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Reducing dementia risk
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effect

Alcohol and other drugs can overpower the reward pathways of the brain... But in recent years, we have learned that brain gene activity can be [...]

Susan Troyer2024-01-25T23:37:52-06:00January 23rd, 2024|Categories: General, Mindful Presence|Tags: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcohol abuse, dementia-care, Drug abuse, Drug addiction, Drugs, Gene regulation, Genes, Genetics, Mental health, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Reducing consumption of alcohol and drugs, Stabilizing physical and mental health|0 Comments

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“ElectroConvulsive Therapy” (ECT) for people living with dementia – Where’s our humanity?

“I believe dementia is the greatest shame of modern medicine; not because there have been no significant advances in treatment, but because - from restraints, [...]

Susan Troyer2021-10-30T23:07:49-05:00September 29th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Dementia Beyond Disease - Enhancing Well-Being, Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture of Care, dementia-care, Dr. Al Power-MD, Geriatric-psychiatric care|0 Comments

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The Self in Dementia is Not Lost

I was offered a “pass.” It was a routine appointment approximately one year following Mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in late 1997. The physician quietly handed [...]

Susan Troyer2020-07-27T00:44:05-05:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: Mindful Presence|Tags: Alzheimer's, Author Muireann Irish, Dementia, Dementia and agitation, Dementia caregivers, dementia-care, dementia-care setting, Demise of personhood, diagnosis of dementia, Loss of self, memory loss, neurodegenerative diseases, Thought Leaders and Influencers|Comments Off

dementia-care

Reducing dementia riskAlcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effect

Mindful Presence“ElectroConvulsive Therapy” (ECT) for people living with dementia – Where’s our humanity?

Mindful PresenceThe Self in Dementia is Not Lost

Reducing dementia risk
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effect

Mindful Presence
“ElectroConvulsive Therapy” (ECT) for people living with dementia – Where’s our humanity?

Mindful Presence
The Self in Dementia is Not Lost