Harnessing Neuroplasticity for Chronic Fatigue Recovery
This post is Part 1 of a series. Researchers and clinicians are increasingly taking an integrative, psychoneuroimmunological approach to understanding myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID. This means looking at the ways that psychosocial and environmental factors interact…
Regret Is the Price of Playing It Safe
As a hospice doctor, I often have the privilege of being at the bedside of dying patients. Over the years, I’ve had countless conversations about lives well lived, and more often, about regrets. Many of my patients express a strikingly…
The Hippocampus, Learning, Brain Injury, and Rehabilitation
It is now understood that the hippocampus is closely linked to learning and memory (Doidge, 2015; Suzuki, 2015). However, this was not always the case. One prominent experiment investigating memory, learning, and problem-solving was carried out by the American psychologist…