Dr. Wilcox’s Beat

Dr. Wilcox covers a wide range of physical and mental health topics.

Broad areas in which she is well-versed include:

• Aging
• Healthy lifestyles
• Communication between patients and doctors
• Chronic medical conditions
• Women’s health
• Coping with illness
• Mind-body interactions
• Disabilities
• Mental illness
• Psychoactive drugs

Her writing has delved into topics like these:

• Culturally competent health care: What it is, why it matters
• The dangers of believing the worst about aging
• New ways to subdue chronic pain
• Enjoying the holidays despite diabetes
• Managing menopause without hormone replacement therapy
• Safe sex for people with heart disease
• The hidden problem of late-life alcohol abuse
• Job burnout: How to recognize, overcome, and prevent it
• Suicide risk in older people who take certain antidepressants
• When to confide a secret, whom to trust with it
• The best medications for treatment-resistant depression
• The aftermath of violence against people with bipolar disorder
• Training the brain with biofeedback
• Laws likely to affect women’s health and well-being
• Neurological underpinnings of hearing voices in schizophrenia
• Barriers to quality health care for people who are deaf or hard of hearing
• Treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia
• Side effects of drugs used to fight Parkinson’s disease
• The case for a link between marijuana and psychosis