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What do archaeologists and futurists have in common? Why was the Internet underestimated as a technology to transform society while A.I. is over-hyped? What’s the most transformative concept in hea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Great Thinkers Source Type: blogs
Research Finds New Health Benefits from Sleep
“To die, to sleep — perchance to dream — ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Everyone requires sleep in order to function properly.
Sleep is known to aid in healing, in memory formation, reducing stress, eliminating toxins – literally wiping the slate clean of the day’s experiences to begin anew. The subject of decades of research, sleep science continues to amass evidence of new health benefits from sleep.
A Single Gene Ties Sleep to Immunity
A newly discovered single gene, called nemuri, increases the human body’s need...
Source: World of Psychology - February 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Agitation Anger Memory and Perception Psychology Research Sleep Anger Management Circadian Rhythm Immune Function Insomnia nemuri nightmare disorder Nightmares Sleep Apnea Sleep Disorder sleep quality Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How to Change Your Psychological Identity
We all know that addiction, severe depression, and other conditions change our personality. What few know, however, is just how deeply ingrained that change can be, and how difficult (and scary) it can be to try to become “ourselves” again. In this episode, we examine such changes through the experiences of our guest, who overcame depression and addiction, and now helps others do the same.
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David Essel, MS, OM, is a number one best-selling author (10), counselor, master life coach, international speaker and minister whose mission ...
Source: World of Psychology - January 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Depression General Recovery The Psych Central Show Addiction David Essel Gabe Howard Personality Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Why Making a Resolution to Get Sober Matters
Making the Resolution to Get Sober
The new year is a time to reflect and plan for the brand new year ahead. Think about this: Have your relationship with friends and family been stressed over the holiday season? Have family and other loved ones distanced themselves due to your addictions? Or maybe, you feel this way toward a family member or friend of yours? It might be time to make the resolution to get sober.
Approximately 40 percent of Americans make resolutions, viewing the new year as a fresh start. It can be an excellent opportunity to make a step in the right direction and conquer your dependency issues. Taking that...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - January 17, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Drug Rehab Information Drug Treatment Substance Abuse alcohol treatment alcohol treatment center alcohol treatment facility New Year resolutions sober sobriety Source Type: blogs
Visiting a Person Living with Alzheimer's
Many people have told me how difficult they find it to visit friends and family who have Alzheimer ’s and dementia.By Marilyn RaichleAlzheimer's Reading Room“We have nothing to talk about. I don’t know what to say.”“It’s so sad – she is everything she never wanted to be.”“She would hate this so much. This was her worst nightmare.”So the pattern begins...Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomEmail:Visiting makes you sad or uncomfortable,so you don ’t visit.Not visiting makes you feel guilty, so you put off visiting again.“She won’t remember it anyway,” you rationalize.Dementia Patients are Peo...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 12, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer s alzheimers care alzheimers caregiving Alzheimers Dementia Alzheimers Disease alzheimers information dementia care health memory memory loss Source Type: blogs
Manifestations of Fear in Cross-Cultural Interpretations of Sleep Paralysis
Frontispiece from:Blicke in die Traum- und Geisterwelt (A look into the dream and spirit world), byFriedrich Voigt (1854).What are you most afraid of? Not finding a permanent job? Getting a divorce and losing your family? Losing your funding? Not making this month ' s rent? Not having a roof over your head? Natural disasters? Nuclear war? Cancer? Having a loved one die of cancer?FAILURE?There are many types ofspecific phobias (snakes, spiders, heights, enclosed spaces,clowns,mirrors, etc.), but that ' s not what I ' m talking about here.What are youreally afraid of? Death? Pain? A painful death?Devils, demons, ghosts, witc...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
The Future of Our Brains – Health in Black Mirror
Black Mirror, the iconic British anthology series asks what could happen to our identities, memories, social and personal selves, life and death after getting in touch with the digital. What could happen to the most complex and least understood human organ, the brain, being exposed to powerful, dimension-altering perception? We pondered on whether the current state of technology and research could ever take us on the dystopian, blind alley called future in Black Mirror. [SPOILER ALERT: the article contains a detailed description of episodes]
Waldo’s predictions of politics
On the day after the U.S. election, when everyo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients avatar BCI black mirror brain brain-computer interface death digital digital avatar digital health dystopia life memory sci-fi science fiction Source Type: blogs
Autumn Chill
Fall is the empty nest time of year; even the trees must deal with the fact of their seeds dropping off to start new lives. And I am an old mother, dealing with my children’s departure for years. My son Nat has lived away from us for eleven years. But this particular autumn I find myself unable to shake my sadness, the feeling that there has been a permanent shift, and that I’m not ready for it.
Like many families, Nat, who is my oldest moved into a residential school at 17. Unlike many families, this was a school for students with severe autism. The move out of the home is so dreaded by most autism families ...
