Dr. Amen and his team in California just released results from a SPECT imaging study conducted on thousands of men and women. The participants were scanned at baseline (not doing a task) and during a concentration task. The scans analyzed 128 brain regions. The study revealed that women’s brain activity was high in 65 brainContinue reading “Why Do Women Suffer More From Anxiety and Depression Than Men?”
Author Archives: Dr. Elena Mikalsen
Book Spotlight: All the Best People by Sonja Yoerg.
All the Best People is an intricately crafted story of mental illness, magic and misfortune across three generations.
The Importance of Family Memories
Have any of your family members left you anything special before they passed away? Well, my grandmother, Zoya, left me her journal. You see—I gave it to her years ago. I had forgotten that I gave it to her. It was before she developed dementia. Before she forgot who my children were, or who sheContinue reading “The Importance of Family Memories”
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Book Spotlight: Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
Mira T. Lee’s debut novel, EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL, is a complex and engrossing cross-cultural family drama that tackles big issues: in addition to themes of immigration, identity, and parenthood, it takes a 360-degree look at mental illness.
Elena Mikalsen, Ph.D. Author/Psychologist 