Good day, it could due to there are many different types of medicines for different symptoms.
It is better to consult mental health practitioners to get a better effect

Last week, January 4th is the World Hypnotism Day and many people from various countries around the globe will be celebrating World Hypnotism day. Today actually is all about removing those myths and misconceptions about hypnosis.

Our mission of this hypnotism day workshop is to remove the myths and misconceptions while promoting the truth and benefits of hypnotism to the people of the world.

Welcome to a life-changing opportunity. A way you can choose to write new chapters in your life, put aside fears, and change what you believed was unchangeable.

Let's hear the feedback from all participants of today:


Bernard Sii:

· I learn a lot about psychology.



Chin Lok Chee:

· It will help others to understand more about hypnosis as compared to those that are shown on TV and media.



JS:

· I would say that it actually helps in looking into ourselves and expressing our own feelings. Not a bad way to relax your mind and soul, especially when you’re under quite an amount of stress. Tq Hiro!



Kelly Yeo:

· I had tried hypnosis before and I found it is effective. Through this workshop, I learn more on hypnosis and understand more on self-emotion.



Khor Zhe Wei:

· It will help others to feel better. And it will let us know ourselves better and then make some changes on ourselves.



Moi Moi:

· This workshop has opened up my understanding of hypnotherapy. It is really amazing.



Loh Hui Min:

· An interesting and unforgettable hypnosis experience. Learned many knowledge about psychology and neuroscience. It gave me a chance to explore my emotion in a correct and efficient way.



Sherlock Tan：

· Very scientifically based and scientifically proven.



Sook Yee：

· Learn more about hypnosis knowledge which could improve your lifestyle and a way to overcome the fear of your thoughts.


Li Li：

· As an existing patient, the therapy I am currently undergoing has shown excellent and obvious results of improving, and this workshop furthered my understanding of the treatments and how to further improve it.


Vicky Lee:
· I learned to release my stress and understand the function of brain.



Yee Shan:

· This workshop enables me to understand what hypnosis really is unlike those portrayed by drama. The brief experiential hypnosis is a very unique experience gained! Thanks.

A mechanism for working memory

Across all the PFC areas and all tasks, the data showed the same thing: When sensory information was loaded into working memory, the gamma rhythms in superficial layers increased and the alpha/beta rhythms in deep layers that carried the top-down information decreased. Conversely, when deep-layer alpha/beta rhythms increased, superficial layer gamma waned. Subsequent statistical analysis suggested that gamma was being controlled by alpha and beta rhythms, rather than the other way around.

"This suggests mechanisms by which the top-down information needed for volitional control, carried by alpha/beta rhythms, can turn on and off the faucet of bottom-up sensory information, carried by gamma, that reaches working memory and is held in mind," Miller says.

With these insights, the team has since worked to directly test this multilayer, multifrequency model of working memory dynamics more explicitly, with results in press but not yet published.

Charles Schroeder, research scientist and section head in the Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, describes two contributions of the study as empirically important.

"First, the paper clearly shows that critical cognitive operations (in this case working memory) are underlain by periodic (oscillatory) network activity patterns in the brain, and that these must be addressed by single trial analysis," Schroeder says. "This provides an important conceptual alternative to the idea that working memory must involve continuous neural activation. Secondly, the findings strongly reinforce the notion that dynamic coupling across high- and low-frequency ranges performs a clear mechanistic function: Lower frequency activity dominant in the lower layers of the prefrontal area network controls the temporal patterning of higher frequency information representation in the superficial layers of the same network of areas. The important conceptual innovation in this case lies in allowing lower frequency control operations to act directly on higher frequency information representation within each cortical area."

Bastos says the model could be useful for generating hypotheses about clinical working memory deficits. Aberrations of deep-layer beta rhythms, for example, could lead to a lessened ability to control working memory for goal-directed action. "In a schizophrenia model or schizophrenia patients, is the interplay between beta and gamma lost?" he asks.



Source:
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-01-neur...onal-minds.html

I was invited to differentiate between the "pukau" and clinical hypnosis.
And YES, it is totally different thing ya.




