Dr. Anthony Feinstein| Emotional Trauma, Mental Illness, Impaired Cognition Among Frontline Journalist and MS Patients

Transformations with Mark V. Wiley

Dr. Anthony Feinstein is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a neuropsychiatrist. His research and clinical work focus on people with multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and Conversion Disorder. He has undertaken a number of studies investigating how front-line journalists are affected by their work covering war and man-made and natural disasters. Our discussion focuses on his two books: Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists and Mind, Mood, and Memory: The Neurobehavioral Consequences of Multiple Sclerosis… as the subject relates to the mind, the brain and trauma.

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Discussion Markers

0:00 Introduction

1:02 Research and Interests in the brain, mind, trauma, and frontline journalism

2:50 Fascination with MS and the first MRI

4:53 Hi Depression Rates in MS patients and Frontline Journalists

5:52 Dr. Feinstein’s background in South Africa and Moving to England

6:37 From medicine to psychiatry

8:33 Moral Courage and Moral Injury among frontline journalists

10:59 Authoritarian regimes and controlling the media message

14:55 Harrowing stories of Frontline journalists risking their life to report the story

21:35 Moral Courage as the antidote to moral injury

24:48 Profound quote and discussion

26:28 Moral courage and free will and the media’s responsibility

32:45 Mental health therapy during COVID-19 pandemic

34:13 Multiple Sclerosis, demyelination, brain atrophy and neuroplasticity

45:02 Cannabis pros and cons for MS cognition

49:42 EMDR, Meditation and other therapies

52:47 Accepting repeated trauma as a Frontline Journalists

55:39 Summary and conclusion

Dr. Feinstein’s Links

Amazon Page

Sunnybrook Research Institute

MS Canada

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