CNN: A rift among experts over analyzing Trump’s mental health. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwpvXZyDU http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/26/health/mental-health-association-debate-trump/index.html Two professional mental health associations — the American Psychoanalytic Association, known as the APsaA, and the American Psychiatric Association, known as the APA — have opposite opinions about what would be ethical, and what is not. If membersContinue Reading

David Mohr, Ph.D. from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, calls it the start of a revolution. He and his team developed a suite of interactive apps that recreate exercises from therapy settings. His research finds they help boost the moods of users with anxiety and depression. “In fact,Continue Reading

http://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/misunderstood-mental-health-disorders.html/?a=viewall Obsessive-compulsive disorder When most people think of obsessive-compulsive disorder, they think of someone who’s a total neat-freak or perfectionist. In reality, OCD is much more than a quirky tic, habit, or desire to be perfect. “Symptoms of OCD can range from what we’ve seen on television — like obsessiveContinue Reading

Smoking harms not just your physical health, but your mental health too https://t.co/91ie7ZINqO – PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) May 22, 2017 It’s thought that a long-term build-up of the toxic chemicals involved in smoking a cigarette can damage the brain, leading to deficits in learning and memory. Long-term smoking has been linkedContinue Reading

New research suggests gut microbiome plays a role in bipolar disorder https://t.co/3KdhOJU9DR — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) May 16, 2017 “Recent studies have supported the gut microbiome, the collection of microbes in the digestive tract, as important for mental health,” the study’s corresponding author, Simon J. Evans of the University of Michigan,Continue Reading

Research shows that eating healthy fats can help you burn more calories than eating the same amount of carbs ? https://t.co/jLLXGOdzwc — Cleveland Clinic (@ClevelandClinic) March 1, 2016 Can’t shake your fear of eating fat? It’s true that fat has more calories per gram than either carbs or protein. SoContinue Reading

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20151103/Researchers-find-strong-associations-between-hunger-and-poor-health.aspx?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed It may come as a surprise that, even after the Great Recession ended in 2009, almost 50 million people in the United States are food insecure — that is, they lack access to adequate food because of limited money or other resources. University of Illinois economist Craig Gundersen andContinue Reading