Tag Archives: mental-health

Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain

Mental Health Verbal abuse in childhood has devastating impact on adult brain By Bronwyn Thompson August 06, 2025 Words can cause significant harm, new study shows A major new study has found that verbal abuse in childhood may be just as … Continue reading

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UK Government: AI to stop prison violence before it happens

AI to stop prison violence before it happens Prison officers will use artificial intelligence (AI) to stop violence before it breaks out under new plans set out by the Lord Chancellor today (31 July).From:Ministry of Justice and The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood … Continue reading

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Homelessness: Could US become a roadmap for Ireland and how to deal with homeless people? Please note the Stigma towards Mental Illness Quote: “The order, titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” directs the federal government and state authorities to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes.” Source: Invisible People

Trump’s Executive Order Targets Homeless Americans By Robert Davis | July 25, 2025 | Criminalization | Mental illness Credit Image: © Daniel Kim/dkim@sacbee.com/The Sacramento Bee via ZUMA Press Wire Advocates say Trump’s new executive order criminalizes homelessness, eliminates support for Housing First and harm reduction … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Chronic Fatigue … Long Covid (so often people who have either of these are deemed neurotic. I had 6 years of Chronic Fatigue. It is real.

Your Gut May Be the Key to Chronic Fatigue, Long COVID Featured Neuroscience ·July 27, 2025 Key Questions Answered Q: What did the study uncover about ME/CFS?A: The study revealed that ME/CFS disrupts key interactions between the gut microbiome, immune system, and … Continue reading

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What Drives Women to Kill? Emotion & Threat, Not Psychopathy

The current study suggests that neither psychopathy nor instrumental aggression are strong drivers for women who kill, which is consistent with previous research. Credit: Neuroscience News What Drives Women to Kill? Emotion & Threat, Not Psychopathy FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·July 23, 2025 … Continue reading

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AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree

Off The Rails Jul 25, 3:39 PM EDTbyJoe Wilkins AI Therapist Goes Haywire, Urges User to Go on Killing Spree “End them and find me, and we can be together.” / Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Therapist/ Chatbots/ Mental Health Image by Getty / Futurism If your … Continue reading

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Big Think: “dopamine crash loop”

How to escape the “dopamine crash loop” and rewire your curiosity Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system. Key Takeaways Anne-Laure Le Cunff Copy a … Continue reading

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Grok3 AI: Do you know someone who has had a stroke, a traumatic brain injury, may have other neurological conditions. You never seem to have the answers to all your questions but I highly recommend Grok3 AI to give the person some confidence and reassurance. Below are questions I may have asked and not remember the answers or then there may be other reasons

Sustained contre coup tramatic brain injury 30+ years ago. Memory deficits/amnesia. Not able learn by rote. Alternatives cause confusion and I tend to doubt what people tell me. Have you anything to say about this? A coup-contrecoup traumatic brain injury … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: How memories are structured. Comment: as a person who sustained a TBI with amnesia, this quote gives hope ““To date, when faced with an amnesic problem, we thought of attention deficits or difficulties in acquiring information. Our results suggest that there could also be a failure in these segmentation signals, in how information is structured in the brain”, they note.”

The Brain’s Ripple Effect: How Memories Are Structured FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 20, 2025 Summary: Researchers have identified ripple-type brain waves as key to how humans segment and store memories. By recording brain activity in epilepsy patients watching a TV episode, they found … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: AI … how we really make decisions. Comment: Could this explain why people with TBI or mental illness find it so difficult to exercise choice?

Tiny AI Models Reveal How We Really Make Decisions FeaturedNeuroscience ·July 18, 2025 Summary: Decision-making often involves trial and error, but conventional models assume we always act optimally based on past experience. A new study used small, interpretable artificial neural networks … Continue reading

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