Neuro Transmissions
Why you feel depressed during winter
If you often feel the winter blues, it may be more than normal sadness. While some welcome the change in seasons and the fresh snow of winter, others find themselves falling into feelings of depression. But this isn’t just short-lived...
Neuro Transmissions
This Is Your Brain On Shrooms
Psychedelics like magic mushrooms have huge effects on the brain. But what are they doing up there? More than 180 species of "magic mushrooms" produce the psychoactive compound psilocybin. And ingesting it triggers some pretty trippy...
Neuro Transmissions
How YOU can help stop Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects 1 in 10 Americans over the age of 65. So if so many people have it, why don’t we have a cure? Let’s talk about why finding effective treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease...
Neuro Transmissions
How to cope with your awful family at the holidays
The holidays are supposed to be the best time of the year. But let’s face it, family can be stressful. They don’t just know how to push your buttons, they installed them there in the first place! But that doesn’t mean your family...
Neuro Transmissions
How To Cope With Touch Starvation
Physical touch is a vital part of life that benefits both our mental and physical health. But when we’re deprived of human contact for extended periods of time...like many of us have been during pandemic, we might experience touch...
Neuro Transmissions
How Therapists Treat Toxic Masculinity
There is more than one way to be a man. So why are so many men expected to act a certain way? As we can see from both personal experience and from research, traditional masculinity can be harmful. Masculinity in and of itself is not a...
Neuro Transmissions
Are Rage Rooms a healthy way to release anger?
Anger is a basic human emotion. We all feel it at one point or another. But what do you do when you get REAL angry? For many of us, we end up expressing that anger by yelling, slamming a door, or even hitting something...or someone. But...
Neuro Transmissions
Your therapist should play D&D with you. Here's why.
It might sound strange to hear about playing Dungeons & Dragons in therapy, but tabletop RPGs like DnD actually have some real healing power. By the end of this video, you'll have an even greater appreciation for this collaborative game....
Neuro Transmissions
Why nature is good for your mental health
Back in the day, doctors would send patients with anxiety and depression into the mountains because the fresh air would do them good. Though they did not have the research to back it up, they knew that nature was good for our mental...
Neuro Transmissions
Why I Became A Therapist
I really love being a therapist, but whenever I get asked how I decided to become one, my answer always seems to change. I think that’s because my path was not as clear-cut and straightforward as I would like to believe. Anyway, check...
Neuro Transmissions
We need to talk about bad therapists.
If you or someone you know has been in therapy before, there's a deceent chance that you have a story about a "bad therapist". But how can you tell? And what can you do about it? Therapy is a complex process that combines the...
Neuro Transmissions
How the war on drugs BLOCKS life-saving treatment
For a long time, American society has generally accepted the system in place that has protected us from the detrimental effects of scheduled drugs. But what if the "most dangerous drugs", Schedule 1 controlled substances, could actually...
Vlogbrothers
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, and along the way reveals some surprising information, including that Americans spend more of...
Vlogbrothers
My Physicalmental Illness
In which John discusses labyrinthitis, OCD, categories, the body in thought, and the body in pain.
Curated Video
30 Mental Health Signs and Sentences in ASL
In this video, we will be discussing the importance of knowing how to express our thoughts and emotions related to mental health in American Sign Language. As mental health is an increasingly important and relevant topic in our society,...
Curated Video
A real case of Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) & Management
Diabetic Ketoacidosis or DKA is a medical emergency that I never take lightly. This real-life clinical case is about a young female with type I diabetes who presented to us with classical symptoms. We were able to treat her successfully...
Neuro Transmissions
How To Treat Eating Disorders
Eating disorders can be difficult to treat. And recovery is often a long road. But how are EDs like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder treated? And why is recovering from it so tough? We'll explore the mental...
Neuro Transmissions
Why You Need Therapy
Mental health is extremely important. So why don't we take care of it that much? Excellent question! The world of therapy and counseling can seem scary. Most people have never been to some form of mental health counseling. Therapists can...
Healthcare Triage
How Can We Make Gene Therapy Effective and Affordable?
For many, many years we've been hearing about gene therapy - the chance that we can get into people's DNA and fix it to resolve problems and fix disease. In a recent piece in Science, Stuart Orkin and Philip Reilly discuss what finally...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - How The Disorder Affects The Brain
In this video Janet Treasure looks at how the brain of someone suffering with an eating disorder is affected. The brain uses a large amount of energy to function and when food to supply this energy is limited it can reduce a persons...
Healthcare Triage
The Placebo Effect is Real, Man!
In one of our first episodes of Healthcare Triage, we discussed how placebo controlled randomized controlled trials showed that sugar doesn't make kids hyper. Placebos, or fake therapies, are important because people who think they're...
Octopus TV
Eating Disorders - Speak In A Soft Gentle Way
In this video Janet Treasure discusses how sometimes people suffering with eating disorders can get to a point where they are forced to enter hospital against their will under the mental health act.
ShortCutsTv
Lost in the Mall
When Elizabeth Loftus gave evidence for the defence in the trail of George Franklin, it was held by the court that while memories were unreliable and could be altered through questioning, they could not be invented. There were no such...