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A moving and important read in Psychiatric News. Dr. Milissa L. Kaufman, a leading expert in trauma programs, shares her personal journey of diagnosis and full recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) during her residency. Dr. Kaufman’s story is a vital correction to sensationalized misrepresentations. She describes DID not as a dramatic spectacle, but as a subtle, internal posttraumatic developmental disruption characterized by memory gaps, depersonalization, and derealization. By bringing her lived experience to light, she provides invaluable psychobiological context and models the kind of authenticity our field needs to dismantle stigma. High-level clinical expertise and personal courage @PsychiatricNews Full piece here: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap… #MentalHealth #Trauma #Psychiatry #DID #DissociativeIdentityDisorder

Researchers review how respiratory viruses can rewire our epigenetics, the molecular switches that control genes, to weaken antiviral defenses. These changes may shape immunity, disease severity, and long term lung health. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…

There are nearly 1.2 billion people living with mental health conditions worldwide, according to a new #GBD analysis. Explore the research ➡️ spkl.io/6011AhkHU @IHME_UW

Sleep physiology and dementia, a new 5★ review @ScienceMagazine, gets into glymphatics, blood volume, heart rate variability, vasoactive amines, and neuromodulators. by @MaiNedergaard science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Why do intense emotions make some memories crystal clear, while completely scrambling the timeline of others? A groundbreaking project out called "Quantum Emotions" is using mathematical modeling traditionally reserved for quantum mechanics to decode how trauma, distress, or euphoria warp our memory sequencing. Traditional psychology struggles to predict this, but quantum physics is uniquely suited for it. It relies on non-commutative principles—where the precise order of operations fundamentally alters the final outcome, just like human memory under emotional duress. This cross-disciplinary leap into Quantum Cognition could revolutionize psychiatric diagnostics, cognitive aging research, and eyewitness validation in the justice system. neurosciencenews.com/quantum-emotio… #QuantumCognition #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #QuantumEmotions #MemoryResearch #PhysicsInMind #Psychology #Innovation #ScienceTwitter #Physics

Nature research paper: Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain go.nature.com/4nZkBEt

Curious new study shows more than double the prevalence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in people with hypothyroidism compared to those without - 33% vs 15%. academic.oup.com/jcem/article/1… #LongCovid #neisvoid

Distinct mitochondrial-derived vesicle pathways connect mitochondria with peroxisomes and lysosomes sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A chaotic sleep schedule in your 40s might be quietly setting the stage for heart trouble later. Interestingly, it wasn’t when people woke up that mattered most, but how erratic their bedtime was. ow.ly/vN1250YVETM

"Caregivers reported significantly lower wellbeing than population norms, with 23% meeting subclinical and 26% probable clinical depression thresholds" link.springer.com/article/10.100… And yes, severity of child's symptoms - particularly communicative - does play a role. Now to act...

LC Lung Damage & Immune Dysfunction Across Lifespan: 1). subset who, following acute infection with SARSCoV2, end up essentially dev COVID pneumonia,depending on host response to pneumonia,& end up developing interstitial lung disease in long COVID. ajmc.com/view/long-covi…

In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs and is unable to feed herself. Local residents have started feeding her.

Effects of bright light and near-infrared light on insomnia symptoms in community-dwelling older adults: a randomized clinical trial sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"mast cells contain dopamine and that mast cell activation causes dopamine depletion, indicating its presence within secretory granules." "Mast cells express tyrosine hydroxylase and store dopamine in a serglycin-dependent manner - PubMed share.google/3cXHwTpYa1uYf9…

The immunology of exercise: Mechanisms, mediators, and therapeutic opportunities:@ImmunityCP cell.com/immunity/fullt…

In prehypertension, Tai Chi lowered systolic blood pressure more than aerobic exercise. 🧵 6/7

Providence researchers followed 92 people with Long COVID and found medical records often missed symptoms patients described in journals like fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, and how illness disrupted work and daily life. link.springer.com/article/10.118…

"Mitochondrial Dysfunction ...in hEDS: A Scoping Review Bridging Cellular Energetics and Genetic Pathways" No surprise here. Seems most chronic fatiguing illnesses share this signature. Its time to solve these problems! #NeuroSjogrens #hEDS #IACC's pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Number of deaths and age-standardized mortality rate (per 100,000 population) attributable to individual dietary risks at the global and SDI level

•MLT into cryoprotectants preserves mitochondrial morphology & function in mouse ovarian tissues •MLT attenuates apoptosis and oxidative imbalance in cryopreserved mouse ovaries •MLT mitigates oxidative stress and ferroptosis via MT1 mediated PI3K/AKT/Nrf2 & xCT/GPX4 signaling