A recent study, an exercise-inducible metabolite that suppresses feeding and obesity published in Nature, identified “N-lactoyl-phenylalanine (Lac-Phe), a blood-borne signaling metabolite that suppresses feeding and obesity”. The study placed Lac-Phe as an effector associated with physical activity.
Telemedicine, also called telehealth, enables the access to medical consultations remotely.
In an interview with NPR, on his book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health {NIMH}, Dr. Thomas Insel, made a striking comment “I was doing a talk to a large group of family members in 2015. I was showing them the spectacular success we had had with stem cell studies of neurons in schizophrenia — what we were able to do for mapping specific genetic variants for autism, how we had created great models on the epigenetics of stress and depression. And somebody got up at the back of the room and said, ‘You know, I have a 23-year-old son with schizophrenia. He’s been hospitalized five times. He’s been in jail three times. He made two suicide attempts. Look, man, you know, our house is on fire and you’re talking about the chemistry of the paint.’”
Neurotechnology encompasses categories of electronics designed to help the nervous system in certain conditions.
States including Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Utah are allowing students to take mental health days off as necessary.
The sprawling debates on consciousness are in part germinated by unmeasurable agents in the brain.
Self-driving cars and robotaxis are some of the most impressive advances in artificial intelligence. Though operational, they sometimes make news for errors and crashes. Autonomous vehicles are also regimented. There are debates on how to regulate them. This article suggests mental health could be a standard for autonomous vehicles — towards a brain-like or neuromorphic form.