Podcast: Policing Language in Mental Health Communities
In the first full episode of Not Crazy, we learn a little more about the new co-host, Jackie, and her history with chronic illness and depression. Gabe rants about person-first language and how nitpicking verbiage is distracting from more pressing matters in the lives of those living with mental illness. Overall, we decide that “crazy” is not a dirty word and there are other, more time-sensitive, things we should be focusing on that can benefit the mental health community.
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About The Hosts
Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the au...
Source: World of Psychology - September 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Not Crazy Podcast Self-Help Stigma Source Type: blogs
CVS Health: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) apps may help you more than sleeping pills
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Sleep Therapy for the Masses May Be Coming to You Soon (The New York Times):
“CVS Health wants to help millions of American workers improve their sleep. So for the first time, the big pharmacy benefits manager is offering a purely digital therapy as a possible employee benefit.
The company is encouraging employers to cover the costs for their workers to use Sleepio, an Sleepio app featuring a cartoon therapist that delivers behavior modification lessons.
CVS Health’s push could help mainstream the nascent business of digital therapeutics, which markets apps to help treat conditions like schizophrenia and mul...
Source: SharpBrains - September 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Big Health cognitive-behavioral-therapy CVS Health digital therapeutics digital therapy mental health Novartis sleep sleep aid medications Sleepio Source Type: blogs
Podcast: The Not Crazy Episode
In the first episode of Not Crazy or the final episode of A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic and a Podcast, Gabe and Michelle reminisce on past episodes, and Michelle tells us what her plans are for the future. Later, Michelle gives some words of wisdom to Gabe’s new co-host, Jackie Zimmerman. We get to know Jackie and discuss how Gabe and Jackie will be taking over BSP, but with a slightly new direction and a new name! Listen Now to get all the details.
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About The Hosts
Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popular book, Mental Illn...
Source: World of Psychology - September 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 19th 2019
In conclusion, our data show how oncogenic and tumor-suppressive drivers of cellular senescence act to regulate surveillance processes that can be circumvented to enable SnCs to elude immune recognition but can be reversed by cell surface-targeted interventions to purge the SnCs that persist in vitro and in patients. Since eliminating SnCs can prevent tumor progression, delay the onset of degenerative diseases, and restore fitness; since NKG2D-Ls are not widely expressed in healthy human tissues and NKG2D-L shedding is an evasion mechanism also employed by tumor cells; and since increasing numbers of B cells express NKG2D ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 18, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
MRI Can Help Predict MS Severity
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) can be prevented by undergoing routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests, according to researchers from the Institute of Neurology in London. MS progression is difficult to predict as the disease manifests itself differently in every patient. In their study recently published in Brain, the researchers ventured out to define the predictors of long-term disability outcomes by using clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), a first episode of neurological symptoms that can evolve into MS, as a baseline. They used MRI exams after a CIS diagnosis to anticipate the future of a patient ’s health and de...
Source: radRounds - August 16, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Stiffness in Brain Tissue Niches Causes Declining Stem Cell Activity and Myelination
This study shows the same is true in our brains, and that age-related brain stiffening has a significant impact on the function of brain stem cells. Researchers studied young and old rat brains to understand the impact of age-related brain stiffening on the function of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs). These cells are a type of brain stem cell important for maintaining normal brain function, and for the regeneration of myelin - the fatty sheath that surrounds our nerves, which is damaged in multiple sclerosis (MS). The effects of age on these cells contributes to MS, but their function also declines with age in heal...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 15, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
New Technology for Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis and Management
Researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas have developed a novel technology for diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS). Their work can be used to determine which damaged regions of a patient’s brain have the potential to heal themselves, and which do not. This is an exciting development for Americans at risk and already suffering from MS.
Currently, physicians use 2D slices of MRI images to identify lesions and develop MS diagnoses. Yet, this type of analysis does not indicate how a given lesion will behave over time, an important aspect for disease management. To address this challenge, the researchers used a co...
Source: Medgadget - July 30, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Medicine Neurology Source Type: blogs
Swallowing Impairment? People Can Still Enjoy Good Taste!
