As children reach toddlerhood and beyond, parents adapt to manage their child's big emotions and meltdowns. Parenting terminology has adapted too, with more parents describing their child as "dysregulated." But what does this actually mean? More than an emotion Emotional dysregulationrefers to cha...
Hopefully by now you've heard the mantra and are now aware of ASHRM's initiative of “Getting to ZeroTM Through the Power of One.” But what does that mean to you? And how can you forward the message on to your colleagues and coworkers? It's as simple as looking at it this way...
it is also important to acknowledge that variation can bewarranted. The very act of measuring and describing variation carries great rhetorical power, since revealing geographical variation in any chosen metric effectively frames this as a problem with a conceptually simple solution (reducing variation) ...
Dan Levitin:Why does music affect us? Why can it heal us? Well, because it’s personal. Narration:Scientists are realizing that if we can figure out how and why music affects us, we can harness that power and use it as a kind of medicine. The answers can be foun...
VR stressors seem to work despite lacking tangible grounding in reality. However, it is not yet known why nor for whom VR stressors evoke stress. Even in reality, it is unclear why most stressors work. It may come as some surprise to laypersons and scientists alike that triggering stress...
N -methylspiperone and spiperone also have a higher affinity for D2/3 receptors than does raclopride (Kd values for N -methylspiperone and spiperone are in the picomolar range and, those for raclopride are in the nanomolar range), and they have slower kinetics,86 which makes it more ...
You might have read something about echolalia in passing somewhere online, or maybe a professional told you that your child does it. Maybe you’ve heard echolalia is more common in autistic people and other people with developmental differences. I can tell you that I, myself, use echolalia!
It was an exclusion criterion in the previous definition of INCPH, whereas the current definition of PSVD does not exclude the presence of concomitant PVT at the time of diagnosis [3]. In addition, in the absence of ACLD, the new definition allows PSVD to overlap with other liver diseases...
Is it OK to throw things when angry? But why do so many people want to destroy or punch things when upset? And does it actually help? The release of tension that brings us to acts of aggression when we're mad is thought to be stress-relieving. Yelling, screaming, slamming doors, thro...
6. How does bipolar disorder fit into all of this? Is mania the answer to my “what is it like to have too many synapses?” question from point (3)? If so, why do some people go back and forth between that and depression?