A Bright Future for Brain Imaging of Pain | Pain Research Forum
Irene Tracey, University of Oxford, UK, summarized the contributions of neuroimaging to pain research, and directions for future investigations, during"Translating Neuroimaging Discovery Science for Patient Benefit," a plenary lecture held at the IASP 16th World Congress on Pain, which took place September 26-30, 2016, in Yokohama, Japan. Her take-home message was that findings from neuroimaging will lead to a brighter outlook for patients suffering from chronic pain."The aim, ultimately, is to use metrics [discovered by imaging studies] to guide diagnosis and therapies," she said. Tracey called for neu...
Source: Psychology of Pain - January 24, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs
Neuropathology History: Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard (1871-1945)
" Born in London... Became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, and consulting physician at St. Thomas ' s Hospital (1928). In the field of neuropathology, he is well known for his textbook in collaboration with Greenfield (1921)... Important also were his studies on myasthenia gravis (to which he contributed the term ' lymphorrhages ' ) (1905), chronic progressive cerebral softening (1906),... delayed traumatic apoplexy (1909), and epidemic encephalitis (1919). "Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard (1871-1945)Source: Haymaker, Webb (Army Institute of Pathology). Guide to the exhibit on the history of neuropathology. ...
Source: neuropathology blog - December 6, 2016 Category: Radiology Tags: history Source Type: blogs
Drawing The Line Healthcare Rationing and the Cutoff Problem
Coming next month from Oxford University Press: Drawing The Line Healthcare Rationing and the Cutoff Problem.
Philip M. Rosoff discusses how to decide what should and should not be covered in a generous benefits plan for all. He considers a vari... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 23, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Cryonics in the News of Late
Cryonics is the low-temperature preservation of at least the brain following death, leaving open the possibility of restoration to life in a future in which molecular nanotechnology and total control of cellular biochemistry are mature industries. As individuals, each of us is the data of the mind, no more, no less, and that data is stored in the form of fine physical structures, most likely those of the synapses connecting neurons. If that structure is preserved sufficiently well, then the individual is not yet gone - only ceased for the moment. Early cryopreservations involved straight freezing to liquid nitrogen tempera...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Accurate Acetone Measurement in Breath for Quick Diabetes Diagnosis
Scientists from the University of Oxford and Oxford Medical Diagnostics, an Oxfordshire, UK firm, are reporting in journal Analytical Chemistry on a new technique for measuring acetone in exhaled breath. Having a way of accurately measuring exhaled acetone can help diagnose diabetes, and even screen for it, without taking a blood sample.
Breath has a lot of biomarkers, including acetone, that can point to the presence of disease. Detecting these is difficult because different compounds, including water, CO2, and CH4, muddy up the results. The new technology overcomes this by using an adsorbent polymer that grabs onto...
Source: Medgadget - November 14, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Source Type: blogs
Episode 8: Can We Trust Psychological Studies?
This is Episode 8 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here.
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Can we trust psychological studies? We speak to Brian Earp, of Oxford University and Yale University, about how to respond when we’re told repeatedly that the veracity of eye-catching findings, or even cherished theories, has come under scrutiny. Brian also talks about his own experience of publishing a failed replication attempt – a must-listen for any researchers who are fearful of p...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 7, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Interview with Psych Central Founder Dr. John Grohol
The Psych Central Show is our newest offering — an interesting, in-depth weekly podcast that looks into all things mental health and psychology. Hosted by Gabe Howard and featuring Vincent M. Wales.
Our Inaugural Episode Features Guest Dr. John Grohol
This week’s episode features an interview with Psych Central founder, Dr. John Grohol. Dr. Grohol was gracious enough to answer questions about how Psych Central got started, the motivation behind the site, and how this resource has survived and grown for over 20 years — and his thoughts about the next 20.
Our new podcast will be broadcast on a weekly basis &#...
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gabe Howard Tags: General The Psych Central Show Dr John Grohol Gabe Howard john grohol interview Podcast Source Type: blogs
Heavy metal MOFs
Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, are a relatively recent discovery. They are crystalline three-dimensional materials formed from a regular network of metal ions interlinked by organic molecules. The organic groups act as spacers to keep the metal ions apart, generally giving rise to permanent porosity within the solid. These pores can adsorb a wide range of small molecules, often with a useful degree of specificity and the materials have been touted as safe gas storage materials, greenhouse gas absorbers, molecular sieves for separating different gases, sensors and catalysts. I recently wrote about the latest development wi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 2, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Is the art of medicine dead?
