The science of mental health - with Camilla Nord
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- How does the body affect our brain, and vice versa? Can exercise, psychedelics, or the gut biome improve your mental health? Find out with neuroscientist Camilla Nord.
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This talk was recorded at the Ri on 4 March 2024.
In this talk, Camilla reframes mental health as an intricate, automated process that is different for all of us, relying on the way our bodily processes and our expectations of the world interact in our brains. She explains how our brain uses dopamine to learn what to expect, and how that can change the way we feel day to day. She looks at a variety of treatments, from therapy and medication to recreational drugs and electrical brain stimulation, to show how they work - and why they sometimes don't.
00:00 What is mental health?
7:03 Dopamine, the brain’s learning system and expectations
16:00 The link between our bodies and brains
24:42 How do anti-depressants and therapy work?
30:43 Psychedelics and the placebo effect
33:01 Bodily treatments for mental health
33:25 Anti-inflammatory drugs for depression
34:36 Is exercise a panacea for treating mental health?
37:16 The role of the gut microbiome
39:06 Are we in a mental health crisis?
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Camilla Nord leads the Mental Health Neuroscience Lab at the University of Cambridge. Her lab explores the brain, body, and cognitive changes that drive mental health and disorder. Her lab’s s aim is to translate insights from neuroscience into improved treatments for mental health conditions, whether that’s by making better use of our current treatment arsenal by targeting treatments to personalised brain or cognitive profiles, or inventing novel, neuroscience-based treatments that might be better able to treat disabling symptoms of mental health conditions.
Camilla was named a Rising Star by the US Association for Psychological Science, received the Young Scientist Award from the European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, and has been awarded over £14 million in research funding, including from Wellcome and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Her work has been widely featured in the media, including in the Sunday Times, BBC’s The Naked Scientist, and the New Statesman. Her first book, The Balanced Brain (Allen Lane) was named one of the FT’s ‘Best books of the year’ in 2023.
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Lack of love and care in our world contributes to many mental health problems .
And so many social i justices, deep poverty, domestic violence, inequality, gender, dissability injustices et etc etc
Wonderful talk by an excellent communicator. I also love your outfit, Ms Nord!❤️
I've watched dozens, perhaps hundreds of RI lectures and this has immediately gone to the top of my informative and thought provoking league. Camilla Nord is, imo, a truly great scientist, lecturer, explainer of knowledge. I think her name and work will be known for centuries
Great to listen to this. Quite apt words making up the talk and an excellent speaker. 🎉
One of the biggest culprits behind our "unhappiness" is the tendency to compare ourselves to others-especially to those who seem to have it all: more wealth, beauty, health, you name it. The more we engage with content featuring these seemingly perfect lives (rich, beautiful, glamorous folks), the more we end up seeing them. Why? Because of the recommender algorithms used by social media platforms. It's time to call for smarter, more psychologically aware recommender systems on social media. Systems that consider our mental well-being and not just our clicks. This is in pandemic proportions even drives some teens to _____ (fill in the blanks).
The solution does not lie in better algorithms. It is like you diagnosed the disease and want to treat the symptom. The answer is realising that comparing themselves to others is not ever going to bring them happiness. Teaching people to compare themselves to who they were in the past is a much better as this issue pre-dated the internet, though social media has super charged it.
That started with TV and just got worse
Yeah, capitalism sucks and should be abolished.
@@spindoctor6385 I like blaming ppl habits, and in them the exagguration that twists stuff.
I want to add
that a bug in a parent system generate more bad scenraios to defend against in the contained system.
meaning that symptom treatmeant improves awareness of the internal bug, so solutions should include both parts: symptom defense and core issue resolution.
I think "comparing one self to others" is a tough issue!
so no auto-correct answers :)
well, we use that mechanism when training on social behavior, but we also learn to avoid copying certain behaviors!
still, I would promote awareness to:
which ppl are you watching on tv with respect to which ppl are physicall around you,
since INET-TV is so diverse there are many misunderstandings and missexpectations from your neighbours and service providers.
can't think how to sync those two without adding a special habit.
Giving gives more happiness than receiving..
