American Psychological Counseling

04/29/2022

Coming soon

04/29/2022

Coming soon!!!

03/27/2022

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

12/31/2021

12/30/2021

Effects of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy on Major Depressive Disorder
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2772630?resultClick=1
Offering therapy starting in February.

This randomized clinical trial examines the efficacy of psilocybin as an adjunct to psychotherapy and other treatments for major depressive disorder.

10/30/2021

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Squire Bill Widener

10/04/2021

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

08/03/2021

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

06/10/2021

Grant me courage to serve others; for in service there is true life.

Cesar Chavez

05/19/2021

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Frida Kahlo

05/19/2021

Here is why losing a nights sleep could be detrimental to your health:
It remains an enigma why human beings spend one-third of their life asleep. Experimental data suggest that sleep is required for clearance of waste products from brain metabolism. This has, however, never been verified in humans. The primary aim of the present study was to examine in vivo whether one night of total sleep deprivation affects molecular clearance from the human brain. Secondarily, we examined whether clearance was affected by subsequent sleep. Multiphase MRI with standardized T1 sequences was performed up to 48 h after intrathecal administration of the contrast agent gadobutrol (0.5 ml of 1 mmol/ml), which served as a tracer molecule. Using FreeSurfer software, we quantified tracer enrichment within 85 brain regions as percentage change from baseline of normalized T1 signals. The cerebral tracer enrichment was compared between two cohorts of individuals; one cohort (n = 7) underwent total sleep deprivation from Day 1 to Day 2 (sleep deprivation group) while an age and gender-matched control group (n = 17; sleep group) was allowed free sleep from Day 1 to Day 2. From Day 2 to 3 all individuals were allowed free sleep. The tracer enriched the brains of the two groups similarly. Sleep deprivation was the sole intervention. One night of sleep deprivation impaired clearance of the tracer substance from most brain regions, including the cerebral cortex, white matter and limbic structures, as demonstrated on the morning of Day 2 after intervention (sleep deprivation/sleep). Moreover, the impaired cerebral clearance in the sleep deprivation group was not compensated by subsequent sleep from Day 2 to 3. The present results provide in vivo evidence that one night of total sleep deprivation impairs molecular clearance from the human brain, and that humans do not catch up on lost sleep.

03/29/2021

Each day wake up and set one goal for yourself for the day and complete it.