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What really keeps people from going senile?
June 13, 2014 Comments Off on What really keeps people from going senile?

National Post

Those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease experience a greater-than-normal decrease in the size of the hippocampus, which contributes to the difficulty in recalling newer memories while older ones remain intact.

Studies indicate that regular aerobic exercise has been shown not only to slow age-related shrinking of the hippocampus but remarkably it can also reverse some of the wastings that have already occurred. A year-long, three-days-a-week walking program recovered as much as two years’ worth of volume previously lost in healthy, but sedentary, seniors.
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Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.
April 16, 2014 Comments Off on Driving addicts to use really risky drugs.

PsychCentral

Changing supply does little to change demand when it comes to drugs of abuse. Why? Because addiction is a chronic brain disease that changes the function and structure of the brain, and because people often use drugs to cope with painful emotions. Neither of these problems is cured by making drugs less available.
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And now, from the, “Who would have guessed it,” department…
March 27, 2014 2 Comments on And now, from the, “Who would have guessed it,” department…

Web MD

They analyzed crime rates in all 50 states between 1990 and 2006. During that time, 11 states legalized medical marijuana: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

Using FBI data, the researchers looked at rates of murder, rape, assault, robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft.
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Still thinking positive?
February 21, 2014 Comments Off on Still thinking positive?

New Yorker –

Moreover, as the journalist Oliver Burkeman noted in “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking,” “Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed when things eventually happen that he can’t persuade himself to believe are good.”
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Does someone you know need help?
December 23, 2013 Comments Off on Does someone you know need help?

PsychCentral

To get the outcome you want, you need to attentively listen to the person complain about the problem in order to find a non-confronting way in. Focus on normalizing the problem – making it seem like a normal, everyday behaviour – and creating an alliance with the person. Do not be tempted to offer advice, which comes across as “I’m normal; you’re not.”
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Real healing for PTSD
September 26, 2013 Comments Off on Real healing for PTSD

The Guardian

Fury, paranoia, hypervigilance, overreaction to a perceived threat – all are common in a traumatized person. The psychologist who helped me to get better characterized the condition thus: imagine your memories are a conveyor belt of cardboard boxes heading towards a final point, where they are processed. But if something life-threatening disrupts that process, the box memories get stuck, trapped in the amygdala, that bit of the brain that triggers your fight or flight survival impulse.
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How to fundamentally remodel your brain…
July 25, 2013 Comments Off on How to fundamentally remodel your brain…

NY Times

So the scientists next gently placed the remaining mice in ice-cold water for five minutes. Mice do not enjoy cold water. They find immersion stressful and anxiety-inducing, although it is not life-threatening.

Then the scientists checked these animals’ brains. They were looking for markers, known as immediate early genes, that indicate a neuron has recently fired.
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When legalism dies, people don’t…
June 22, 2013 Comments Off on When legalism dies, people don’t…

NY Times

The magnitude of the decline in HPV infections surprised public health experts because only about a third of teenage girls in the United States have been vaccinated with the full course of three doses. By comparison, vaccination rates in countries like Denmark and Britain are above 80 percent.
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How not to do statistics…
April 9, 2013 Comments Off on How not to do statistics…

Journal of the American Medical Association

In January of this year, the Journal of the American Medical Association published an analysis of 100 studies in what looked like an honest attempt to assess the relationship between body mass index and mortality.
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Lets hear it for sanity – from the psychological community…
December 26, 2012 1 Comment on Lets hear it for sanity – from the psychological community…

New York Times

I write this despite the so-called Goldwater Rule, an ethical standard the American Psychiatric Association adopted in the 1970s that directs psychiatrists not to comment on someone’s mental state if they have not examined him and gotten permission to discuss his case. It has had a chilling effect.
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