Giant T inversion and NSVT
Giant T inversion with NSVT
Holter tracing showing giant T wave inversion and non sustained ventricular tachycardia, both at the beginning of the tracing and at the end. Ventricular ectopic beats are also seen in between. Variation in QRS amplitude of the NSVT beats are evident. It is likely that this will soon progress to torsades des pointes in the setting of gross QT interval prolongation. QT interval is seen as 640 ms in a cycle with cycle length of 600 ms. So, the QTc will be 640 ms. The first ventricular ectopic is followed by a good compensatory pause while the second one is almost an interpolated ventricular ecto...
Source: Cardiophile MD - February 17, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis Tags: ECG / Electrophysiology ECG Library Source Type: blogs
Can biofeedback-based videogames help children better manage stress? Magellan Health and Mightier secure $2 million NIMH grant to investigate
This study’s goal is to validate that digital tools like Mightier can improve health outcomes, lower the cost of care and increase access to mental healthcare” said Matthew Miller, senior vice president, behavioral health, Magellan Healthcare.
About the grant:
The research is supported by the National Institute Of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R44MH124574. The NIMH supports scientists, clinicians, and research personnel at universities, medical schools, hospitals, small businesses, and other institutions via grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. Researchers at NIMH-suppo...
Source: SharpBrains - February 10, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Behavioral Health biofeedback biofeedback video game heart rate-monitor Magellan Health mental health disorders Mightier NIMH regulate stress video-games videogame wearable Source Type: blogs
The latest on brain health, neurotechnology, artificial intelligence and “never stop wondering”
Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, featuring a life well lived, the latest news on brain health and innovation, and some brain teasers in honor of International Brain Teaser Month.
#1. Thank you, Sharon. We won’t. “Never stop wondering” — Sharon Begley, science journalist, RIP
#2. Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in ____________.
Milk the cow, but do not pull off the ___________.
Enjoy these 5 US and 7 international proverbs to test your cognitive skills.
#3. Beware the snakes as you tease your mind with this optical illusion.
#4. The blood-brain barrier is hopefully hard at work: Can COVI...
Source: SharpBrains - January 29, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation artificial intelligence brain health Brain Teasers brain-teaser cognitive neurocognitive Neurotechnology Source Type: blogs
Study: Wearable sensors and machine learning may well (one day) help detect a broad range of epileptic seizures
Conclusion: Automatic epileptic seizure detection using machine learning and wearables data is feasible. Preliminary results show better-than-chance seizure detection across a broad range of epileptic seizures. Future improvements may consider clinical chrono-epileptological variables, such as seizure duration, semiology, and etiology or syndrome, and alternative data balancing, pre- and post-processing, fusion and ensemble learning methods. Thus, while findings suggest feasibility, performance following future adjustments may improve further.
News in Context:
Special Issue: Seizure detection and mobile health devices in...
Source: SharpBrains - January 22, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation acceptability deep learning EEG epilepsy mHealth seizure detection wearables Source Type: blogs
Will We All Have To Become Biologically Enhanced Superhumans?
Okay, hands up who can tell who’s the most famous biologically enhanced superhuman in the world? True, it’s a quite close call between Captain America and The Incredible Hulk (sorry Spidey, you’re not even close). But is a human-invented superhuman just a thing of a Stan Lee comic, or is it an actual scientific idea from a real laboratory?
As a matter of fact, enhancing human capabilities has been on the mind of people for ages, but it came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. For will it be a possib...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Bioethics Biotechnology Cyborgization Digital Health Research E-Patients Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Science Ficti Source Type: blogs
CBD and other medications: Proceed with caution
Products containing cannabidiol (CBD) seem to be all the rage these days, promising relief from a wide range of maladies, from insomnia and hot flashes to chronic pain and seizures. Some of these claims have merit to them, while some of them are just hype. But it won’t hurt to try, right? Well, not so fast. CBD is a biologically active compound, and as such, it may also have unintended consequences. These include known side effects of CBD, but also unintended interactions with supplements, herbal products, and over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription medications.
Doubling up on side effects
While generally considered safe...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katsiaryna Bykov, PharmD, ScD Tags: Drugs and Supplements Marijuana Medical Research Safety Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Evolution of Schizophrenia Treatments
Schizophrenia has been around since the dawn of time but actually treating it has only been around the past 100 years. In this episode host and schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers takes you through the dark and disturbing evolution of schizophrenia treatments. From systematic euthanasia to hydrotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy to the infamous lobotomy.
Were these doctors “mad scientists” torturing the mentally ill or were they the only ones trying to help a population of people seen as a burden?
