Dr. Cocores

PNSI BrightFoods Programs are based on the research and experience of PNSI founder, James Cocores, MD, a medical psychiatrist with an extensive background in dealing with addictive behaviors and addicting substances.

Through his clinical experience working with learning disabilities and his scientific research with food cravings and chemical addictions, Dr. Cocores has linked the curative properties of food to improvements in concentration, memory, learning, personality, intelligence, and reason. Dr. Cocores believes that nutraceutical-rich foods — when chosen and prepared properly and consumed in certain combinations and at appropriate intervals — can help to retard or reverse attention deficit, laziness, anxiety, “brain-fog,” un-fulfillment and unhappiness.

Dr. Cocores focuses on treating people suffering from mild to moderate psychological symptoms on an outpatient basis using cognitive and behavioral psychotherapy and mind-body medical principles, including prescription medicine and exercise and nutrition counseling.

He has been using nutritional neuropsychiatric counseling since 1985 and is currently medical director of SOUTHCOAST Psychotherapy & Educational Associates, Inc, where he practices nutritional neuropsychiatric counseling and psychotherapy with or without psychopharmacology.

He is Managing Partner of Emmaus Publishing, LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, has been a regular reviewer for The Journal of Nervous and mental Disease and Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, and has reviewed articles for some five other journals. He has authored a book on nutritional neuropsychiatry and another with The Jeff Herman Literary Agency on the misuse of antidepressants, and is planning two new books — one on attention deficit and the other STARVING YOURSELF TO OBESITY: Differences Between Habit Forming And Non-Habit Forming Foods — an interest honed as Director of Research at Fair Oaks Hospital in Summit, New Jersey. Dr. Cocores has also authored numerous research papers with other pioneers in craving reduction.

Dr. Cocores is a founding member of the American Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions and he has given more than 300 educational lectures on the links between nutrition, mood, and substance abuse.

Dr. Cocores is the father of Nutritional Neuropsychiatry.

He also served as a psychiatric consultant for the New York Giants football team in 1989.