How to intervene early to address brain/ mental health problems: Examples in depression, epilepsy and smoking cessation
How to intervene early: Examples in depression, epilepsy and smoking cessation from SharpBrains
We hope you enjoy this slidedeck supporting a fascinating, forward-looking session held at the 2019 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: The Future of Brain Health (March 7–9th). Full recordings are available for purchase here.
10.45am-12.15pm. How to intervene early: Examples in depression, epilepsy and smoking cessation
Dr. Walter Greenleaf, Research Scientist at Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab
David B. Klein, CEO of Click Therapeutics
Ana Maiques, CEO of Neu...
Source: SharpBrains - July 18, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology brain health Click Therapeutics depression epilepsy Loup Ventures mental health Neuroelectrics problems smoking cessation Stanford-University Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Childhood Schizophrenia
In this episode of Inside Schizophrenia, our hosts tackle the topic of early onset – or childhood – schizophrenia. Host Rachel Star discusses her personal experiences with schizophrenia symptoms as an adolescent and Dr. Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich from Harvard Medical School discusses some of the latest research. Listen in now!
About Our Guest
Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich, MD is Director of the Developmental Neuropsychiatry Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He did his undergraduate and medical school at Johns Hopkins, his residency training at U...
Source: World of Psychology - July 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Disorders Inside Schizophrenia Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Drugs policy: medicinal cannabis
This report recommends that the Government and pharmaceutical industry need to make sure that the necessary clinical trials into medicinal cannabis are taken forward and that there should be a greater sense of urgency about exploring its potential in the treatment of intractable childhood epilepsy.ReportHouse of Commons Health and Social Care Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 2, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral research positions in the neurobiology of language at the university of texas at houston
Multiple Postdoctoral research positions are available in the Tandon Lab at The University of Texas in Houston as part of the newly formed Texas Institute of Restorative Technology (TIRN) Institute. Positions are funded either via multi-year Institute funding or by NIH funds (U01 and R01). The lab uses multimodal approaches – fMRI, lesional analysis following epilepsy surgery, intracranial recordings and direct stimulation to create and validate network level representations of language. Lab Collaborators include Greg Hickok (UCI), Stanislas Dehaene (NeuroSpin), Nathan Crone (JHU), Simon Fisher Baum (Rice) and Xaq Pi tko...
Source: Talking Brains - July 2, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Next: Monitoring the body ’s electrical signalling to enhance brain health
Researchers are seeking to record and interpret the body’s electrical signals. Picture: ZEISS Microscopy/Flickr
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READING THE BODY’S ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO TREAT ILLNESS (University of Melbourne):
“Chemical electricity is how we move, think, and remember.
And increasingly, as technology miniaturises and computer power multiplies, it’s how we are treating chronic illness.
Since the fully implantable pacemaker was developed in the 1950s to keep a patient’s heart beating in rhythm using electrical impulses, engineers have now gone on to develop devices that can be implanted directly in the brain, under the scal...
Source: SharpBrains - June 5, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology brain chronic-illness electrical-impulses epilepsy mental illnesses Source Type: blogs
What Has A.I. In Medicine Ever Done For Us? At Least 45 Things!
Remember Monty Python’s
brilliant Life of Brian movie scene where the Palestinian insurgent commando,
planning the abduction of Pilate’s wife in return for all the horrors they had
to endure from the Roman Empire, asks the rhetorical question: what have the
Romans ever done for us? With the hype and overmarketing, not to speak about
the fears around A.I, we asked the same question. What has A.I. in medicine
ever done for us? Well, we found at least 45 things.
I have 45 responses to
the pressing question on everyone’s mind who is interested in healthcare but
tired of the hype or the doomsday
scenarios around A.I.: ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine administration AI cancer diagnostics digital health digital health technology Healthcare Innovation medical medical imaging Radiology treatment Source Type: blogs
Measles: The forgotten killer
As a medical student, the place I dreaded most was the ward at the children’s hospital where they kept the chronic ventilator patients. Unlike the other floors, where there was shouting and laughter and tears, and all the commotion and turbulence of youth, here it was dark and lifeless and eerie, with no sound except the hum of the ventilators, and the rattle of air being forced through plastic tubes. It was a place of failure and defeat, the desolate aftermath of some vast and tragic battle.
An unexpected aftermath of measles
My patient was a teenager who had been in a coma for years. His limbs had stubbornly twisted up...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Men's Health Vaccines Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Microscopic Graphene Flakes to Stop Epileptic Seizures
During epileptic seizures, the brain’s excitatory neurons go haywire, generating extreme amounts of electric activity. There are already electronic devices available that help to prevent and mitigate seizures, but so far they’re only effective in some patients while having all the downsides of a serious implantation. A team of European researchers from Sissa (International School for Advanced Studies) in Italy , and the Universities of Trieste, Manchester, and Strasbourg, have now shown that tiny flakes of graphene may be effective at halting seizures. Moreover, the same particles may end up being used in helpi...