About our Guest
Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in Film ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Brain and Behavior General History of Psychology Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychotherapy Brain Disorders ECT Electric shock Electroconvulsive Therapy Frontal Lobotomies History Of Mental Illness H Source Type: blogs
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Epilepsy Music subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Reviewing Netflix ’ s Ratched
Have you seen the Netflix series Ratched? In today’s Not Crazy podcast, we discuss whether the show gives an accurate portrayal of 1940’s mental illness treatments. And to help us out, we welcome Rachel Star Withers, the podcast host of Inside Schizophrenia and a person who lives with schizophrenia, to discuss her views of the show.
Are the lobotomies and hydrotherapy treatments portrayed in the show realistic? Did doctors really do lobotomies on children? Join us as we take a deeper look into this popular miniseries.
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Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Movie Review Not Crazy Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
poem
Falling It ’s October and everything falls.The trees fall in the forest with an unheard crash.The epileptic tech in the hospitalHas a fit of the falling sicknessLike Smerdyakov down on the floor,Drooling, while his legs and arms thrash.She ’s the first one on the sceneKneeling, calm and quiet, she takes his hand.We should all awake from such chaosTo her almond-eyed serene.It ’s October and everything falls;Empires, proud men, midnight drunks.Everyone wants to see the changing leavesBefore it ’s too late.The leaves don ’t make a fuss,They escape like silent thieves,Like someone trying to slip from aparty unno...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 31, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The FDA clears AppliedVR headset to help treat fibromyalgia and chronic pain
Conclusions: High engagement and satisfaction combined with low levels of adverse effects support the feasibility and acceptability of at-home skills-based VR for chronic pain. A significant reduction in pain outcomes over the course of the 21-day treatment both within the VR group and compared with an audio-only version suggests that VR has the potential to provide enhanced treatment and greater improvement across a range of pain outcomes. These findings provide a foundation for future research on VR behavioral interventions for chronic pain.
News in Context:
FDA clears MindMaze GO neurorehabilitation platform, easing a...
Source: SharpBrains - October 22, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation AppliedVR back pain Breakthrough Device Designation chronic pain EaseVRx FDA fibromyalgia virtual-reality Source Type: blogs
CBD for chronic pain: The science doesn ’t match the marketing
If you ask health care providers about the most challenging condition to treat, chronic pain is mentioned frequently. By its nature, chronic pain is a complex and multidimensional experience. Pain perception is affected by our unique biology, our mood, our social environment, and past experiences. If you or a loved one is suffering from chronic pain, you already know the heavy burden.
People are looking for novel, nonaddictive ways to treat pain
Given the ongoing challenges of chronic pain management coupled with the consequences of the opioid epidemic, pain management practitioners and their patients are searching for eff...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shafik Boyaji, MD Tags: Back Pain Marijuana Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Bee Brains And Eyebrows: The Week ’s Best Psychology Links
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
You’ve probably heard of ASMR — or maybe experienced it yourself from watching videos of people doing things like whispering or rustling paper. But although such videos are incredibly popular, there have been surprisingly few studies on the phenomenon. Giulia Poerio explores what the research has revealed so far at The Conversation.
The feelings of “dissociation” caused by drugs like ketamine seem to be related to slow, rhythmic firing patterns of brain cells in an area called the retrosplenial cortex. Researchers identified t...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Weekly links Source Type: blogs
Wireless EEG for Fast Prep and Easy Use: Q & A with Aswin Gunasekar, CEO of Zeto
Electroencephalography (EEG) devices are incredibly helpful in diagnosing and monitoring certain brain disorders, such as epilepsy and strokes. However, they are not particularly user-friendly or convenient, with specialized technicians performing time consuming procedures, such as skin preparation, to get patients ready to undergo the procedure. A combination of messy gels and wires also makes for an uncomfortable and inconvenient experience for patients.
In response, Zeto Inc., a medtech startup based in California, has developed a new EEG device that sits on the head like a bicycle helmet. The headset does not requir...
Source: Medgadget - September 15, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Source Type: blogs
With ADHD, Who Needs Sleep Anyway?
I came across this old blog post that I never shared here. It’s from March 2013. I updated it a bit. I hope you enjoy it.If I thought ADHD could throw monkey wrenches into my plans before, divorce was like dumping the entire plumber ’s toolbox into the works instead. It’s taken a bit of time to heal, to sort out the mess, and to know what to do with all those monkey wrenches.We have joint custody so we split parental duties as well as time spent with the kids right down the middle. She gets medical, and I get school. Since I am in charge of making sure my girls ’ school paperwork is in order, I like to use my i...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Family Goodreads Somnambulating Source Type: blogs
