The Future of Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep Brain Stimulation therapy to treat brain illnesses like Parkinson’s Disease might one day be achieved, without surgery, by crossing electrical streams
Sort Your Brain Out
Deep Brain Stimulation therapy to treat brain illnesses like Parkinson’s Disease might one day be achieved, without surgery, by crossing electrical streams
Mental health has taken a back seat in autism, yet individuals and families reported that mental health problems are the biggest challenge that they face day to day.
Each year I look back on a year’s worth of brain tweets to see what’s been trending recently… here they’re carefully sorted & categorised for your delectation
Early evidence indicating the likelihood of neuroplastic changes induced by regular practice of meditation has fundamentally changed my attitude to mindfulness
Here I outline brain areas that appear to be most consistently impacted by the regular practice of mindfulness.
People who exercise regularly have lower rates of anxiety & depression, even boasting greater cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex & medial temporal lobe
Positive symptoms are usually reliably controlled in most schizophrenic people (assuming they can tolerate the side effects) using clozapine – an anti-psychotic medications that works in mysterious ways and even in most patients for whom the many other available drugs aren’t effective. With psychosis successfully supressed by such drug therapy, it is the negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction that are by far the most severe impediment to a schizophrenic individual being well integrated into society and able to live a relatively normal, independent life. The biggest hope for an effective therapy in the coming few decades stems from a combination of 1) drugs that increase brain plasticity and 2) cognitive training, which together might help schizophrenic people to develop a whole host of social skills and basic mental processes that have become compromised during disease progression.