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Mental Wellness 

Suicidal Thoughts? They’re Not a Good Predictor of Suicide

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC area of the brain, big risk factor, brain, client, client 's shoe, client stop, client stop think suicidal thought, clinician, constricted think, counselor-client, counselor-client relationship, counterintuitive part, crisis counselor, crucial connection, drown person, good clinical train, good predictor of a suicide attempt, good predictor of suicide, helpful person, hotline, inner critic, internal negotiation, judgment, Kentucky right, life jacket, live buffer, local crisis counselor, local suicide hotline, major national public health issue, Marsha Linehan, mental constriction, Muzak queue, near-critical, near-critical car accident, normal human suffer, option, person contemplate suicide, powerful protective factor, problem-solving impairment, psychologist call, psychology nerd, rational thought, resourceful lady, safety plan, severe mental strain, Sidra stone, standard record, start function, suicide, suicide assessment, suicide attempt, suicide hotline, surreal minute, surreal minute of easy listen music, texted help

Thinking about suicide is not a very good predictor of a suicide attempt. Thinking about suicide isn’t even one of

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Focus on Function First

August 1, 2020October 19, 2020 Donna Ison academic Physiatrists, acquired brain injury program, admirable accomplishment, Amantadine, association of academic Physiatrists, Atlanta 's shepherd center, brain, brain doctor, brain injury, brain injury program, brain injury research, Brian Bohannon Darryl Kaelin, chief resident, cord, cord injury, Darryl Kaelin, Dayton Ohio, devastate car accident, Dr. Darryl Kaelin, Dr. Darryl Kaelin help patient, effectiveness of the physical medicine, elevator speech, Emily Holmes, Emory university 's school, Emory university 's school of medicine, endowed chair, endowed chair of brain injury, Frazier Rehab, Frazier Rehab institute, Frazier rehabilitation institute, good program, image001 photo, image002 photo, individual 's physical, injury, inpatient, Kaelin, Kaelin 's word, Kettering medical center, Louisville, medical director, medical director of brain injury research, medical director of the acquired brain injury program, medical director of UofL health, medicine, medicine rehabilitation, miraculous story, multidisciplinary care, musculoskeletal perspective, neuro-rehabilitation, non-surgical treatment of disease, outpatient, perfect specialty, photo, physiatrist, physiatrists, physiatry, physiatry make, physical medicine, physical medicine rehabilitation, physician, PM&R specialist, PMR, power of the human spirit, practice of UofL health, quality of life, recovery, rehabilitation, specialist, specialty, spinal cord injury, stroke, stroke rehabilitation, TBI, telemedicine, telerehabilitation, therapist, time provide elevator speech, traumatic brain injury, university of Louisville, UofL, UofL health, UofL physician, UofL school, UofL school of medicine

LOUISVILLE Completing a 5K run is an admirable accomplishment for anyone. But, for someone who has suffered a traumatic brain

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Peace of Mind

November 1, 2019February 21, 2020 Jim Kelsey ADHD, adult clinical neuropsychologist, Alzheimer, Alzheimer 's disease, Amelia Anderson-Mooney, Anderson-Mooney, Anderson-Mooney meet, baffle mystery, Bowling, brain, brain challenge, brain injury, brief office visit, clinic, clinical neuropsychology fellowship, clinical psychology internship, Colmery-O’Neil VA, Colmery-O’Neil VA medical center, crime drama police show, dementia, determine treatment, diagnosis, diagnostic process, differential diagnosis of multiple condition, early Alzheimer 's disease, electrode, extent of the condition, Graves Gilbert, Graves Gilbert clinic, image001 photo, inner work of the human mind, Kentucky, Kentucky 's large city, lab professional, like detective work, medicine, memory loss, MRI, multiple condition, native of Glasgow, neuropsychologist, neuropsychology, neuropsychology fellowship, outpatient neuropsychology provider outside, outpatient neuropsychology provider outside of Kentucky 's large city, pain, paper task, Parkinson, Parkinson 's disease, patient 's medical issue, peace of mind, practical brain function, practical function of the brain, practical hindrance, psychology, psychology internship, psychotherapy, refer provider, referral, referral-only, referral-only service, rigidity, role of neuropsychologists, Sam Kirby Dr. Amelia Anderson-Mooney, sign of early Alzheimer 's disease, skilled detective, soft tissue damage, stimulation, study of practical brain function, therapy, tremor

