The ‘ Life-Changing Treatment ’ For Tourette Syndrome (M)
Common Tourette tics include blinking, coughing, sniffing and facial movements -- these usually first appear during adolescence. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 21, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Mental Health subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Sleep Is At The Heart Of Almost All Mental Health Issues (M)
Whether it is anxiety, schizophrenia, Tourette's or depression, all have circadian rhythm disruption in common. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Mental Health Sleep subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 26th 2022
This article on senolytic therapies to selectively remove senescent cells in old tissues is in part a matter of Unity Biotechnology talking up their position. The company suffered from first mover disadvantage in bringing senolytic drugs into clinical development. The field has made progress very rapidly over the last decade, and startups founded even just a couple of years after Unity's launch benefited from greater knowledge and a selection of better technologies to work with. Still, one can be talking up one's position and also be right. The accumulation of senescent cells is profoundly harmful, a significant contributi...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Somatic Mosaicism in the Aging Brain
Somatic mosaicism is the result of the random mutational damage that occurs to stem cells and progenitor cells, leading to a spread of different mutation patterns throughout the descendant cells making up a tissue. It is thought to be involved in aging, a way for random mutation, different in every cell, to lead to specific dysfunctions occurring throughout a tissue, and potentially prime a tissue for a later combination of mutations that gives rise to cancer. This commentary on recent research discusses somatic mosaicism in the brain, intending to see whether there were differences in neurological disease states, but the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Depression: The Highway to Success Has an Awful Lot of Detours
I’ll write a bit vaguely today because I want to touch upon some things that are family matters and how they impact me.Recently, I have noticed longtime readers of my blog have leapfrogged over me while my life has become stagnant. I caught myself beginning to feel bitter about it, so instead of letting that bitterness settle into depression, I will share some things that I have learned instead.My life took a detour a few years back, if eleven can be called of few. It was as if I was forced to take an exit and found myself on the service road bumping along besides the highway, falling behind all the other traffic. I ...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Post-COVID Source Type: blogs
When Does Research Become a Fixation?
I pull back the curtain a bit today, revealing a deep, dark secret about myself —a secret so dank, surely I’ll lose the last three readers I have.I’ve been reading far too many Japanese light novels lately.It started as a form of research, but now I actually like the darn things. I can’t get enough of them. They’re my personal Pandora’s Box. I opened the beautiful, ornately engraved box, saw the plentiful wonders inside, and now I can’t shut the lid. Is this anADHD obsession, or a newfound joy? I can’t tell, which is why I’m troubled. Have you seen myGoodreads timeline? I r...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - January 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Writing Source Type: blogs
Cheese Dreams and Bird Behaviour: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
There’s a widespread belief that eating cheese before bed can give you weird dreams. But there’s no evidence that this is true, writes Jessica Brown at BBC Future. The belief may have arisen from the fact that cheese is sometimes eaten as the last course of a meal, and eating late at night can disrupt our sleep.
In English, we tend to pair nonsense words like “bouba” with round shapes, and words like “kiki” with spiky ones. But now researchers have found that this phenomenon is common across many different languages and ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Finding the Beauty in Chaos
A new beginning that looks an awful lot like the old one.When I set out to explore fractal art, I face a confusing array of controls& parameters. It has taken me years to develop the eye to select the best cropping, the most flattering palette, and the most interesting settings, then present them in a pleasing manner. Without this discipline, the fractal is an utter mess with no focus. By making a few poorly chosen decisions, the same mathematical location and the same color palette can appear completely different —and far less appealing.Of course, anybody with the time and desire to learn the software can produce pl...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Depression Family Goodreads Journaling Visualizing Writing Source Type: blogs
Final reminder: Professional development opportunity with neuropsychologist Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg
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We are pleased to share a fantastic professional development opportunity offered by the Luria Neuroscience Institute and featuring renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP.
Inaugural 5‑day Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposium (February 17–21st, 2020):
Dr. Goldberg has been a frequent visitor to Bali for 30 years and is currently engaged in cross-cultural neuroscience research with two major Indonesian universities. He personally designed this unique and comprehensive event to discuss cutting edge cognitive neuroscience and state-of-the-art clinical insights with a small group of participants in one...
