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News - February 2020
Epidemic Anxiety - The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - 02/26/20
★ Antidepressant trials often exclude individuals with suicidality
How to hack your circadian rhythm and fix your sleep problems for good
Mindfulness and yoga helps South Bend elementary students cope with stress
Dog tests positive for the coronavirus twice, WHO officials confirm
First Covid-19 outbreak in a U.S. nursing home raises concerns
WHO accused of underestimating coronavirus outbreak
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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons, by Peter R Breggin, MD |
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction, an under-recognized long-term effect
★ Anti-psychotic drugs linked to structural brain damage
Inappropriate atypical antipsychotics increase mortality in Parkinson disease
Coronavirus: Practical Prevention Strategies, Patient Age vs. Case Fatality Rate |
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Coronavirus AKA COVID-19: What Pathologists Need to Know Now The CDC hopes to have a comprehensive Covid-19 testing program operational in the near future, in the meantime the U.S. is largely flying blind into a pandemic, unlike other countries that have comprehensive testing programs ongoing like China, Italy, South Korea and Iran. Vaping changes oral microbiome, increasing risk for infection
Wildness in urban parks important for human well-being
Study: most adults don’t need booster vaccinations for tetanus and diphtheria
Widowhood increases risk of Alzheimer's, study says
Total Covid-19 cases worldwide outside China Only hours after this graph was posted the number of confirmed cases outside China has grown to 3,862. :-(
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★ Federal judge rules clinical trial sponsors must publish missing data
Patient experiences with antipsychotics largely negative, survey shows
The science of mindfulness: K-12 School reduces anxiety among students
Benzodiazepines implicated in high rate of ED visits across US
Long-term antidepressant use appears to raise risk for diabetes
Nature makes children happier, science shows
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Talking Back To Ritalin, What Doctors Aren’t Telling You About Stimulants and ADHD, by Peter R Breggin, MD |
CDC expects ‘community spread’ of coronavirus, top official warns of ‘severe’ disruptions
Mindfulness training alleviates depression in autistic adults
Study: Mediterranean diet alters microbiome, improving brain function and longevity
Short meditation helps pain management even for novices
Coronavirus: how WHO corruption helped it spreadRelationship between arterial stiffness and depression
The healing power of nature, ‘forest bathing’ and how to de-stress
Going off antidepressants can lead to antidepressant discontinuation syndrome
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Worldwide Cases of Covid-19 Outside China
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Feb 19, 2020
The coronavirus is picking up steam outside China, narrowing chances of stopping it
Specific gut bacteria in infants linked to future anxiety
Can gut bacteria predict your personality?
UW study: Indoor lights mimicking sunrise, sunset would improve well-being
Gut microbiota composition during infancy and subsequent behavioural outcomes
Mindfulness training bolsters resilience in firefighters
Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk
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Wuhan Virus is Extremely Contagious Declining physical activity at age 12 predicts depression at 18
Plant-based diet helps promote healthy aging in older people
Mind-body therapies for the management of pain: How effective are they?
When a teen loses a friend to suicide, life as they know it can shatter
Study: Nurses at greater risk of suicide than others
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How much of your happiness is under your control?
‘Time-outs’ won’t cause long-term problems, study says
Neuroscientists discover 'engine of consciousness' hiding in monkeys' brains
Research has overestimated role of hopelessness in suicidal ideation
Why gut health is mental health
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The health benefits of a random act of kindness
Mediterranean diet reduces frailty and improves health of older people
Parents, your kids need some anxiety to learn to cope with it
Depression linked to all-cause and cardiovascular mortality
Lifestyle strategies to keep brain healthy and resist dementia
A later bedtime linked with obesity for children under 6, study says
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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons, by Peter R Breggin, MD |
Don’t be SAD: 8 tips to combat seasonal depression
Sometimes a Placebo Is not a Placebo
Meditation is proven to reduce stress
Why concussions are never a minor thing
Getting high on pot makes you vulnerable to 'false memories'
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour - Feb 12, 2020
Cochrane co-founder blows whistle on antidepressant study Cochrane won’t publish
Traumatic brain injuries raise risk of psychiatric ills in soldiers
Why focusing on meaning, and not happiness, makes us better off
Fast food intake leads to weight gain in preschoolers
See also: Obesity, depression linked in teen girls, new study shows and 'Strongest evidence yet' that being obese causes depression. Update on COVID-19 outbreak with Neil Ferguson, Ilaria Dorigatti and Lucy Okell
Courtroom psychology tests may be unreliable, study finds
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Moving away from diagnoses in mental health work
What is love? Stanford researchers and scholars examine matters of the heart
What makes people happier than money, according to a new study: exercise!