Bual bicara yang menampilkan pakar dari bidang kesihatan membincangkan pelbagai topik yang berkaitan dengan kesihatan. Topik minggu ini mengenai gejala tidur dan kaedah rawatan alternatif (Hipnoterapi).

Hipnosis itu bukan pukau!

Pukau tradisional akan mempengaruhi tingkah laku, pemikiran dan emosi anda. Mereka akan guna bahasa yang manis, sentuhan atau mengejutkan kamu seperti memandang mata kamu atau pun mereka akan gunakan medium lain seperti magik atau bahan-bahan untuk mempengaruhi kamu.


Hipnosis dipelajari secara ilmiah sejak 3000 tahun terdahulu. Hipnosis sebahagian dari ilmu psikologi abad kini. Diiktiraf oleh British Medical Association, USA pada tahun 1958 dan digunakan di dalam bidang perubatan moden hingga ke hari ini. Kebanyakkan client saya datang untuk menggubah tabiat yang buruk, mengurangkan berat badan, bimbang dan risau, ADHD, menguruskan kesakitan dan gangguan mood.

Hipnosis itu adalah seni meletakkan minda dan emosi diri dalam keadaan tenang menggunakan kekuatan BERBAHASA bagi memprogram kembali minda diri.

Kaunseling yang tradisional atau terapi bercakap seperti CBT lebih sesuai bagi orang yang pandai bercakap dan rasional. Bagi hypnotherapy, ini lebih sesuai bagi orang yang tidak bagus dalam bercakap dan ekspresi, seperti orang yang risau terlalu banyak atau orang yang mengalami trauma. Ini kerana orang yang rational tahu apa yang mereka kena buat tapi minda bawah sedar tidak tahu bahawa mereka memerlukan bantuan. Inilah kenapa hypnotherapy sangat berkesan untuk kes-kes emosi dan kes-kes yang berkaitan dengan minda kami yang bawah sedar.

Anda boleh mengetahui diri anda dengan lebih baik dan mengatasi masalah anda dengan menggunakan kekuatan minda anda. Ia adalah prosedur yang menyeronokkan dan santai tetapi sangat powerful. Bagi kebanyakan pelanggan saya, ini merupakan prosedur yang mengubah hidup mereka.

Panic Attack?

Hiro Koo:
From my clinical work, I notice that most of my clients who suffer from autonomic nervous dysfunction symptoms such as panic attack or Irritable bowel syndrome tend to experience self-induced (hypnotic) trance states. Most of them show a certain type of brainwaves activity and they can be triggered and activated the fear response easily.

Dissociation is also known as a 'self-induced (hypnotic) trance states' or 'altered states of consciousness'. The sensations of dissociation are many and varied. They can easily experience the following dissociative sensations:



Sensitivity to light and sound
Tunnel vision
Feeling as if your body has expanded so that it feels larger than normal
Feeling as if your body has shrunk to minute proportions
Stationary objects may appear to move
Driving a car and suddenly realise you don't remember what has happened during all or part of the trip
Listening to someone talk and realise you did not hear part or all of what was said
Sometimes sit staring off into space, and not being aware of the passage of time
People who do dissociate have had this ability since childhood, although many people have forgotten they were able to do this as children. This ability can be activated once again as an adult as a result of a major stress and/or not eating or sleep properly.
For example, People who have panic disorder are not aware of how they can 'trance out' so easily, and they can then panic when they move into an altered state.
Some people with panic disorder are frightened of their ability to dissociate, other people are not. One of the easiest way people can induce a trance state is when they are relaxed and/or when they are staring : out of the window, driving, watching TV, reading a book, using the computer, when talking with someone. Fluorescent lights can trigger a trance state, so too can self-absorption. The more absorbed we become, the more we can induce a trance state.


Hiro Koo:
I notice that 'self-induced (hypnotic) trance states' happens to most to the clients who suffered from the symptoms of the autonomic nervous dysfunction. Thus, clinical hypnotherapy can help you to utilize your trance state in a proper and positive way. By doing clinical neurofeedback, it can help you to feel more in control as well.





