Advancing Science, Technology, & Medicine to Help Persons Living with Mental Illness & Addiction
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This time on Fresh Perspectives with Amara Davis we discuss new and emerging science of the gut microbiome and its effect on depression. Amara interviews Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, Professor and Director of the Microbiome Core in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and also founder and scientific director of the company, Biohm….
In this 3rd Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis, she interviews Dr. Erin Madden, professor at Wayne State University in the department of Family Medicine and Public Health Services, on her paper entitled Intervention Stigma Toward Medications for Opioid use Disorder: A Systemic Review. Dr. Madden cites her background in sociology and the personal toll…
In this Fresh Perspectives webinar with Amara Davis, she interviews Alex Clinton, a pre-doctoral graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, who authored the paper Using Positive Empathy Interventions to Reduce Stigma Toward People Who Inject drugs while at the University of West Virginia in the lab of Robin Pollini. As an early career…
Towards Loving Mind Institute’s aim to bridge science and community to promote scientific literacy and appreciation among the public and impacted populations we serve, LMI Outreach Coordinator Amara Davis conducts an engaging and personable interview with Jenesse Kaitz, Ph.D., first author of the publication, Influence of Provider Gender on Mental Health Stigma. Dr. Kaitz, a…
Founder of Loving Mind Institute, Marion “Joe” Riggs, Ph.D., appears on BOLD Business TV advocating for a change in public perception to view addiction as a medical health challenge; and, the critical need for more biomedical research and clinical advance. He covers the promise and progress in patient-driven, stem cell based models for understanding mental…