Aug 13, Victor Horsley: Today in the History of Psychology (13th August 1886)
Sir Victor Horsley gave a landmark address to the British Medical Association on 'Advances in the Surgery of the Central Nervous System' in which he described how he had successfully inferred the seizure localization of three epilepsy surgery patients; most notably 'James B.' who suffered from post-traumatic epilepsy as a result of a depressed skull fracture following a traffic accident. Drawing on both the pioneering work of John Hughlings Jackson and his own experimental findings, Horsley was confident that James B's seizure onset occurred in the contralateral sensorimotor strip. Horsley operated to remove the cortical s...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - August 13, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Improved Brain Health for All! (update on the BRAIN initiative)
adapted from Figure 3 (Koroshetz et al., 2018). Magnetic resonance angiography highlighting the vasculature in the human brain in high resolution, without the use of any contrast agent, on a 7T MRI scanner. Courtesy of Plimeni& Wald (MGH).[ed. note: here ' s a great summary onIf, how, and when fMRI goes clinical, by Dr. Peter Bandettini.]TheJournal of Neuroscience recently published a paywalled article onThe State of the NIH BRAIN Initiative.This paper reviewed the research and technology development funded by the “moonshot between our ears” [anewly coined phrase]. The program has yielded a raft ofpublications (461...
Source: The Neurocritic - August 12, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
7 Little-Known Benefits of CBD Oil
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Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: maryjames Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement benefits of cbd cbd oil pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 247
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 247 (with a little art contribution from Dr Michelle Johnston)
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Question 1
What is the poison that Socrates is about to voluntarily consume?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 3, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Aorta brown sequard epilepsy hemlock Jacques Louis David Joseph Lawrence joseph lister Listerine Marat Socrates stabbing Source Type: blogs
Americans Fighting the Opioid Crisis in Their Own Backyards
Credit: New York Times article, Jan. 19, 2016.
The United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. The rates of opioid addiction, babies born addicted to opioids, and overdoses have skyrocketed in the past decade. No population has been hit harder than rural communities. Many of these communities are in states with historically low levels of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIGMS’ Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program builds research capacities in these states by supporting basic, clinical, and translational research, as well as faculty development and infrastructure improveme...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Chris Palmer Tags: Pharmacology Medicines Opioids Pain Source Type: blogs
Jul 15, Brenda Langford Milner: Today in the History of Psychology (15th July 1918)
Brenda Langford Milner was born. A world renowned pioneer in the field of neuropsychology, Milner began her illustrious career in the early 1950's exploring the effects of temporal lobe damage in humans, for her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Donald Hebb.
In 1957 along with William Scoville, Milner published 'Loss of Recent Memory After Bilateral Hippocampal Lesions.' This classic article included the findings of a series of experiments conducted with H.M (Henry Molaison) who famously was unable to commit new events to long-term memory following radical surgery designed to control his severe epileptic seizures. This gr...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - July 15, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Do you have a Bagel Brain?
We can link grain consumption with causing or worsening some of the most mysterious brain disorders that have eluded the medical community for years, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, bipolar disorder, and, more recently, autism and ADHD.
Are you and your kids unknowingly under the influence of opiates? Opiates come disguised in many forms.
Grains contain opiates. Not figuratively, but quite literally. These opiates are not too different from morphine or heroin. Yes, wheat and grains, cleverly disguised as a multigrain loaf of bread to make sandwiches or a hot, steamy plate of macaroni and cheese for the ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 12, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates adhd bipolar disorder brain fog concentration Depression diy health Dr. Davis epilepsy grain-free headaches Inflammation mind mood swings OCD opiates schizophrenia undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Tot Source Type: blogs
Data sitting on the shelf? Publish it as Micro Report
Published papers usually need a large amount of additional data to support and strengthen the main “striking” finding and conclusions. If this research is the lab’s main focus this causes no issues. However, pieces of interesting data off the mainstream topic of the lab can often be found in the research process.
In this situation, we may recognize the potential importance of the result, but the volume of the work needed to publish it could be overwhelming and sufficient enough to stop publication of the finding. This data is then placed on the shelf and is forgotten without being seen by others.
