Monthly Archives: October 2023

Budget 2023/24 Ireland. Paucity of contributions to our HSE which is in dire need of a massive injection of funds; but Minister Stephen Donnelly was left virtually empty handed with an electorate demanding a better health service. This article is from Nature. Maybe it is time for a volcano to erupt for all systems of health based on historic bureaucratic models. Smartphones … whoever thought by 2020’s so many people would have access to them and how life changed as a result of their use. See what can happen here with AI? Maybe it is time for medicine faculty to include Computer Science target AI

Posted on October 25, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like? Emerging generalist models could overcome some limitations of first-generation machine-learning tools for clinical use. Download PDF Jordan Perchik started his radiology residency at the University of Alabama at … Continue reading →

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Danger, threats, manipulation, exposure caused by Meta yes Facebook and Instagram. The US Attorney General and representing others is openly making a stand to represent children. Mental illness is at crisis levels in US but also in Ireland. Meta must answer questions. See link below.

Posted on October 24, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

NY AG James @NewYorkStateAG 24th October 2023 Today, my office and a nationwide coalition of AGs are suing @Meta for harming kids with its platforms and fueling the youth mental health crisis. We’re going to end Meta’s behavior and keep … Continue reading →

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…”But all this talk of questionnaires and self-reports brings us to the age-old question: How do we know that aphantasia really exists, as opposed to being a form of psychological denial or simply a different interpretation of the same inner experience?…” Can someone answer what about traumatic brain injury impact? I can’t visualise, spatial is a problem, imagination – “permanent present”… cannot relax without something to capture my attention and therefore sleep is a great source of comfort. I have a sliver if I can relate to what I would have visualised in my childhood, work ie pre-accident….again TBI equates to a more aggressive ” “Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory,” or SDAM for short. People with SDAM lack the ability to relive past experiences in their minds.” Question: can anyone do these fMRI tests in Ireland? In the now knowing you feel secure but once you move to something different – there is a black abyss with the added factor you don’t remember. Source: NAUTILUD

Posted on October 24, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

My Brain Doesn’t Picture Things I can’t imagine sights, smells, or sounds. What’s wrong with me? Explore I’m lying down in a white cylinder barely wider than my body, surrounded on all sides by a mass of sophisticated machinery the … Continue reading →

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Paddy, I saw you walking last night approaching 10 pm. You were alone in your thoughts and you must have been reeling from the coverage in the Irish media that we so love in Ireland, with every interpretation spun but at the end of the day, it is the old adage, kick a man when he is down. I hope this article has the brevity and being Israeli (AFP and Times of Israel) coverage, maybe we can level the playing field with a degree of equity. We all know about Tweets and the heat of the moment. We are warned constantly. You set up the Web Summit, Ireland through some kind of dose of the little green monster jealously, lost it to Portugal. Remain stoic Paddy Cosgrave. Tweets should not destroy a career of an innovator to action and mass success. To people who have Netflix, I would ask you to watch Gaza, the children, the bombings and this is after the armed engagements ending 2014. Shame on the world who have closed their eyes to the children of Gaza.

Posted on October 23, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Tech summit organizer quits following backlash for accusing Israel of war crimes Paddy Cosgrave says his ‘personal comments have become a distraction from the event,’ again apologizes after Meta, Google and others boycott Web Summit By AFP and TOI STAFF22 October 2023, 5:47 … Continue reading →

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Dignity in Dying/”Assisted Dying”. My personal experiences with ill-health through the past 5 decades, I believe a person has the right to choose. Below is an article from the IMT (Irish Medical Times). The Citizen’s Assembly and the Oireachtas joint committee on assisted dying is in place and people need to express their views.

Posted on October 21, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

You are reading 1 of 15 free-access articles allowed for 30 days IHCA President Prof Robert Landers Lack of resources may push patients towards assisted dying, committee hears By Editorial Staff 20th October 2023 Medical groups on both sides of … Continue reading →

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The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy by Professor Pierce Grace 20th October 2023. (Ukrainians are entering Ireland as refugees from war caused by invasion of the Russian Federation 24th February 2022) but Ireland, albeit as part of the British Empire, was involved in the Crimean War in the 1800’s. Hence I add it is such a shame to see a hospital that trained doctors and nurses, Royal City of Dublin hospital, often referred to as Baggot Street hospital, cast to the four winds with no direction to credit it, even as a medical museum with a focus on say neuro-psychiatry) – comment from canisgallicus.com search other articles mental health, suicide, traumatic brain injury, anxiety, Trinity Horizon programme ie research.

Posted on October 21, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

You are reading 2 of 15 free-access articles allowed for 30 days A hospital during the Crimean War The Crimean Journals of the Sisters of Mercy By Prof Pierce Grace 20th October 2023 When we think of the Crimean War, … Continue reading →

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“Asylums” “Ireland’s awkward Institutions”. Grange Gorman or St. Brendan’s.

Posted on October 21, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22311230/ RIA Publications Newsletter View this email in your browser  To wrap up Irish Book Week 2023, find out more about the latest publication from the Royal Irish Academy: Asylum: Inside Grangegorman by Brendan Kelly Listen back to Brendan Kelly’s interview … Continue reading →

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The rise of ‘incels’ (Involuntary celibates). Harvard Gazette

Posted on October 20, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

NATION The rise of ‘incels’ Psychologist examines genesis of online groups of sexually embittered men, roots in evolutionary behavior, why some turn violent BYAnna LambHarvard Staff Writer DATE October 18, 2023 What happens when lonely men, embittered by a sense … Continue reading →

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Murthy says social media hurting kids, time for government, tech firms to help. “Surgeon general calls mental health risks ‘pivotal issue in public health’” Harvard Gazette

Posted on October 17, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Murthy says social media hurting kids, time for government, tech firms to help Surgeon general calls mental health risks ‘pivotal issue in public health’ BY Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer DATE October 16, 2023 It’s time for government and private … Continue reading →

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World Mental Health Day: 10th October 2023. I have listened to many people speak about mental illness but I have to say this man, U.S. Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy’s interview by the Cleveland Clinic is worth engaging with. Too many people are suffering and children too. Personally I recommend bibliotherapy and listening to people who have experience with mental illness, but this can only happen after professional care has led you to the place of discovery. Please pass this on, we must not forget mental illness on this day 10th October 2023. Dr Murthy talks about “Health Equity” being a problem in the US but the same is true in Ireland; we pay half the amount to mental illness by comparison to other countries and we have a significant shortage of psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and we have scandals coming down the track too. Suicide … we hear too little but the truth is we know in the enclaves of stigma, details remain hidden because of shame and genetics. Please take a few moments to listen TEDMED “Why doctors kill themselves”. By a daughter of doctors and a caring doctor herself. BBC report about vets and suicide. Shocking reading. All creatures great and small like Dr Finlay’s casebook romanticised the realities of being a rural doctor or vet

Posted on October 10, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

============Note this is year….2016 Recommend : Helps identify areas so that people can understand mental illness https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22295-mental-health-disorders https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20231010-the-acute-suicide-crisis-among-veterinarians-youre-always-going-to-be-failing-somebody

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