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A podcast exploring various mental health approaches to enhance physical care. Join hosts Ian Carroll and Niklas Nyblom, Clinical Psychology students at Teachers College, Columbia University, as they explore how mental health strategies can improve life for people living with chronic neurological disorders — conditions of the central and peripheral nervous system, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and more. This podcast delves into the unique challenges faced by individuals and caregivers living with chronic neurological conditions,...

Is the emotionally disturbed person a victim of forces beyond his awareness, over which he has no control? This is the belief on which neuropsychiatry, psychoanalysis, and behavior therapy are all based. But what if this premise is wrong? What if a person’s psychological difficulties stem from...

Los trastornos neurológicos son alteraciones fisiológicas del sistema nervioso que repercuten en la salud física y emocional de las personas que lo padecen, además de interferir en su desempeño social, escolar o profesional, por lo que su pronta detección, evaluación y tratamiento puede significar un incremento en su calidad de vida.

Today, neuroscientists are imaging, mapping, testing, and dissecting the source of the worst behavior imaginable in the brains of the people who lack a conscience: psychopaths. Neuroscientist Dean Haycock examines the behavior of real life psychopaths and discusses how their actions can be explained in scientific terms, from research that literally looks inside their brains to understanding how psychopaths, without empathy but very goal-oriented, think and act the way they do.