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Confession of a Liberal
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE TRIGGER WARNING: Long read, Trump Reason #1: Feeling the Bust. I am a woman and I am an immigrant to this country. I am Jewish by birth and atheist by faith. I am fairly well educated, borderline socialist and straight Democratic ticket voter. I have no use for guns, I despise hunting, and I believe the death penalty is state sponsored murder. I think abortions are perfectly fine and I think everybody should be free to choose how they use their own body for their own happiness and joy. I have no respect for authority, strength, power or large wads of cash. Come to think of it, I have no respect for a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Meta-Analytic Comparison of Brain Abnormalities in ADHD and OCD
Importance Patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) share impaired…Read it on FlipboardRead it on archpsyc.jamanetwork.com (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - June 9, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs

28% Of Referrals To A Mood & Anxiety Clinic Had Undiagnosed ADHD
This study shows what we adult ADHD coaches have known for a long time. Adults who fail to respond to antidepressant therapy may have underlying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and not treatment-resistant depression, as is often assumed, new research suggests. Only 5% of adults have ADHD. But, 28.4% of referrals to a tertiary-care mood and anxiety clinic had undetected ADHD. Also ADHD was also diagnosed in 22.6% of patients referred to the clinic for treatment-resistant depression. Chart of study SSRI Treatment Response may Predict Undetected Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Depressed P...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Medication ADD / ADHD Treatment adult ADHD anxiety depression dysthymia misdiagnosed undiagnosed Source Type: blogs

28% Of Referrals To A Mood & Anxiety Clinic Had Undiagnosed ADHD
This study shows what we adult ADHD coaches have known for a long time. Only 5% of adults have ADHD. But, 28.4% of referrals to a tertiary-care mood and anxiety clinic had undetected ADHD. ADHD was also diagnosed in 22.6% of patients referred to the clinic for treatment-resistant depression. Chart of study SSRI Treatment Response may Predict Undetected Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Depressed Patients. Adults who fail to respond to antidepressant therapy may have underlying attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and not treatment-resistant depression, as is often assumed, new research sugges...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - May 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Medication ADD / ADHD Treatment adult ADHD anxiety depression dysthymia misdiagnosed undiagnosed Source Type: blogs

Doctors can’t see the forest from the trees. And it’s cost them.
Doctors have an interesting problem. They have an ingrained professional obsessive-compulsive habit; they fixate on the care of individual patients and on the science of healing. This is an admirable trait; it results in high-quality care. However, when physicians need to change their attention from healer to leader, from medicine to the business of medicine, from health care to the health care system, they falter. Stuck in silos, they fail to adjust their focus. They resist systemic innovation. Because they cannot flip, they flop. This habit — resisting change, staying focused on the trees, instead of the forest &#...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 15, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs

Getting Beyond Baby Blues: The Importance of Screening for Postpartum Depression
In January, when attention focused on the need for postpartum depression screening because of a recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of physicians and epidemiologists that develops recommendations for clinical preventive services, I was both relieved and concerned. As a women’s health advocate and educator I worried that screening could contribute to further pathologizing women’s experiences, especially when they are connected to their reproductive lives. I also feared that Big Pharma wanted to cash in, and that fetal effects from antidepressant medication might be unduly mini...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Childbirth Women's Health Postpartum depression United States Preventive Services Task Force Source Type: blogs

What About That Negative Blood?
Every once in a while, I get an A&P student who expresses the concept of a negative Rh blood type as "having negative blood"—along with the connotation that having this blood type has a negative health impact.We do not ordinarily think about red blood cell types such as A, B, AB, O, Rh+/-, or others, as being "bad for you" or even "good for you" healthwise. We most often think of them simply as different "flavors" of RBCs present in the human population.Oh yeah, there are specific situations in which have a particular blood type can have significant health consequences. If you need an organ or tissue transplant—esp...
Source: The A and P Professor - February 17, 2016 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs

