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Does Bipolar Disorder Get Worse with Age? Understanding the Impact on Older Adults

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition characterized by intense mood shifts, from manic highs to depressive lows. But as individuals age, many wonder: Does bipolar disorder get worse with age? Bipolar disorder symptoms in aging adults may appear subtler than in younger individuals.

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Screen Time and Summer

Child Mind Intitute

What do you want your kids to do for their health and well-being over the summer? Because of the intense national conversation about the effect of screens on youth development and mental health, it’s easy to be confused, as a parent, about what to do about screens. They listen to books on tape or music as they go to sleep.”

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

With convenience right at our fingertips, it seems paradoxical that, despite our relative prosperity, we suffer some of the highest rates of mental illness compared to any other part of the world, with more than 1 in 5 US adults living with mental illness. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations. Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.” 1 Indeed, “active” learning approaches boost retention by 40%.

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From Memory and Plasticity to Collective Cognition and AI

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Brain regions such as the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and amygdala collaborate to encode memories, while sleep and retrieval processes reshape them over time, she explained. The research also revealed age-related shifts. Alexander Huth gives his presentation on mapping and decoding language representations from the human cortex.

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How to Learn to Love to Write: A Mental Health Journey

Mad in America

F rom a young age, you discover how much you love to read and write. Wake up, school, homework, sleep, repeat. Every time you present your projects, all the class does is stare and judge. You start believing the voices and get sent into an unlivable mental state. You’re exhausted, both mentally and physically.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? What if they’re urgent messages from abuilt-in navigation systemdesigned to guide us through life?