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How heat is radically altering Americans' lives before they're even born
Even before a child is born in the US, their race plays a huge part in how they'll experience heat and pollution. It starts with America's history of racist housing policies that segregated families of color into undesirable...
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Why Meditation Is Better For Anxiety Than Relaxation Therapy
This video jumps right in to talk about types of relaxation and therapy and the types of meditation therapy. This is based on a study that compared the two approaches to treating anxiety. They concluded that meditation was superior. The...
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Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers?
Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers? In this video I discuss two way. One way is by blocking histamine 1 receptors. We usually think of histamine as something that is associated with allergies and your immune...
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Why Antidepressants Make You Feel Worse - At First
This problem of antidepressants making you feel worse can happen when we use it for anxiety or depression. With depression, you can feel even more depressed after you take it, but if you keep taking it, that effect wears off. The problem...
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What? A Cough Medicine for Depression?
Serotonin antidepressants, step aside there’s a new kid in town. The FDA has just approved a new antidepressant that contains the active ingredient found in over-the-counter cough medicines. This new drug, which will be available soon,...
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What is Forest Bathing? The Science Behind Stress Relief)
Forest bathing is based on a Japanese practice called shinrin-yoku developed in 1982 by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Shinrin-yoku which translates to forest well or forest bathing in English is defined as...
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The Three Best Herbs To Fight Depression
Did you know that many medications are derived from plants? For example, salicin from willow bark is the basis for aspirin, and valeric acid from valerian root is chemically modified to make Valproic acid, which psychiatrists use to...
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Vaping Increases The Risk of Depression
Researchers at Johns Hopkins published a study in December 2019 showing a link between e-cigarettes and depression. This isn’t the first study of it’s kind. There have been others. Depression and vaping are seen as having a bidirectional...
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Poor Communicator or The Silent Treatment? How to Deal With It
Have you been in a relationship where every time you have a conflict, even a small one, the other person just shuts downs and doesn’t want to talk? How do you deal with that? This video is based on a viewer question. Her situation was...
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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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Ketamine for depression - A Powerful but Tricky Solution
Ketamine is a very powerful anesthetic drug that’s made it’s way into psychiatry. In this video I talk in detail about how Ketamine is used to treat depression. Ketamine is known on the street as special K. It’s a hallucinogen and...
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Social Facilitation Theory
Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.
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Influence (Organizational Behavior)
Influence is the ability to affect the actions and behaviors of others. Influence is similar to power and derivers from numerous sources. Researchers identified six sources of power, which include legitimate, reward, coercive, expert,...
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Do Stimulants Change Your Personality?
Do stimulants change your personality? If you look this question up on the Internet you will probably find that the short answer is no. But if you really do a deep dive into the research on how these medications affect the brain the...
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Do Benzodiazepines Cause Dementia?
Benzodiazepines are a type of medication prescribed to people with anxiety and panic disorders. But do they cause dementia? In this video, I talk about the research on benzodiazepines and dementia, and what it means for people taking...
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Do Antidepressants Shrink Your Brain? No but Depression Does.
Do antidepressants shrink your brain? No, but depression does. This question is based on a viewer comment. I think it’s pretty common for people to believe this. But in actuality, the illness, major depression causes brain cell loss and...
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Curcumin (Turmeric)– A Natural Way To Fight Depression
Curcumin is an organic chemical found in the root vegetable turmeric. Turmeric in the ginger family. It looks similar to ginger but it has a vibrant yellow-orange color. Turmeric is used as a spice to flavor curry and gives it the yellow...
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Can Antidepressants Stop Working?
It’s estimated that 25% of people develop tolerance to their antidepressant medications. This medication tolerance issue was first noticed in the early 1980’s when we were using Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, called MAOis. These were very...
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Are Antidepressants Addictive?
Antidepressants are not addictive in the way that we think of or define addiction. This video addresses the following questions: If your symptoms return after you stop an antidepressant does that mean you’re addicted? What is the...
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Benzodiazepine Dependence and Withdrawal - How To Avoid This
Benzodiazepine or benzos for short, is the class of drug that works at the GABA receptors in your brain to produce a relaxing or sedative effect. We use benzodiazepines to treat short-term anxiety and sleep. Some doctors will use them as...
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Cause and Effect Phrases
Cause and Effect Phrases demonstrates understanding of word relationships by identifying cause and effect phrases in context that help to explain an unknown word or phrase.
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Judgment Noise
What is Judgment Noise? When people consider errors in judgment and decision making, they most likely think of social biases like the stereotyping of minorities or of cognitive biases.
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Integrative Thinking
What is Integrative Thinking? Integrative thinking is the process of integrating intuition, reason, and imagination in a human mind to develop a holistic continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review, and evaluation.
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Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions
What are Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions? Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how...