Most disorders both mental and physical are managed and not cured. We think of cure in medicine as the complete reversal or disappearance of an illness. This is what we can do to fix a broken leg. You can also treat a vitamin deficiency with a vitamin supplement.
This video will discuss the most common mental illnesses that can come and go throughout your life and how they change over time. These are major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Bipolar disorder and major depression are both recurring disorders that cause episodes that last for a while then disappear. There are some people who have chronic symptoms. However, the most common picture is one where you have episodic episodes that resolve and then return. There are periods between when you have very few symptoms and no symptoms. A remission is when your symptoms disappear. It is a relapse when your symptoms return. Both bipolar disorder and depression are relapsing or remitting disorders.
Anxiety disorders can behave differently. They are not episodic and tend to fluctuate in intensity over time. It’s like a wave with peaks and then recedes. You may need treatment for anxiety that is difficult to manage. There are also times when it isn’t so bad. It’s not possible to be completely anxiety-free. Your symptoms can be managed.
Over the course of your lifetime, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can behave differently to anxiety. As an adult, symptoms may improve or almost disappear. However, symptoms may not disappear completely. You may experience residual ADHD symptoms such as slow reading, disorganization, and a poor listener. You may not have a lot of problems with little things. ADHD symptoms can be more severe if you are stressed out because of a difficult time in your life.
Schizophrenia is more like a series or plateaus. One person may have mild symptoms at first, but they don’t always appear to be suffering from schizophrenia. The symptoms eventually become severe. A video explaining schizophrenia was made by me. You can click the link at the bottom of the video description to go to the video. The usual course of schizophrenia is that symptoms become severe and a person can stay at the same level for years. The symptoms begin to increase and then the symptoms start to decline. Although you may be able to get more medication, this seems to be the new baseline. This is especially true for cognitive symptoms. This is a stepwise downward trend, and not a gradual decline as some people may experience. This pattern can have a very long interval, like years. If someone develops this disorder at 25, and then lives to 75, they may only need to go down three or four steps.
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In this episode, I host Dr. Samer Hattar, Chief of the Section on Light and Circadian Rhythms at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Hattar, a world-renowned expert, discusses how light viewing at certain times can affect our mood, ability learn, stress levels, hormone levels, appetite and mental health. How to use your personal light sensitivity to find the best sleep-wake rhythm for you. In order to optimize mental and physical function, we also discuss how to use your light viewing and waking times to coordinate with your food intake and exercise. Dr. Hattar is responsible for discovering the neurons within the eye that regulate mood and appetite and set our circadian clocks. Because our cells and circadian clocks are interconnected across many days, even a small shift in daylight savings can have huge effects on biking. He also provides specific tools that can be used to quickly adjust to shift work and jetlag. This episode contains cutting-edge information on human physiology as well as practical tools that can be used by people of all ages.
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Timestamps:
00: 00: 00 Introducing Dr. Samer Hattar, Ph.D.
00: 02: 17 Sponsors: ROKA, InsideTracker, Magic Spoon
00: 06: 15 Light, Circadian (24 hour) & Circannual (365 day) "Photoentrainment"
00: 14: 30 Neurons in Our Eyes That Set Our Body Clocks: Similar to Frog Skin
00: 18: 55 What Blind People See
00: 20: 15 When, How & How Long to View Light for Optimal Sleep & Wakefulness
00: 30: 20 Sunlight Simulators, Afternoon Light Viewing, Naps
00: 33: 48 Are You Jetlagged at Home? The Success of Early Risers Chronotypes 00: 38: 33 How to Decide Your Best Sleep-Wake Schedule; Minimal Light Test
00: 42: 16 Viewing Light in Middle of Day: Mood & "Light Hunger"
00: 44: 55 Evening Sunlight; Blueblocker Warning
00: 48: 57 Blue Light Is Not the Issue; Samer's Cave; Complete Darkness
00: 53: 58 Screens at Night
00: 56: 03 Dangers of Bright Light Between 10 pm and 4 am: Mood & Learning
01: 01: 05 The Tripartite Model: Circadian, Sleep Drive, Feeding Schedules
01: 05: 05 Using Light to Enhance Your Mood; & The Hattar-Hernandez Nucleus
01: 07: 19 Why Do We Sleep?
01: 08: 17 Effects of Light on Appetite; Regular Light & Meal Times
01: 18: 08 Samer's Experience with Adjusting Meal Timing
01: 22: 51 Using Light to Align Sleep, Mood, Feeding, Exercise & Cognition
01: 30: 15 Age-Related Changes in Timing of Mental & Physical Vigor
01: 31: 44 "Chrono-Attraction" in Relationships; Social-Rhythms
01: 33: 40 Re-setting Our Clock Schedule; Screen Devices Revisited
01: 37: 50 How Samer Got into the Study of Light
01: 39: 33 Clock Gene mRNAs & More Accurate Biomarkers
01: 41: 08 Light as Medicine
01: 42: 48 ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
01: 43: 35 How to Beat Jetlag: Light, Temperature, Eating
01: 50: 44 Vigor: The Consequence of Proper Timing
01: 52: 15 Waking in the Middle of the Night: When Your Nightly Sleep Becomes a Nap
01: 54: 10 Melatonin, Pineal Calcification
01: 55: 25 Our Seasonal Rhythms: Mood, Depression, Lethargy & Reproduction
01: 59: 08 Daylight Savings: Much Worse Than It Might Seem
02: 05: 27 Eye Color & Sensitivity to Light, Bipolar Disorder
02: 09: 28 Spicy Food, Genetic Variations in Sensory Sensitivity
02: 10: 52 Synthesizing This Information, Samer on Twitter, Instagram
02: 13: 00 Conclusions, Ways To Support the Huberman Lab Podcast & Research
The Huberman Lab Podcast does not include Dr. Huberman's research and teaching roles at Stanford University School of Medicine. This podcast is not intended to replace medical advice. The Huberman Lab Podcast, its guests, and affiliates, assume no responsibility for the use of the information.
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