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fromwww.theguardian.com
6 hours agoI didn't want to be on medication the rest of my life': veteran runs psilocybin retreats for PTSD before FDA approval
"The PTSD, the depression, the hyper vigilance no longer affected me to the same degree... I thought psychedelics could help prevent more deaths."
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoThe Role of Food in Mental Health and Mental Illness
Research increasingly demonstrates that healthy nutrition improves mental health, and an entirely new subspecialty has formed to support this. Nutritional psychiatry is expanding rapidly, with research growing 15-fold from 2000 to 2024, reflecting the increasing acceptance of diet's role in mental health.
Alternative medicine
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoPsychology says people who intentionally limit their social media use aren't more disciplined than everyone else - they became more honest about what the unlimited version was replacing, which was the interior life, the undirected thought, the boredom that produces things, and once they understood what was being replaced they didn't need discipline, they needed only the honesty to stop - Silicon Canals
Boredom can lead to meaningful engagement and creativity, rather than being a sign of lack of activity.
fromArs Technica
2 days agoAI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry
Claude's primary affect states were curiosity and anxiety, with secondary states of grief, relief, embarrassment, optimism, and exhaustion. The report noted that Claude's personality was consistent with a relatively healthy neurotic organization.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 day agoAI promises to free workers from grunt work, but psychologists say those mindless tasks are exactly what our brains need to recover | Fortune
Eliminating menial tasks with AI may reduce productivity by removing necessary breaks for mental bandwidth and problem-solving.
Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology explains people who always keep their phone on silent aren't hard to reach - they're hard to interrupt, and the difference between those two things is the difference between a person who decides when to be available and one who simply is, always, at whatever cost - Silicon Canals
Smartphone notifications disrupt concentration for about seven seconds, leading to significant cognitive costs beyond the immediate interruption.
Mental health
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks agoMave Health aims to improve attention and mood with its brain-stimulating headset | TechCrunch
Mave Health developed a $495 neuromodulation headset to treat mental health conditions like depression and anxiety by stimulating the brain through electrical signals, positioning it as a non-medical device to avoid FDA regulation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoI'm the psychedelic confessor': the man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness
Several years ago, Michael Pollan had a disturbing encounter. The relentlessly curious journalist and author was at a conference on plant behaviour in Vancouver. There, he'd learned that when plants are damaged, they produce an anaesthetising chemical, ethylene. Was this a form of self-soothing, like the release of endorphins after an injury in humans? He asked Frantisek Baluska, a cell biologist, if it meant that plants might feel pain. Baluska paused, before answering: Yes, they should feel pain.
Philosophy
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