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Mental Health Awareness Month: When Is It Time to Get Help?
May is Mental Health Awareness Month — a time to check in with yourself and your well-being. Many people experience [...]
Burnout vs. Depression: What’s the Difference?
Feeling exhausted, unmotivated, and mentally drained? You might wonder — is this burnout, or something more? While burnout and depression [...]
Anxiety Isn’t Just in Your Head — It’s in Your Brain
Anxiety is often misunderstood as something you should simply “control” or “push through.” But in reality, anxiety is deeply connected [...]
A Simple Spring Reset for Your Brain Health
Spring is often seen as a time for renewal — and your brain deserves that same reset. After months of [...]
Brain Fog: What It Means and When to Get Checked
Do you ever feel like your mind isn’t as sharp as it used to be? Many people describe this as [...]
How Stress Affects Your Brain (And What You Can Do About It)
Stress is a normal part of life — but when it becomes chronic, it can start to affect your brain [...]
- When a Dementia Diagnosis Is Delivered Without Care September 9, 2026Experts outline steps for clearer, kinder conversations and practical help for patients “Delivering bad news is definitely a skill that doctors can develop,” says Dr. Melissa Armstrong, a professor of neurology at the University of Florida. She is coauthor of a 2023 paper on best practices for communicating a dementia diagnosis. “People definitely have received this news…
- More than Alzheimer’s: AI maps the added burden of Lewy body pathology September 7, 2026One challenge to advancing Alzheimer’s disease treatments is that many patients have mixed brain pathologies, meaning more than one disease process is affecting the brain. This can complicate diagnosis, clinical trial design and treatment development because a therapy targeting only one disease process may be less effective if another is also present. Now, University of…
- A Narrative Review of the Psychiatric Aspects of Deep-Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders: a Role for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrists September 4, 2026Neurology News! Congratulations to Drs. Dimitry S. Davydow, Jennifer L. Purks, Joshua K. Wong, Michael S. Okun, Dawn M. Schiehser, Dawn Bowers, and Kelly D. Foote on the publication of “A Narrative Review of the Psychiatric Aspects of Deep-Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders,” which appears in the June edition of Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. ABSTRACT Background Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neuromodulatory intervention…
- Simulations and Brain Death: A Novel Approach to Evaluating Competency September 2, 2026Published in Neurology! Congratulations to Dr. Kathatrina Busl on the publication of “Simulations and Brain Death: A Novel Approach to Evaluating Competency,” which appears in the June 10th edition of Neurology. Abstract Objective To develop a checklist, define critical actions, and set a minimal passing standard (MPS) for formative and summative assessment of brain death/death…
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