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Study: Personalized, closed-loop neuromodulation can (one day) become a “pacemaker for the brain”
This study points the way to a new paradigm that is desperately needed in psychiatry,” said Andrew Krystal, PhD, professor of psychiatry and member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. “We’ve developed a precision-medicine approach that has successfully managed our patient’s treatment-resistant depression by identifying and modulating the circuit in her brain that’s uniquely associated with her symptoms.” Previous clinical trials have shown limited success for treating depression with traditional deep brain stimulation (DBS), in part because most devices can only deliver constant electrical stimulatio...
Source: SharpBrains - October 5, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation biomarker brain circuit brain patterns brain stimulation closed-loop therapy deep-brain-stimulation neural biomarker neuromodulation neuropsychiatric pacemaker for the brain precision me Source Type: blogs

Helping young brains fight off anxiety by training and raising cognitive control
This article was originally published by AIM Youth Mental Health, a non-profit dedicated to finding and funding promising youth mental health research that can identify solutions to make a difference in young people’s lives today, which contributed to funding Kate Fitzgerald’s research. Related articles: What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them? Can brain training work? Yes, if it meets these 5 conditions New book on how to practice mindfulness meditation with humor and playfulness Six tips to build resilience and prevent brain-damaging stress The post Helping young brains fight off anxiety by training...
Source: SharpBrains - July 23, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning anxiety brain markers brain training childhood cognitive-behavioral-therapy cognitive-capacities cognitive-control cognitive-skills Cognitive-Training frontal-lobes Kate Fitzgerald Kid Power program Source Type: blogs

I bought into the stigmas about the mentally ill, until I became one of them
The first thing someone says when I tell them I have bipolar, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder is,“I’m sorry.” For a long time, I was sorry too. Bipolar runs in my family, so I knew the harsh realities of this untreated illness. A family member faked his own death after a counterfeiting spending spree. MyRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 15, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/sonja-wasden" rel="tag" > Sonja Wasden < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Free Will And Facial Expressions: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web It’s not possible to reliably predict the emotions someone is experiencing based just on their facial expressions. And yet tech companies are trying to do just that. At The Atlantic, Kate Crawford explores some of these attempts — and the contested research on which they are based. At Science, Kelly Servick takes a look at attempts to understand and treat the “brain fog” experienced by some COVID-19 survivors. Short sessions of unconscious bias training are unlikely to produce any long-term changes in the workplace. B...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs

Hoarders and Collectors
Andy Warhol ' scollection ofdental models Pop artist Andy Warhol excelled in turning the everyday and the mundane into art. During the last 13 years of his life, Warhol putthousands of collected objects into 610 cardboard boxes. TheseTime Capsules were never sold as art, but they were meticulously cataloged by museum archivists and displayed in a major exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. “Warhol was a packrat. But that desire to collect helped inform his artistic point of view. ” Yet Warhol was aware of his compulsion, and itdisturbed him: “I ' m so sick of the way I live, of all this junk, and always dragging...
Source: The Neurocritic - April 25, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Doomscrolling And Psychological Vaccines: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Humans process and recognise faces as a whole, rather than by examining individual features. Now new work suggests that some species of wasp also process faces in this “holistic” fashion, reports Cathleen O’Grady at Science Magazine. Golden paper wasps were better at recognising other wasps when shown pictures of the whole face rather than just part of it, the researchers found. When we lie to someone, we may end up mimicking their body language. That’s according to a study in which participants cheated while solving a puzzl...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs

How We Got Love All Wrong
Our romanticized idea of love made us believe that love is a feeling. That high we experience when we feel we can't be without the other. When we can't stop thinking about them. That is an obsession, and the chemical and neurological state of the feeling described is both what we experience in the honeymoon stage and obsessive-compulsive disorder. When we call it being in love instead of a mental health condition, it's mainly because the object of the obsession is a person and that it's a temporary state. In that lies the key. It's temporary and does not last, and that is a good thing because if it did, you ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Thomas Westenholz Tags: family featured psychology relationships love pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

