Sitting With Distress After the Capitol Riots – PSYCHDIARY
In the days since self-proclaimed patriots terrorized our capitol, I have been experiencing a feeling of despair that I cannot really get my head around. It is a mixture of…
Dear Me – A Letter to my mental teenage self
Dear me, I’m not sure when you’re reading this letter. When would it have been the most helpful for you to find, tucked under your pillow, like a pound coin…
Experimental Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s Disease In Mice (M)
Memory loss, anxiety and depression all improved after treatment. → Support PsyBlog for just $5 per month. Enables access to articles marked (M) and removes ads. → Explore PsyBlog’s ebooks,…
When Is Mental Health Illness A Disability?
When you think of a disability what usually comes to mind are physical diseases and injuries or incapacitations. However, increasingly mental illnesses account for people being unable to hold down…
Love Is Love, and Slogans Need a Context of Examples
I was strolling through my neighborhood, planning a new essay on the relation between moral belief and moral action, and in particular thinking about how philosophical moral slogans (e.g., “act…
Did Marcus Aurelius Say, “Death Smiles At Us All?”
“Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.” The quote above is attributed famously to Marcus Aurelius, the last emperor of the Pax Romana (Latin for “Roman…
New Opportunities with Beck Institute
By Lisa Muchnick Pote, MSW Executive Director I’d like to share some exciting news: Beck Institute is hiring! We are hiring for two new positions at Beck Institute: an Assistant…
Remembering Ed Diener – Positive Psychology News
Kathryn Britton, MAPP ’06, former software engineer, is a coach working with professionals to increase well-being, energy, and meaning in their work lives (Theano Coaching LLC). She is also…
Is MDMA the Magic Bullet for PTSD?
Source: Shutterstock by Eskymaks Recent clinical trials, including one soon to be published in Nature Medicine, have suggested that MDMA combined with psychotherapy may help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, or…
Cumulus Neuroscience raises $8.3M to develop EEG-based wireless ‘Fitbit for the brain’
Belfast-based Cumulus raises €6.9m for its ‘Fitbit for the brain’ (The Irish Times): … Formerly known as BrainWaveBank, the company has developed a wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) headset and proprietary software platform…
