Monthly Archives: November 2023

“Dignity in Death” presently up for discussion in Ireland. This documentary is not for the faint hearted but for people who have profound and deep impacting mental illness, it outlines their reasons for the importance of Choice. I know people will disagree but surely people who suffer to this degree in a society that fails to provide adequately for them, should be allowed. Presently reading book by Professor Brendan Kelly, Asylum. What strikes me most is the fact that symptoms in 1800’s existed then as now but people were cared for in institutions whereas now you are meeting them homeless, living in tents, taking illegal drugs, living in hostels but they have no voice, other than that of a passer by who may give them some money or food, but the money is less since COVID-19 when Ireland seemed to opt for cashless. Truth is hard to take but we need to know exactly what is happening in Ireland for older people with mental illness.

Posted on November 20, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2023/11/17/do-you-want-to-die-today-inside-canadas-euthanasia-program Do You Want To Die Today? Inside Canada’s Euthanasia Program The number of Canadians receiving euthanasia is the highest in the world as the country expands access to the procedure. In this documentary, Fault Lines examines how Canada became … Continue reading →

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How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children. Source: Scientific American. (Comment: Gaza, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen, Sahel…all the little children, the pain, the suffering. Why? Where is the education of the aggressors; not alone do they cause death and mayhem but they cause intergenerational trauma. What have the American’s learnt from Vietnam? People ignore the impact on soldiers, families and children).

Posted on November 18, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways. Scientific American Read when you’ve got time to spare. More from Scientific American Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images After the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, … Continue reading →

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Researchers Warn We Could Run Out of Data to Train AI by 2026. What Then? Source: Singularity Hub. (Only a few years ago someone said “Data” will become the new “Gold/Oil/Diamonds/Commodities too”? It seems to be something that is now proven.)

Posted on November 17, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Researchers Warn We Could Run Out of Data to Train AI by 2026. What Then? ByRita Matulionyte November 14, 2023 As artificial intelligence reaches the peak of its popularity, researchers have warned the industry might be running out of training data—the fuel that runs powerful … Continue reading →

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ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education. ChatGPT “an exoskeleton for the mind”. Source: Nature. Personal question: (ChatGPT: will it help people with language difficulties post TBI? When would it be ChatBot but non reflective of person with TBI whose processes are impaired through injuries to the Brain?)

Posted on November 15, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education Researchers, educators and companies are experimenting with ways to turn flawed but famous large language models into trustworthy, accurate ‘thought partners’ for learning. Download PDF Last month, educational psychologist Ronald … Continue reading →

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Amnesia and the Multiple Memory Systems of the Brain. Neuroscience and Psychology published 2018. For people with TBI or for people who have family members affected by the same and want to find out more, this is interesting. The abstracts cover explanations to young children too. Points of particular significance to me will be bold and italics. Thank you Natalie V. Coving, Melissa C. Duff. Traumatic brain injury 1993. Thrown from horse going over jump in Zimbabwe…Amnesia is the symptom, as you have clarified via HM. I will continue searching but thankfully this WordPress is shared & someone, someday, may gain a little of my experiences from traumatic brain injury that may be useful to others. Please pass on recommendation related to traumatic brain injury, amnesia, bipolar, anxiety to researches because this below is an excellent grasp of the blight that happens but then it can give hope. Curiousity is an incredible gift alongside technology and social media X which I use in a skill, habit forming way. Michelle. WordPress canisgallicus.com

Posted on November 11, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Core Concept Neuroscience and Psychology Published: September 6, 2018 Amnesia and the Multiple Memory Systems of the Brain Authors and reviewers Authors Natalie V. Coving Natalie V. Covington I am a researcher and speech-language pathologist. I am passionate about understanding … Continue reading →

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Simple blood tests for dementia to be trialled in NHS. The Guardian. Oldies or approaching 60’s, it is very important to be able to identify memory gaps and a blood test, if it at all possible, would be great place to start. I use Twitter to augment my memory just as someone who gets a pair of glasses for long vision or short vision, it makes life so much easier. Add to this to remember where you left your glasses and if you have a problem with this, come up with a strategy. My optician is a gem regarding memory deficits that apply in my case.