Source: SharpBrains - January 16, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Bali discount code Elkhonon-Goldberg Executive-Functions frontal-lobes Goldberg Brain-Mind Symposia Luria Neuroscience Institute neuropsychologist webinar sequence Source Type: blogs
Keeping Upbeat During Illness Is a Challenge
Do I still have a blog? You wouldn’t know it by how infrequently I’ve updated it lately. Sometimes life can overwhelm. When that happens, I like to believe that I will always be plucky enough to fend off the doldrums and shake my fist defiantly at the obstacles that beset me. However, when illness weakens your knees and keeps you motionless in bed, is there enough pluck to lift your fist, never mind keep your spirits up?I ’ve been incredibly sick this Fall. I started my journey on September 7th. I attended FanX in Salt Lake City, had a good time attending with my daughter, then came home and tried to fight of...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Journaling Somnambulating Source Type: blogs
Keeping Upbeat During Illness Is a Challenge
Do I still have a blog? You wouldn’t know it by how infrequently I’ve updated it lately. Sometimes life can overwhelm. When that happens, I like to believe that I will always be plucky enough to fend off the doldrums and shake my fist defiantly at the obstacles that beset me. However, when illness weakens your knees and keeps you motionless in bed, is there enough pluck to lift your fist, never mind keep your spirits up?I ’ve been incredibly sick this Fall. I started my journey on September 7th. I attended FanX in Salt Lake City, had a good time attending with my daughter, then came home and tried to fight of...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - December 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Journaling Somnambulating Source Type: blogs
Concerning Findings About Cannabis Use
While recreational marijuana is legal in 11 states as of November 2019, more states gravitating toward legalizing the recreational use of the substance, and 33 states allowing medical marijuana, there’s apparently no stopping this trend. Cannabis, in the form of marijuana, hemp, and cannabidiol (CBD) is being used for pain relief, to alleviate stress, cope with anxiety, and a number of other mental health disorders and addictions.
Yet, there’s a dearth of clinical studies that have been conducted on the overall effects on a user’s health. Clearly, as Crain’s Detroit Business points out, more research on marijuan...
Source: World of Psychology - November 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Medications Substance Abuse Cannabis Marijuana Source Type: blogs
Tourette Syndrome Treated with Functional MRI
Researchers at Yale University have for the first time showed that it is possible to control the symptoms of Tourette Syndrome using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The researchers recruited twenty one 11 to 19 year-olds and used real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-NF), a technology that lets patients monitor their own brain activity, to control the frequency of tics.
While rt-fMRI-NF is a relatively new technology, it seems to have the capability to significantly impact on neuropsychiatric conditions. Potentially, it may have long-lasting impacts on patients, which is something that has yet to be stu...
Source: Medgadget - August 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Neurology Pediatrics Psychiatry Radiology Rehab Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Simple Psychology Explanations with Dr. Ali Mattu
Do you enjoy watching YouTube videos on psychology and mental health topics? But are you tired of wading through all the mindless fluff, meaningless new-age jargon, and overly pedantic lectures? There is a better option out there – The Psych Show, created by Dr. Ali Mattu.
It might seem frivolous, but YouTube videos aren’t going anywhere. They have become one of the most common ways we access information, and this is especially true for young people. Join us as Dr. Mattu tells us how a PhD psychologist became one of the first YouTubers, how he decides what type of content to feature each week, and what ro...
Source: World of Psychology - August 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Psychology Self-Help The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
20% of students with ADHD receive no school support services
From Science Daily on 03/05/19At least one in five students with ADHD receive no school services despite experiencing significant academic and social impairment, a gap particularly evident for adolescents and youth from non-English-speaking and/or lower-income families, researchers found in the largest study of children and teens with ADHD ever conducted.The new findings are based on data on 2,495 youth with ADHD aged 4 to 17 years from across the United States, collected through the National Survey of the Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD and Tourette Syndrome (NS-DATA). The survey, the largest to date of parents of youth w...
Source: Markham's Behavioral Health - March 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: David G. Markham Source Type: blogs