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A 17-year-old girl from France with an unusually rich, detailed, and accurate memory can mentally travel both forwards and backwards in time, according to the authors of a new case report.  The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Described as a successful high-school student, the youngster exhibits a …

OpenAI outlines new mental health guardrails for ChatGPT  Axios A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.  The New York Times The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame  NBC News OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT parental controls with help of mental health experts  Fox Business OpenAI Acknowledges That Lengthy Conversations With ChatGPT And GPT-5 Might …

Teenager with hyperthymesia exhibits extraordinary mental time travel abilities  PsyPost Mental time travel: People with ‘hyperthymesia’ remember literally everything  Earth.com Mental time travel: A new case of autobiographical hypermnesia  Medical Xpress Source link

A recent case study describes a teenager who can summon personal memories with unusual speed, detail, and control – a very rare condition known as hyperthymesia. She can also use the same mental machinery to imagine future events with striking richness. Scientists call this autobiographical memory, the long term store of events from our own lives that includes feelings, places, …

Vulnerable people turning to AI chatbots instead of professional therapists for mental health support could be “sliding into a dangerous abyss”, psychotherapists have warned. Psychotherapists and psychiatristssaid they were increasingly seeing negative impacts of AI chatbots being used for mental health, such as fostering emotional dependence, exacerbating anxiety symptoms, self-diagnosis, or amplifying delusional thought patterns, dark thoughts and suicide ideation. …

Mental Health Disorders Slash Life Expectancy By Up To 20 Years  Study Finds Report indicates some mental conditions raise heart disease risk, mortality rate by nearly 100%  Medical Xpress Heart disease and depression: A two way street  Harvard Health Mental disorders may double risk of early death: Study | Tap to know more | Inshorts  Inshorts Depression, schizophrenia may increase heart disease, death risk …

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Hydrate Medical is expanding its services to offer ketamine therapy one day a week, according to a news release. Ketamine therapy will be administered by Keith Parris, an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, every Tuesday. “Hurricane anniversaries often bring a resurgence of emotional distress, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms. In areas like Asheville and the surrounding mountain communities, …

Are “dark patterns” and product design choices to blame for the disturbing phenomenon increasingly referred to as “AI psychosis” by mental health professionals? According to some experts, the answer is yes. AI chatbots are pulling a large number of people into strange mental spirals, in which the human-sounding AI convinces users that they’ve unlocked a sentient being or spiritual entity, …

If you spend any time gardening, you probably understand what I mean when I say it feels good — despite the lifting, sweating and straining involved. Yes, exercise is good for our bodies, but there’s something about digging in the dirt while listening to a bird soundtrack that lifts my spirits. Even the scent of the soil and mulch makes …

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team started testing their inner speech system with cued words first. The patients sat in front of the screen that displayed a short sentence and had to imagine saying it. The performance varied, reaching 86 percent accuracy with the best performing …