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Steven Chan: “Mental Performance Hacks for Anxious & Stressed Professionals” | Talks at Google

Dr. Steven Chan is UCSF’s inaugural Clinical Informatics fellow and psychiatric physician. Dr. Chan investigates R01 grant-funded research in telepsychiatry, smartphones and mobile wearable devices for mental health. He’s the current American Psychiatric Association Vice Chair for the Workgroup on Mental Health & Psychiatric Apps and an editorial board member for the JMIR Mental Health. Through a combination of compelling personal narrative and citations of medical and business research, Dr. Chan informs us on causes and symptoms of professional stress and anxiety. He additionally shares with us “life hacks” we can employ in our lives to manage workplace stress and to minimize its negative effects. More information about Dr. Chan and his research is available at his website: http://www.StevenChanMD.com/ Moderated by Gloria Yarovaya and Devon H. O’Dell.

Getting Past Your Past

An accessible user’s guide to overcoming trauma from the creator of a scientifically proven form of psychotherapy that has successfully treated millions of people worldwide. Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by our memories and by experiences we may not remember or fully understand. Getting Past Your Past offers practical techniques that demystify the human condition and empower readers looking to take charge of their lives. Shapiro, the creator of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), explains how our personalities develop and why we become trapped into feeling, believing and acting in ways that don’t serve us. Through detailed examples and exercises readers will learn to understand themselves, and why the people in their lives act the way they do. Most importantly, readers will also learn techniques to improve their relationships, break through emotional barriers, overcome limitations, and excel in ways taught to Olympic athletes, successful executives,and performers. An easy conversational style, humor, and fascinating real life stories make it simple to understand the brain science, why we get stuck in various ways and how to achieve real change.

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10 Simple Solutions to Shyness

Even though statisticians report that more than 37 million Americans suffer from diagnosable social phobia, common sense suggests that nearly all of us have, at one time or another, had clammy palms and knocking knees because of an intimidating, uncomfortable social situation. The party where you donít know a single soul, the crowded lobby of a movie theatre, the presentation youíve been dreading for weeks-any of these have the potential to ruin your week without necessarily sending you to the psychiatristís couch. The ten simple exercises in this book help you shed your shyness and start socializing with confidence and Èlan. 10 Simple Solutions to Shyness examines shyness by symptoms: physical discomfort, anxious thoughts, and bothersome behaviors. Solutions follow, directly addressing all three. You can carry the book in a briefcase or purse for last minute support and extra confidence. Once the ten simple solutions are learned, they will become your constant companions, providing courage, poise, and composure whenever you need them most.

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Eat Move Sleep

Once in a while, a book comes along that changes how you think, feel, and act every day. In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom’s bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible. Eat Move Sleep will help you make good decisions automatic — in all three of these interconnected areas. With every bite you take, you will make better choices. You will move a lot more than you do today. And you will sleep better than you have in years. More than a book, Eat Move Sleep is a new way to live.

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Psychotropic Medications and Adverse Side Effects (58 min)

Life as We Knew it

Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family’s struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

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Root Cause

Root Cause is a feature length documentary based on one man’s extraordinary true story – a 10 year long journey to find the root cause of his panic attacks, anxiety, chronic fatigue, nausea, dizziness, agitation and insomnia. Interviews with expert health professionals from all over the world provide incredible insights into how an infected root canal can effect other health functions of the body. Featuring leaders in their fields like Dr. Mercola, Dr. Dawn Ewing and Dr. Jerry Tennant; the wealth of knowledge from these experts is cutting edge. The narrative story that runs alongside the interviews is as action-packed as it is heart wrenching. It is an incredibly personal journey of a round-the-world search for answers that is at one moment tear jerking, and laugh out loud funny the next. Root Cause is set to change the way the world looks at holistic health.

Beyond Significance Testing: Reforming Data Analysis Methods in Behavioral Research

Annotation “The book is intended for applied researchers and students who may not have quantitative backgrounds. Readers will learn how to measure effect size on continuous or dichotomous outcomes in comparative studies with independent or dependent samples. They will also learn how to calculate and correctly interpret confidence intervals for effect sizes. Numerous research examples from a wide range of areas illustrate how to apply these principles and how to estimate substantive significance instead of just statistical significance. Additional alternatives to statistical tests are described, including meta-analysis, resampling techniques like bootstrapping, and Bayesian estimation.”–BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Common Mental Health Disorders

Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.

Understanding and Treating Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Psychological disorders following exposure to trauma include personal suffering, decreased productivity, occupational and social dysfunction, medical disorders and demands on health services. In this talk, Drs. Zoellner and Bryant review current research associated with the persistence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the variety of viable options that exist for treatment. Speakers also explore treatment options and focus on the effectiveness of both therapies and medications. To see more videos from the University of Washington visit uwtv.org.