Metabolic and Mental Health Program, the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, he has been a pivotal figure in mental health research and education for over a quarter of a century. Dr. Palmer’s groundbreaking theory—that mental disorders can be understood as metabolic disorders affecting the brain—has opened new avenues for research and treatments of mental illness. His pioneering work has received widespread attention, making headlines in both national and international media outlets.
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Besdies all of these problems in the mental health field, add the stigma pertutuated both by some practitioners and the general public because they '" can not see it" in the brain.
On Stanford's website (MAHB) you can find the free e-book PDF, "Stress R Us", written and published in 2018 by a retired psychiatrist, and putting forward the hypothesis that our overactive stress responses reacting to our "hurry-up" lifestyles are generating the phenomenon we call "anxiety" and "clinical depression", eventually depleting our neurotransmitters responsible for calm and normal mood: dopamine, serotonin, and others. We psychiatrists write thousands (in my case, 1 M Rx) of scripts for anti-anxiety/anti-depressant Rx without ever understanding the neurochemistry or etiology of these symptoms and then are frustrated because even when the drugs work, they only work for awhile before failing. Want the big picture? Read "Stress R Us", just Google the title.