Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms
Mood symptoms are often the result of inadequate sleep, blood-sugar dysregulation, food sensitivities, chronic inflammation and/or gut dysbiosis.
Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Articles
Vision Affects Behavior
Difficult behaviors can potentially be changed by improving vision, but most people don’t know that vision affects behavior, attention, learning and processing. They should, however, because the brains of children with autism spectrum disorders prevent them from correctly focusing on ... Read More
Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Main Info Page
Children are increasingly being prescribed pharmaceutical medication to help them deal with emotional and behavioral problems as well as mood symptoms. What Types of Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Are Commonly Seen in Our Kids? Depression: May be exhibited as ... Read More
Food Affects Mood
How Does Food Affect Mood? No one likes to hear the old adage "you are what you eat", but food affects mood, especially for children. Children in general can be very sensitive to foods, resulting in mood changes very quickly ... Read More
Schizophrenia and Nutrition
In this blog post, Patricia S. Lemer how symptoms of schizophrenia are affected by nutrition: foods that are eaten as well as those avoided. Is Schizophrenia Really a "Mental" Disease? A friend in Pittsburgh was astonished when I suggested that ... Read More
Does Mitochondrial Dysfunction Finally Connect the Diverse Medical Symptoms We Now See in Children With Various Health Problems?
by Alyssa Davi, Parent Advocate What Is Mitochondrial Dysfunction? What is mitochondrial dysfunction and why may it be important to a child with: Developmental delays Low muscle tone Gastrointestinal problems Seizures Feeding problems Failure to gain weight Autism Diabetes Neuropsychiatric ... Read More
Emotional, Behavioral and Mood Symptoms Stories
Patrick and Charlie: Healing from Autism with a Low Free-Glutamate Diet
I am a mom of two boys with developmental delays. In 2009, at age three and a half, Patrick was diagnosed by a developmental pediatrician with Autism Spectrum Disorder. At that time, he had below-average language skills, struggled to play ... Read More
George Healed from Dysgraphia, OCD and PANS/PANDAS
Doctors shrugged their shoulders. They simply couldn’t help alleviate George’s many symptoms. Thankfully, his parents took his healing into their own hands with diet and lifestyle changes. And that has made all the difference. No Help for a Sick Boy Until ... Read More
Kyle: Sensory Processing Disorder and ADHD
Where do I begin? Should I start with my being pregnant and working at a stressful job in New York City? Maybe I should first write about my family history of celiac and not knowing that having undiagnosed celiac/gluten intolerance ... Read More