Poll: 93% believe mental health system needs to change

By SharpBrains | February 4, 2015

. Satch­er-Kennedy: How to fix the men­tal health sys­tem (USA Today): “…an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty (96%) of the pub­lic agrees that men­tal health con­di­tions, such as depres­sion, anx­i­ety and alco­hol or drug abuse are seri­ous pub­lic health prob­lems, accord­ing to a new poll by Pub­lic Opin­ion Strate­gies. Almost as many (93%) believe that the cur­rent way we…

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Brain Training as a New Treatment for Addictions

By Dr. Pascale Michelon | May 26, 2011

Sub­stance abuse can have dra­mat­ic con­se­quences on the brain and behav­ior. The tra­di­tion­al way of pre­vent­ing drug abuse is often edu­ca­tion. Aware­ness pro­grams do work with peo­ple who can pic­ture long-term reper­cus­sions of abus­ing drugs. Oth­er peo­ple, most often those vul­ner­a­ble to addic­tions, do not ben­e­fit from such pro­grams. It seems that they tend to…

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Understanding Brain Imaging

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 11, 2008 |

Daniel Lende and Greg Downey run the though-pro­­vok­ing Neu­roan­thro­pol­o­gy blog. Daniel also teach­es a class at Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame, and he asked his stu­dents to sub­mit group-based blog posts in lieu of the tra­di­tion­al final essays. He explains more on Why A Final Essay When We Can Do This?. Below you have a spectacular…

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