Source: Susan's Blog - October 25, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A test taker ’s worst nightmare became reality
Doctors know high-pressure exams. The day before one is the worst. There is cramming followed by anxiety and insomnia. When sleep finally beats anxiety, the dreaded nightmare falls upon anxious test takers. Every doctor knows. Walking into the testing center, opening the exam, realizing you studied for the wrong exam. The questions might as well be a foreign language. This nightmare was a reality according to this year’s group of radiation oncology residents taking their physics and radiation biology board exams.
The exam is administered annually for radiation oncology residents. It is a relic from the bygone era. A mult...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > Tags: Physician Radiology Source Type: blogs
Mental Coping Strategies During Hurricane Season and Other Natural Disasters
The anxiety and distress for people living in the path of a hurricane can be overwhelming. Uncertainty about living arrangements, work schedules and other life tasks increase when people are evacuated. Legitimate concerns about damage and destruction to homes, streets and infrastructure accelerate in the midst of constant news about the storm. An important step is to recognize common emotional reactions while physically preparing for impending changes.
On the 29th of August, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans. I was a first responder to the disaster, and arrived in the area a week after the storm. I foun...
Source: World of Psychology - October 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, EdD, MPH Tags: Anxiety and Panic Children and Teens Depression Psychology PTSD Self-Help Stress Trauma bedwetting Coping Skills hurricane Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Michael hurricane season Natural Disaster Nightmares Posttraumatic Stres Source Type: blogs
HOW TO Measure Sleep?
Are you counting sheep, taking sleeping pills or do any other tricks to fall asleep at night? Do you wake up at random intervals? Are you stressed even if you have to think about going to bed? You have to try sleep tracking, the most comfortable and efficient part of the digital health movement. Here, we show you the ins and outs of how to sleep better.
How do you know whether you need sleep tracking?
Every single one of us needs sleep tracking – as everyone gets some sleep and every now and then has quality or quantity issues. Let us explain that. There is a lot of confusion about rest and the amount of necessary shutey...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients apps fitness future Healthcare Innovation personalized health Personalized medicine sleep sleep app sleep sensor sleep tracker sleep tracking sleeping smartphone te Source Type: blogs
Whom Do We Believe?
You may be thinking about it as a “she said, he said” story. But it may well be a “she remembers, he doesn’t” story.
For him, the night may have been just another insignificant, inconsequential, meaningless event. One more beer party in which trying to score with a girl was the goal. Such a memory is easily forgotten, especially with an alcohol-soaked brain and a belief that you did nothing wrong. Though she terms it attempted rape, he, and his frat beer buddies, probably viewed it as nothing more than “scoring.” No big deal.
He may truly have no memory of the event. Or, if he has residual memory, it...
Source: World of Psychology - October 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Linda Sapadin, Ph.D Tags: Bullying Ethics & Morality Memory and Perception Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy PTSD Trauma Violence and Aggression Women's Issues Source Type: blogs
What being held at the Mexican border is really like
She tells me that she sees them at night when she is lying in her bunk bed — eight to a room. Grotesque forms with masks over their heads and guns across their chests. She hears panicked shrieks, but is never certain if they are coming from the next trailer, or if they are inside her head. They cannot be nightmares, because she never sleeps. She reminds herself that haunting memories are better than terrifying reality, because memories cannot harm her children. She counts: this is her 14th day in limbo.
Her story is not unique. I heard versions of it time and again from the women at the South Texas Family Residential Cen...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/vidya-ramanathan" rel="tag" > Vidya Ramanathan, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Policy Public Health & Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: August 18, 2018
Happy Saturday!
This week’s Psychology Around the Net covers tech companies using persuasive design to get kids racking up more screen time, a new startup designed to help people find mental health care more quickly and affordably, how dating apps have the potential to be both helpful and hurtful, and more.
Tech Companies Use ‘Persuasive Design’ to Get Us Hooked. Psychologists Say It’s Unethical: A new technique known as persuasive technology or persuasive design looks at how computers can change the way we thing and act, and big tech companies are employing mental health experts to use it — e...
Source: World of Psychology - August 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Autism Children and Teens Disorders Psychology Around the Net Relationships Research Sleep Technology Women's Issues Computers DDT Dr. Tamir Aldad kid behavior kids Mindful Urgent Care persuasive design persuasive technolog Source Type: blogs
Dr. Jonathan Cusack versus the General Medical Council
By SAURABH JHA
I spoke with Dr. Jonathan Cusack, consultant neonatologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI), and former supervisor and mentor of Dr. Bawa-Garba, the trainee pediatrician convicted of manslaughter for delayed diagnosis of fatal sepsis in Jack Adcock, a six-year-old boy with Down’s syndrome. We had drinks at The George, pub opposite the Royal Courts of Justice.
In the first part of the interview we discussed the events on Friday February 18th, 2011, the day of Jack presented to LRI. In the second part of the interview we talk about the events after fatal Friday – how the crown prosecution service go...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: NHS #BawaGarba @roguerad Source Type: blogs
