Incoming Dr. Parth Patel ’21 (CLAS) is set to graduate with the UConn School of Medicine Class of 2026, and his passion for mental health has continued throughout his time at UConn Medical School. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic as an undergraduate at UConn in 2020, Patel founded Medical Minds Matter, Inc. For … Read more
Good health starts with good food. Every day, what we put on our plates affects how we grow, how we age and how we deal with illness. Florida State University is working to shift our focus from disease treatment to prevention through robust nutritional research and education. The US Department of Health and Human Services … Read more
Amanda Miller was 30 years old and pregnant with her second child in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when she developed depression. After giving birth, her depression worsened. It is associated with a number of unknown health problems. Miller, a neuroscientist, said she has seen many psychiatrists and received prescriptions for drug after drug. In two years, she … Read more
Virginia parents should be concerned that the Virginia General Assembly just passed House Bill 355, which would require annual mental health screenings for all public school students in grades 6 through 12. Academic instruction you Clinical supervision. By institutionalizing mandatory mental health screenings, HB 355 threatens to undermine parental authority, pathologize normal developmental issues experienced … Read more
Obviously, everyone has nutritional advice to offer these days, while I’m sure it’s all well-meaning, contradictory, which can leave you feeling confused and confused. Who should we believe? This is an easy one. Trust dietitians, or give them the official US title, Registered Dietitian Nutritionists, RDNs for short. To call yourself a dietitian in the … Read more
a sign Lancet Psychiatry A paper published today – the largest review of the safety and efficacy of cannabinoids in a range of mental health conditions – found no evidence that medicinal cannabis is effective in treating depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The research comes amid more than a million prescription approvals and … Read more
The Uniformed Services University is revising how future military medics view nutrition, integrating evidence-based nutrition education into four years of medical training to improve the force’s lethality and operational readiness. Chef Robert Irwin engages with smiling medical students at the Uniformed Services University while Demonstrate healthy cooking and food preparation. (Photo credit: Tom Balfour, USU) … Read more
Doctors do not receive enough training in nutrition. It has become a landmark in Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) and health care circles. Fair people can disagree about how much physician training should be in any particular field, but increasing the amount of nutrition education seems like an incredible idea. However, the devil is in … Read more
Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions despite a global increase in patients using it for this purpose, a review has found. The researchers concluded that there is “very little evidence for its effectiveness” in the treatment of anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disorder. Experts … Read more
Using medical or recreational marijuana doesn’t work to reduce the symptoms of many mental health conditions, according to two new analyzes of current gold-standard research. Medical marijuana includes products with cannabidiol, or CBD, and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the part of the plant that produces euphoria. “We haven’t found evidence that any form of cannabis is … Read more