One of the key considerations of rTMS therapy is the individual treatment duration and the overall period of treatment required to effectively alleviate symptoms. In this video it’s time for some timely advice…
Meeting 04 Episode 01 – Is research funding founded on fads?
Funding for research is a tough nut to crack, especially when you are up against projects which appeal to established parameters or have “preordained” high-profile objectives. Isabelle laments the paucity of financing available to ‘lean, mean and provocative” projects that question fashionable assumptions…
Meeting 02 Episode 06 – The importance of environmental considerations when analysing the brain…
What if we were more than just our brains? Alexandre asks about the significance of a person’s environment and how that can impact any form of latent psychosis. Micah agrees that beyond any existing genetic precursors, how we experience the world can trigger or accentuate psychotic predispositions…
Meeting 02 Episode 02 – Does dose matter more…?
Does the test help to establish the optimal dosage of an existing drug regime or is it designed to indicate which molecule to use in the first place? Sean explains the way the body processes drugs to clarify the situation…
Meeting 03 Episode 01 – Walking the ethical line…
One of the key considerations of rTMS therapy is the individual treatment duration and the overall period of treatment required to effectively alleviate symptoms. In this video it’s time for some timely advice…
Meeting 03 Episode 06 – Ideas for future collaboration…
Now that the Zurich SYNERGIES programme has attained cruising speed, Isabelle and the PLEX-RPs start to explore the possibility of other types of collaboration with a view to future publication…
Meeting 02 Episode 05 – Is hypofrontality the result of compensation?
Hypofrontality (a state of decreased cerebral blood flow in the prefrontal cortex of the brain) has been associated with a number of psychiatric diseases. In this episode, Micah raises the question of what’s behind this symptomatic response and asks if it could be the brain’s way of compensating for certain sensory deficits…
Meeting 02 Episode 01 – “A real-world example”
Sean takes time to recount the story of Cindy Black, an early enrolee in multi-gene testing for molecular matching. After many years of living with debilitating depression, Cindy went for broke, took the test and changed her life…
Meeting 02 Episode 05 – “Time well spent…”
One of the key considerations of rTMS therapy is the individual treatment duration and the overall period of treatment required to effectively alleviate symptoms. In this video it’s time for some timely advice…
Meeting 03 Episode 05 – On being labelled as “sick”
You want to know how being labelled as “mentally ill” can in and of itself destroy a life? Listen to Renaud as he so eloquently elucidates the semantic pitfalls and complex layers of guilt, stigma and hopelessness associated with coming to terms with a diagnosis…