Thank you for this!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you RI for your ongoing efforts to englighten us.
I guess you have similar sayings in the Uk, here in germany we say "healthy body, healthy mind" as a reminder we can change both equally to influence each other. Science playing catch up with old rooted wisdom is a touch funny, but still good to see as we therefor now know more about the how and why.
Really interesting. I have missed some words about the role of neurogenesis in mental health. Could it be neurogenesis the effect of antidepressants and this is why they need several weeks to work? Other possibility could be that antidepressants worked as kind of "automatic meditation" so they reduce rumination circuits, something similar to what you said, but not only changing (improving) the perception, but also braking a bit the memory. Memoristic study on antidepressants is harder so it is possible they help to stop the brain from bad feedback that leads to anxiety and depression. Thank you very much for your great lecture.
A treat for ATLA Fans: "If you close your eyes you can hear AZULA giving the lecture." 😅
Ideas of love, attitudes of love in the mind :)
thank you 👍😎 .... LLAP
I've battled severe depression and anxiety for half my life as a result of childhood trauma.
It messes with everything. I've managed to sabotage my life and I've had thoughts of ending it on multiple occasions. The scariest part is the loss of control and identity. And yes, pain and depression go hand in hand. I speak from experience
Depression takes away one's ability to feel happy. Ironically, it makes one also afraid of happiness because you know how fleeting it can be. I sabotaged the things and relationships I always yearned for
Peace be with you 🙏
I find it impossible to improve on @KumariKumari-fw7nc's response, but I wish you well in your battle against it.Peace be with you.
I bet there are a great many people that love you, your company, sense of humour, presence. Being you is wonderful for others
Stress caused me to bleed internally! I spent a week in the hospital, where they gave me iron to recover, and they clamped the bleeding that was inside of my stomach.
Because I was in the hospital, I caught C Diff bacteria!
I ended up in a C Diff study in Canada, and to make a long story short, I received a FMT ( fecal microflora transplant)
I had a extremely traumatic childhood, and I have suffered from depression since I was 8 years old. I am now 57, and for the first time in my life I am no longer depressed! The FMT I received has changed my pe
Change my perspective 😌 ❤
Good presentation trying to summarize a very complex issue.
The insight into how antidepressants might work was nee to me, but helps explain why effectiveness is so variable between both people and drugs, and why some people have increased risk of suicide on different antidepressants.
I already see neurobollocks in the comments of course! I see diet is now a silver bullet instead of being an important contribution to some people.
Nothing wrong with the voice either. Some people just want to complain it seems...
If a placebo can make you feel better, it can make you feel worse. If everyone is talking about mental health, you start asking yourself "Am I alright?"
Where I live, we have a saying "Habschau" which means "I have that too". I stems from an observation when old people talk about their problems, someone always would chime in, stating that one has the same problem even if they didn't have, just to fit in or show sympathy and understanding.
That's a 'nocebo', as mentioned.
My suggestion, people who exercise gradually increase their intensity, therefore created expectation along the way, since the understanding of exercise is unclear the expectation is not met and lead to worse mental health.
To recommend exercise as a therapy, to clarify the reason, function and biology of exercise is crucial not only for expectation management, but for proper execution of exercise to reap positive effects.
Listen to Ellen Langer ! ...Hameroff & Penrose Canhard
Enjoyed the lecture, it was clear and well presented but why let an amature control the audio levels?
To us mortals, all humans, mental health is physical health.
The mind, Psych is closer in description to the soul and spirit than to the body and the physical.
Mental health from the clinical point of view must be treated as a physical illness because we mortals cannot yet treat the soul, that which is not physical. We struggle to diagnose the physical never mind the mind. The most we can do about the mind is pray, talk about it and hope.
Therapy when it doesn't provide physical behavioural suggestions to change it only hopes through dialogue and socratic questioning that the conversation will motivate, inspire the body, the person to heal somehow.
