Experts React to Mental Health Parity Law 'Final Rule'

Experts React to Mental Health Parity Law 'Final Rule': "rule to "ensure that features such as co-pays, deductibles, and visit limits are generally not more restrictive for mental health/substance use disorders benefits than they are for medical/surgical benefits.""

 rule to "ensure that features such as co-pays, deductibles, and visit limits are generally not more restrictive for mental health/substance use disorders benefits than they are for medical/surgical benefits."
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  There is still a huge disparity  when it comes to mental health versus  medsurg/ general medical  care.  Many outpatient services are extremely limited, or have much higher deductibles or copays than physician visits.  There is a  lack of mental health services in this country.  Insurances do not often cover  therapy with a  professional such as a psychologist or licensed social worker. Primary care physicians are 'more inclined to write a prescription  for a med, than  instruct the patient  to workout, increasing physical activity,  or go therapy.

BBC News - Depression 'makes us biologically older'

BBC News - Depression 'makes us biologically older':

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Monkey brains help explain our fear of snakes

Monkey brains help explain our fear of snakes:

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The Steroid Hiding In Your Water - Prevention.com

The Steroid Hiding In Your Water - Prevention.com: "Trenbolene acetate, the high-value steroidal growth promoter used extensively in the non-organic beef and cattle industry, doesn't appear to rapidly break down in water as it was once thought to, say University of Iowa researchers."
Trenbolene acetate, the high-value steroidal growth promoter used extensively in the non-organic beef and cattle industry, doesn't appear to rapidly break down in water as it was once thought to, say University of Iowa researchers.

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Neuroscience For Kids - blood brain barrier

Neuroscience For Kids - blood brain barrier:

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How your brain gets rid of its waste[ Glymphatic Pathway System and Beat Amyloid Plaque degradation]

  Excitingly  it is a system that functions almost life lymphatic system for the brain. We  knew that  cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), and the BECF ( brain extra-cellular fluid) is protected by the blood-brain barrier.  There are also ventricles in the brain  and specialized cells that secrete the CSF (choroid plexus), and there are areas with  little protruding hairs/ cilia that help circulate this fluid.  The fluid contains high levels of brain energy juice- sodium, glucose, and other needed electrolytes, but it also contains  metabolic waste.  This new system shows how the flow of CSF through the brain  moves through like a current and the removal of  extra-cellular waste. Now that scientist can study and measure the effectiveness of the glymphatic pathway  It will provide  valuable insight into the progression of Alzheimer's Dementia, and other neurological diseases Perhaps this can provide a more accurate  picture of the disease, its progression, and  possible interventions.  Wouldn't it be amazing if we could just ' flush out'  build  up of these beta amyloid  plaques and other disease causing  materials? Nano-particle sponges that degrade the plaques or contain it so that it does not damage neurons?  I think  one day we will   have such technology- in the not so distant future.  ( The singularity is near!) :)

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http://www.jci.org/articles/view/67677

"We recently reported that the glymphatic pathway is a key contributor to the clearance of soluble amyloid β from the brain interstitium and proposed that the failure of this clearance might contribute to amyloid plaque deposition and AD progression (6). In light of these findings, there may be great value in the development of a clinical prognostic test for measuring glymphatic pathway function throughout the human brain and evaluating whether suppression of this system contributes to the development and progression of AD. Here we provide proof-of-concept data demonstrating that glymphatic pathway function can be measured using a simple and clinically relevant imaging technique, contrast-enhanced MRI, to visualize brain-wide CSF-ISF exchange."

In a Bad Mood? 3 Science-Based Strategies That Can Help | Happify

In a Bad Mood? 3 Science-Based Strategies That Can Help | Happify: "search by Robert Zajonc shows that the simple act of smiling can improve your mood. For the greatest effect, give yourself a big authentic smile by finding something that genuinely makes you laugh."

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