Behavioral Health Providers

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Clinical Practice Guideline: Blood-Based Biomarkers in Specialty Care | Alzheimer's Association® An evidence-informed guideline and tools focused on the use of blood tests for diagnosis in specialty care settings.

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Listening to birds sing really does soothe your brain. Here’s why. Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression.

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RFK Jr. just put hospitals on notice.

The grace period is over, and hospitals still hiding prices from patients are now facing federal enforcement.

“We know who you are.”

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RFK Jr. has announced that nearly half of all U.S. medical schools have now pledged to expand nutrition education.

A total of 73 medical schools have joined the administration’s Nutrition Education Pledge.

Starting this fall, future doctors at those schools will receive at least 40 hours of nutrition training or its equivalent.

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Microsoft and the Mayo Clinic are teaming up to change the future of medicine.🩺 By combining Microsoft’s advanced AI and cloud infrastructure with the Mayo Clinic’s massive database, the two are building a frontier AI model purpose-built for clinical reasoning. “This is the best collaboration imaginable to help us accelerate toward that future,” said Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. Tap the 🔗 in bio for the full story. #AFROTECH

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Childhood trauma can change a child’s biology, but new UCSF research shows that this damage can be undone. UCSF psychologist Nicki Bush, PhD, is the first to demonstrate that talk therapy can calm the overactive aging process that severe stress triggers in developing bodies. Her work builds on the child parent psychotherapy model pioneered by Alicia Lieberman, PhD, director of UCSF’s Child Trauma Research Program, which restores trust and builds connection between caregiver and child after adversity. As that connection grew, researchers measured changes in children’s epigenetics, which influence how the body carries out genetic instructions. The result: kids who had this therapy had healthier biological markers than kids who didn’t. Read the full story: magazine.ucsf.edu/heal 🎨: @foya_illustrations 📷: @gabrielahasbun

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A noninvasive treatment using light and sound shown to trigger the brain’s natural waste-clearance system to combat Alzheimer's disease.

More than 7 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, a crisis projected to cost the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $409 billion in 2026. This treatment could change that.

In a groundbreaking preclinical study funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), researchers from MIT, Boston University, and Westlake University in China have discovered that noninvasive light and sound stimulation can significantly reduce levels of toxic amyloid proteins in the brain.

By exposing mice to flashing lights and auditory tones engineered to generate 40-hertz electrical gamma waves, scientists triggered a dramatic boost in the flow of cerebrospinal fluid.

This sensory stimulation effectively tapped into the brain’s glymphatic system—its internal waste-disposal network—prompting cells called astrocytes to expand, flush out debris, and clear the destructive plaques historically associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

The therapeutic mechanism relies on a delicate chain reaction in the brain. Researchers found that gamma wave stimulation coaxes specific inhibitory interneurons to release a vital hormone called vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).

This hormone signals the glymphatic system to increase fluid circulation, accelerating the elimination of toxic waste. When scientists experimentally blocked either the astrocytes' expansion or the interneurons' ability to produce VIP, the plaque-clearing benefits vanished.

These promising results suggest that simple, noninvasive sensory therapy could act as a potent tool to keep our brain's plumbing running smoothly, offering a highly accessible avenue for treating Alzheimer’s and other protein-accumulating neurological disorders.

source 📚: Murdock, M. H., et al. Multisensory gamma stimulation promotes glymphatic clearance of amyloid. Nature, 627(8002), 149-156.

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Churchill fought anxiety with action. He laid bricks. He painted landscapes. He occupied his hands so his mind had less room to wander. Build something. Grow something. Repair something.

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Leg day isn’t just about your legs, gang. The biggest muscles you own are in your lower body, and every time you load them up you’re sending a signal that protects your brain, your blood sugar, and your bones for the years that matter most. Most women in perimenopause got told to do more cardio and shrink down, and nobody told them the strongest thing they could do for their head was train their legs. The brain fog, the 3pm fade, the word that won’t come to you mid-sentence... your lower body has more to do with all of it than you’d think. I built a simple lower-body guide for the woman who don’t want to overthink it. Comment LEGS and I’ll send it your way.