Dysphagia is a swallowing impairment that can occur after someone has a stroke or any type of brain injury. Dysphagia is also a concern with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), oral cancer, and many other injuries and diseases. However, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dysphagia is also a growing concern in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The NIH says that dysphagia “frequently leads to aspiration pneumonia, a common cause of death in this population, particularly in the later stage of AD.”
Read more on HealthCentral about how to make pureed food tasty for someone who has trouble swal...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 27, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Trouble reading? Try these workarounds
Once you learn how to read, it’s easy to take the skill for granted. Like breathing or walking, we don’t give the ability much thought unless it begins to deteriorate. But trouble reading can develop at any age for a variety of reasons, including difficulty concentrating, mild cognitive impairment, and physical changes.
Mental roadblocks can cause trouble reading
Fuzzy thinking and difficulty concentrating can get in the way of reading. “If your attention isn’t focused on the sentence you’re reading, you’re not likely to register enough of the sentence to understand what your eyes just passed over,” notes Dr....
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Brain and cognitive health Eye Health Memory Source Type: blogs
A poor sense of smell might matter more than you thought
As one of the five major senses, you could argue that our sense of smell is the least important. Sight, hearing, touch, and taste may poll better than smell, but try telling that to someone who has lost their sense of smell entirely.
The truth is that loss of the ability to smell comes with a significant cost, because olfaction serves several purposes that affect quality of life and even safety, including
stimulation of appetite
enhancement of the sense of taste
alerting you to which foods should not be eaten (if they’re rotting, for example)
warning you of danger (as with smoke warning of fire).
Loss of smell can also...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Brain and cognitive health Ear, nose, and throat Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 17th 2019
In this study, analysis of antioxidant defense was performed on the blood samples from 184 "aged" individuals aged 65-90+ years, and compared to the blood samples of 37 individuals just about at the beginning of aging, aged 55-59 years. Statistically significant decreases of Zn,Cu-superoxide dismutase (SOD-1), catalase (CAT), and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activities were observed in elderly people in comparison with the control group. Moreover, an inverse correlation between the activities of SOD-1, CAT, and GSH-Px and the age of the examined persons was found. No age-related changes in glutathione reductase activiti...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Health Insurance 101 -- yet again
I just cannot understand why it is so difficult to get people to grasp what seems to me a simple idea. Let ' s try one more time.The purpose of insurance is to spread risk. That ' s the essence of the concept. Health insurance (or health care insurance as some prefer to say) is different from other kinds of insurance in some ways, so let ' s just talk about health insurance.Health care costs are unpredictable. It is true that there are risk factors associated with some conditions, most notably smoking tobacco. Nevertheless, no matter how healthful your lifestyle, you still just might need expensive health care. You might b...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Mast Cells in Age-Related Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation
Of late, it is becoming clear that the dysfunction of immune cells of the central nervous system, such as microglia, is an important part of neurodegeneration. Growing degrees of cellular senescence in these cell populations, leading to inflammatory signaling, appears to be significant in the progression of Alzheimer's disease, for example. There are many distinct types of supporting cell in the brain, however. This short open access review paper discusses the evidence for dysfunction of the immune cells known as mast cells to be relevant to the progression of chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration in the aging brain.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Screening Tools for Assessing Dementia
Working with older adults as a speech-language pathologist for a rehab company, I often assess patients on their cognitive function. I will deal more in-depth on how and why determining cognitive function helps guide my treatment strategies in an upcoming post. For this first article, however, I wanted to discuss the first steps.
The first step I take in determining a person’s cognitive status involves using a standardized evaluation. I like three tests: the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam.
Quick, easy to use, and readily a...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bonnie Slavych Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Source Type: blogs
Pros and Cons of Screening Tools for Dementia
Working with older adults as a speech-language pathologist for a rehab company, I often assess patients on their cognitive function. I will deal more in-depth on how and why determining cognitive function helps guide my treatment strategies in an upcoming post. For this first article, however, I wanted to discuss the first steps.
The first step I take in determining a person’s cognitive status involves using a standardized screening tool. I like three tests: the Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE), Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Saint Louis University Mental Status (SLUMS) exam.
Quick, easy to use, and readi...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Bonnie Slavych Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology dementia Source Type: blogs