But, what if we can ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tsuyoshi Miyakawa Tags: Biology Open Access Publishing animal model Molecular Brain neurodegeneration neurodegenerative disease neurology neuroscience reproducibility Source Type: blogs
For the first time, the FDA approves a CBD-containing drug
As I have written in previous posts, CBD, or cannabidiol, an active ingredient of marijuana, kills myeloma cells, so the news I came across early this morning is of huge interest to me.
In a nutshell, for the first time ever, the FDA has approved a CBD-containing oral solution (= a strawberry-flavored syrup) for the treatment of rare but severe forms of epilepsy in children.
Note: this syrup does not contain THC, the ingredient in marijuana that makes people “high.”
It may not come without side effects, such as sleepiness and increased liver enzymes (like most anti-seizure drugs, it appears), as you can read in...
Source: Margaret's Corner - June 28, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll CBD Epidiolex Source Type: blogs
The Widening Gap in Dementia Care and One Woman ’s Crusade to Address it
According to Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), someone in the world develops dementia every 3 seconds. An estimated 50 million people had dementia in 2017. That number is expected to grow to 75 million people by 2030.
In 2017, Dr. Anitha Rao, a board certified geriatric neurologist and CEO of neurocern, published a paper that highlighted the uneven distribution of trained dementia specialists in the United States. Her paper pointed to 20 States that were “Dementia Deserts” where there was insufficient access to specialists given the number of Dementia patients. Without intervention, this gap in Dementia care w...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 13, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Patients AHIP Alzheimer's Dementia neurocern Source Type: blogs
May 21, Hans Berger: Today in the History of Psychology (21st May 1873)
Hans Berger was born. A Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Berger began investigating electrical activity of the brain after his original area of research interest - locating the physiological basis of psychic phenomena - proved fruitless.
On July 6th 1924 Berger made history by recording brain activity via electrical impulses on the scalp during a neurosurgical procedure performed by the neurosurgeon Nikolai Guleke. In 1929 Berger published his landmark paper 'Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen' in which he introduced the term 'electroencephalogram' and the concept of Alpha and Beta brain wave states.
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Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Ethics of Keeping Alfie Alive
By SAURABH JHA
Of my time arguing with doctors, 30 % is spent convincing British doctors that their American counterparts aren’t idiots, 30 % convincing American doctors that British doctors aren’t idiots, and 40 % convincing both that I’m not an idiot.
A British doctor once earnestly asked whether American physicians carry credit card reading machines inside their white coats. Myths about the NHS can be equally comical. British doctors don’t prostate every morning in deference to the NHS, like the citizens of Oceania sang to Big Brother in Orwell’s dystopia. Nor, in their daily rounds, do they calculate opportun...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 21, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Uncategorized AlfieEvans Source Type: blogs
How to be The Shop Floor Clinician
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Once in a while we don’t have to be Epic. We can be a plain worker bee, low ranking, mission brown, a serf. We are permitted to hitch up our strides like peasants, and get on with the business of hoeing through the garden of the unwell.
Such freedom, you say. None of the high-level responsibility of being in charge of the department. No duty phone. No behaving like an epileptic desperado when asked to go to a flow meeting. Just good, honest toil.
I’ve been doing this jo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Literary Medicine How to be Shop Floor Shop Floor Clinician Source Type: blogs
Optogenetics Sparks New Research Tools
Imagine if scientists could zap a single cell (or group of cells) with a pulse of light that makes the cell move, or even turns on or off the cell’s vital functions.
Scientists are working toward this goal using a technology called optogenetics. This tool draws on the power of light-sensitive molecules, called opsins and cryptochromes, which are naturally occurring molecules found in the cell membranes of a wide variety of species, from microscopic bacteria and algae to plants and humans. These light-reacting molecules change their shape or activity when they sense light, so they can be used to trigger cellular activity,...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 24, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Barbara Vann Tags: Cell Biology Cells Cellular Processes Cool Tools/Techniques Proteins Source Type: blogs
