scholarly journals The Importance of Marine Omega-3s for Brain Development and the Prevention and Treatment of Behavior, Mood, and Other Brain Disorders

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2333 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. DiNicolantonio ◽  
James H. O’Keefe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cellular Membrane ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Omega 3 ◽  
Omega 3 Fatty Acid ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Long Chain

Most of the global population is deficient in long-chain marine omega-3s. In particular, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid, is important for brain and eye development. Additionally, DHA plays a significant role in mental health throughout early childhood and even into adulthood. In the brain, DHA is important for cellular membrane fluidity, function and neurotransmitter release. Evidence indicates that a low intake of marine omega-3s increases the risk for numerous mental health issues, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism, bipolar disorder, depression and suicidal ideation. Studies giving supplemental marine omega-3s have shown promise for improving numerous mental health conditions. This paper will review the evidence surrounding marine omega-3s and mental health conditions.

scholarly journals Mental health among entrepreneurs: The benefits of consciousness

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-74
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Overall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Eastern Cultures ◽  
The Mind

High enterprise failure rates, the need to pivot, and fleeting runways are contributing to mental health issues among entrepreneurs. To treat a myriad of mental health conditions, western medical practitioners are acknowledging the effectiveness of consciousness and mindfulness tools, like yoga and meditation that have been practiced by indigenous people and eastern cultures for millennia. Some entrepreneurs are starting to use consciousness practices as not only a tool to balance the mind-body connection, but they are also using them to optimize performance. Implications for practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Attachment-Based Treatment of Chronic Medical Disorders: Learning from Stress-Based Mental Health Conditions

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Similar Type ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Medical Interventions ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Medical Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Brain

Adaptation to stressful conditions has been considered as a cause of chronic medical disorders for many years. However, the failure of adaptation involved in the genesis of these disorders has never been connected to mental health conditions that have the same adaptation failures to stress. A failure in the type of attachment in which parents help their children adapt to fearful conditions, which involves the hippocampus and amygdala regions in the brain, might be an underlying cause for both chronic medical disorders and mental health conditions. This paper will provide evidence for the underlying continuity of these conditions, as they relate to a similar type of attachment failure, as it impedes successful adaptation to stress. To demonstrate this continuity, case material is provided on patients with both conditions who are given model treatments that resolve each sequentially, indicating that they have a common attachment-based root. The importance of treating patients’ attachment-based deficits for both their medical and mental health issues concurrently supports using alternative, holistic medical strategies and attachment-based psychotherapy, in which the therapist can experience the fear of the patient and then advocate for them to help them resolve their problems for both types of conditions. The importance of using these therapies in treating chronic medical and mental health conditions is strongly supported by this evidence. These interventions are not adjunctive to the medical treatments but are as primary as the medical interventions in developing more pervasive resolution of the conditions.

70-LB: Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated rs9939609 Gene Variant Is Related to Fasting Glucose in Children with Mental Health Conditions

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 70-LB
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRA M. WIEDEMAN ◽  
YING FAI NGAI ◽  
AMANDA M. HENDERSON ◽  
CONSTADINA PANAGIOTOPOULOS ◽  
ANGELA M. DEVLIN
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Fat Mass ◽  
Fasting Glucose ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Gene Variant ◽  
Mental Health Conditions

Mental health recovery and its correlates: Perspectives from 2 countries (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiting Xie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Mental Health Recovery ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Serious Mental Illnesses ◽  
Promote Mental Health

BACKGROUND Many people are affected by mental health conditions, yet its prevalence in certain populations are not well documented. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the attributes of people with mental health conditions in U.S and SG in terms of: perception of mental health recovery and its correlates such as strengths self-efficacy, resourcefulness and stigma experience. With the findings, not only could the knowledge base for mental health recovery in both countries be enhanced but interventions and policies relating to self-efficacy, resourcefulness and de-stigmatization for mental health recovery could be informed. METHODS A A cross-sectional, descriptive study with convenience sample of 200 community dwelling adults were selected, 100 pax from the United States (U.S) and 100 pax from Singapore (SG). Adults with serious mental illnesses without substance abuse impacting on their recovery were recruited. Participants completed self-administered questionaires measuring their mental health recovery, strengths self-efficacy, resourcefulness and stigma experience. RESULTS This study offered the unique opportunity to examine mental health recovery as well as its correlates such as strengths self-efficacy, resourcefulness and stigma experience from both the United States and Singapore. While the perception of mental health recovery and positive attributes like strengths self-efficacy and resourcefulness remained strong in participants with serious mental illnesses across both countries, people with serious mental illnesses in both countries still experienced negative perception like stigma. The findings would not only inform strategies to promote mental health recovery but also enhance the focus on correlates such as strengths self-efficacy and resourcefulness across both countries. CONCLUSIONS The findings would not only inform strategies to promote mental health recovery but also enhance the focus on correlates such as strengths self-efficacy and resourcefulness across both countries.

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