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Can the Keto Diet Help Bipolar Disorder & Schizophrenia?
Could your diet be the missing piece in managing bipolar disorder or schizophrenia? A surprising new study investigates the ketogenic diet and its potential benefits for mental health. Learn about the science and what this could mean for...
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Top 4 Inherited Mental Health Disorders: What You Need to Know
Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks explains the top 4 mental health conditions with the highest heritability (greatest genetic influence). She discusses what heritability means, the role of environmental triggers, and how knowing your family...
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Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Psychotic Conditions
Psychiatric conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are diagnosed based on observed or reported symptoms, not through biological tests or brain imaging. This leads to a classification of syndromes rather than specific...
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How the Ketogenic Diet Helps Schizophrenia
In this video I discuss the ketogenic diet, what is ketosis and how is it different from ketoacidosis. I also talk about how the ketogenic diet affects brain metabolism and how this improves schizophrenia. In the previous video, I talk...
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What is Schizophrenia? - It's More Than Hallucinations
Schizophrenia is the most serious disorder we have in psychiatry. It is much more than hallucinations. It’s an illness where the person’s main problem is being psychotic. With psychosis, you are not able to tell what’s real and what’s...
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Which Antipsychotics Cause The Most Weight Gain?
Antipsychotic medications are powerful drugs that are used to treat more than psychotic conditions like schizophrenia. Many of them are FDA-approved to treat bipolar disorder and depression. Even though they work very well and fast, they...
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What is Schizoaffective Disorder- Is It Worse Than Bipolar Disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder as a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder either bipolar disorder or depression. Where does the term affective come from? In psychology there’s a concept called the ABC’s of the psychology. It divides...
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Subclinical Psychosis – Can You Be A Little Psychotic?
Subclinical psychosis is a term some researchers have used to describe psychotic symptoms in people who don’t have a primary psychotic illness or as a way to identify people who are prone to later get a psychotic illness. It’s not really...
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What Is Metabolic Syndrome? How To Check For It.
Have you ever heard of metabolic syndrome? It’s something you should know about if you take antipsychotic medications. All of the antipsychotic medications increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome. Some do it more than others....
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What is Delusional disorder? How Is It Different From Schizophrenia?
Delusional disorder is very different from schizophrenia. The only thing they have in common is the presence of delusions. Schizophrenia is delusions, plus hallucinations, disorganized thoughts and behavior and other cognitive or...
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Understanding Schizoid Personality vs Autism Spectrum
Schizoid personality disorder falls under cluster A of the personality disorders. Cluster A disorders are characterized as odd or eccentric. The three personalities in this group are Schizoid, Schizotypal and Paranoid.
Schizoid...
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Medications You Don't Want to Take with Food - And Those You Do
Food has varying effects on your medications. They can Reduce how much of the medicine is absorbed, they can INCREASE how much is absorbed or they can delay when the medication is absorbed. Reduced absorption means you don't get as much...
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Schizotypal Personality – Is It The Beginning of Schizophrenia?
Schizotypal personality is unique because not only is it considered a personality disorder, but in the Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders 5th edition it's listed as a schizophrenia spectrum illness. This is because...
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4 Signs Your Schizophrenia May Be Treatment Resistant
About 30% of people with schizophrenia continue to have psychotic symptoms even on medication. Treatment resistant is when you don’t have an adequate resolution of your symptoms after taking at least two antipsychotic medications that...
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Depression vs. Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - How To Tell The Difference
In this video, I go over the difference between the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and depression with psychosis. I also define negative vs. positive symptoms. Eugen Bleuler expanded our understanding of schizophrenia by introducing...
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Can Mental Illness Be Cured?
Most disorders both mental and physical are managed and not cured. In medicine we think of cure as a total reversal of an illness to the point where there's no evidence of it and it does not return. the closest we get to this scenario is...
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Making the Effort
Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, discusses how far more people who are afflicted with schizophrenia could be high-functioning members of society than presently are.
Neuro Transmissions
How cats manipulate your brain with parasites
The archetype of the crazy cat lady is embedded in our culture. You know the type. But could your cats actually cause that kind of behavior? Perhaps a parasite taking over your brain? Even if you don't think it can control your mind, it...
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Capgras Delusion (Impostor Syndrome): Bizarre Neurological Disorder
Capgras Delusion or Impostor Syndrome.is a type of Delusion of Misidentification Syndromes, in which the patient believes that a parent, child, sibling, or a friend has been replaced by an identical imposter. Multiple sclerosis, Paranoid...
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Is it time to abandon our biological myth of mental illness?
From schizophrenia to depression we assume our psychiatric diagnoses are real. But as the mental health epidemic turns global, the categories now seem like the cause. Is it time to abandon our biological account of mental illness? Or is...
Professor Dave Explains
Psychiatric Disorders Schizophrenia, Depression, Mania, and Anxiety
There are lots of ways that things can go wrong in the brain, and some of these things lead to psychiatric disorders. Some of the more common ones include schizophrenia, depression, mania, and anxiety. How are these diagnosed? What are...
Healthcare Triage
What We Know about Pot in 2017
Marijuana!You guys always want to know more about pot from Healthcare Triage. It's also one of the most controversial and complex subjects we cover. And it's time for an update on what we know, versus what we think, when it comes to the...
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Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune: Time perception and the average person
What do we better understand about the way the average person perceives time? Time Perception with Dr Devin Terhune, Part 4