If you attended medical school, you learned in week one that American health care started becoming scientific in 1910, with the publication of the Flexner Report. Before then, only some medical schools were authentic while many others were anything from carnival booths to outright frauds.
Abraham Flexner, a respected educator, had been hired by industrial barons John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, who were determined to bring health care out of the horse-and-buggy era. Having visited every medical school, Flexner reported that we were in terrible shape, and recommended that doctors’ training be uniform and based...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 31, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jeff-kane" rel="tag" > Jeff Kane, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
Brain scan study reveals dogs attend to word meaning, not just intonation
Image credit: Borbála Ferenczy
By guest blogger Sofia Deleniv
Imagine if we could capture the words of an angry dog owner holding a chewed-up shoe – “How could you? You terrible dog!” – and digitally alter the tone to sound praising. Would the dog be oblivious to the reprimanding content of the message? I should admit that, until quite recently, I thought that the answer was yes – that no matter how chastising the words you used, you could convince a dog that it is being showered in praise, simply by adopting an affectionate tone. But a recent study published in Science indicates that many of u...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: Brain Comparative guest blogger Language Source Type: blogs
Study: Adult education classes, in any subject, can boost mental and physical health
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Health benefits of evening classes revealed (Science Daily):
“Those with a taste for adult education classes have long known it, but now Oxford University scientists have confirmed that taking part in the weekly sessions can boost wellbeing — regardless of the subject studied.
In partnership with the Worker’s Educational Association (WEA), the largest voluntary sector provider of adult education in England and Scotland, a team from Oxford’s department of experimental psychology studied attendees at seven separate day-time adult education classes…Overall, attendees at all seven classes had improved mental a...
Source: SharpBrains - September 29, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Adult Education anxiety classes health health-benefits Lifelong-learning Mental-Health physical-health singing wellbeing Source Type: blogs
First Successful Eye Surgeries Performed on the Preceyes System
Preceyes, a Dutch spinout company from Eindhoven University of Technology that was incorporated in 2011, has announced the successful use of the company’s surgical robotic system in the first of 12 patients undergoing treatment, led by professor Robert MacLaren at the University of Oxford.
The robotic technology is intended to improve clinical outcomes in the 1.3 million surgical procedures performed annually worldwide to treat vitreoretinal disease. Utilizing the Preceyes platform the system’s creators also hope to open-up innovative drug and gene therapy treatment options for the estimated 50-75 million people suffer...
Source: Medgadget - September 13, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Two fingers to Michael Buerk
! You may have heard Buerk on BBC R4 Today this morning today trot out that #DeceivedWisdom about the British expletive V-sign (not the Winston Churchill victory version) being something to do with chopping off the fingers of French archers during the Battle of Agincourt. It is #DW = #BS.
For a start, Mediaevel longbows required more than two fingers to draw back, but more to the point, archers were the lowest of the low, common men, they were never taken prisoner to merely have their fingers chopped off as punishment, they would have been slaughtered on the spot. There’s more about the myth here from the BS Historia...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 3, 2016 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Clinical Trial for Alzheimer's Disease - Is LMTX Ineffective or Unprecedented?
Conclusions < /u > : The outcomes of this phase 3 trial will highlight the potential therapeutic value of tau aggregation inhibitor therapy in AD. A second phase 3 trial of LMTM for AD will be completed and reported later in 2016. < br / > < br / > (Source: The Neurocritic)
Source: The Neurocritic - July 28, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
People Post: Staff And Board Changes At Foundations; Job Opening: Foundation President
In June, Becky Hayes Boober left the Maine Health Access Foundation, where she was a senior program officer. She is now vice president of community impact at the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) and is working out of its Ellsworth office. She told me in an e-mail, “As part of our strategic planning, we are exploring goals related to health, such as opioid addictions and aging.” MaineCF is refining its new strategic plan, so more information will be forthcoming. Her new boss is Steve Rowe, former president of the Endowment for Health, which is in New Hampshire.
I missed it! Nicole Collins Bronzan joined the staff of...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - July 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Long-term Services and Supports Public Health adolescents Aging Behavioral Health California California Health Care Foundation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate Change culture of health Health Philanthropy Source Type: blogs
