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Growing research aims at helping cancer patients in distress access most-likely-to-help self-care options, from Mindfulness training to Web-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

February 1, 2018 by SharpBrains

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Mind­ful­ness in can­cer treat­ment: time to stop and think (The Conversation):

“Breathe deeply and focus on the moment: mind­ful­ness now appears every­where as a tech­nique to improve well-being, includ­ing in health care.

Mind­ful­ness train­ing is often sug­gest­ed for can­cer patients to reduce high lev­els of anx­i­ety and dis­tress asso­ci­at­ed with diag­no­sis, treat­ment and antic­i­pa­tion of pos­si­ble dis­ease recur­rence. But two ques­tions per­sist: does mind­ful­ness work and, if so, for whom? [Read more…] about Grow­ing research aims at help­ing can­cer patients in dis­tress access most-like­ly-to-help self-care options, from Mind­ful­ness train­ing to Web-based cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, breast cancer, cancer, cancer patients, cancer-treatment, CancerCope, CBT, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, cognitive-therapy, distress, men, mindfulness, mindfulness-based, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Mindfulness-Training, online CBT, psychological, psychological distress, quality-of-life, self-management, Web-Delivered, Web-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, women

Study: Cognitive deficits continue long term in cancer survivors in domains important for social and executive functioning

January 21, 2016 by SharpBrains

elderly_senior_memory_loss_confusionCog­ni­tive Deficits Con­tin­ue Long Term in Can­cer Sur­vivors (Med­scape):

“Although can­cer patients fre­quent­ly expe­ri­ence short-term cog­ni­tive deficits, lit­tle is known about how long these deficits last or whether they wors­en over time. Now, data from a large nation­al sam­ple sug­gest that cog­ni­tive deficits may per­sist long term. [Read more…] about Study: Cog­ni­tive deficits con­tin­ue long term in can­cer sur­vivors in domains impor­tant for social and exec­u­tive functioning

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: age, and learning, attention, cancer, cancer-survivors, cognition, cognitive-deficits, cognitive-function, Executive-Functions, processing-speed, quality-of-life, Working-memory

Cell phone use not seen to increase risk of brain tumors among adults

August 4, 2015 by SharpBrains

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Cell phones and risk of brain tumors: What’s the real sci­ence? (CNN):

“…In 2011, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion clas­si­fied the kind of low-ener­gy radi­a­tion that cell phones emit as “pos­si­bly car­cino­genic” because of a link between cell phone use and a type of malig­nant brain tumor called glioma and a benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma…Although the WHO clas­si­fi­ca­tion sounds omi­nous, it [Read more…] about Cell phone use not seen to increase risk of brain tumors among adults

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain tumor, cancer, cell phones, glioma, Interphone study, low-energy radiation, neuroma, World Health Organization

Research: Veterans learn to use yoga and meditation exercises to reconnect with their emotions

November 25, 2011 by SharpBrains

Vet­er­ans learn to use yoga and med­i­ta­tion exer­cis­es to recon­nect with their emo­tions (Wis­con­sin State Journal):

“Rich Low of Madi­son served as an infantry offi­cer in the Army in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, lead­ing some 280 com­bat mis­sions. When he came back from the ser­vice, he did­n’t think his expe­ri­ence affect­ed him in any major way. He had night­mares, and he star­tled eas­i­ly, but he chalked that up to just some­thing vet­er­ans live with. [Read more…] about Research: Vet­er­ans learn to use yoga and med­i­ta­tion exer­cis­es to recon­nect with their emotions

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: anxiety, anxiety symptoms, brain-exercise, Brain-Fitness, Breathing, cancer, depression, Emma Seppala, Emotions, generalized anxiety disorder, healthy minds, medical conditions, meditation, mental-fitness, Mental-Health, mindfullness, mindfulness-based therapy, mood symptom, psychiatric conditions, yoga

Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Medical Blogging

November 15, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Grand Rounds blog car­ni­val, the week­ly edi­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere. This week, twen­ty four blog­gers share data, insights, ques­tions, reflec­tions and more. Enjoy! [Read more…] about Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Med­ical Blogging

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Aaron-Beck, aging, aging-population, anti-vaccine, at risk, availability bias, Behavioral Health, biofeedback, blog, blog-carnival, blogs, blue circle, brain, brain chemistry, brain functionality, brain-function, cancer, cognitive-therapy, consumer, Delta Airlines, depression, diabetes, diagnostic errors, doctors, effective therapies, EHR, electronic age, Electronic Health Records, FDA, ginkgo-biloba, Grand-Rounds, health IT, Health-blogs, health-insurance, healthcare-acquired infections, healthcare-services, HIPAA, insurance, intensive care, iPad, medical-blogs, medication, medicine, memory-fitness, Mental-Health, pain, patients, poetry, primary healthcare, safe therapies, smoking, standards, therapies, Walmart

Alzheimer’s Disease: New Survey and Research Study on Awareness, Testing and Prevention

July 21, 2011 by Alvaro Fernandez

Very inter­est­ing new data rein­forc­ing two main themes we have been ana­lyz­ing for a while:
1) We bet­ter start pay­ing seri­ous atten­tion (and R&D dol­lars) to lifestyle-based and non-inva­sive cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al health inter­ven­tions, which are most­ly ignored in favor of inva­sive, drug-based options
2) Inter­ven­tions will need to be per­son­al­ized. The study below ana­lyzes data at the coun­try lev­el, but the same log­ic applies to the indi­vid­ual level

Many fear Alzheimer’s, want to be test­ed: sur­vey (Reuters):

- “The tele­phone sur­vey of 2,678 adults aged 18 and old­er in the Unit­ed States, France, Ger­many, Spain and Poland was con­duct­ed by researchers at the Har­vard School of Pub­lic Health and [Read more…] about Alzheimer’s Dis­ease: New Sur­vey and Research Study on Aware­ness, Test­ing and Prevention

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Alzheimer Europe, Alzheimer's Epidemic, Alzheimers-disease, Alzheimers-symptoms, anxiety, Bayer AG, cancer, cognitive-health, depression, diabetes, drugs, Education & Lifelong Learning, emotional-health, Harvard, heart-disease, hypertension, Modifying Risk Factors, obesity, physical inactivity, Physical-activity, public-health, risk factors, smoking, stroke

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