Showing posts with label fear/anxiety/stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear/anxiety/stress. Show all posts
Monday, July 08, 2024

Our well being influences our mitochondrial biology.

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I pass on the abstract from Trumoff et al (open source) below. The bottom line is that our experienced well being correlates with with hig...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Neurobiology of Stress: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Major Depression

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A valuable trove of open source articles is provided in the Special Feature section of the Dec. 5 issue of PNAS with an introductory articl...
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Friday, December 22, 2023

Three common assumptions about inflammation, aging, and health that are probably wrong

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The abstract of a recent PNAS article by Thomas W. McDade (motivated readers can obtain the whole article from me):   Significance Inflam...
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Monday, December 18, 2023

Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience

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Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et al. showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Our Baysean Brain and the Placebo Effect

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I'm passing on a few clips that give the take home message from a recent NYTimes piece by Haravard Medical School's Ted Kaptchuk, w...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Does a "P-factor" underlie core attributes of mental health maladies?

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I want to point to an open source "Core Concepts" article in PNAS by David Adam that presents "the views of some psychiatris...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Mental problems from early life adversity passed down three generations.

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Early life adversity can result in emotional and behavioral problems throughout adulthood in both humans and mice. Battaglia et al. show th...
Friday, August 11, 2023

The immaturity of America's therapeutic culture

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I  recommend reading the most recent NYTimes David Brook's piece , and pass on here ChatGPT 4's response to my request to summarize ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Mechanisms that link psychological stress to the exacerbation of gut inflammation.

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Schneider et al. describe one mechanism by which psychological stress deteriorates our health  -  the enteric nervous system relays psycho...
Monday, June 26, 2023

The vagus nerve, heart rate variability, and subjective wellbeing - a MindBlog self experiment

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In this post I pass on to MindBlog readers a NYTimes article by Christina Caron that has been republished several time by the newspaper. It...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Breath - Some basic facts and instructions

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I’ve enjoyed reading through James Nestor’s book “ Breath - The new science of a lost art, ”  and I tried out some of the exercises he point...
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Friday, April 07, 2023

Our heartbeat shapes our perception of time (and a comparison of how ChatGPT and Google Bard condense an account of work showing this)...

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Ellen Barry has done a review of work by Sadeghi et al , as well as others, on how heart-brain interactions influence our perception of tim...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

The fundamentals of empathy

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Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brai...
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Friday, December 30, 2022

The pitfalls of defining neural correlates of brain functions

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Rust and Le Doux do a useful brief opinion piece from which I pass on two clips, and recommend you read the whole open source text. ...ne...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Anxiety - What is it, when is it useful, when is it not?

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The title of this post is the discussion topic for the Nov. 6 Austin Rainbow Forum, a monthly discussion group of LGBT seniors that first me...
Monday, September 26, 2022

How nature nurtures

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MindBlog has passed on a number of articles on how exposure to nature reduces stress (see a sample list below). Here is a further contributi...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior

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Keysers et al. do an open source review of studies on emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents, whose brain regions necessary ...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Stress in older adults accelerates immune system aging.

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Seo does a summary article that points to the work of Klopak et al. The Klopak et al. abstract:   Significance As the world’s population...
Wednesday, July 06, 2022

How stress focuses brain integration

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From Wang et al. (open source, with good graphics): Despite the prevalence of stress, how brains reconfigure their multilevel, hierarchical...
Friday, July 01, 2022

Reduction of stress and inflammatory responses by transcutaneous cervical vagal nerve stimulation

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I want to point to an article by Caron that reviews work investigating therapeutic effects of stimulating our vagus nerve, two large nerve ...