Brain Drain
I find it incredible that, buried in the common advice to consume more “healthy whole grains,” is advice to consume what is, in effect, a mind-active drug. Wheat and grain consumption have very real effects on the brain, thinking, and emotions, some of which are reversible, some of which are permanent. Many of the effects are due to the gliadin protein of wheat, rye, and barley. Dr. Alessio Fasano has mapped out the segments of the gliadin protein that, upon partial digestion (humans are incapable of complete digestion of this grass protein) yield the following peptides (protein fragments): Red = direct cytotox...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 26, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle adhd appetite bipolar Depression emotions gluten grains mind opiates schizophrenia Source Type: blogs

To Lower The Cost Of Health Care, Invest In Social Services
This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival. This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World’s Toughest Challenges. Stayed tuned for more. A repeated refrain of politicians is that health care spending in the United States is utterly out of control. We spend almost $9,000 per person per year, amounting to nearly 17 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), far more than any other country, but get a poor return on investment. Life expectancy in the United States ranks 27t...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 14, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Kenneth Davis Tags: Costs and Spending Equity and Disparities Featured Hospitals Organization and Delivery Population Health Public Health Aspen Ideas Festival health outcomes Kenneth Davis OECD patients Prevention SDH SNAP social services Spo Source Type: blogs

Johnson and Johnson Continues to Pay For Risperdal
In August of 2012, Johnson & Johnson paid a $181 million multi-state consumer protection settlement to resolve charges that the company marketed its antipsychotic drug Risperdal for off-label uses. In November of 2013, J&J paid $2.2 billion to resolve False Claims Act allegations related to misbranding of a number of drugs, including Risperdal. In the past month, the company faced two further blows related to Risperdal. A Philadelphia jury awarded $2.5 million to the plaintiff over J&J’s “failure to warn” about Risperdal side effects. This was the first such case to be heard by a jury, though hundreds of cases ar...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 18, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Is MiraLAX Safe for Children?
In the small print on the side of a bottle of MiraLAX, you’ll learn that it’s recommended by the manufacturer only for people 17 years of age and older and that it should be used for no more than 7 days at a time. But MiraLAX is given to many young children daily for months at a time – sometimes even for years. MiraLAX and similar medications are laxatives and stool softeners using polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3350 as the active ingredient. These medicines are very widely used, work well, and are well tolerated by most children – so much so that the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatitis, and...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 25, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Babies & Constipation Stool & Constipation Source Type: blogs

Go to Bed Early and Cure Your Negative Ruminations!
This study of hype in press releases will change journalismFootnotes1 Chronotype was dichotomously classified as evening type vs. moderately morning-type / neither type (not a lot of early birds, I guess). And only 75 students completed questionnaires in this part of the study.2 It's notable that the significance level for these correlations was not corrected for multiple comparisons in the first place.ReferencesNota, J., & Coles, M. (2014). Duration and Timing of Sleep are Associated with Repetitive Negative Thinking. Cognitive Therapy and Research DOI: 10.1007/s10608-014-9651-7Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., ...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

First direct brain-to-brain communication between human subjects
Via KurzweilAI.netAn international team of neuroscientists and robotics engineers have demonstrated the first direct remote brain-to-brain communication between two humans located 5,000 miles away from each other and communicating via the Internet, as reported in a paper recently published in PLOS ONE (open access).Emitter and receiver subjects with non-invasive devices supporting, respectively, a brain-computer interface (BCI), based on EEG changes, driven by motor imagery (left) and a computer-brain interface (CBI) based on the reception of phosphenes elicited by neuro-navigated TMS (right) (credit: Carles Grau et al./PL...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 6, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Brain stimulation Brain-computer interface ICT and complexity Neurotechnology & neuroinformatics Physiological Computing Telepresence virtual presence Wearable mobile Source Type: blogs

The Fast Food Frenzy…
I took mom to Taco Bell last night.  She is really looking forward to eating out all week.  It is almost to the point of being obsessive/compulsive. It is to the detriment of her diet I might also add.  Well, I guess you only live once so live it up while you can. My father left my mother one hundred dollars for food.   Mom and I are both addicted to the beef burrito supremes.  She gets one burrito and I get two.  I introduced her last night to the mild Taco Bell sauce and she thought that was so very decadent and delicious. We’re are really easily amused and satiated. You know you are...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 4, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

OCD and my Dirty House
Originally posted on : Let’s start off by defining Obsessive Compulsive Disorder shall we? Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions). –National Library of Medicine View original 418 more wordsFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - July 30, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs