4 Strategies to Foster Self-Compassion
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Quote often attributed to Buddha
Nurturing self-compassion is by far the most difficult part of my recovery from depression because the self-hater is loudest when my mood dips, charging me to try harder, be tougher, and comparing my raw insides with other people’s smooth outsides.
Kristin Neff, Ph.D., self-compassion expert and associate professor of h...
Source: World of Psychology - February 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Books General Happiness Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Personal Self-Help Personal Growth Resilience self-compassion Shame Vulnerability Source Type: blogs
Electric Generator Powers Cardiac Implants from Beating Heart
Cardiac implants, such as pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators, have limited lifetimes because they’re powered by batteries that cannot be recharged. Replacement surgeries are required roughly every ten years, creating difficulties for patients, many of whom are already fragile, and incurring a huge cost on the healthcare system.
Engineers at Dartmouth, working with clinicians at University of Texas Health San Antonio, have developed and tested an electricity generator that uses the heart as its source of energy. Perhaps one day this technology will be powering cardiac implants indefinitely, saving patients fro...
Source: Medgadget - February 13, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Service Animals vs. Emotional Support Animals
Service animals have been around for a long time, and we’re all familiar with them. These are animals (usually dogs) trained to assist persons with disabilities of one sort or another. We’re also seeing today a lot of “emotional support” animals. A lot of them. This week’s guest explains the difference between them, how they are used, and some surprising laws (or lack thereof) pertaining to them.
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Stephanie L. Taylor has her master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the
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Source: World of Psychology - February 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Military The Psych Central Show emotional support animals Gabe Howard Service Animals Stephanie L. Taylor Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Care and the Close of Life – Conversations in Bioethics
Hosted by the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, Conversations in Bioethics brings together distinguished speakers and the broader community to explore a topic in bioethics and inspire leadership for change. This year's panel will be held February 7th will focus on End-of-Life Care. The event will live-streamed here.
Panelists include:
Eduardo Bruera, MD, FAAHPM – Professor of Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston – a palliative care physician, is Department Chair and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medic...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 1, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Computational Model of Heart ’s Mitral Valve to Predict Surgery Outcomes
Mitral valve repairs are complex surgeries that require particular attention to each patient’s unique anatomy, type of regurgitation such as in Carpentier’s classification, and other factors. Recently, transcatheter mitral valve implants have started to become popular, but they’re very difficult to place so as not to obstruct nearby blood flow. Bioengineers at The University of Texas at Austin, Penn Medicine and Georgia Tech have developed a computational modeling method for the movement of mitral valve flaps, which may allow physicians to simulate different surgical techniques and predict which will work ou...
Source: Medgadget - January 31, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Cardiology Informatics Source Type: blogs
Patients Are People to Be Helped, Not Conditions to Be Treated
When I was trying to figure out where to attend medical school, someone I sought advice from told me, “Almost nobody asks where I did my medical school training. I could have almost done the first two years in the library by myself!” It distressed me that I could, in theory, attend a top school and still spend half of my time there studying in a library.
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, described in a recent Commentary for Academic Medicine, had a different value proposition. The school purposefully structured the curriculum so that I couldn’t be stuck in a library for the first two years of ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective bedside manner medical education patient care physician-patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Assistant professor in language neuroscience at the university of texas health science center at houston
As part of our new and expanding Texas Epilepsy Neurotechnologies and Neuroinformatics Institute (TENN), at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth – https://www.uth.edu), we invite applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in Language Neuroscience.We are looking for candidates who are interested in questions regarding language processing in cortical regions using systems-level approaches and/or computational methods. We are especially interested in individuals who currently use or are interested in multimodal integration approaches to the study of language via fMRI, MEG, ...
Source: Talking Brains - December 20, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral research positions in the neurobiology of language at the university of texas at houston
Multiple Postdoctoral research positions are available in the Tandon Lab at The University of Texas in Houston as part of the newly formed Texas Epilepsy Neurotechnologies and Neuroinformatics (TENN) Institute. Positions are funded either via multi-year Institute funding or by NIH funds (U01 and R01). The lab uses multimodal approaches – fMRI, lesional analysis following epilepsy surgery, intracranial recordings and direct stimulation to create and validate network level representations of language. Lab Collaborators include Greg Hickok (UCI), Stanislas Dehaene (NeuroSpin), Nathan Crone (JHU), Simon Fisher Baum (Rice) an...
Source: Talking Brains - November 16, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Hacking the Appointments Clause
The naming of Matthew Whitaker as acting head of the Department of Justice, following the forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, has kicked off a mini-debate between legal scholars over the propriety of his appointment. On Thursday, Neal Katyal and George Conwayargued inThe New York Times that Whitaker ’s elevation ran afoul of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which requires that the president appoint “principal officers” of the United States, such as the Attorney General, only with the “advice and consent” of the Senate. John Yoo, a conservative legal scholar who served at DO J under ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 9, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs
It's Not Too Late to Register for a Free Pathology Informatics Webinar Tomorrow
TheAssociation for Pathology Informatics (API) andSunquest Information Systems are co-sponsoring a webinar tomorrow, October 23, which is the second in a series of two focusing on pathology informatics challenges in large health systems. You can view the first webinar in this series from September 25, 2018, here. The time for tomorrow's presentation will be 1:00 p.m. ET. The speakers are Mark Tuthill, M.D., Division Head, Pathology Informatics Henry Ford Health System, and Brad Brimhall, M.D., Medical Director of Healthcare Analytics& Bioinformatics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San ...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 22, 2018 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Healthcare Information Technology Lab Industry Trends Lab Information Lab Processes and Procedures LIS Definitions and Strategy Medical Research Pathology Informatics Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
Vagus Nerve Stimulator Doubles Movement Recovery in Stroke Patients
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have developed and helped to commercialize a vagus nerve stimulator therapy, which significantly enhanced movement recovery in stroke patients undergoing rehab in a recent study. The device, called the Vivistim, is currently being tested and developed by a UT Dallas spinoff company called MicroTransponder. The implant is based on the principle that synchronizing vagus nerve stimulation with movement increases neural plasticity in the brain, resulting in enhanced recovery.
A staggering 800,000 Americans suffer a stroke each year. In many cases, this can lead to life-changing...
Source: Medgadget - October 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Sep 30, Joseph Baldwin: Today in the History of Psychology (30th September 1887)
'Elementary Psychology and Education' by Joseph Baldwin was published. Promoted as a text-book for high schools, reading circles and a manual for teachers, this was a landmark publication in the psychology of education.
An influential and pioneering figure in the field, Joseph Baldwin became the first professor of Pedagogy at the University of Texas, at Austin in 1891.
See following link for quality educational psychology information and resources.Educational Psychology (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - September 30, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Wheelchair Cushion with Smart Capabilities Avoids Pressure Ulcers
Engineers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a new seat cushion for wheelchairs that works in an intelligent way to prevent the development of pressure ulcers. Decubitus ulcers come about when the same part of the body experiences applied pressure for long periods of time. There are cushions and mattresses made of groups of inflatable sections that regularly inflate and deflate, changing which parts of the body experience the pressure.
The UT Arlington team improved on this by including pressure sensors into their cushion that are able to create a pretty detailed map of where pressure has been applied, ...
Source: Medgadget - September 20, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Critical Care Medicine Plastic Surgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
About 1,100 Puerto Rican Deaths from Maria -- NOT 2,795 or 4,645
The estimated number of above-average “excess deaths” in Puerto Ricoattributedto Hurricane Maria (Sept 20, 2017) is a difficult figure to estimate objectively. Puerto Rico’s official figure of 64 deaths by December 9, 2017 (which the President remembered) counted only those deathsdirectlyattributed to the storm and confirmed by medical examiners. Most of thedirect deaths from Katrina were fromdrowning– which is much easier to attribute to the storm than many other causes of death. Studies of Puerto Rican deaths from Maria aspire to account for a wide range ofindirect effects that are presumed (not proven) to b...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 17, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
