- ADHD / ADD (associated with LD, mood, anxiety, substance abuse, and FTD)
- Addictions (many varieties)
- Anxiety disorders (associated with ADD’s, somatic in ammatory illness, substance abuse)
- Behavior disorders
- Cognitive Impairment (associated with cardio-vascular and metabolic diseases, substance abuse, concussion)
- Conduct disorder (a theoretical concept that is associated with a host of disruptive or antisocial conditions)
- Depression (unipolar, bipolar, hypomania, related to schizophrenia, secondary to other illness, treatment-resistant.
- Degenerative Diseases (Alzheimer; Lewy Body; Frontotemporal; semantic/PPA, other Primary Progressive Aphasia variants, etc.)
- Developmental disorders (autism, Asperser’s; cerebral palsy; Down syndrome etc.)
- Drugs of Abuse (alcohol; amphetamine; cocaine; hallucinogens; inhalants; marijuana; opioids, illicit diversion, dissociative)
- Eating disorders
- Epilepsy (v. wide spectrum)
- Impulse-control disorders (impulsivity ; intermittent explosive disorder; kleptomania ; compulsive activities : shopping; internet ; sexual)
- Inflammation – chronic : can occur in somatic illness and also primary CNS disorders – frequent cause of neuropsychiatric illness
- Learning disorders (auditory ; language ; speech; dyslexia, non-verbal, etc)
- Lyme Disease other tick-borne illness, PANDAS/PANS
- Movement & Tic disorders ( Tourette’s; Huntington; Parkinson ; dystonia; PSP; MSA; )
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder – OCD and other frontal lobe syndromes, PANDAS/PANS
- Oppositional defiant disorder (theoretical construct of disturbed behavior – no known biological substrate – most often related to poor fit of individual to environment
- Pain management : chronic; RSD/CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome), head pain/headache, musculoskeletal
- Personality disorders (with co-morbid emotional or behavioral or cognitive dysfunction) important to differentiate neurotic from character disorder
- Psychosis (Schizophrenia which includes all of the comorbidity especially infection/post-infection and concussion)
- PTSD (related to concussion and pre-existing tendency toward anxiety)
- Sleep dysfunction and other regulatory disorders
- Speech and Language disorders
- Stroke-chronic (hemorrhagic, ischemic)
- Toxic exposures / Neurotoxicity (environmental)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) : (concussion ; mild TBI ; moderate TBI; severe TBI )
Ketamine Treatment for Seasonal Depression
October 20, 2021
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While ketamine often focuses on treatment-resistant depression. It is also being used for Seasonal Affective Disorder, aptly abbreviated to SAD. This is the onset of
