7+1 Ways Digital Health Technologies Help Fight Obesity
Obesity rates have nearly doubled in the last 20 years. Only in England, 13 million people over the age of 16 were considered obese in 2017, Daily Mail reported. According to an analysis of government data, the NHS spent a staggering £1.075 billion on type 2 diabetes treatment alone. And since obesity is linked to cardiovascular problems, diabetes, and some cancers, most of us live in countries where obesity kills more people than malnutrition. It’s preventable. It’s treatable. And yet numbers keep rising. So, what’s happening and what’s the solution?
Let’s get digital!
Ok, we may not have supernatural psy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: szandra Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers digital health digital technology digital health sensors weight management obesity weight loss Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: November 2, 2019
This week’s Psychology Around the Net focuses on how turning your to-do list into an action plan can help you become more productive, why nightmares can be beneficial to your mental health, how your brain type affects who you are, and more.
How Nightmares Could Be Good for Your Mental Health: Typically, we don’t view nightmares as pleasant experiences, but they might be positive ones. Well, have positive benefits, that is. Research shows that nightmares can help relieve stress, offer insight into our suppressed emotions, and prepare us for real-life threats. According to Harvard University’s Dr. Deirdre...
Source: World of Psychology - November 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Abusive Relationships Adhd brain types Mothers Nightmares Romantic Relationships Self Destruction Self Sabotage Teens Source Type: blogs
Halloween Reminders for Parents of Anxious Children
It’s almost Halloween. Corn stalks, jack o’ lanterns, and witches hats adorn shop windows and every corridor of the local grocery. Pumpkins spill out of carts at local farm stands, often with a few carved with toothy grins. Front porches and lawns sport scarecrows, spider webs, and a skeleton or two. Some communities hold rag-tag parades where costumed kids take to the street or local mall for Halloween fun. Classrooms may no longer have parties with cupcakes and candy as they did in the parents’ generation, but many still do recognize the season in some way. It’s exciting. It’s fun!
And yet. There are childr...
Source: World of Psychology - October 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Holiday Coping Parenting Anxious Children Halloween Trick or treating Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Psychiatric Medications: Separating Fact From Fiction
Psychiatric medications are the religion and politics of the mental health advocacy world — don’t bring them up unless you want a fight to break out. Luckily, here at Not Crazy, we don’t shy away from confrontation.
In this episode, we cover the good, the bad, and the ugly surrounding medications. Like whether or not you should take them. We tackle side effects like feeling numb and sexual dysfunction and share our personal histories with medication therapy. Listen now!
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Source: World of Psychology - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Antidepressant Antipsychotic General Medications Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Psychology Research Sexuality Stimulants Treatment Source Type: blogs
The Top Health Wearables For A Healthy Lifestyle
Fitbit or Apple Watch for running? Garmin or Misfit for swimming? Sleep Cycle or Sleep as Android for sleep tracking? What about measuring heart rate, blood pressure, or tracking how to cut out stress from your life? Dozens of gadgets on the healthcare wearable market promise you a healthier lifestyle, but it’s easy to go astray in the jungle of digital health gadgets. Let me show you my top choices when it comes to health wearables and trackers.
Guidance in the health wearable universe
By now, I have tested and used more than a hundred devices and gadgets that measure health parameters or vital signs.
Thus,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Diagnostics activity fitness fitness trackers Health 2.0 Healthcare Innovation meditation mental health Personalized medicine sleep sleep optimization sleep tracking stress technology wear Source Type: blogs
China is harnessing brain-wave trackers and artificial-intelligence to raise better (and more compliant?) students
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A growing number of classrooms in China are equipped with artificial-intelligence cameras and brain-wave trackers. While many parents and teachers see them as tools to improve grades, they’ve become some children’s worst nightmare. Video: Crystal Tai for The Wall Street Journal.
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To address growing privacy issues such as those highlighted in the video above, a new report (opens PDF) prepared by the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and titled Empowering 8 Billion Minds: Enabling Better Mental Health for All via the Ethical Adoption of Technologies, proposes a framework to ...
Source: SharpBrains - September 20, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Technology artificial intelligence brain-wave brain-wave trackers children ethics mental health mental healthcare mental privacy Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Parents of Children With Mental Illness
Chrisa Hickey’s journey into mental health advocacy started when her son, Tim, was diagnosed with very early onset schizophrenia after being admitted to a psychiatric hospital for the first time at the age of 11. He had been showing symptoms for years and had received a half dozen different diagnoses. His family was desperately looking for answers.
