Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least— exciting research fads for the New Year.The Neurocritic: How do you guys predict today ' s most popular neuroscience trends? Trend Forecasters: Oh, well we have 4,000 computers, they ' re all big they all make charts and they beep LOUD.TN: Let ' s get started!In:posterior cingulate cortexHey Posterior Cingulate — we see you! You ' re fresh, you ' re mysterious, you ' re misunderstood. But we know you exist far beyond the default fashion mode. Thenew tripartite view proposes......that the bro...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 31, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Congress Made it Easier to Treat Addiction but Harder to Treat Pain
Jeffrey A. SingerLate on the afternoon of December 23, the U.S. House of Representativespassed the approximately 1.7 trillion ‐dollar omnibus spending package, which now awaits President Biden’s signature. As is usually the case with such legislative monstrosities, the bill contains a few positive features and many negative ones. One positive part is that it repeals the so ‐called “X‑waiver” (an X is added to the DEA narcotics prescribing license), which the Drug Enforcement Administration has long required health care practitioners to apply for to prescribe the Schedule III opioid buprenorphine...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
BehaVR and OxfordVR Combine and Raise Series B to Create Largest VR Delivery Platform for Evidence-Based Digital Therapeutics
Uniting under the BehaVR brand, digital therapeutic companies BehaVR and OxfordVR will deliver comprehensive virtual reality-based treatments for mental and behavioral health
Clinically-validated, immersive, digital treatments will span the full spectrum of mental and behavioral health needs
Virtual reality mental and behavioral health companies BehaVR and OxfordVR today announced their merger, supported by an initial $13 million in Series B funding led by Optum Ventures and Oxford Science Enterprises, with participation from Confluent Health, Accenture Ventures, Chrysalis Ventures, and Thornton Capital.
The combina...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aaron Gani Accenture Ventures Behavioral Health Workforce BehaVR Chrysalis Ventures Cognitive-Behavioral VR Therapy Confluent Health Deepak Gopalakrishna Digital Behavioral Therapy Dr. Daniel Freeman Source Type: blogs
Non-12-Step Approaches to Addiction Treatment
ugh treatment or word-of-mouth, you have likely heard of the 12-Step program for addiction treatment. The...
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Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 15, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: ebarbour Tags: Addiction treatment Source Type: blogs
Roleplaying in Addiction Rehab Treatment
For individuals seeking recovery from substance use disorder (SUD), there are a plethora of treatment options...
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Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 14, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: ebarbour Tags: Substance Abuse roleplaying triggers Source Type: blogs
HLTH 2022: Komodo Health Says “Big Pharma Needs to Kick Its Consulting Addiction”
By JESSICA DAMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Komodo Health’s co-founder & President, Web Sun, has a big challenge for Big Pharma: Kick your “addiction” to the laborious, time-consuming, consultant-led process it takes to get the answers you need to your big data questions.
Komodo itself works with a lot of Big Pharma clients to use its full-stack approach to deliver insights on patient costs and outcomes at-scale – so, what’s up with the tough love??
The answer may have more to do with the news Web shares about how Komodo is starting to evolve its business model from working with Pharma on “applications” tha...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 14, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Jessica DaMassa WTF Health Komodo Health Web Sun Source Type: blogs
Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic
The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare.
In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency.
Since then, the opioid epidemic has only worsened. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on people’s mental and physical health, has greatly contributed to a rise in opioid-related deaths.
When I was a medical student in the early 2000s, pain was viewed as a vital sign, like heart rate...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Chronic Pain Hartford HealthCare MSK Musculoskeletal Care opioid crisis Opioid Epidemic Pain Management Patient Care Patient Compliance Physical Therapy PT Reimagining Pain Swo Source Type: blogs
The Legal High That Helps Treat Addiction (M)
The key is the production of theta waves: a particular type of electrical activity in the brain that puts the mind into a healthy altered state of consciousness. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 9, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Mindfulness Source Type: blogs
Give Kids a Healthy Itch
by KIM BELLARD
Someday I’ll probably write about Neuralink, but these days I don’t feel like giving Elon Musk any extra publicity. I also had the notion to take OpenAI’s newly announced ChatGPT down a rabbit hole about U.S. healthcare, just to see where it would go, but Mr. Musk has his fingerprints on that organization too. Then I saw something worth celebrating: Scratch has hit 100 million users worldwide.
What’s that? You’re not familiar with Scratch? Well, me neither, until last week. Now that I know a little about it, I kind of feel how I felt when I first discovered TikTok, found out about Roblo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Scratch Source Type: blogs
A Medical Student Perspective on Loss and Self-Awareness
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and eventually one of them looks at the other and goes, ‘What is water?”– David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement 2005, “This is Water.”
The journey from medical school to residency goes fast: there scarcely seems time enough to do it all. Although we practice again and again so we can better discern what troubles our patients, we do not do the same for ourselves. In fact, unti...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Tags: Mental Health Self Care wellness Source Type: blogs
What Does Luxury Treatment Look Like at Cliffside Malibu?
It is no secret that recovering from substance use disorder (SUD) is...
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Source: Cliffside Malibu - December 5, 2022 Category: Addiction Authors: ebarbour Tags: Addiction Recovery luxury treatment Source Type: blogs
Let doctors in recovery be able to recover their careers [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “During addiction, the brain becomes ‘hijacked,’ which then ‘exaggerates the need for the drug and minimizes the dangers associated with the use of the drug.’ This is so affirming because the chemicals in my brain told me I was going to die if the
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: An Epilogue
by Chad D. Kollas, MD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie JudySeveral important developments have occurred since the publication of our article, “Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence? ” in Pallimed on September 12, 2022 (1). Most notably, this includes the publication of the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain (2), which updated the guidance previously provided by the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (3). In this epilogue, we will describe those important developments and examine ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - November 29, 2022 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas opioids schechtman Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 28th 2022
This study explored whether determining the gain or loss of specific taxa represent a more precise metric of healthy/unhealthy aging than summary microbiome statistics, such as diversity and uniqueness. We analyzed microbiome diversity and four measures of microbiome uniqueness in 21,000 gut microbiomes for their relationship with aging and health. We show that diversity and uniqueness measures are not synonymous; uniqueness is not a uniformly desirable feature of the aging microbiome, nor is it an accurate biomarker of healthy aging. Different measures of uniqueness show different associations with diversity and with mark...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 27, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Prodrugs As a Useful Approach to Targeting Distinctive Aspects of Cancer Metabolism
The goal of cancer research should be to produce a robust, highly effective universal cancer therapy, or as close to universal as possible. One treatment that can be deployed for every type of cancer, with a very good chance of inducing remission. Attempting to tackle cancer subtypes one by one based on their genetic peculiarities is simply not efficient enough to produce meaningful progress in our lifetimes. Further, most cancers are subject to high mutation rates, and in a sizable fraction of patients will prove to be quite capable of evolving immunity to any therapy that targets a non-essential aspect of cancer biochemi...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
