Inspired by their mentor Evelyn Nomayo whose mother had dementia and passed away this year, three Nigerian-Irish teen girls in Drogheda, Ireland created an…
A recent study found that constant uncontrollable worry — what cognitive scientists call repetitive negative thinking — may be a factor in the aggregation…
This is off of the Mayo Clinic so anyone can get it, but essentially the first noticeable symptom was short term memory loss. Grant,…
Many people probably know that the neurotransmitter, dopamine, plays a large role in addictive behavior and there’s data which shows that alcohol increases the…
The principal investigator of the larger project is Dr. Subhash Pandey in the Department of Psychiatry at U.I.C. The overall goal of that project…
There hasn’t been great success with medication on reducing a stress response. I think antidepressants are helpful for depression but not necessarily a stress…
Sometimes, in a different context or appraisal situation, stress is beneficial by helping the brain deal with the stressors that come along. We’ve had…
When I say microbiota, these are the bacteria, viruses, fungi and all the critters that live in our gastrointestinal tract and everywhere: in the…
In Alzheimer’s disease, the thought used to be that if you had amyloid in the brain, that you are not going to exhibit symptoms…
Often there are behavioral changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, even in the fairly early stages. One of the things that is becoming clear is…
If you experience low mood and hopelessness for a few weeks or months, or you identify other physical or mental symptoms like increased anxiety…
Mindfulness might be something that you consider practicing. You can take a class or you can even watch some 10-minute videos on YouTube on…
A lot of the human research that’s been ongoing for the last twenty or so years, looking at psilocybin specifically for healthy people as…
Try to not say phrases such as “You don’t remember?” or “We just talked about this, don’t you remember that?” Phrases like this can…
I would say predictability is what’s really important and it can be fairly loose. It doesn’t have to be scheduled down to the minute,…