Why Romanticized Love is Destroying Relationships
Divorce rates are currently at 40-50% in the US and even higher for subsequential marriages. Marriage satisfaction is 58%, so something is not working. What has gone wrong? Love is the top reason for people getting married in the USA. But where did this come from? We have to start with a history lesson, so buckle up. Throughout history, marriage used to be an arrangement created to promote the family unit's survival and safety. The industrial age changed all that. As safety increased and resources became independent of the tribal collective to survive, individuality took form. They didn't rely on...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Thomas Westenholz Tags: featured happiness psychology relationships self-improvement love marriage relationship advice self improvement Source Type: blogs

Five Strange Facts About Dreams
By Emma Young The latest episode of our PsychCrunch podcast explores the blurry boundaries between wakefulness and dreaming. Presenter Ella Rhodes examines that strange transition period between being awake and falling asleep known as hypnagogia. She also learns about maladaptive daydreaming, a condition in which people can lose themselves in their daydreams for hours at a time. To coincide with the release of the podcast, we’ve examined five strange findings about dreaming from the psychology literature: 1. Bad dreams are nothing to fear No one likes a bad dream, but they do serve a purpose: research su...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Sleep and dreaming Source Type: blogs

How the Pandemic Is Taking Its Toll on Our Mental Health
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most devastating in history. Hundreds of thousands have died and millions have been hospitalized due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has changed the lives of so many. No matter where you live, dealing with the effects of economic and physical lockdowns in a community leads to multiple mental health challenges. After months of living with the coronavirus, many people are getting tired, burned out, and more and more frustrated. In America, we face a particular challenge. Our federal government has chosen to take a backseat during the pandemic. Instead of leadin...
Source: World of Psychology - August 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic Source Type: blogs

What to Do with Intrusive Thoughts?
If you had a devastating illness and were given one year to live, what would you do? No question there would be grief and plenty of important decisions to make. If it didn’t debilitate you completely, what would you do with your time? Where would you focus your attention and energy? Would you be willing to spend more time with your loved ones despite the pain that shows up? Would you be doing activities that you’ve enjoyed in life or would you stay home lamenting what life would’ve been if you didn’t have this affliction? As a mortal being we are guaranteed physical, mental and emotional pain. The prospect of getti...
Source: World of Psychology - August 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annabella Hagen, LCSW, RPT-S Tags: Anxiety and Panic OCD Self-Help Intrusive Thoughts Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Source Type: blogs

Sunday Sermonette: The most pointless chapter in the Bible?
Numbers 4 stipulates exactly which Levite clans are responsible for carrying what portions of the tabernacle when the camp moves, and how the sons of Aaron are required to pack everything up. That ' s it. It ' s obsessive-compulsive in its level of detail, and seems to be essentially pointless beyond the general idea that these various inanimate objects must be treated with veneration.Why this was deemed important enough to include in the Torah in the 7th Century BC I cannot say exactly, since of course the Temple at that time was an immobile edifice. I suppose it does lend verisimilitude to the story of wandering in the d...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

Hummingbirds And Helpful Rats: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Rats are generally Good Samaritans: they help other rats in trouble, particularly when they’re in a group. But after their companions are given drugs which make them passive, the rats seem to lose their willingness to help, reports Nell Greenfieldboyce at NPR. The findings have similarities with the bystander effect in humans, where the presence of unresponsive bystanders can make someone less likely to help. Unconscious bias training has been in the spotlight recently, after Keir Starmer promised that the Labour party will undergo such train...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs

What should you do during a psychiatric medication shortage?
You have finally found a medication to treat your depression that your body tolerates well. It has taken your psychiatrist months to find the optimal dose (after two failed medication trials). The COVID-19 pandemic hit, but in spite of your new daily stressors, you seem to be doing relatively well. That is, until you hear that your antidepressant medication is now in short supply. What can you do? Mental health treatment during COVID-19 With the increased stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, prescriptions for medications to treat mental illnesses have increased more than 20% between February and March 2020. Sertraline, or Zolo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Source Type: blogs