AHS Podcasts

In this Mental Wellness Moment, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell — Provincial Medical Director of Addictions and Mental Health with Alberta Health Services — talks about the link between mental health and addiction, and how treatment looks if an individual has both mental health and addiction issues.

Dr. Nicholas Mitchell, AHS Provincial Medical Director for Addictions and Mental Health, talks about what people can do to support men's mental health.

The holiday season can be a time of joy, but it can also be a time of stress. For people who are grieving, the holiday season can make their feelings of loss more acute. In this Mental Wellness Moment, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell — AHS Provincial Medical Director for Addictions and Mental Health — talks about how to maintain one's mental wellness during the holidays using strategies to lower stress and unrealistic expectations.

In this Mental Wellness Moment, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell — Provincial Medical Director for Addictions and Mental Health with Alberta Health Services — talks about how heart health can affect mental health, and vice versa.

In this Mental Wellness Moment, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell — Provincial Medical Director of Addictions and Mental Health with Alberta Health Services — talks about the connection between food and mood.

In the latest Mental Wellness Moment, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell, Provincial Medical Director of Addictions and Mental Health, talks about what people can do to support men’s mental health following the annual Movember campaign. Each November, the global event focuses on raising awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer and men’s suicide.

Dr. Alain Tremblay, Medical Lead of the Alberta Lung Cancer Screening Program, talks about lung cancer screening, why it’s important, and the two-year screening pilot that launched in September 2022. You can find more information about lung cancer screening and the pilot at screeningforlife.ca/lung/.

Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a disorder that's marked by symptoms of low mood, low energy, changes in sleep patterns and changes in appetite. For people in the northern hemisphere, those with SAD start exhibiting these symptoms in late October and early November when we start seeing significant reductions in daylight. In this Mental Wellness Moment podcast, Dr. Nicholas Mitchell, Provincial Medical Director of Addictions and Mental Health, explains what SAD is, and how it is diagnosed and treated.

In this episode, Vickie and Tyler interview Holly Sykora, RN, and second time guest to our podcast. Holly joins us one year after our inaugural episode with her to talk about COVID, coping, and taking care of ourselves, either at home or on the range.

Dr. Jean Mah, a pediatric neurologist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, talks about spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and why it is so important to find SMA early through newborn screening. You can find more information about newborn screening and SMA at ahs.ca/newbornscreening.