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The future of mental health care: Brain-zapping, big data, and beauty sleep.

On January 21, Dr. Chris Frueh (who writes as Christopher Bartley) gave a talk on some of the upcoming innovations in mental health care. You can watch the whole thing here (starts at about 14:30). There are all kinds of new treatments on the horizon, like microbiome testing, Ketamine infusion and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). Of course most of us don't …

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Exercise doesn’t make you live longer, but it does help you deteriorate less rapidly.

"Typically, the most aerobically fit people lived with chronic illnesses in the final five years of their lives, instead of the final 10, 15 or even 20 years." Of course they can't disentangle cause and effect, as  "aerobic fitness is partly determined by genetics, and to that extent, the luck of the universe." Still, "much …

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