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Can You Think Yourself Into A Different Person?
For years she had tried to be the perfect wife and mother but now, divorced, with two sons, having gone through another break-up and in despair about her future, she felt as if she’d failed at it all, and she was tired of it. On 6 June 2007 Debbie Hampton, of Greensboro, North Carolina, took an overdose of more than 90 pills – a combination of ten different prescription drugs, some of which she’d stolen from a neighbor’s bedside cabinet. That afternoon, she’d written a note on her computer: “I’ve screwed up this life so bad that there is no place here for me and nothing I can contr...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 19, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Harnessing the Four Elements for Mental Health
DiscussionAs detailed above, the “elements” in both a classical and a contemporary sense have effects on our mental health and are potentially modifiable aspects that can be harnessed as therapeutic interventions. The most robust interventional evidence currently available shows tentative support for several use of the elements via horticultural and nature-exposure therapy, green exercise/physical activity, sauna and heat therapy, balneotherapy, and breathing exercises. It should be noted that, in many cases, these interventions were not studied in definitive diagnosed psychiatric disorders and thus it is pre...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - April 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Individualized neuro-cognitive rehabilitation can reverse cognitive and memory impairment irrespective of etiology: Prospective pilot study (P6.189)
Conclusion: Supervised neurocognitive rehabilitation, specifically designed for individual provides significant reversal of cognitive deficit in adult patients with cognitive impairment, regardless of the etiology.Disclosure: Dr. Kumar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Kumar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Jawahar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Kumar has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 8, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Kumar, S., Kumar, J., Jawahar, A., Kumar, M. Tags: Aging, Dementia, Cognitive, and Behavioral Neurology: Dementia: Psychosocial Aspects Source Type: research