Angela Balzotti Psicologa - Psicoterapeuta

21/07/2024

Con Nature Research Custom Media – Mi è appena stato conferito un riconoscimento in quanto uno dei suoi fan più attivi! 🎉

20/01/2023

https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/darwin-lectures-2023

Isolation is the theme of the 2023 Lecture Series

09/01/2023

https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/nos-enfants-ont-lu-les-notes-de-musique-avant-les-lettres-bienvenue-chez-les-borsarello-musiciens-sur-trois-generations-20230109

UN MÉTIER EN HÉRITAGE (4/4) - Dans de nombreuses familles, la question de la transmission s'invite dans le choix de carrière des plus jeunes. Le Figaro les a rencontrées.

20/12/2022

https://www.stern.de/gesundheit/psychologie/warum-uns-schenken-manchmal-so-stresst-33022172.html

19/12/2022

"“Con mia madre gli schermi sono illimitati.
Non importa quanto gli dico che non voglio che i miei figli vi abbiano accesso, non funziona niente. Ho alzato la voce innumerevoli volte, lei non capisce, e mi ha detto: "Quando eri piccolo guardavi la TV, non vedo il problema..

Pendant les vacances ou pour un soir, certains parents confient leurs enfants aux grands-parents, avec des consignes sur les règles de visionnage… pas toujours respectées. Et les tensions se multiplient.

19/12/2022

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221111-the-tensions-that-fan-tricky-in-law-relationships

Precarious in-law relationships are a trope that can seem overblown. But for some people, these conflicts are real – and there are many reasons why.

16/12/2022

A dog feeds her puppies during snowfall in Turkey. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
www.theguardian.com

Attachment!

14/12/2022

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05594-0

14/12/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGTVCONg_Ck

This is PSC Support 'Ask the Expert' live Q&A session was broadcast live on Facebook 02 October 2021 with 477 views. Regenerating the Bile Ducts: Game Change...

12/12/2022

Future and AlphaCode

AlphaCode writes computer programs at a competitive level and solves new problems

Cover Science Vol 378 9 Dec 2022

12/12/2022

Review

Food & mood: a review of supplementary prebiotic and probiotic interventions in the treatment of anxiety and depression in adults

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6831-7085

Sanjay Noonan, Meena Zaveri, Elaine Macaninch and Kathy Martyn

Correspondence to Mr Sanjay Noonan, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK; sanjay.noonan@gmail.com

Abstract

Background
A bidirectional relationship exists between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract. Foods containing bacteria that positively influence the gastrointestinal microbiome are termed, probiotics; compounds that promote the flourishing of these bacteria are termed, prebiotics. Whether microbiome influencing therapies could treat psychiatric conditions, including depression and anxiety, is an area of interest. Presently, no established consensus for such treatment exists.

Methods
This systematic review analyses databases and grey literature sites to investigate pre and/or probiotics as treatments for depression and/or anxiety disorders. Articles included are from within 15 years. Pre-determined inclusion exclusion criteria were applied, and articles were appraised for their quality using a modified-CASP checklist. This review focuses specifically on quantitative measures from patients with clinical diagnoses of depression and/or anxiety disorders.

Results
7 studies were identified. All demonstrated significant improvements in one or more of the outcomes measuring the of effect taking pre/probiotics compared with no treatment/placebo, or when compared to baseline measurements.

Discussion
Our review suggests utilising pre/probiotic may be a potentially useful adjunctive treatment. Furthermore, patients with certain co-morbidities, such as IBS, might experience greater benefits from such treatments, given that pre/probiotic are useful treatments for other conditions that were not the primary focus of this discourse. Our results are limited by several factors: sample sizes (adequate, though not robust); short study durations, long-term effects and propensity for remission undetermined.

Conclusion
Our results affirm that pre/probiotic therapy warrants further investigation. Efforts should aim to elucidate whether the perceived efficacy of pre/probiotic therapy in depression and/or anxiety disorders can be replicated in larger test populations, and whether such effects are maintained through continued treatment, or post cessation. Interventions should also be investigated in isolation, not combination, to ascertain where the observed effects are attributable to. Efforts to produce mechanistic explanations for such effect should be a priority.

12/12/2022

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn5486

The development of psychedelics as medicines faces several challenges