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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants To Put Chips In Our Brains — How It Works And Who Else Is Doing It. Source: Forbes. Personal comment: TBI mental illness…Is there Hope now?

Robert Hart Breaking Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants To Put Chips In Our Brains — How It Works And Who Else Is Doing It Robert Hart Forbes Staff I cover breaking news. Jun 5, 2023,05:26am EDT Topline Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain … Continue reading

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Stop Being So Hard on Yourself. Source: Harvard Business Review

Stop Being So Hard on Yourself Being hard on yourself is not only ineffective, but it is also a hard pattern to break. How can you take a more balanced, emotionally equanimous approach to your performance? Harvard Business Review Read … Continue reading

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“My biggest weakness is my perfectionism”. Explore. Thomas Curran has just published a book examining perfectionism, its links to depression, anxiety, bulimia, anorexia, suicide ideation.

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Avoiding the Pitfalls of False Assumptions in Parental Alienation Cases – Psychiatric Times

ADHD | Addiction & Substance Use | Anxiety & Stress Disorders | Bipolar Disorder | Bipolar I Disorder | COVID-19 | Cannabis | Case Discussions | Comorbidity | Compulsive Disorders | Cultural Psychiatry | DSM | Depression | Digital Psychiatry … Continue reading

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We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right? JSTOR. Personal note: TBI amnesia impact; constantly I am thankful that it was the time of the computer, the internet, youtube, social media. For a number of years I have used Twitter as a means of augmenting my memory and creating a narrative for what I basically call my groundhog day existence which means rigid routine. I have written about it in my book “Fortune Favours the Brave” by Michelle Marcella Clarke (Amazon) which was written in 2017 when I got breast cancer. I have virtually no recall of the breast cancer.

We Got Social Media Wrong. Can We Get AI Right? How to be agents who use new AI tools, rather than subjects manipulated by them. Getty By: Alexandra Samuel  May 25, 2023  8 minutes  Share Tweet Email Print Interactions that dehumanize us. Disinformation that … Continue reading

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Henry Molaison: the amnesiac we’ll never forget, Tina Adams, The Observer Memory Interview. 5/05/2013. Imagine the significance of last 30 years and technology, social media provides for people with amnesia, now the selective use of AI has so much to offer. See Cleveland Clinic link anterograde amnesia…

SNAPSHOT: before reading the following: ================================================================== Observer newspaper 2013 Henry Molaison: the amnesiac we’ll never forget Tim Adams When an operation left Henry Molaison unable to form new memories, he became the most important patient in the history of brain … Continue reading

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Quotations: Originally period 2015-2019 reviewed May 2023. Theme Detente by Michelle Clarke. Nobody envisaged that Russia Federation would invade Ukraine 24th February 2022 or that Erdogan would be re-elected for the third time in Turkey 29th May 2023. There is a complex underbelly of dissent, geographies, massacres, genocides, disputes going back centuries. You may find this history mainly in the form of quotes interesting. It was originally posted in 2018

1st August 2019 Every year I collect together quotations that I find interesting.  In 2018 I focused on Arab Christian history of conflict – Theme Detente. I have no idea why I chose to focus on the Arab Christian history … Continue reading

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The Ancient Roots of Psychotherapy: Redfield Jamison is the author of many books, including The Unquiet Mind, and is a professor of mood disorders and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her new book is Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind. Source: Time magazine

The Ancient Roots of Psychotherapy In a small valley of the Peloponnese the archaeological site of Epidaurus extends to different levels. The worship of Asclepius began there for the first time in the 6th century BC. but the main monuments, … Continue reading

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Jonathan Haidt…a man after my own belief system. He recommends the “ancients” and their quotations. Wisdom is so important. Social psychology is his forte and he has written many books. 2nd video shorter: GenZ starts 1995. Note fragility. Recommends CBT

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Does marijuana cause depression in teenagers? Source: DW

Does marijuana cause depression in teenagers? Esteban Pardo 05/24/2023May 24, 2023 Increasing evidence is linking cannabis use in teens with depression, but whether one causes the other is still unclear. https://p.dw.com/p/4RDDZ ADVERTISEMENT https://366c92efa09da7b34bdf61c6592a56be.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-40/html/container.html The global attitude towards cannabis has been changing, drifting … Continue reading

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