How yoga exercises its positive effect on depression
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Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons, by Peter R Breggin, MD |
Shock therapy forced on patients in 2020 Petition: Unlock Coronavirus research for world's scientists
Strengthening Your Immune Response to Viral Infections (COVID-19)
16 Instant Mood Boosters - When you’re down, try one of these tips for a fast mood boost!
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★ Psychiatric hospitals still force shock treatment. One patient has been shocked 500 times
Jordan Peterson placed in coma in desperate attempt to break benzodiazepine addiction
High levels of antidepressants, caffeine found in Nairobi River
Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats
Keep your teen moving to reduce risk of depression, study says
(same study) Too much sitting in adolescence linked to higher risk of depression
Risk for social anxiety disorder in youth influenced by parental psychopathology
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Keeping a plant on your desk can reduce workplace stress
Biohaven anxiety treatment fails late-stage study, shares fall 16%
More evidence links social media use to poorer mental health in teens
Skepticism about new coronavirus having 24-day incubation At least 500 Wuhan medical staff infected with coronavirus
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Jordan Peterson suffering severe benzodiazepine addiction with akathisia
Coronaviruses like nCoV can remain infectious on surfaces for up to 9 days
Median coronavirus incubation period is three days but may stretch up to 24 days
Ian's thoughts: The study found: "The median incubation period was 3.0 days (range, 0 to 24.0 days)." So presumably some infected people can go about their daily activities with no symptoms while spreading it others (and Chinese experts confirm asymptomatic transmission) for 24 days! That is perhaps the most disturbing fact I've heard about this virus to date and sounds like it might be unstoppable. Happy Meals: Making positive change to diet also helps ward off depression
Eating meat associated with increased cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality
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Basic Key to Successful Living
Coronavirus is bad. Comparing it to the flu is worse
2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Update Ian: The official death rate from nCov in China is ~ 2%. The international death rate right now is 0.3% (1 death among 315 cases, a rate 3x normal flu), but this rate is likely biased low as early-phase cases stream into the count faster than severe cases have termianted in death. On the high side, a JAMA study mentioned in the video above examining one hospital in Wuhan reports at least 4.3% fatality among 138 cases (see below), most of whom are still in hospital. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Department of Homeland Security Pandemic check list
Urban forest bathing debuts exclusively at Mandarin Oriental Boston Spa
Having a hard time remembering when you ever felt happy? Here’s why
Study says toddlers are getting too much screen time.
Mindfulness helps obese children lose weight
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Hungerford mother suffering died after a session of electroconvulsive therapy, an inquest heard
Antidepressant withdrawal. . . five minutes with John Read
Could the gut microbiome be the key to new antidepressant therapies?
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The Red and Processed Meat Issue continuedGreater cardiorespiratory fitness linked to increased gray matter volume
What it’s like to be involuntarily committed
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The charade of new drug approvals for schizophrenia
Richland school says cell phone ban has led to more engaged and conversational students
Study links cell phone use at night to mental health issues in teens
Children's mental health is effected by sleep duration
Online bullies make teen depression, PTSD even worse: survey
Michigan schools surveil student emails for suicide risks, raising ACLU concerns
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Reclaiming Our Children - A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, by Peter Breggin, MD |
John Read – UK Esketamine Approval – Not so Fast
Diets rich in fruits, veggies could lower your odds for Alzheimer's
Kids are terrified, anxious and depressed about climate change. Whose fault is that?
For farmworkers facing debilitating depression, is teletherapy a solution?
Northwestern study warns of increased antidepressant use after school shootings
National study confirms nurses at higher risk of suicide than general population
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The four simplest things you can do for mental well-being
Forest bathing is fashion’s way to find calm
College students get no help after posting about depression on Facebook
Screen time for 2 to 3 year olds leads to lazy sedentary kids
Severe brain injury in combat increases risk of mental illness
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The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – Jan 29, 2020
★ A closer look at the importance of gut mechanisms in depression
Gutted! Unraveling the role of the microbiome in Major Depressive Disorder
Wuhan virus (2019-nCoV) to date compared to SARS coronavirus epidemic
Looking at barriers to depression treatment among social media users
Wuhan virus: Hospital admissions by age group, first cases ( Dec 1, ‘19 to Jan 2, ‘20 )
Climbing Intervention Effective, Durable for Depression?
Effects of ‘bouldering psychotherapy’ on depression last 12 months at least
More U.S. veterans have committed suicide in the last decade than died in the Vietnam War
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