Source:http://www.dpselfhelp.com/forum/index.php?/topic/15640-excellent-description-of-panicdissociation/

A HEALTHY GUT MICROBIOME

A team of researchers from the APC Microbiome Institute of the University College Cork in Ireland has stumbled upon an intriguing connection between the bacteria living in the human gastrointestinal tract and anxiety. While there are studies that link anxiety-like behaviors to the gut microbiome, this is the first that makes a connection between the microbes and a particular kind of biological molecule called microRNA (miRNA) in the amygdala and prefrontal cortex of the brain.

“Gut microbes seem to influence miRNAs in the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex,” lead research Gerard Clarke said in a press release provided by BioMed Central. “This is important because these miRNAs may affect physiological processes that are fundamental to the functioning of the central nervous system and in brain regions, such as the amygdala and prefrontal cortex, which are heavily implicated in anxiety and depression.”

The team was able to identify this connection by comparing mice grown in a germ-free environment (GF mice) with normal mice. In the GF mice, 103 miRNA’s in the amygdala and 31 miRNA’s in the prefrontal cortex differed with ordinary mice. Furthermore, adding back gut microbes into the GF mice later on normalized these levels.


Read more:
https://futurism.com/new-study-shows-how-yo...luence-anxiety/

You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves.

A friend will help you move, goes an old saying, while a good friend will help you move a body. And why not? Moral qualms aside, that good friend would likely agree the victim was an intolerable jerk who had it coming and, jeez, you shouldn’t have done this but where do you keep the shovel?

Researchers have long known that people choose friends who are much like themselves in a wide array of characteristics: of a similar age, race, religion, socioeconomic status, educational level, political leaning, pulchritude rating, even handgrip strength. The impulse toward homophily, toward bonding with others who are the least other possible, is found among traditional hunter-gatherer groups and advanced capitalist societies alike.

New research suggests the roots of friendship extend even deeper than previously suspected. Scientists have found that the brains of close friends respond in remarkably similar ways as they view a series of short videos: the same ebbs and swells of attention and distraction, the same peaking of reward processing here, boredom alerts there.

The neural response patterns evoked by the videos — on subjects as diverse as the dangers of college football, the behavior of water in outer space, and Liam Neeson trying his hand at improv comedy — proved so congruent among friends, compared to patterns seen among people who were not friends, that the researchers could predict the strength of two people’s social bond based on their brain scans alone.


Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/science/...ain-health.html

Tourette Awareness Month is May 15th – June 15th!
Here are 5 easy ways to raise awareness, foster acceptance and support our mission to make life better for all people affected by Tourette and Tic Disorders!

Make it Social!
Help us leverage social media to educate, raise awareness, and garner support for Tourette Syndrome.

Using ‘twibbon’, customize your profile picture with a Tourette badge to support Tourette Awareness Month!
https://twibbon.com/Support/tourette-national-awareness

Share Your Story
We invite you to share your story, new and old, as a testament to the TAA and all that we have been able to accomplish together.



http://www.tourette.org/about-us/5-ways-raise-awareness/

Neurofeedback and Panic Attacks

Panic attack is a mental illness associated with pathological levels of anxiety that is represented by sudden onset of horror or fear of its reappearance in sufferer. The attacks is characterized with symptoms like heartbeat, sweat, feeling chest tight, tremble, feeling losing balance, or confusion, although they happen in a few minutes. The sufferer, afraid of the emergence of a new attack, may get into anticipatory anxiety and refusing to go to hideous places.
Panic disorder is often associated with agoraphobia, and is fear of being alone in public places especially places that are difficult to escape perceived by a panic attack on the person. Panic attack can occur after injuring stress mental disorders, depression disorders and medical illnesses such as drug discontinuation or its poisoning.
Neurofeedback targets the parts of the brain at the cause of this reaction in an effort to retrain the brain to function more efficiently so the “fight or flight” response is not triggered. The brain learns how to cope with anxiety and fear appropriately during neurofeedback sessions resulting in an overall decrease in anxiety, mood improvement, and increase in daily function. In other words, neurofeedback can help you calm the struggle so you can live with reduced emotional distress caused by panic disorder.
In past research and review studies, neurofeedback therapy is found to be helpful in regulating metabolic function in brain. Through neurofeedback, panic attack sufferers learn how to strengthen their brain metabolic. The findings reveal that neurofeedback remains its consistency in improving panic disorder patients’ anxiety. This significance suggests that neurofeedback is an effective complementary alternative therapy for common unpleasant anxiety in panic attack sufferers.