Tim’s illness took a toll on the entire family, which was only exacerbated by the lack of information and resources available to them. In America, fewer than 100 children per year are diagnosed with very early onset schizophrenia. Chrisa had to find information and ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Bipolar Children and Teens Depression Family General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Podcast Psychiatry Psychology Schizophrenia The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
The Resiliency of Survivors of Suicide Loss
Being a survivor of suicide loss is a unique kind of grief. In the realm of mental health stigma, suicide is about as nightmare as you can get.
A survivor of suicide loss endures many days of bewilderment. While the momentum of episodic depression, anxiety, and substance abuse that often precedes suicide comes to a screeching halt for your loved one in their death, the hurricane force winds rage on for the survivor, now compiled with even more pain, confusion, and grief, as you process the sudden loss of your loved one.
In addition to your own sense of loss, you are forced to come up with euphemisms to describe to othe...
Source: World of Psychology - September 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bonnie McClure Tags: Grief and Loss Suicide Bereavement grieving National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Source Type: blogs
Sleep driving and other unusual practices during sleep
Most people have talked or walked during sleep at some time in our lives. However, some people exhibit more unusual complex behaviors while asleep, including eating and driving. These types of behaviors, called parasomnias, come about when parts of our brain are asleep and other parts awake at the same time. Parasomnias, while generally considered normal in a healthy child, can be a cause for concern when they develop in adults. Earlier this year the FDA issued a “black box” warning for the sleep medications eszopiclone, zaleplon, and zolpidem, given reports of sleep behaviors that resulted in injuries from falls, car ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH Tags: Fatigue Sleep Source Type: blogs
Psychotherapy leads in treating post-traumatic stress disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common, often debilitating mental health condition that occurs in some people who have experienced trauma. It can have a negative impact on mood, mimicking depression, and is characterized by petrifying episodes in which affected people re-experience trauma. New research suggests psychotherapy may provide a long-lasting reduction of distressing symptoms.
Over the course of a lifetime, many people directly experience or witness trauma, such as sexual assault, violence, or natural disasters. Experts estimate that 10% to 20% of these people will experience acute (short-term) PTSD. So...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Adam P. Stern, MD Tags: Anxiety and Depression Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Rising temperatures? How to avoid heat-related illnesses and deaths
In Boston, we believe warmer is better. Our cravings for warmth are formed in the cold, dark winter nights when the prospect of summer seems impossibly remote. But with temperatures reaching 100°F in July, our winter dreams are becoming a nightmare. And it’s not just Boston. More than half of all Americans endured unsafe heat conditions during July, which was the hottest July ever recorded in US history, according to the Washington Post. Europe fared no better; sweltering temperatures broke records in more than a dozen countries in June (this was the hottest June ever in Europe) and July. Not surprisingly, heat-related ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH Tags: Asthma Children's Health Emergency Planning Environmental health Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The Essential Benefits of Zen Meditation and How it will Change your Life
You're reading The Essential Benefits of Zen Meditation and How it will Change your Life, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Being one of the ancient practices in the eastern world, Zen meditation is known for its ability to lead you towards the path of inner peace. Following a Buddhist tradition, zen meditation’s approach seeks to disconnect us from our worldly attachments, leading us to achieve a kind of contentment that comes from within.
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: chris.individualogist Tags: depression featured health and fitness meditation self improvement Source Type: blogs
You Can Do It! Defeating Mental Health Issues with Your Own Voice
You’ve heard thatyou are your best advocate, but are you giving yourself pep talks? Maybe you should be.For years, I have been an advocate for talking out loud to oneself as a way to organize one’s mind. I’ve casually blogged about it (as can be readhere), and there was one time I gave a tutorial of sorts on the subject over on healthyplace.com.[1] However, I have also been known to give myself advice as well as a pep talk, both here and in person, as a coping strategy for dealing withmy depression. I have found talking to myself to be an effective coping strategy forADHD&depression, despite people ar...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - August 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Goodreads Source Type: blogs
Mothing Madness
There was a ludicrously ill-informed and essentially anti-scientific letter in The Graun at the weekend. It was from someone who had obviously just learned that there are a handful of people over the country who are amateur lepidopterists and regularly “trap” moths by drawing them to an ultraviolet light at night.
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The letter talks of the author’s sadness on learning about moth trapping. It goes on to say that moth trapping:
must cause terror and damage their fragile wings and bodies. Most adult moths only live for days or weeks, so trapping them overnight is akin to incarcerating a human for year...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 29, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
