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LAMPS

Locality: Dandenong, Victoria

Address: 128 Cleeland Street 3175 Dandenong, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/scs/psychiatry/southern-synergy/workforce

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21.01.2022 "A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found evidence that children under 3 years old are most the vulnerable to the effects of adversityexperiences... including poverty, family and financial instability, and abuseon their epigenetic profiles, chemical tags that alter gene expression and may have consequences for future mental health. Their report appearing in the May 15 issue of Biological Psychiatry, which has been published online, finds that the timing of adverse experiences has more powerful effects than the number of such experiences or whether they took place recently." See more

18.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who attended the ACT Suicide Prevention Collaborative last week. We really value all contributions to this complex topic. Keep an eye out ...for more Collaborative events in the new year. We recognise that not everyone who wished to could attend. If you’re interested in learning more about LifeSpan check out this video produced by Black Dog Institute or visit our website http://bit.ly/LifeSpanACT

15.01.2022 Sadly, UCSD will not be hosting the Bridging Conference this year. While we know it is not the same as a joyful in person gathering many of you may find the fol...lowing online offering will support your practice and inspire your work. And a plus is that you can participate in jammies. Hoping our paths cross soon and often. Our friends at The Awake Network and mindful.org have partnered to create a FREE online event the Mindful Education Summit to serve as a resource to teachers, parents, administrators, therapists, and anyone interested in bringing mindfulness to children and youth. This free event features 25+ of the leading neuroscience researchers, mindfulness experts, and dedicated educators who are making a difference in their communities. You will learn the cutting edge research on mindfulness for children, youth, and adults, discover the best practices and most common pitfalls to avoid when bringing mindfulness into the classroom, hear case studies and interviews with the educators and administrators who are bringing mindfulness into schools across the US, and gain resources to create presence in your own life and teach the next generation. To register for this free training click here>> http://share.theawakenetwork.com/a/mesopt/dramy

15.01.2022 Most people who suffer from BPD have a history of major trauma, often sustained in childhood. This includes sexual and physical abuse, extreme neglect, and separation from parents and loved ones.

09.01.2022 "A study lead by Penn Medicine researchers found that childhood trauma is linked to abnormal connectivity in the brain in adults with major depressive disorder ...(MDD). The paper, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), is the first data-driven study to show symptom-specific, system-level changes in brain network connectivity in MDD. "With estimates of approximately 10 percent of all children in the United States having been subjected to child abuse, the significance of child maltreatment on brain development and function is an important consideration," said Yvette I. Sheline, MD, McLure professor of Psychiatry, Radiology, and Neurology, and director of the Center for Neuromodulation in Depression and Stress (CNDS) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "This study not only confirms the important relationship between childhood trauma and major depression, but also links patients' experiences of childhood trauma with specific functional brain network abnormalities. This suggests a possible environmental contributor to neurobiological symptoms."

08.01.2022 A new environmental narrative that emphasises regrowth and possibility could provide the hope we need to make a change, argues Paul Jepson. Narratives matter.... They establish the architecture for the telling of stories about the state of the world and how we should act. During the mid-20th century a powerful environmental narrative emerged that has shaped institutions and cultural understandings of our relationship with Nature, the planet and different actors in society. At its root, this narrative adopts a simple state-cause-consequence structure. Nature is in crisis due to human fecundity, greed and ignorance, and catastrophe looms. The activist generation of the 1970s populated this narrative with villainous, innocent and heroic characters and called on governments to act to regulate the perpetrators of harm and for companies to change their immoral ways. This narrative is powerful and has achieved much, but it mobilises action through a combination of anxiety and blame. The relentless retelling of ‘doom and gloom’ stories may have alienated many ordinary people from the environmental movement: the issues seem so big that people feel powerless to make a difference within the constraints of their everyday lives. I recently published an article in the journal Ambio suggesting that in rewilding we are seeing the emergence of a new environmental narrative, which I labelled Recoverable Earth. In structure, ethos and ambition it is quite different from the established environmental narrative. "It is characterised by fresh and compelling stories telling of the return and recovery of European megafauna, the restoration of natural dynamics and ecological abundance: stories of reassessment and refinding the self, and working with restored forces of Nature to create novel solutions to the challenges of environmental and social change. They are stories of what can be achieved rather than what needs to be done. Read the full story by Paul Jepson, course director of the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at the University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow with the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment. Illustration: Geraldine Sy

07.01.2022 Movement is life: Anna Halprin believes dance can heal anything, from cancer to racism. RTD met with the 97-year-old dance icon to find out how she’s been treating people for decades.

06.01.2022 Childhood abuse more common than we think

02.01.2022 Very good essay. The answer: "We don't know yet." That same answer is given in the text, "Transgenerational Epigenetics: Evidence and Debate" (ed. Trygve Tolle...fsbol, 2014, Academic Press), whose chapters are all written by scientists who largely believe the answer is, "Yes." Not mentioned in the essay is the observation that not all offspring inherit the parental phenotype that was triggered by environmental factors (and ostensibly passed to several generations of offspring). That is, not all offspring "receive" the parental transmission of their trauma. Why not? The answer: because all epigenetic mechanisms require the "right" DNA sequences. Some offspring don't inherit the "right" genes, so the parent's transmission of trauma (if it's true) falls on "deaf ears" in their case.