Source:
http://www.newmindcentre.com/2018/05/clini...k-training.html

Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment in Malaysia (A nondrug approach to TBI)

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a heterogeneous disorder, with different presentations depending on the nature of the injury. Thus, these make TBI difficult to treat. Clinical neurofeedback is a therapy that will be of great benefit to TBI sufferers. Clinical neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback whereby sufferers can learn to control measurements of brain activity such as those recorded by an electroencephalogram (EEG). You can treat it as a training method instead (Real brain based exercise).
It is found that clinical neurofeedback training could help in recovery of function subsequent to the brain injury. The regaining of these functions can be seen through observable behavior. Reviewing past studies, the results of clinical neurofeedback showed broad improvement among TBI population. Also, TBI sufferers self-reported improvement in a wide range of symptoms in multiple studies. They were relieved of their symptoms, including:
· attention deficit
· processing speed
· learning and memory
· motor control and coordination
· irritability
· impulse control
· seizures
· dizziness
· headache
· decreased energy
· depression
· sleep
· photophobia (light sensitivity)
· phonophobia (sound sensitivity)


Source: May, G., Benson, R., Balon, R., & Boutros, N. (2013). Neurofeedback and traumatic brain injury: A literature review. Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 25(4), 289-296.

Trauma, PTSD, and Panic Disorder
Approximately 5% of people will develop panic disorder at some point in their lifetime. However, these rates may be higher among people who have experienced a traumatic event. A large number of people who have experienced a traumatic event report that they had a panic attack following the event. In addition, approximately 30% of people who have experienced a traumatic event also report experiencing unexpected panic attacks.
In particular, one study found high rates of childhood sexual abuse (41%) and physical abuse (59%) among women with panic disorder.
Another study found high rates of sexual molestation (24% for women and 5% for men) and physical abuse as a child (around 14% for both men and women) among people with panic disorder. Women with panic disorder have also been found to report high rates of rape (23%).
Besides simply traumatic exposure, panic disorder also commonly co-occurs with PTSD. Specifically, around 7% of men and 13% of women with PTSD also have panic disorder.
Treatment
Fortunately, there are effective treatments available for both panic disorder and PTSD.
In addition, there are a number of options available for people seeking treatment for PTSD. Some of the symptoms of PTSD may place a person at risk for panic attacks, especially the hyperarousal symptoms. In addition, the physical health problems and unhealthy behaviors (for example, smoking and substance use) that often associated with PTSD may increase the likelihood that panic attacks are experienced. By treating a person's PTSD, then, the risk for the experience of panic attacks may be lessened.


source:
http://www.newmindcentre.com/2018/06/traum...c-disorder.html

Living at higher latitudes, where there is also less sunlight, could result in a higher prevalence rate of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

“The results of this project are exciting because they provide additional evidence for a new way of thinking about OCD,” said Meredith Coles, professor of psychology at Binghamton University. “Specifically, they show that living in areas with more sunlight is related to lower rates of OCD.”

To compile their data, Coles and her research team read through many papers that addressed OCD prevalence rates in certain places and then recorded the latitudes of each location.

Individuals with OCD commonly report not being able to fall asleep until later than desired. Often times, they will then sleep in very late in order to compensate for that lost sleep, thus adopting a delayed sleep-wake pattern that may have adverse effects on their symptoms.

“This delayed sleep-wake pattern may reduce exposure to morning light, thereby potentially contributing to a misalignment between our internal biology and the external light-dark cycle,” said Coles. “People who live in areas with less sunlight may have less opportunities to synchronize their circadian clock, leading to increased OCD symptoms.”

This misalignment is more prevalent at higher latitudes – areas where there is reduced exposure to sunlight – which places people living in these locations at an increased risk for the development and worsening of OCD symptoms. These areas subsequently exhibit higher lifetime prevalence rates of the disorder than areas at lower latitudes.