BOWLING GREEN Sometimes, medical diagnosis is straightforward. An x-ray might clearly show a broken bone, an MRI will reveal soft

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Teamwork and Technology in Tandem

November 1, 2019February 21, 2020 Donna Ison acoustic neuromas, additional neurosurgeon, Anderson hospital, assistant professor of neurological surgery, available make, Base center, Baylor, Baylor college, Baylor college of medicine, benign tumor, brain, brain tumor, brain tumor center, breast, breast cancer, Brian Williams, cancer, cancer rehabilitation specialist, centralized treatment model, collaborative spirit, common malignant brain cancer, complex find, complication of problem, director of the brain tumor center, Dr. Williams, efficient medical care, excite group, focused radiation, glioblastoma, host of option, image001 photo, innovative team approach, interstitial thermal therapy, J., John lair, lair, laser, late surgical technique, lengthen life, logical field, manifestation of neurological metastatic cancer, medicine, melanoma, myriad of problem, Neuro-Oncologist, neurological metastatic cancer, neurological surgery, neuroradiologist, neuroscience, neurosurgeon, neurosurgery, neurosurgical oncology, nurse navigator, oncology, patient population, photo, physician, practice neurosurgeon, prevalent skull-based pathology, primary brain tumor, radiation, radiosurgery, removal of tumor, restorative neuroscience, share opinion, skull-based, skull-based operation, skull-based pathology, slight predilection, statewide resource, surgery, team approach, teamwork, therapy, treatment model, tumor, tumor board, tumor board meet, unwanted symptom, UofL, UofL physician, UofL physician 's innovative team approach, UofL Physicians-Restorative, UofL Physicians-Restorative neuroscience, UofL practice, UofL school, UofL school of medicine, Williams, Williams 's role, Williams state, Williams treat

LOUISVILLE For Brian J. Williams, MD, choosing the “nuanced and logical field” of neurosurgery was a no-brainer. “I enjoy working

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New Treatments Bring New Hope

November 1, 2019February 21, 2020 Donna Ison additional board certification, advanced psychiatric treatment, antidepressant, bespectacled gentleman, brain, Care, Care center, chief resident, clinic, cognitive test laboratory, cutting-edge solution, depression, esketamine, frontal-temporal, frontal-temporal dementia, function person, functional mental test, Gil Dunn Robert Granacher, Granacher, Granacher state, hospital outpatient clinic, illness, image of a patient recline, image001 photo, Joseph, Joseph east, Lexington, MBA, medical doctor, medical problem, medicine, mental process speed, MRI, MRI of the brain, Neuropsychiatrist Robert Granacher, NeuroStar™, NeuroStar™ system, new treatment, Opioid, opioid addict, opioid risk assessment, patient recline, pharmacogenomic, pregnant opioid addict, private psychiatric practice, probability of response, psychiatric medicine, psychiatry, psycho-pharmacology, resistant depression, resistant treatment, response rate drop, revolutionary FDA-approved treatment, Robert Granacher, serious mental illness, Spravato™, TCC, TMS, transformation, university of Kentucky college of medicine

LEXINGTON When people hear the word “psychiatrist,” many still conjure up the image of a patient reclining on a couch

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Mental Wellness 

Are There Good Reasons for Bad Feelings?

November 1, 2019February 21, 2020 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC American 15-44, American 15-44 year, anxiety, bad feel, brain, brain influence mood, brain sound, chemical imbalance, committed love relationship, costly thing, crucial foundation, Darwinian, depression, depression center, depression research, disorder, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary psychiatry, founder of evolutionary medicine, frontier of evolutionary psychiatry, funny noise, good reason, goodness, health service administration, image001 photo, image002 photo, intolerable side effect, Jesse Wright, lead cause of disability, meaningful happy life, mental health service administration, mental health treatment, mindless selection, mood, mood disorder, mood mechanism, moodostat, naïve Darwinian, Nesse, ordinary Darwinian, ordinary psychiatrist, origin of mood, photo, pretty good way, psychiatry, Randolph Nesse, selfish competition, stop treat symptom, stop view symptom, symptom, united state 's investment, UofL, UofL depression center conference, UOFL Randolph Nesse, usual stuff

“Why does depression exist at all?” “Why are mental disorders so confusing?” I wasn’t expecting these types of questions from

