Positive and Negative Spirituality and Effects on Mental Health
According to a study by University of Missouri researchers, people who blame divinity for their misfortune tend to have worse physical and mental health outcomes.
NEUROIMAGING: A NEW APPROACH TO EATING DISORDERS?
To treat eating disorders or even obesity, scientists have been turning to neuroimaging–scans of the brain–to teach patients how to understand the path between mind and stomach.
In a 2015 study, scientists used neuroimaging to identify what they called “biological markers” or “neural vulnerabilities” in the brains of patients with eating disorders or obesity. In this study they presented real-time functional MRI (rtfMRI) as “powerful tool to better understand the complexity of human brain-behavior relationships.”
From our understanding, doctors could use rtfMRI as a type of cognitive therapy, pointing out brain function in reward centers of the brain and then working with patients to alter learned eating behaviors and “restore healthy cognition” when it comes to food.
More recently, an upcoming review from the University of Birmingham (UK) suggests that neuroimaging, along with an intranasal administration of insulin and oxytocin, may work to help patients combat obesity and weight gain.
The fact that doctors could use MRI to train your brain into a healthier relationship with food is so cool. Way to go, science!
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