While it is too soon to implement any specific treatment plans based on this new information, future studies are in the works to test a variety of treatment methods that address sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions.

“First, we are looking at relations between sleep timing and OCD symptoms repeatedly over time in order to begin to think about causal relationships,” said Coles. “Second, we are measuring circadian rhythms directly by measuring levels of melatonin and having people wear watches that track their activity and rest periods. Finally, we are conducting research to better understand how sleep timing and OCD are related.”

Additionally, the team of researchers hopes that further study exploring exposure to morning light could help develop new treatment recommendations that would benefit individuals with OCD.

source:
https://www.psypost.org/2018/07/living-in-a...-disorder-51728

Living at higher latitudes, where there is also less sunlight, could result in a higher prevalence rate of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

“The results of this project are exciting because they provide additional evidence for a new way of thinking about OCD,” said Meredith Coles, professor of psychology at Binghamton University. “Specifically, they show that living in areas with more sunlight is related to lower rates of OCD.”

To compile their data, Coles and her research team read through many papers that addressed OCD prevalence rates in certain places and then recorded the latitudes of each location.

Individuals with OCD commonly report not being able to fall asleep until later than desired. Often times, they will then sleep in very late in order to compensate for that lost sleep, thus adopting a delayed sleep-wake pattern that may have adverse effects on their symptoms.

“This delayed sleep-wake pattern may reduce exposure to morning light, thereby potentially contributing to a misalignment between our internal biology and the external light-dark cycle,” said Coles. “People who live in areas with less sunlight may have less opportunities to synchronize their circadian clock, leading to increased OCD symptoms.”

This misalignment is more prevalent at higher latitudes – areas where there is reduced exposure to sunlight – which places people living in these locations at an increased risk for the development and worsening of OCD symptoms. These areas subsequently exhibit higher lifetime prevalence rates of the disorder than areas at lower latitudes.

While it is too soon to implement any specific treatment plans based on this new information, future studies are in the works to test a variety of treatment methods that address sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions.

“First, we are looking at relations between sleep timing and OCD symptoms repeatedly over time in order to begin to think about causal relationships,” said Coles. “Second, we are measuring circadian rhythms directly by measuring levels of melatonin and having people wear watches that track their activity and rest periods. Finally, we are conducting research to better understand how sleep timing and OCD are related.”

Additionally, the team of researchers hopes that further study exploring exposure to morning light could help develop new treatment recommendations that would benefit individuals with OCD.

source:
https://www.psypost.org/2018/07/living-in-a...-disorder-51728

The 6th Child Development and Mental Health International Forum and the 4th Asia Pacific/Neurofeedback/ Biofeedback Conference. Opening Ceremony by the Director & Deputy Director General of Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand; Director-General of Department of Mental Oral Health Taiwan; Acting Director of RICD Thailand & Prof Dato Dr Susie See of APNA.

I am glad to be one of the invited speakers from Malaysia to present the wonder of clinical neurofeedback and advantages of brain mapping.
Special thanks to Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, Department of Mental Health; Medical Team of Rajanagarindra Institute of Child Development; Conference Organise Committee and APNA committee to make this event happens:)


Had a great time here:) I shared about how the various form of trauma affects the executive functioning of the brain (such as focus and planning etc.)
I am so happy to meet all neurofeedback practitioners from all around the world.

Currently, I am suffering hearing voices in my brain. I went to check the professional and taking medicines. Other than eating medicines, what else I can do to reduce those fake voices?

Can't stop crying sometimes, why I have to suffer all these.

Have you tried sports? Maybe meeting people will you to train your mind? To me, i see sports help me to have a clearer mind. You can laugh, you can get sweat

This post has been edited by valegal: Mar 22 2019, 04:02 PM

No...Other than sports?

Good day. May I know is it more to tinnitus or you mean auditory hallucination ?

Not sure what is the difference, it's like a conversation in my head and I am quite sure is fake. :x being checking with the doctor and eating medicine.

I see, so you can hear it right?
In this case, you can visit psychiatrist to improve your brain health first.
And then see a therapist who trained in Cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness practice to help you cope with it.