Wednesday, March 17 featured Dr. Derek Martinez from St. Lukes. He had an interactive talk with time for questions at the end.
If you want to see his presentation, click the link below! https://icom.webex.com/icom/ldr.php?RCID=2878f2e64f904a43b7e6eb4f6abf8787
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Our very own Hayden Ton and Ryan Wertz got to lecture on music therapy and PTSD in an event sponsored by Art With Impact. We were part of a new series of talks they host called Sanctuary Space. The talk featured The Boise Hive, a collaborator with SIGN+Psych, and one of their veterans, Gus, who was kind enough to join us for a live interview on air.
To see more about Art With Impact, check them out here: https://www.artwithimpact.org/ https://artwithimpact.org/event/awi-sanctuary-space-presents-music-thera-ptsd/ Dr. Zhao presented to ICOM students about movement disorders and treatment with a focus on Parkinson's Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation. Check it out at the link below!
https://icom.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/icom/recording/playback/018a75865fb545629dd46c0198f941b6 Password: vPmckyP2 To download her slides, use this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-qQslrKXFUdsufy4upa8ec_TsoZW55Q/view?usp=sharing In addition to being regular volunteers with the Homes of Living Hope community building effort of a medical and dental clinic, SIGN+Psych officers have made over 100 hand-made masks to donate. All of this will serve a community outside of rural New Mexico, expected to provide care for over 3000 residents with no local healthcare access.
Thanks to everyone at ICOM, we raised over 60 gallons of food for the Boise Rescue Mission this holiday season!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15457-9.pdf
The connection between gut microbiome and mental health is a relatively new topic that is being thoroughly researched. This research paper uses gut microbiome genome analysis to determine if there is a difference in gut flora between patients with schizophrenia and normal controls. Patients with schizophrenia tended to have more facultative anaerobes and oral bacteria than controls (Figure 1). Some of these bacteria were noted to have biochemical pathways that result in the synthesis of neurotransmitters or neurotransmitter precursors (Figure 2), suggesting that they could impact mental health. One bacteria in particular that was elevated in schizophrenic patients, Streptococcus vestibularis, was introduced into the guts of healthy mice and induced hyperkinetic behavior in behavioral assays that is similar to that observed in mice after being given psychotomimetic drugs like PCP (Figure 4). Overall, this research provides evidence for the idea that mental health disorders could be in part due to disturbances of healthy gut flora and provides some insight into how the perception and treatment of mental health disorders could change in the future. |
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