Excercise, movement is our default mode, sedentarism is the pathology. So excercise is not therapy, is homeostasis. Modern is life almost enterily the problem, we think is normal because almost everybody is under it: poor food, lost of connection, emotional suppression, dopamine inequality between real and digital life, bad parenting and so on. We have a limit for adaptation, we have move from homeostasis to alostasis, the damage is brutal
Antidepressan should be regarded as just part of solution for depression, etc. You can say diarrhea pills can cure diarrhea, but it will be pointless if you keep eating bad foods, you will make the cycle of consuming the pill going on. Mental health issues are also like that, treating it using medicine is important but keeping yourself from being exposed to "bad stuff" is more important so that you can avoid dependency on those "chemicals".
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Georgia Ede has made amazing progress in mental health and good on her. It's all down to diet.
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میدونید چرا نور و فلش اثر پاداش دوپامینی رو کاهش میده ؟؟؟
I'm not the expert, but I think it's just habit. They just get used to it. Or bored.
So.. that's Alexa. There goes an hour. And what did we learn new? I didn'n hear anything new or usefull. Failed to mention Pavlov, just out of respect.
Great potential and a lot of hard work ahead.
Good luck and may the force be with you!
If You want a talk on mental health you should invite Bessel van der Kolk
"Brain and brain! What is brain?"
Learn
A fascinating presentation. Very interesting insight into mental health. Voice growl makes it hard to listen to, though.
I don't believe that the separation of mental health and body health is just health I think has a lot of feedback between the mind-body system's, just a
I wonder what the person their focus has got to do with it. Filtering what gets in and gets processed. Listen to or watch nature. Or focus on pain and making stories about what others are thinking. When one forgets the body temperature and feels 'bad'. Difficult...
If mental health was only this simple....maybe should have narrowed the scope of this talk. Didn't learn anything I didn't already know from watching.
Becouse you don't understand yourself & how you "work"👀ツ
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It was detailed, not simple
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And you don't know me either..
So you can go back to meaningless internet.commenter.
@@Hecarim420 You made one assumption too many.
@toni4729 have a pleasant meaningful life!
Can't continue listening to that voice
Mind, soul, and body are three levels of being that have nothing to do with religions or science.
Vocal fry, thanks a lot!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ CZcams needs a 5 star rating system. It's not binary thumbs up or down. Well. In this case I'd give 6 stars ...
Sounds like neuroscientists still don’t know what the Hellas going on
Fascinating that the ”chemical imbalance” is even mentioned these days. Endless waist of our time to listen about it over and over again.
A Dieu 😮
My schizophrenia brought me here !
Are you saying desires are the root of suffering.
Guess the Buddha was on to something 🙏
Good afternoon Ri
Not terribly impressed sad to suggest.
Although gut health contribution did make a big bit sense, in short.
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Não existe saúde mental... não existe inconsciente.. todas existências estão interligadas
Keep on trippin...
Psicologia e afins é só preconceito
Wow, you solved it! Has the Nobel Prize committee contacted you?
update, stop tripping, hope you can integrate with reality soon.
Psicologia e afins é uma doença que assola a humanidade
Who is playing with her volume control?
*The greatest damage to humanity, a scourge from God to punish us in our cold hearts, a crown for the unlucky, and a scapegoat for the evil ones!!......* ✝️ ✝️
Jesus saves. Repent. Time is short.
Jesus is short. Time saves. Repent.
The fact is, the antidepressants don't work for everyone because they're only part of the problem. You're adding to the problem instead of removing the major cause, which is what people are putting in their mouths. People that eat too much bad food can only be helped by changing their diet.
Eating real food , getting 30 minutes of even walking exercise is an amazingly powerful way to change a life around. But where's the money in that? So the msg never gets through.
دودش ولی خوبه باز برای کارها و مطالعه و غیره
🍄 First we need to define what consciousness is.
Mind,the gap.
دلیل خاصی نداره
اینطوری بوده که در تاریخ خاصی تنظیم شده از قبل
مثل تاریخ دقیق یک خورشید گرفتگی که از سالها پیش میدونیم و دقیقا در همان ساعت اتفاق می افته
وخوب این پدیده هر چندصد سال یا چند هزار سال تکرار میشه
و خوب کاریش نمیشه کرد دیگه
منم دوست داشتم نمیشد
چون به هر حال اون اتفاق هم نمی افتاد قرار بود بریم اونطرف همه و همه میمیرند یک روزی
خوب دیرتر می افتاد بهتر بود
برای همه
و راستش برای من بهتره که زودتر بیفته ولی خوب کلا در رفت و آمدوخواهیم بود..
