There hasn’t been great success with medication on reducing a stress response. I think antidepressants are helpful for depression but not necessarily a stress…
Sometimes, in a different context or appraisal situation, stress is beneficial by helping the brain deal with the stressors that come along. We’ve had…
When I say microbiota, these are the bacteria, viruses, fungi and all the critters that live in our gastrointestinal tract and everywhere: in the…
In Alzheimer’s disease, the thought used to be that if you had amyloid in the brain, that you are not going to exhibit symptoms…
Often there are behavioral changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, even in the fairly early stages. One of the things that is becoming clear is…
If you experience low mood and hopelessness for a few weeks or months, or you identify other physical or mental symptoms like increased anxiety…
Mindfulness might be something that you consider practicing. You can take a class or you can even watch some 10-minute videos on YouTube on…
A lot of the human research that’s been ongoing for the last twenty or so years, looking at psilocybin specifically for healthy people as…
Try to not say phrases such as “You don’t remember?” or “We just talked about this, don’t you remember that?” Phrases like this can…
I would say predictability is what’s really important and it can be fairly loose. It doesn’t have to be scheduled down to the minute,…
When someone just receives that information, once a person hears that they have some form of dementia, nothing else after that is absorbed. Their…
In the early stage it is extremely difficult to make an accurate diagnosis because so many symptoms can overlap between different dementias, but also…
Cyndy Feasel, the widow of a former NFL player, says that she believes her husband Grant’s struggle with alcoholism triggered his depression, agitation and…
A new study found that PTSD increases dementia risk by 61 percent — findings that are especially pertinent for soldiers and veterans, and new…
October 19th, 2020 “People believe that grieving the loss of someone with dementia somehow is easier because we say goodbye so many times over….