class="pagetitle"> Mental Health
How to Mend a Broken Heart
Presented by: Natalie Rasgon, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Women are twice as likely as men to develop depressive disorder
Depression is a risk factor for heart disease because it increases adrenaline and stress hormones
Physicians need to recognize the sometimes overlapping symptoms of depression and heart […]
Healing And Feeling: Stress, Support, and Breast Cancer
Presented by: David Spiegel, MD
Co-chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University Medical Center
Lecture Overview:
Integrative, or complementary, medicine focuses on the interactions among the brain, mind, body and behavior and on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and […]
Read More..>>Sleep: Where Biology And Psychology Meet
Presented by: Rachel Manber, PHD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Insomnia and Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program
Lecture Overview
Sleep involves a series of cycles involving distinct stages marked by different brain wave activity
Sleep rhythms are controlled by three separate but interrelated systems, […]
Dementia - Myths and Realities
Presented by: Simon Tan, PsyD
Adjunct Clinical Instructor of Neurology, Clinical Neuropsychologist
Stanford University Medical Center
September 27, 2007
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Lecture Overview:
Given that approximately 6%-8% of those over 65 years of age, and 33% of those over 85 years old have some symptoms of dementia, Dr. Tan’s lecture provided valuable information about this distressing condition. Dr. Tan […]