میخواید یه پیغام بدم عزراییل تاخیر بندازه یا ابورتش کنه ؟؟؟🤔
گفتم که ابها رو قلیایی تر کنید
مشکل رو حل میکنه ✋️👍
یکی یکی چطوری میخواهید مشکلات همه رو اصلاح کنید؟؟🤔
این همه آدم داریم تو دنیا ..
من ماشروم رو درپارتی استفاده میکنم
و در خانه اصلا ماشروم نمیخورم
مگر میکرو دوز که فعلا اصلا یک سال نخوردم 👍
اون گیاه به درد کار من نمیخوره فعلا 🙏👍
البته اگر کلا مصرف بشه که اثر دایم داره و خنده هاش هم که میتونه کشنده باشه 😂😂
To prove that quarks (subatomic particles) are more real while protons and neutrons (atomic particles) are less real, we need to establish a clear definition of what we mean by "real" and then provide evidence or logical arguments that support this claim. Let's approach this step by step.
Definition of "real":
For the purpose of this proof, we will define "real" as being more fundamental, indivisible, and closer to the underlying nature of reality.
Proof:
1. Quarks are the fundamental building blocks of matter:
- Protons and neutrons are composed of quarks. Protons consist of two up quarks and one down quark, while neutrons consist of one up quark and two down quarks.
- Quarks are not known to have any substructure; they are considered to be elementary particles.
- Therefore, quarks are more fundamental than protons and neutrons.
2. Quarks are indivisible:
- Protons and neutrons can be divided into their constituent quarks through high-energy particle collisions.
- However, there is no known way to divide quarks into smaller components. They are believed to be indivisible.
- Therefore, quarks are indivisible, while protons and neutrons are divisible.
3. Quarks are closer to the underlying nature of reality:
- The Standard Model of particle physics, which is our most comprehensive theory of the fundamental particles and forces, describes quarks as elementary particles that interact through the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces.
- Protons and neutrons, on the other hand, are composite particles that emerge from the interactions of quarks.
- Therefore, quarks are closer to the underlying nature of reality as described by our most fundamental scientific theories.
4. Quarks exhibit more fundamental properties:
- Quarks have intrinsic properties such as color charge, flavor, and spin, which determine how they interact with each other and with other particles.
- Protons and neutrons derive their properties from the collective behavior of their constituent quarks.
- Therefore, the properties of quarks are more fundamental than those of protons and neutrons.
5. Quarks are necessary for the existence of protons and neutrons:
- Without quarks, protons and neutrons would not exist, as they are composed entirely of quarks.
- However, quarks can exist independently of protons and neutrons, as demonstrated by the existence of other hadrons such as mesons, which are composed of one quark and one antiquark.
- Therefore, quarks are necessary for the existence of protons and neutrons, but not vice versa.
Conclusion:
Based on the above arguments, we can conclude that quarks are more real than protons and neutrons. Quarks are more fundamental, indivisible, and closer to the underlying nature of reality as described by our most advanced scientific theories. They exhibit intrinsic properties that determine the behavior of composite particles like protons and neutrons, and they are necessary for the existence of these atomic particles.
It is important to note that this proof relies on our current scientific understanding of particle physics and the nature of matter. As our knowledge advances, our understanding of what is "real" may evolve. However, based on the current evidence and theories, the argument for the greater reality of quarks compared to protons and neutrons is strong.
Hello, wars cause a lot of mental health problems and it was tactfully avoided from the discussion, are you afraid of reality yet want to do research on mental health ?
Afraid of speaking the truth ?
That creaky voice. Bad for my mental health. Distracts from the information she freely shares. Also, learned a new word: endogenous.
Edit: In English, is "mental health" a synonym for "bad mental health" or "mental illness"? Because she keeps talking about "treating a mental health (condition)". I have a mental health condition. I am on the autism spectrum. But I sure as hell don't need to be treated for it. This is very confusing.
you mean psudo