Source: Medgadget - May 20, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
FDA clears Trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) as ADHD treatment
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Although stimulant medications are generally considered to be a safe and effective treatment for ADHD, not all children benefit from this approach. Many parents are reluctant to begin their child on medication and some children experience unacceptable side affects.
For these reasons, developing safe and effective alternative treatments for ADHD remains a priority. Trigeminal nerve stimulation (TNS) is an alternative approach that was recently tested in a double-blind, sham-controlled study.
The Study:
TNS is a noninvasive, mininmal-risk neuromodulation procedure that has been previously approved in Canada and Europe ...
Source: SharpBrains - May 14, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology ADHD-Treatment behavioral-treatment brainwave activity medication neuromodulation QEEG TNS Trigeminal nerve stimulation Source Type: blogs
Options to Opioids: How to Manage Chronic Pain Without Prescribing Pain-Killers
You're reading Options to Opioids: How to Manage Chronic Pain Without Prescribing Pain-Killers, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
While there is considerable debate as to how much blame doctors should be assigned for the ongoing opioid crisis, there is little doubt they can do something to curtail it -- that instead of prescribing drugs that have been found to be highly addictive they can resort to alternate forms of pain management.
Doctors’ prescription of powerful painkillers like OxyContin is frequentl...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: DrStanleyMatthew Tags: health and fitness addiction health and wellness opioids self improvement Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: May 11, 2019
This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers the health benefits of pet ownership, an interesting method for sticking to positive habit changes, how listening to others’ mental health recovery stories can help you, and more.
Enjoy!
Talking to Your Pet Is Not So Wacky After All. It’s Actually Good for You — and Your Health: Research says loneliness can be as dangerous to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Could pet ownership help combat loneliness and all its health consequences?
Instagram Co-Launches a Mental Health Awareness Campaign to Help People Find Support: Instagram and the American ...
Source: World of Psychology - May 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Bullying Children and Teens Family Habits Psychology Around the Net Research Technology Adolescents American Foundation For Suicide Prevention Epilepsy family diagnosis instagram Mental Health Awareness Mothers Obesity Positi Source Type: blogs
Looking to the Future of Neuro Devices: Exclusive Interview with Alcyone Lifesciences CEO PJ Anand
Alcyone Lifesciences is a medical technology company based out of Lowell, MA, which specializes in central nervous system (CNS) drug delivery platforms for targeted infusions of the brain or spinal cord. Their Thecaflex DRx System was recently awarded Breakthrough Device designation by the FDA, for spinal infusion of therapeutic medications.
Medgadget had the opportunity to speak with Alcyone Lifesciences CEO, PJ Anand, about his inspiration for cutting edge medical technology and the future direction of neurological devices.
Kurt Yaeger, Medgadget: Great to talk to you, PJ. Please first give us a sense of your back...
Source: Medgadget - May 7, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kurt Yaeger Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Pain Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
First Drug-Free Option for ADHD Cleared in America
For the first time, children in the United States will have a non-drug option for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The FDA just cleared the Monarch external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (eTNS) System from NeuroSigma, a Los Angeles, California company, to treat ADHD in kids between 7 and 12 years old. The system has already been used to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), epilepsy, and depression.
The Monarch delivers low-energy electrical current through an electronic patch attached to the forehead. It creates a tingling sensation, but otherwise there doesn’t seem to be any pain or di...
Source: Medgadget - April 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Pediatrics Psychiatry Rehab Source Type: blogs
6 Symptoms of Postpartum Depression and 6 Ways to Recover
According to a 2013 study published in JAMA Psychiatry, one out of seven mothers suffers from postpartum depression (PPD). That’s 14 percent of all new moms. Katherine Stone, founder of Postpartum Progress, makes a good point that more women will suffer from postpartum depression and related illnesses this year than the combined number of new cases for men and women of tuberculosis, leukemia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy. Even though, according to Dr. Ruta Nonacs of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, PPD is the most common complication associated ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Pregnancy Self-Help Women's Issues Apathy Depressive Episode Postpartum Source Type: blogs
3D Brain Organoids Model Rare Neural Disease
Direct studies on the brain are inherently difficult, as it’s a complex and fragile organ hidden behind a thick skull. Animal studies can help, but animal brains are different from human ones. In order to better study how the brain works and its pathophysiology, researchers have been working on growing tiny replicas of specific parts of the brain in the lab.
Now scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany are reporting the development of a brain organoid model of neuronal heterotopia, a rare condition in which the cortex of the brain, its out...
Source: Medgadget - March 18, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Neurology Source Type: blogs
