Meditation and Addiction Recovery

In an earlier blog from last year, called Be Still – Mindfulness in Lockdown, we talked about how lockdown was an opportunity to stop racing around and burdening ourselves with often self-imposed pressure to stay busy. Alcoholics and others suffering from addiction are not very comfortable sitting still. [...]

Understanding Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders and Developing a Coherent Treatment Plan

Introduction.. In 2014, SAMHSA revealed that approximately 7.9 million people experienced concurrent addiction and a mental health disorder. That’s nearly 40% of the entire population who experienced addiction through that year. NIDA statistics on co-occurring disorders reveal people with mood-related mental health disorders or anxiety are twice as likely to [...]

Connecting Anxiety, Depression and PTSD through Neural Phenotypes

Introduction.. Deep research into the grounds of psychopathology has extensively focused on two chief etiologic categories: genetic vulnerability and environmental factors. A crucial role for heritable/familial factors in the aetiology of a broad range of psychiatric disorders was established well before the modern era of genomic research. In this article, [...]