New Leaf Behavioral Health LLC

08/21/2025

Warning!
This morning, several people have received notices from a program called Sharefile, telling them that I am sharing a file with them and to click-the-link to read the file.

I do not have a Sharefile account, and these messages are not coming from me.

Dr. Nyberg

08/09/2025

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/07/28/addiction_fiction_dopamine_is_not_why_kids_love_tiktok_1124276.html

Nowadays, it seems we can be addicted to anything – not just alcohol and drugs, but po*******hy, random Internet browsing, video games, and smartphones. Academic research papers have investigate

08/01/2025

We have always run New Leaf as an "inefficient" business, in which passion and concern for the community wins out over "I bet we could charge for that."

This was an interesting reflection - and warning - about a growing trend in healthcare as well as "business in general" :

Squeezing ‘inefficient’ businesses run for greater purpose will generate cash, but not value

06/24/2025

https://gazette.com/colorado-watch/parental-evaluator-fraud-prison-sentence/article_6aeb9cb3-7c85-4c8a-9fb1-63dba9fe845d.html

This is awful

Shannon McShane, a former parental evaluator in Colorado, was sentenced to four years in prison for lying about her credentials and committing fraud on the court system. McShane had falsified

06/24/2025

Finally: an article that appears to be about sports - which is highly unusual for me! But the real point is about bias, and how people dismiss warning signs that they don't want to see in any "risk" scenario, and/or how people focus on convenient excuses and environmental factors when there are obvious 'cracks' in any system - in this case, the bodily system, but equally applicable to any risk assessment and/or any attempt to "read the warning signs" for some potential problem.

Tyrese Haliburton’s Achilles rupture wasn’t a freak injury—it followed a predictable pattern we’ve seen before.

06/24/2025

Next up: a review of recent findings about the interaction between your intestines and your brain. I foresee some of these discoveries as having importance for both mitigation in criminal cases (related to my typical line of work) and also as highly important to new therapies to "mystery" conditions like IBS.

A rapid expansion of new discoveries and knowledge lays the foundation for a new era in medicine

06/24/2025

So many good articles in the news today. First, on clean water - a public health issue that I care about personally:

For billions, it can mean hours spent collecting water. For almost a million, it means dying from disease.

06/10/2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/scott-panetti-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.6aft.6yd2gEg7VX58&smid=url-share

Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.

05/13/2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/08/31/the-emperor-of-junk-science-forensics-has-died/

The Supreme Court created a demand for flawed expertise. Robert O'Block filled it.

05/09/2025

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-problem-with-self-diagnosis/

This is important.

The recent discussions about autism have been fascinating, partly because there is a robust neurodiversity community who have very deep, personal, and thoughtful opinions about the whole thing. One of the issues that has come up after we discussed this on the SGU was that of self-diagnosis. Some peo

05/09/2025

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecular-bond-that-helps-secure-your-memories-20250507/

So this is a little technical, but pretty cool.

How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days, weeks or months? An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory.

03/31/2025

https://abpp.org/newsletter-post/preserving-due-process-countering-sweet-et-al-2024-on-test-disclosure/