High Tech Treatment for Tourette Syndrome
A neurologist describes three cases of patients with Tourette syndrome who received DBS implants, and the need for further research on the best placement of the devices.
A neurologist describes three cases of patients with Tourette syndrome who received DBS implants, and the need for further research on the best placement of the devices.
A psychiatry research group at UBC in Vancouver measures quality of life in bipolar disorders, developing a new scale that’s now freely available.
An interview with a health reporter about mental health and the media. Stigma, sensationalism, writing about policy, and more.
Interview with a Vancouver, BC man who is homeless after completing a drug rehab program, talking about housing conditions in the Downtown Eastside and systematic barriers to stable mental health and sobriety with housing.
Mental health issues and young men, in an awareness campaign about depression, anxiety, suicide, shame, and social issues from male perspectives.
How to start a peer-run crisis respite. What are they, and how do you create them? Two peer advocates describe in useful detail their success.
The Watson Jeopardy project and how it learned to answer trivia puzzles.
A developmental psychologist and philosopher discusses links between innate knowledge and connectionism.
Dan Savage in an interview about the highly successful It Gets Better suicide prevention campaign for LGBT youth, explaining why the campaign is so effective and innovative in the media ecology.
Interview with sleep psychologist Shelby Harris on adjusting circadian rhythms, sleep hygiene, dreams, nightmares and sleep paralysis, narcolepsy, and more.