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And we finished by saying that an understanding of the neuroscience of sleep is really informing the way we think about some of the causes of mental illness, and indeed is providing us new ways to treat these incredibly debilitating conditions.
But they don't put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness or in old age.
And during Terence's illness, I, we, we wanted to believe the story of our fight together too.
This time, I'm going to talk about mental illness.
You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.
She had bipolar illness, or manic depression, as it was then known.
A lot of the time, what they are expressing is not illness, but insight, and one comes to think what's really extraordinary is that most of us know about those existential questions and they don't distract us very much.
But if you say that you have depression, and standing on your head for 20 minutes every day makes you feel better, then it's worked, because depression is an illness of how you feel, and if you feel better, then you are effectively not depressed anymore.
To understand PTSD, we first need to understand how the brain processes a wide range of ordeals, including the death of a loved one, domestic violence, injury or illness, abuse, rape, war, car accidents, and natural disasters.
What I was trying to do with tuning these hormones and neurotransmitters and so forth was to try to get my intelligence back after my illness and surgery, my creative thought, my idea flow.
Now typically, this doesn't lead to any overt illness.
Who hasn't been low before without suffering from a true mental illness?
He has been diagnosed with a mental illness for which he has been properly medicated.
In my career, I've responded to and been involved in hundreds of mental illness and suicide calls around the bridge.
Let's say when we are facing a life-threatening illness, a lot of people don't want to know that.
They'd rather prefer denying the illness, which is why it's not so wise to inform them if they don't ask.
Surprisingly, research shows that sometimes people who deny their illness live longer than those who are rationally choosing the best treatment.
And I spent the last seven years, actually, looking into this topic of mental illness in other animals.
And what I discovered is that I do believe they can suffer from mental illness, and actually looking and trying to identify mental illness in them often helps us be better friends to them and also can help us better understand ourselves.
It also turns out that thinking about mental illness in other animals isn't actually that much of a stretch.
This tips into the territory of mental illness when you do things like compulsively over-wash your hands or paws, or you develop a ritual that's so extreme that you can't sit down to a bowl of food unless you engage in that ritual.
Or, is animal mental illness just a result of mistreatment or abuse?
Everyone recognized that she was struggling heroically with a biological illness.
My vivacious sister, who gets more exercise than I do, and who, like perhaps many people in this room, increasingly talks about a lethal illness in the past tense.
We need to learn which of our cells matter to each illness, and which molecules in those cells matter to each illness.
Scientists in my lab are creating a technology for quickly mapping the synaptic connections in the brain to tell which neurons are talking to which other neurons and how that conversation changes throughout life and during illness.
But more importantly, it was that we put in place a system that allowed us to routinely ask questions to Veronica and hundreds more like her about the conditions that mattered in her community, about where health, and unfortunately sometimes illness, do begin in places like South L.A.
In fact, I believe that we are in the middle of a global epidemic of a terrible new illness known as MAS: Mindless Accept Syndrome.
We take care of ourselves a lot when affected by an illness, or in situations of imminent danger.
I am talking about threats that are so severe or pervasive that they literally get under our skin and change our physiology: things like abuse or neglect, or growing up with a parent who struggles with mental illness or substance dependence.
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