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GZERO: Fascinating … AI assistants and the impact on how doctors relate to their patients. This is need to know for Government Departments of Health. The reality is that too much bureaucracy is strangling the efficient potential of proper medical care and this includes radiology and other tentacles of medicine too. Eric Topol is mentioned … I have to say his book “The Patient will see you now” is excellent and sits on my desk.

Posted on June 6, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, host of the Machines Like Us podcast, explores the rather surprising role artificial intelligence could play in the healthcare industry’s efforts to reconnect with humanity. Doctors have become busier and are spending … Continue reading →

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AI brain map could help demystify Alzheimer’s and autism. The Guardian. Comment: hope for more effective treatments for traumatic brain injury too

Posted on May 30, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

AI brain map could help demystify Alzheimer’s and autism Florida scientists use AI and virtual reality to create 3D renderings of brain formations of mice, whose neuron types are like humans’ Richard Luscombe in Miami Thu 30 May 2024 13.00 … Continue reading →

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Mental Health: The Great Exhaustion era: How work consumes our energy and even our free time. Source: EL PAIS. Comment: COVID allowed massive changes; remote work became the creed but has anyone researched how the office became the centre of work. Too often reared in the family home with both parents working eg as doctors did little to foster good mental health for their children especially if a child prone to anxiety. Then there were few options. The Co. Council (Ireland) granted the doctor the dispensary house and he worked 6 and half days per week … children sharing with patients and trauma.

Posted on May 29, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Some 44% of workers say they feel stressed, a record high figure that suggests burnout is not a psychological problem but rather a structural one https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/ALXJARAJV5BMJBJC2GH276RTRY.jpg?auth=4ff3c2d6c66c2e55aa3a834fe0c904f209bf0604cd68b9d20b41cc9d5be7d63f&width=980 Workers in the offices of a company in Poland. Jaap Arriens (NurPhoto/ Getty Images) … Continue reading →

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The Connections Between Smell, Memory, and Health. Source: Harvard Medicine magazine. Comment: 1993 I fractured my skull and lost hearing in right ear and sense of smell (ofactory) inter alia so much more especially revealed as science leaps ahead with explanations.

Posted on May 20, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

April 2024 The Connections Between Smell, Memory, and Health The ability of odors to bring to mind past experiences has intriguing scientific and therapeutic implications Spring 2024 “What can you do with your nose?” That’s the question psychologist Donald Laird … Continue reading →

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The Harvard Edcast. Independent Play Key to Countering Children’s Declining Mental Health. Comment. Fascinating.

Posted on May 15, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Independent Play Key to Countering Children’s Declining Mental Health February 21st, 2024 | 27:20 | S1:E436 Share Embed Recast Subscribe Download Mp3 Episode Details/Transcript Episode Summary Psychologist Peter Gray emphasizes the urgent need to reclaim independent play as a crucial … Continue reading →

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Powerful words: Hope, Altruism, Curiosity, Care, Tolerance, Kindness and so many ‘good’ labels. Today there is an article in The Guardian about Geel. Having Googled Geel, this goes back to “1969” Time article and maybe we should review it because mental illness is a blight in our country and festering out of control as psychiatrists, nurses just will not engage with what his a cinderella experience and are emigrating or choosing to work in different areas in medicine. Title from Time magazine has a catchy title. “Mental Illness: A Town for Outpatients.” There are many of us who could have been in long term care but escaped to a “village” within a urban setting that accepts us.

Posted on May 10, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Mental Illness: A Town for Outpatients Friday, Mar. 14, 1969 Follow @TIME On the surface, Geel looks like any other country town in northern Belgium. Its cobbled marketplace is surrounded by 15th century homes and shops; its neat brick farmhouses … Continue reading →

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Danuta Wasserman, psychiatrist: ‘In a brain with suicidal ideations there is a lot of anxiety, a lot of ambivalence, and a lot of anger’. Source: EL PAIS

Posted on May 9, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

Health MENTAL HEALTH Danuta Wasserman, psychiatrist: ‘In a brain with suicidal ideations there is a lot of anxiety, a lot of ambivalence, and a lot of anger’ The president of the World Psychiatric Association warns of the influence of screens … Continue reading →

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Addictions … they never go away but you can try to learn by alternatives. Ruben Baler, neuroscientist ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a commodity’. Comment: recommend earlier postings by Jonathan Haidt 2010 impact of smartphone to social media on children. Addiction so young! Source: EL PAIS

Posted on May 5, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

ADDICTIONS Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ The expert from the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) warns that overexposure to screens from an early age can have a negative impact … Continue reading →

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Scientific American Custom Media (Posted for Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative)

Posted on April 26, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

April 26, 2024 4 min read It’s Time for a Global Effort to Defeat Alzheimer’s Advances in testing and treatment are galvanizing progress. Healthcare systems must also transform George Vradenburg, Olivier Schwab This article was produced in partnership with the … Continue reading →

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Harvard Medical magazine: The Connections Between Smell, Memory, and Health. Comment. TBI 1994 no smell, loss hearing right ear et al but the common reaction when you said “No smell/Taste” was how lucky you were!! I am delighted to see this article and giving importance to olfactory functions also.

Posted on April 22, 2024 by michelleclarke2015

The Connections Between Smell, Memory, and Health The ability of odors to bring to mind past experiences has intriguing scientific and therapeutic implications April 2024 “What can you do with your nose?” That’s the question psychologist Donald Laird posed in … Continue reading →

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