Limbic system

• The AI at the center of this research, known as Limbic Access, was integrated into the referral and assessment process.
• Limbic Access is an AI-powered mental health self-referral and e-triage service.
• The results of the study prove that AI can improve patient outcomes by:
  Reducing wait times by an average of five days.
• This research emphasizes AI's role in bolstering the mental health workforce and elevating the quality of mental healthcare for patients.

• Simply by living among sawdust and woodchips, you learn to distinguish the different smells of wood.
• Years after my father retired, I was walking through the underbelly of a hospital when, completely by chance, I stumbled upon the maintenance room.
• Suddenly and unexpectedly, I was transported back to my native Toledo (in Spain), to my father’s carpentry workshop.

Smells that revive past emotions

• The scent of freshly baked cakes or bread, the chlorine of a swimming pool in summer, a salty sea breeze, coffee, and rain are smells that cause our minds to recover memories and emotions that we thought long forgotten.
• Memory is the brain’s ability to compile, store and recover information based on past experiences.
• Numerous scientific studies have tried to discover how we can recover memories and sensations from the past through a particular smell.

A direct line to emotional memory

• For this reason, a familiar smell activates the same areas of the brain as those related to emotional memory.
• In fact, scent induced memories tend to be connected to past experiences with a greater emotional significance than other senses.

The loss of smell, a sign of neurological illness

• Many of us experienced this first hand during the covid-19 pandemic, when millions of people lost their sense of smell.
• Intriguingly, many disorders linked to a loss of smell are neurodegenerative, where one of the associated symptoms is memory loss.
• LH, this reads as though all loss of smell ends up with Alzheimer’s, which i don’t think is what is meant, given the next paragraph.

Olfactory gymnastics to rehabilitate your memory?

• Consequently, in recent years there has been interest in determining the therapeutic potential of scents to stimulate and rehabilitate memory in patients with neurological disorders.
• Olfactory enrichment –smelling a range of different scents– can reverse loss of smell caused by an infection, craneal trauma, Parkinson’s and aging.
• Obviously, more research is needed to definitively conclude that regular olfactory stimulation helps to protect the brain and prevent cognitive decline or impairment.

• The Dynamic Neural Retraining System (DNRS), a leader in neural rehabilitation, today announced the launch of DNRS 2.0, a drug-free, self-directed method for helping patients manage a growing list of chronic and hard-to-treat conditions, including lingering effects of COVID-19 (long COVID).
• The program uses the principles of neuroplasticity to regulate the autonomic nervous system function and reverse limbic system impairment.
• DNRS provides participants with an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program, which integrates components of behavioral therapy, mindfulness-based desensitization techniques, neuro-linguistic programming, and more.
• Dynamic Neural Retraining System is a drug-free, self-directed neural rehabilitation program, which uses the principles of neuroplasticity to regulate autonomic nervous system function and reverse limbic system impairment.

• of Parks & Recreation
  ATLANTA, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- After a 46% increase in demand for therapeutic riding sessions last year, Chastain Horse Park (CHP) is planning for exponential growth within its therapeutic programs.
• It is one of only two remaining urban horse parks in the U.S. and is Premier
  Accredited by Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH), International.
• COVID triggered increased interest in outdoor activities and therapies across the board, including demand for outdoor activities with horses.
• Gross believes a new therapeutic horsemanship center, including clinical and educational spaces, could inspire healthcare professionals to embrace the role of the horse in therapeutic services.