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Stress Is Everywhere

May 1, 2019June 21, 2019 Ryan Brown, MD adrenal gland, axis, belly cramp, blood vessel, bowel, brain, brain event, brain-gut, brain-gut communication, broken heart syndrome, broken-heart, chronic stress, chronic stress increase inflammation, cortisol, emotional mind, endocrine system, fight-or-flight adrenaline surge, gastrointestinal annoyance, GI, Gil Dunn Cady Brown, Gil Dunn Ryan Brown, grumble bowel, gut, gut check, historic literature, hormone, hormone rush, HPA, HPA axis, image001 photo, image002 photo, intense chest pain, life 's stressors, life 's up, list of modifiable risk factor of cardiovascular disease, medicine 's strong find, medicine 's strong find of stress, metaphorical center, million of neuron, mind-body, mind-body connection, no-stress, physical symptom, physiological effect, physiological effect of chronic stress, pituitary, pop love song, risk factor, stress, stress increase inflammation, stress management, stress-related hormone, stressor, stressors, sudden stressful event, surge, surge of stress-related hormone, symptom, Takotsubo, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, tangible example of stress, tangible physical symptom, under-activity, under-activity of the GI tract

LEXINGTON The “mind-body connection” is an old concept with deep roots in our culture; this entrenchment is for good reason.

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Believe and Achieve

December 1, 2018February 15, 2019 Jim Kelsey addict, addiction, addiction medicine, addiction patient, Asad Ismail, Bergen pine county hospital, brain, Clark memorial hospital, clinical assistant professor, comfortable treat patient, detoxification, diplomat of the American board of neurology, diseased mind, drug addict, Gil Dunn Dr. Asad Ismail, good understand, image001 photo, Ismail, Ismail 's care, Ismail 's extended train, Iu school of medicine, JEFFERSONVILLE, medical director of Wellstone regional hospital, medication, medication-assisted treatment, neurological disorder, neurological issue, neurology, neurology practice, neurology residency, neuroscience-based, neuroscience-based practice, Opioid, opioid patient, outpatient, outpatient treatment, patient 's control, patient 's psychiatric problem, patient battle psychological issue, people start use drug, psychiatry, reason detoxification, relapse, Suboxone, university of new jersey, variety of addiction, Vivitrol, Wellstone, Wellstone hospital, Wellstone regional hospital

JEFFERSONVILLE, IN Sometimes the most important part of achieving something is simply believing you can do it. The confident, focused

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He Sees and Heals Brains

December 1, 2018February 15, 2019 Holly Hinson Ali Choucair, assistant job, baptist health, Beirut, board-certified, board-certified neurologist, brain, brain scientist, Calgary school, cancer, cancer of the brain, chance conversation, Choucair, door of a breakthrough, field of neuro-oncology, foreign student, future of cancer treatment, grade 3 glioma, grandfather, grandmother, hotel banquet hall, image001 photo, image002 photo, interviewer, Lebanon, little-known specialty, Louisville, math whiz, medical school, medicine, meet of the society of Neuro-Oncology, MS, neighbor, nervous system, neuro-oncological, neuro-oncological research, Neuro-Oncologist, Neuro-Oncology, neuro-oncology fellowship, neuro-oncology program, neurologist, neurology, neurology residency, new neuro-oncology program, patient experience brain complication, picture of the brain, Rob Densmore, Rob Densmore Ali Choucair, shoe-care, single cell, state-sponsored school, teach assistant job, university of Calgary school of medicine, US embassy, USA foreign student, wing of a professor

LOUISVILLE Today, he is a board-certified neurologist specializing in the field of neuro-oncology at Baptist Health Louisville. With more than

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Mental Wellness 

How to Get Smarter and Happier by This Time Next Year

December 1, 2018February 15, 2019 Jan Anderson, PsyD, LPPC adaptation strategy, amped-up, amped-up version, brain, cortex, current social group, dear john letter, dilemma, emotion, emotional intelligence, essential-to-personal-wellbeing, essential-to-personal-wellbeing life skill, hard skill, intelligence, intelligent adaptation, john letter, lame result, life dilemma, low percentile, low-nurture, make intelligent adaptation, maladaptive response, once-adaptive, once-adaptive behavior, one-down, one-down position relative, original life situation, power of the primitive brain, primitive brain, QuickBooks, relationship crash, relationship intelligence, reptilian brain, small life, smarter, unspoken rule

I’ve noticed the things that overwhelm us during the holidays are really no different from what stresses us out the

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