http://psychcentral.com/news/2015/07/22/brain-scans-may-tailor-treatment-for-ptsd/87188.html His latest study included 34 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, half of them with PTSD. They all got functional MRI scans, which track blood flow in the brain to show which areas are using the most oxygen, a sign of increased activity. The researchers saw that among the PTSD group,Continue Reading
New research suggests 'creative' people are 25% more likely to carry #bipolardisorder or #schizophrenia genes https://t.co/HN4MfXWdAV — Black Dog Institute (@blackdoginst) July 21, 2015 What did they find? Study results suggest that creative people may have a genetic predisposition towards thinking differently which, when combined with other harmful biological orContinue Reading
http://t.co/WeLQKWptob E-Bulletin out today, featuring our new Mindful Aotearoa website, a review of Sleep Deep for Children and much more — Mental Health Fndtn (@mentalhealthnz) July 21, 2015Continue Reading
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/dunbars-number-facebook/ Before I hit the J’s, I converted to Facebook’s Timeline. As a result, I lost access to the alphabetical friend list, which brought my social experiment to a screeching halt. In trying to disprove Dunbar’s number, I actually proved it. I only made it through 1,000 of my 2,000Continue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/70224979/rosemary-mcleod-how-we-rise-from-grief-can-define-us New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard will be navigating an ocean of trauma of another kind for the next few years, heading an ambitious Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Britain. Possibly one in 20 children in Britain have been abused, she says, and police there are preparing forContinue Reading
Spend four hours a day on your feet, experts say http://t.co/m0C8qe14Od pic.twitter.com/fwmPAQ0Fvf — Stuff.co.nz News (@NZStuff) July 21, 2015 You’ve probably heard that “sitting is the new smoking” – the looming health risk in the computer age. A proliferation of studies over the past decade has linked prolonged stretches ofContinue Reading
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/varc-ipo072115.php This is the holy grail for brain imaging,” says lead researcher Dr. K. Luan Phan, chief of neuropsychiatric research at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “We hope in the future to be able to use scansContinue Reading
"Happiness doesn't just happen to you, you have to work at it." ~ @DalaiLama #mindfulness — Everyday Mindfulness (@mindfuleveryday) July 17, 2015Continue Reading
Which country has the best reputation? NZ is in the top 10 http://t.co/Ensk8yOagU pic.twitter.com/7GbiAsZQ9i — nzherald (@nzherald) July 21, 2015Continue Reading
