Tag Archives: mental-health

Testing fitness of aging brain. Source: Harvard Gazette

Health Testing fitness of aging brain Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer June 12, 2024 8 min read Most voters back cognitive exams for older politicians. What do they measure? Amid concerns about the mental fitness of the U.S. presidential candidates … Continue reading

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The Modern World Is Making Men Lonely, Addicted & Lost! – Escape Society’s Matrix | Gabor Matè

Tom Bilyeu 4.25M subscribers <__slot-el> 2,237,779 views 16 Sept 2022 Full Episodes of Impact Theory Restart Your Life in 7 Days https://bit.ly/3JvtCBQ WE are EXCITED to bring to you our NEW Impact Theory en Español YouTube channel. PLEASE share with … Continue reading

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The national voice for psychology in Canada. “Psychology Works” Fact Sheet: Perfectionism. Comment: Post Covid many children have trauma; for anxious parents, a good place to start is to look for traits of perfectionism.

Skip to content Canadian Psychological Association The national voice for psychology in Canada “Psychology Works” Fact Sheet: Perfectionism Posted on September 18, 2020 What is perfectionism? Perfectionism is a multidimensional personality style that is associated with a large number of … 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

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.

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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Google and Harvard Map a Tiny Piece of the Human Brain With Extreme Precision. Source: Singularity Hub by Shelly Fan. Quote from article: “Using a machine like a deli-meat slicer armed with a diamond knife, the Harvard team, led by connectome expert Dr. Jeff Lichtman, meticulously sliced the sample into 5,019 cross sections. Each was roughly 30 nanometers thick—a fraction of the width of a human hair. They imaged the slices with an electron microscope, capturing nanoscale cellular details, including the “factories” inside cells that produce energy, eliminate waste, or transport molecules.”

Google and Harvard Map a Tiny Piece of the Human Brain With Extreme Precision By Shelly Fan May 13, 2024 Scientists just published the most detailed map of a cubic millimeter of the human brain. Smaller than a grain of … Continue reading

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

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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Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being. Source: Nature

Is the Internet bad for you? Huge study reveals surprise effect on well-being A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare. Facebook Email A global, 16-year study1 of 2.4 … 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.

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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Harvard Public Health magazine Opinion. Hospitals can better help suicidal teens in the emergency room

Opinion Hospitals can better help suicidal teens in the emergency room A promising model of care gives patients and their parents skills for coping with crisis. Harvard Public Health Magazine Hospitals can better help suicidal teens in the emergency room … Continue reading

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