Posted on November 9, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

Dementia affects about 900,000 people in the UK Photograph: MBI/Alamy Dementia Simple blood tests for dementia to be trialled in NHS £5m project launched with aim of having reliable tests within five years to provide quick diagnosis Andrew Gregory Health … Continue reading →

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A book, a gift, a fear of confinement for mental illness complicated by traumatic brain injury; and the much denied chronic fatigue which I know to be most debilitating and for years too; back to the gift, is the book Asylum, Inside Grangegorman, just released by Professor Brendan Kelly. As I have outlined before I am presently reading Oliver Sacks books … Awakenings has so much to teach us and if anyone has dealings with mental illness, diseases like Parkinsons, neurological conditions or for that matter traumatic brain injury, I suggest first listening to Professor Sacks, link below. Do we have the detail in the written word now? Reading the book I think we lose out on detail but more so in the joint adventure of physician and patient to find a solution to create a better life for other people. This is the “Altruism” of the other cultures and their priorities. Too many insurance claims have caused “Fear in Physicians” to encourage their patients/clients to contribute especially so in Psychiatry, ironically, the area where medical people shun. When St. Brendan’s or as it was known in my time, Grangegorman was being decommissioned I recall that much correspondence and personal belongings of those confined there often for decades, was available and I wrote to politicians to ask that these letters be archived. Awakenings reiterates the importance of such archives. Professor Kelly’s book is next on my agenda followed by the “Birds Nest” novel but having the background of Awakenings gives me hope.

Posted on November 8, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

___________________________________________________________________________________ Asylum: Inside Grangegorman Royal Irish Academyhttps://www.ria.ie › asylum-inside-grangegorman Brendan Kelly is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin, Consultant Psychiatrist at Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, and UCD Visiting Full … €18.95

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Charlie Bird and Brent Pope and those beautiful elephants presented to certain spaces. About 2015/16 Brent Pope and a few people had this brilliant idea to get together people who have mental illness and to have an exhibition of their work. I have one big regret that I did buy a painting. Ireland should stand now on the shoulders of Giants…This article is 2015 and it is global. “Outsider Artists” most often people who suffer from mental illness, need help to come forward with an exhibition. I would hope Brent Pope would have advice. Presently reading “Awakenings” by Oliver Sacks (Robin Williams played Sacks partner in Awakenings, the film). To understand the complexities of mental illness, the case studies and Sack’s tenacity tell the story of what it is like to live in parallel universes, unknown often to others.

Posted on November 6, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

https://theconversation.com/outsider-art-can-refashion-how-we-think-about-mental-illness-36439 Academic rigour, journalistic flair Outsider art can refashion how we think about mental illness Published: January 20, 2015 10.44am GMT Author Disclosure statement Victoria Tischler does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or … Continue reading →

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Psychiatric symptoms … institutions to autism to ADHD. If your children become ill and it lasts and causes exceptional symptoms. Check out Luke O’Neill “Pandas” or “Pans”. Look out for streptacoccus ie strep throat which is very common in children. This has been discussed in the Economist magazine (link below). NB about schizophrenia which is a most debilitating life-time indictment on living and possible new way to treat it at onset.

Posted on November 3, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

PANDAS: The childhood illness that may explain change in behaviour – Luke O’Neill talks to Pat Kenny Newstalk 69.4K subscribers #PANDAS#science#newstalk A “debilitating” psychiatric condition in children appears to be curable through antibiotics – but not enough doctors know about … Continue reading →

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Lure of a charity shop: especially if you believe in bibliotherapy. Mental illness is a blight to one’s existence yet some where in the core of your being you are searching for something that you can share with others to help them out of that Pit called Hell where the Black Dog is in fact you. I found Oliver Sacks in the Ringsend bookshop, several of his books thankfully which I am now reading. He talks about the “Brain” and its potential over the next 100 years. Awakenings (film, Robin Williams played the part of Dr. Sacks) may be complex but to know a doctor would have such empathy with his patients is consoling and useful to society. Thank you Charlie Rose for interviewing Dr Oliver Sacks; thank you Charlie Rose for your programmes on the Brain and your guest Dr Eric Kandel. Thankfully now 2022 your observations and interest have morphed into realities we now explore.

Posted on November 1, 2023 by michelleclarke2015

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