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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.

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.

G
ARY
S
MALL
, M.D.
G
IGI
V
ORGAN

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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