Johns Hopkins Medicine

Nov 21 2024 10 ep. 5 mins 7.8k
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Explore health topics, medical research, education programs and patient stories from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ep.8 Caring for the Caregiver — Lessons from 13 years of the Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) Peer Responder Program | Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Well-Being

Nov 21 2024 31 mins  
Resilience in Stressful Events (RISE) is a peer responder program that supports health care workers who have emotional distress due to difficult care-related events. Developed in 2010 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, RISE has been replicated by hospitals and health systems globally. In this episode, two of RISE’s founders — Cheryl Connors and Matt Norvell — talk about how RISE

Cancer Headlines November 2024, with William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Nov 18 2024 10 mins  

Just how are video games to help manage mental health conditions in children developed? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 18 2024 1 mins  
Can you trust a video game to help your child with ADHD, depression or anxiety? A new study by Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Barry Bryant surveyed the field of such games to find out more about them. Bryant: There were some companies that made them that seemed to be more of the exception than the rule. A lot of the games were coming out of academic research labs and were made for thes

What characterizes a video game designed to help kids with mental health issues? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 18 2024 1 mins  
Just how does a video game designed to help kids with ADHD, depression and anxiety differ from other video games? Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, recently completed a study looking at such games and has some observations. Bryant: A lot of the ADHD games looked fun. They were racing games, they were games where you would go around and select certain things but not oth

Having kids using mental health care gaming works best at a computer, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 18 2024 1 mins  
if you’re using a gaming program to help a child with ADHD, depression or anxiety, these technologies work best if they are done on a computer. That’s one finding of a study surveying video games to help with these mental health issues in children and adolescents by Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins. Bryant: If you think about being at a computer for a certain perio

What does a survey of video games to help kid’s mental health show? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 18 2024 1 mins  
Can video games help children and adolescents with mental health issues like anxiety, ADHD or depression? A Johns Hopkins study led by psychiatrist Barry Bryant aimed to find out. Bryant: What we found were about 30 randomized controlled trials looking at these. When pulled together they were moderately effective for ADHD and depression, less so for anxiety. We also found some inte

Can video games help fill in the gap between kids who need mental health care and the dearth of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 18 2024 1 mins  
Mental health issues are skyrocketing among US youth, data shows. Barry Bryant, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, wondered whether technology might be able to step into this gap with a recent study looking at video games for three common mental health conditions in children and adolescents. Bryant: There is a huge demand for pediatric mental healthcare services that does not line up

Skin isn’t the only place to sample to make a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 11 2024 1 mins  
Skin biopsies can diagnose both Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions called prion diseases, recent studies show. Ted Dawson, Johns Hopkins Parkinson’s expert, predicts that soon, blood will supplant skin for detection of these incorrectly folded proteins. Dawson: We also know that you can detect it in the blood. What that means is we're going to be able to do b

Personalized treatment may soon come for Parkinson’s disease, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 11 2024 1 mins  
More than 200,000 people in the US alone are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease yearly, but it can be caused by multiple forms of a misfolded protein called alpha synuclein. Ted Dawson, a Parkinson’s expert at Johns Hopkins, says managing the condition will soon integrate which type of the protein an individual has. Dawson: Treatment of Parkinson's disease is going to come down

Some people with Parkinson’s disease will test negative with the best test yet, Elizabeth Tracey reports

Nov 11 2024 1 mins  
A type of test known as a seeding assay has been shown to be very good at diagnosing conditions like Parkinson’s disease, caused by a protein that folds incorrectly. Parkinson’s disease expert Ted Dawson at Johns Hopkins predicts these types of assays will become the new gold standard for diagnosis, yet a number of patients may not benefit. Dawson: In the largest paper done doi