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Schizophrenia – Failures in Perceptual Updating and Psychosis Severity
In our 9th Fresh Perspectives with Amara Davis, the Loving Mind Institute presents the recently published work entitled “Association Between Failures in Perceptual Updating and the Severity of Psychosis in Schizophrenia”. Amara discusses with Dr. Sonia Bansal an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Maryland Psychiatric Research Center…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to Improve Mental Health- Advancing Individualized Treatment
In our 8th Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis, we discuss Dr. Nicholas Balderston’s work on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and its application in major depressive disorder. TMS is a non-invasive method to modulate brain activity through a magnetically generated electric field by placing a coil on the scalp in which specific brain regions can…
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Pain Treatment & Opioid Addiction: Plant Extract Corydalis yanhusuo Shows Potential for Helping
In our 7th Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis, we discuss the potential of a natural product, YHS, extracted from the plant Corydalis yanhusuo to improve pain management and reduce the risk of becoming dependent on opioids. Amara interviews Dr. Olivier Civelli a professor and chair of pharmacology at the University of California Irvine. They…
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Social Dysfunction in Psychosis: Advances from the Study of Metacognition
In our 6th Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis we discuss how social withdrawal can effect psychosis in mental illness. Amara interviews Dr. Paul Lysaker, a clinical psychologist at the VA medical center in Indianapolis and a professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. We explore his…
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Substance Use Disorder- Ancestral Diversity is Needed in Genetic Studies
In our 5th Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis we explore the application of machine learning in medicine utilizing genetics to better understand substance use patterns among individuals. Amara interviews Dr. Alexander Hatoum, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Bogdan & Dr. Agrawal and an analyst for the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Substance Use…
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