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Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head | Talk Video | TED - 0 views

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  • John Crane on 16 Mar 14
     
    To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn't know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back to mental health, and makes the case that it was through learning to listen to her voices that she was able to survive
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Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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  • John Crane on 09 Jul 14
     
    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
  • John Crane on 09 Jul 14
     
    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
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Rethink Your Thoughts about Thinking - Scientific American - 1 views

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  • John Crane on 25 Jul 14
     
    Targeting metacognition-our beliefs about thoughts-might alleviate mood disorders and even schizophrenia
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The secret lives (and deaths) of neurons -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

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  • John Crane on 25 Jul 14
     
    Researchers have uncovered surprising insights about how nerve cells rewire themselves, shedding light on a process linked with neurodegenerative diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders like schizophrenia and autism.
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When Hearing Voices Is a Good Thing - Olga Khazan - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    A new study suggests that schizophrenic people in more collectivist societies sometimes think their auditory hallucinations are helpful.
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