What’s a Peer Support Group?
A short documentary by a student filmmaker about a peer support group in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
A short documentary by a student filmmaker about a peer support group in Kelowna, BC, Canada.
A neurologist reports on a meta-analysis that found exercise affects brain health in animal models, and suggests it can modify cognitive outcomes with normal aging and perhaps reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease like dementia.
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.
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Tourette’s syndrome.
Marsha Linehan, the pioneer of Dialectic Behavioural Therapy talks about her research and challenges with treating BPD patients.
Rescued/retired show horses live on a ranch “rescuing” people with mental health issues through equine assisted psychotherapy and equine assisted learning.
Childhood neurodevelopment and environmental conditions that lead to substance use disorders, and why compassionate treatment should involve social and other factors.
A bioethicist talks about the pros and cons of the proposed new diagnosis temper dysregulation disorder with dysphoria (TDD) that would reclassify some children diagnosed with bipolar disorders.
Psychotherapy along with meds is the best approach, says Kay Redfield Jamison, Evelyn Saks, and Eric Kandel.
How gardening stimulates chronobiology, mood and creativity in people who have Alzheimer’s.