“It’s totally private. Nobody knows you’re doing it.”
— Read on tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/kzxe83/this-breathing-exercise-can-calm-you-down-in-a-few-minutes

I found an App to help with resonance breathing, I’ll post it in my next post.

Your brain on bacteria: the link between the gut and the brain has long been studied and is finally being recognized as a major aspect of mental health.
— Read on www.motherearthnews.com/natural-health/gut-feeling-the-microbiome-and-mental-health-ze0z1808zpop

Powerful Psychedelic Compound Models Near-Death Experiences in the Brain | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/powerful-psychedelic-compound-models-near-death-experiences-in-the-brain-307638

Poor Sleep Triggers Viral Loneliness and Social Rejection | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/poor-sleep-triggers-viral-loneliness-and-social-rejection-307671

Get some sleep people!

For the first time, a medication that silences genes has won regulatory approval in the US. Not only is this a huge win for the amazing technology involved, it’s also a treatment for a rare hereditary condition that causes nerve damage.
— Read on www.sciencealert.com/first-drug-silencing-genes-approved-by-fda-for-disease-treatment

Wow! For the first time interference RNA’s (RNAi) used to silence genes in a disease that causes nerve damage!!!

Women are disproportionately affected by migraines – and we may finally have an answer as to why that’s the case.
— Read on www.sciencealert.com/women-disproportionately-affected-by-migraine-oestrogen-fluctuations-trigeminal-nerve

Why more women, me included, get more migraines. I had menstrual migraines starting at 23 years of age till a few years ago when I entered menopause. So estrogen or as the article says oestrogen is the culprit.

A small, in vitro study concludes that e-cigarette vapor harms macrophages taken from human lung tissue.
— Read on www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/vaping-damages-immune-cells–researchers-find-64641

Increases inflammation, damages lung macrophages. All in all, a bad outcome!

Some people are more resilient than others in the face of stress, and therefore generally at lower risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders. In a new study of mice published March 28, 2017 in Nature Communications, researchers identify a lipid signaling molecule that may play an important role in determining an individual’s degree of resilience. Lipids are fatty molecules
— Read on www.bbrfoundation.org/content/study-identifies-signaling-molecule-involved-resilience-stress

oh gosh, it’s a field day for posting!

2AG, the resilience molecule? So says this report!

Targeting a Brain Mechanism Could Treat Aggression | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/targeting-a-brain-mechanism-could-treat-aggression-307557

Amazing! A possible treatment for aggression!

Machine Learning Predicts Mood Disorder Medication Response | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/machine-learning-predicts-mood-disorder-medication-response-307411

This is good, very good! A way to diagnose which disorder a person has will allow doctors to prescribe the correct medications!

I know this certainly would have helped me when at the outset, I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) and prescribed antidepressants. Since I actually had bipolar 1, the antidepressants pushed me into a full blown manic phase.

This diagnostic method would have correctly identified me as having bipolar 1 and I would not have been given antidepressants. I would have been prescribed mood stabilizers and who knows, I may never have experienced full blown mania!

So this will stop the misdiagnosis of people like me. This is good!