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Functional Psychiatry: The Future of Mental Health Care

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Functional psychiatry represents a transformative shift in mental health care, addressing the root causes of mental health conditions by integrating physical, psychological, and environmental factors. This comprehensive, personalized approach aims to provide long-lasting solutions for mental well-being.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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Child Mind Institute and Kaggle Launch Competition to Predict Teen Internet Addiction

Child Mind Intitute

Citizen scientists will use Healthy Brain Network data on physical activity and internet use; competition sponsored by Dell Technologies and NVIDIA New York, NY The youth mental health crisis has many causes, but one rising concern is technology. The internet is a vital tool for education, entertainment, and connection.

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How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care

ADDitude

A 101 on Epigenetics Reading Genes Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think. Epigenetic alterations have been linked to numerous poor health outcomes.

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Unpacking Depression: An Interview with Psychologist Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg

Lawyers with Depression

An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg coaches people with anxiety via the internet and phone. Depression is really more about the energy whether its mental energy or physical energy to make an effective response. The first part is genetics.

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Treating Lawyers with Depression: One Psychologist’s Top 10 Tips

Lawyers with Depression

Depression is a mental health disorder that affects roughly 10 to 15 percent of the general population. In most cases depressed lawyers, like most depressed individuals, have a genetic predisposition to the disorder. Take your mental health seriously. and the Commonwealth of Virginia. He received his Ph.D.

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Day # 156: Parasomnias

Bullet Psych

Today, we will focus on parasomnias, a category of sleep disorders involving abnormal behaviors and perceptions during different sleep stages. These disorders range from occurrences like sleepwalking to conditions such as sleep paralysis or night terrors. Typically occurs in the first third of the night in slow wave sleep (N3).