This week at Mental Health Notes, I recommended checking out John La Puma and the book he wrote with Rebecca Powell Marx, Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, as well as I Dose, which claims to be “the perfect Binaural Beats experience.” I also introduced you to Frank Calloway and the Cover America Tour, and then asked you what you thought about Barack Obama’s stance on mental health parity and to share good stories about mental health.
In the world of mental health news, UC Irvine researchers may be quickening the pace to finding more effective medications to treat …read more

Have you all heard about Frank Calloway, the 112-year-old man who has lived in mental health hospitals and long-term care facilities since being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1952?
What? An old guy living in a nursing home? What’s interesting about that? you may be wondering. Well, not much, but when you add in that Calloway is such a talented and impressive artist – even at 112 years old – that his caretakers have been told his works could sell for thousands, the story becomes much more interesting, yes?
Even more interesting is that Calloway’s art reflects a time period long past, rather …read more