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Mental Illness
Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions - disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders and addictive behaviors. Many people have mental health concerns from time to time.
MAR 10, 2022 | 11:55 PM
Rates of mental health disorders have risen globally in the past two years. The term "mental health crisis" has been widely used and a sense of urgency has been present in health c...
SEP 27, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: September 27, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT Depression affects more than 264 million people worldwide and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. The pathophysiology of...
AUG 25, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Drawing from the latest research and intervention practices, this presentation will address overcoming burn-out, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma generally, and specifically as relate...
AUG 25, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Targeted stimulation of the brain has the potential to treat mental illnesses but designing an appropriate protocol requires a multitude of choices. I will describe an approach to help desig...
MAY 05, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: May 5, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT As of May 4, 2020, 1,152,372 total COVID-19 cases and 67,456 total deaths have been reported in the United States (U.S.)...
DEC 12, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 12 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The Community Psychiatrist is at the vanguard of the mental health crisis afflicting the nation, providing care to the patien...
MAR 28, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Whole food plant-based diets and medical cannabis have shared and continues to share similar levels of scrutiny, doubt, and stigma by the traditional medical community. One reason for the med...
MAR 13, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will provide an overview of challenges and opportunities in mental health research. Dr. Gordon will present em...
MAY 03, 2018 | 11:00 AM
DATE: May 3, 2018TIME: 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDTWhile stress is one of the leading causes of neuropsychiatric disorders, the molecular underpinnings of how stress induces alterations in b...
MAR 15, 2017 | 9:00 AM
The idea of schizophrenia typically conjures up images of people who hear voices, see visions and have delusional beliefs. However, clinicians have long recognized cognitive dysfunction as on...
MAR 17, 2016 | 10:30 AM
The adolescent brain has been forged by evolution to have different features than those of a child or an adult, but it is not broken or defective. Phenomenal ability to adapt to environ...
