Depression usually signals its re-arrival with a selection of ‘warning’ symptoms. Here are seven to look out for, and what to do when you spot them: 1) Fatigue When a pile of dirty dishes has sat in your sink for days (even weeks) and the work-day feels more like a work-decade, it could mean that depression is sneaking
— Read on www.hopetocope.com/7-signs-that-your-depression-is-returning-and-what-to-do-about-it/
Accurate! If you feel these, please get help.
Choosing your words carefully can strengthen relationships, fuel recovery, and make for a better quality of life for everyone. By Stephen Propst
— Read on www.bphope.com/the-big-payoff-of-well-chosen-words/
These are great! Please, if any of these come to mind, just stifle the urge to say them. Please.
Do say the ones in the “What you can say” part. Thank you!
Cannabis Extract Cannabidiol Helps Reset Brain Function in Psychosis | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/drug-discovery/news/cannabis-extract-cannabidiol-helps-reset-brain-function-in-psychosis-308311
This is CBD, the non intoxicating part of marijuana and seems to look promising in treating psychosis!
Hopefully lots more research will confirm this before we all rush to try it.
Human antibodies that target key brain proteins cause memory trouble when delivered into mice’s brains.
— Read on www.sciencenews.org/article/how-antibodies-attack-brain-and-muddle-memory
The autoantibodies (antibodies against self) bind the AMPA receptor and this interferes in memory production.
Researchers boosted levels of the dystrophin protein to nearly normal levels in a canine model of the disease.
— Read on the-scientist.com/news-opinion/crispr-treatment-for-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy-helps-dogs-64740
Oh this is good! Two of my favorite things, digs and CRISPR!
Using CRISPR, they boosted the level of dystrophin to 92% of normal. Dystrophin is the molecule that is dysfunctional in muscular dystrophy, so this is amazing! Hopefully trials in people soon!
Here’s what brain research says will make you happy:
Ask “What am I grateful for?” No answers? Doesn’t matter. Just searching helps.
Label those negative emotions. Give it a name and your brain isn’t so bothered by it.
Decide. Go for “good enough” instead of ‘best decision ever made on Earth.”
Hugs, hugs, hugs. Don’t text — touch.
Great, great, great, article! Please read it. It’s a bit long (read it anyway) so here’s the summary: Here’s what brain research says will make you happy:
• Ask “What am I grateful for?” No answers? Doesn’t matter. Just searching helps.
• Label those negative emotions. Give it a name and your brain isn’t so bothered by it.
• Decide. Go for “good enough” instead of ‘best decision ever made on Earth.”
• Hugs, hugs, hugs. Don’t text — touch.
Discovery by Pakistani doctor may help cure dementia! Micro RNA’s are crucial!
Probiotic use is a Link Between Brain Fogginess and Severe Bloating | Technology Networks
— Read on www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/probiotic-use-is-a-link-between-brain-fogginess-and-severe-bloating-307256
Oh No! And we thought probiotics were good for us 😏
While ketamine has been doing wonders as an antidepressant, researchers have discovered something concerning about the way it may actually be working on patients’ brains.
— Read on www.sciencealert.com/doctors-find-opioid-problem-with-using-ketamine-for-depression
Ketamine, although it works like a charm on depression, may be using the opioid pathway in your brain thereby might lead to an increase in opioid addiction, which is already epidemic in proportions.
Note to self, don’t ask psychiatrist for ketamine as treatment for depression. Depression isn’t one bit fun but opioid addiction, whoa! No thank you!
And this is the trouble with touting a treatment before all the studies have been done. Just as with Lamictal being given to Bipolar 1 patients who were pushed into a full blown manic phase (like me) which destroyed dome people’s lives, if ketamine drives opioid addiction, how destructive will that be?!
We went to Bermuda for our 30th wedding anniversary!!! It was gorgeous and stunning and beautiful, everything you’ve ever heard about it, it’s true! And the water, oh my gosh, I’ve never seen such beautiful turquoise water before! And the sand really was pink, naturally mixed with bits of coral.
Just an old married couple, enjoying each other and our beautiful surroundings!
