I post things online because I find them interesting. Sometimes I post things online as a part of my collection of Electronic Sticky Notes, a reminder to myself to try a new recipe like https://spainonafork.com/my-mothers-lentil-stew-with-sweet-potatoes-recipe or as in this case a reminder to go back and listen to the entire interview when I have time. The first five minutes of this video taught me something I never knew about product positioning. The interview is over an hour long so I want to watch and listen in bite size chunks.
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Biomarker Changes Preceding Alzheimer’s Disease | NEJM
Some Cognitive Skills Improve as We Get Older
When a psychology professor in Michigan looked through his data on interpersonal conflict a decade ago, he discovered something unexpected. The study, which examined differences across cultures and age groups, seemed to show Americans got wiser as they got older. Richard Nisbett was used to research showing poorer mental skills among elderly adults, but his work found they were better at recognizing multiple perspectives, encouraging compromise, and acknowledging the limits of their own knowledge.
Perhaps, he reasoned, navigating conflict got better with age because it was such a specific, experience-based skill. Working memory, which stores short-term facts like newly learned names, may decline but, as people get older, they inevitably accrue more knowledge from having navigated similar situations throughout their lives. Now 82 years old, Nisbett recognizes the improvement in himself. “I’ve noticed situations to avoid, comments not to make, and the importance of apology,” he said.
Presidential age debate obscures a simple fact: Some cognitive skills improve as we get older — https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/22/presidential-election-age-debate-some-cognitive-skills-improve-with-age/
I was going to post this yesterday but I forgot.
ATTENTION PARENTS – Social Media Changes Your Kids’ Brains
How social media alters young brains [PODCAST] — https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/02/how-social-media-alters-young-brains-podcast.html
Trends in Behavioral Health Medications
Nurse practitioners had the largest increases in prescribing incident prescriptions across the 5 drug classes. This is consistent with a study that found that behavioral health visits among Medicare beneficiaries conducted by psychiatric behavioral health nurse practitioners increased by 162%, whereas those by psychiatrists decreased by 6% from 2011 to 2019.35 Our study, based on incident prescription data, suggests an increasing contribution of nurse practitioners initiating medication treatment of behavioral health conditions compared with other health care practitioners.
Chai G, Xu J, Goyal S, et al. Trends in Incident Prescriptions for Behavioral Health Medications in the US, 2018-2022. JAMA Psychiatry. Published online January 10, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.5045 — https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2813980
Welcome to our new world of self-diagnosed ADHD, online pill mills, and “shortages” of prescription medications.
The past couple of decades have seen a continuous increase in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses. National population surveys reflect an increase in the prevalence from 6.1% to 10.2% in the 20-year period from 1997 to 2016 and experts continue to debate and disagree on the causes for this trend.1
ADHD Diagnostic Trends: Increased Recognition or Overdiagnosis? Mo Med. 2022 Sep-Oct; 119(5): 467–473.– https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9616454/
Percentage change in the leading health conditions affecting millennials in the United States from 2014 to 2018 — https://www.statista.com/statistics/1276447/percentage-change-of-the-leading-conditions-affecting-millennials
I was doing my usual Saturday morning routine, catching up on whatever was catching my attention and I came across this Scary Chart looking for ADHD incidence in Millennials. Whoa…check out the early CAD percentage increase.
Screen Time
Too Old To Grow Up
Diet Until Proven Otherwise
According to a study published in BMC Medicine, men who ate the most plant-based foods had a 22 percent reduced risk of colon cancer, compared with those who ate the least. Eating a plant-based diet increases consumption of fiber and antioxidants associated with cancer prevention, while simultaneously avoiding the compounds in animal products linked to cancer risk. It has long been known that people who avoid meat are at reduced risk.
The power of nutrition in cancer prevention — https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/02/the-power-of-nutrition-in-cancer-prevention.html
Also schedule that colonoscopy you’ve been putting off.
Anorexia
Anorexia has one of the highest mortality rates of any psychiatric illness. People with anorexia are 18 times as likely to die from suicide as their peers. Fewer than half of those with anorexia make a full recovery.
Opinion: Anorexia Should Never Be Considered a Terminal Illness — https://undark.org/2024/02/08/opinion-anorexia-terminal-illness/
It May Look Like I’m Not Doing Anything But I’m Actually in Default Mode
The default mode was one of the first brain networks characterized by science. It consists of a handful of brain regions, including a few at the front of the brain, like the dorsal and ventral medial prefrontal cortices, and others scattered throughout the organ, like the posterior cingulate cortex, the precuneus and the angular gyrus. These regions are associated with memory, experience replay, prediction, action consideration, reward/punishment and information integration…
According to research, the effects of the default mode network include mind wandering, remembering past experiences, thinking about others’ mental states, envisioning the future and processing language. While this may seem like a grab bag of unrelated aspects of cognition, Vinod Menon, the director of the Stanford Cognitive & Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, recently theorized that all of these functions may be helpful in constructing an internal narrative. In his view, the default mode network helps you think about who you are in relation to others, recall your past experiences and then wrap up all of that into a coherent self-narrative.
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything — https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-your-brain-is-doing-when-youre-not-doing-anything-20240205
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