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Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand COVID-19 ’ s Effect On the Brain
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors started to notice something striking. For what was originally described as a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 seemed to have a strong effect on the brain, causing everything from loss of taste and smell and brain fog to, in serious cases, stroke.
NYU Langone Health, a New York city research hospital, started collating those anecdotes in hopes of better understanding how the virus affects the brain and nervous system. Years later, the project has morphed from focusing solely on acute symptoms to also tracking the long-term neurologic issues that some people with Long COVID experience, sa...
Source: TIME: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Dog Ownership Linked To 24% Lower Risk Of Dying Early, Research Shows
(CNN) — Need an excellent reason to add a dog to your life? How about living longer?
“Our analysis found having a dog is actually protective against dying of any cause,” said Mount Sinai endocrinologist Dr. Caroline Kramer, lead author of a new systematic review of nearly 70 years of global research published Tuesday in “Circulation,” a journal of the American Heart Association.
The review of the health benefits of man’s best friend analyzed research involving nearly 4 million people in the United States, Canada, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
“Dog owne...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Featured Health News Offbeat Syndicated CBSN Boston CNN Dogs Source Type: news
Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals
A prosthetic voice decodes what the brain intends to say and generates (mostly) understandable speech, no muscle movement needed.
Source: NYT Health - April 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BENEDICT CAREY Tags: Stroke Brain Epilepsy Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Emory University Georgia Institute of Technology Mayo Clinic Nature (Journal) University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco Bauby, Jean-Dominique your-f Source Type: news
Baby who had a stroke in the womb can crawl and say 'mama'
Naomi Kretschmer, 19 months, from Marshfield, Wisconsin, suffers from epilepsy and cerebral palsy after having a stroke in the womb. But her mother said she is having small victories.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 17, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk Factors for Seizures, Epilepsy After Stroke Risk Factors for Seizures, Epilepsy After Stroke
Hemorrhagic transformation and the degree of neurologic compromise were independent risk factors for seizures or epilepsy after thrombolysis for ischemic stroke, a study shows.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - October 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
The Medical Emergency Of Otto Warmbier
All that the doctors who treated Cincinnati, Ohio resident Otto Warmbier knew is what they had seen or maybe read in the news. They knew he had just been released on June 13 from imprisonment in North Korea where he had been held by for more than 17 months. He had been sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly removing a propaganda poster from a wall at a Pyongyang hotel where he had been staying. The University of Virginia honors student had been visiting the authoritarian state during a five-day trip with a group called Young Pioneer Tours, which is a group out of China – an important note.
Ot...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Neurological Diseases Cost The U.S. $800 Billion Each Year
Over 100 million Americans ― close to a third of the total population ― suffer from neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, migraines, epilepsy and spinal cord injury.
These conditions put an enormous financial strain on the health care system, totaling nearly $800 billion in annual costs, according to a new report published in the journal Annals of Neurology. To put that into perspective, the figure exceeds the U.S. military budget by over $100 billion.
That number reflects the total cost of the nine most common neurological diseases, but the total costs related to th...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 30, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
11 Percent of Stroke Survivors Struggle With Epilepsy
Study found those who suffered more brain damage were more likely to have seizures afterwards
Source: WebMD Health - December 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A Risk for Sudden Death in Epilepsy That Often Goes Unmentioned
Sudep kills an estimated 2,600 Americans a year, but most neurologists don ’ t bring it up. Estimating the risk is uncertain, and there are no proven ways to prevent it.
Source: NYT Health - August 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: GINA KOLATA Tags: Epilepsy Seizures (Medical) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke New York University Langone Medical Center Sudep Source Type: news
The idea you can be fat but fit is 'a myth' study argues
ConclusionThis was a large prospective cohort study from Sweden, which was carried out in young adult males who were then followed for a period of around 29 years. The study found that lower levels of aerobic fitness were associated with risk of early death, but that this risk of death was greater for those with a high BMI, even if they had a high level of aerobic fitness. This study has a number of strengths and limitations. The limitations are that a large number of participants had missing smoking data and therefore it was not possible to control for the confounding effect of smoking. The lower fitness level group with...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Obesity Source Type: news
Hacking The Nervous System
(Photo: © Job Boot)
One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.When Maria Vrind, a former gymnast from Volendam in the Netherlands, found that the only way she could put her socks on in the morning was to lie on her back with her feet in the air, she had to accept that things had reached a crisis point. “I had become so stiff I couldn’t stand up,” she says. “It was a great shock because I’m such an active person.”It was 1993. Vrind was in her late 40s and working two jobs, athletics coach and a carer for disabled ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Great Pot Experiment
Barcott is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, National Geographic and other publications. Scherer is TIME’s Washington bureau chief. Portions of this article were adapted from Barcott’s new book “Weed the People, the Future of Legal Marijuana in America,” from TIME Books, is now available wherever books are sold, including Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Indiebound.
Yasmin Hurd raises rats on the Upper East Side of Manhattan that will blow your mind.
Though they look normal, their lives are anything but, and not just because of the pricey real estate they call home on the 10t...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - May 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Megan Gibson Tags: Uncategorized Drugs Source Type: news
No such thing as baby brain, study argues
Conclusion
The researchers conclude that although the pregnant women reported memory problems, these did not show up on their tests. However, this does not take into account their pre-pregnancy ability. The women may have performed better before they got pregnant, which is why they are now reporting memory problems. None of these women were tested before they got pregnant, which is the major limitation of the study.
The researchers say that because there were a similar number of students in each group, the women in the control group was a good enough representation of how the pregnant women would have performed pre-pregna...
Source: NHS News Feed - April 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Mental health Neurology Pregnancy/child Source Type: news
Lyme CNS Infection Mimics Stroke in TeenagerLyme CNS Infection Mimics Stroke in Teenager
Lyme neuroborreliosis can mimic stroke or epilepsy and should be ruled out in some cases of sudden-onset meningoencephalitis with neuropsychiatric symptoms, researchers reported. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Boston Children’s Hospital Testing Epileptic Seizure-Detecting Watch
BOSTON (CBS) – Epilepsy is a tough condition to live with and, despite treatment, many patients often still have seizures.
But now there’s a new way to warn their families when there is trouble.
Leonor Colon’s 12-year-old son, Gali, has suffered from seizures all his life after having a stroke at birth. Even on multiple medications, he still has a seizure a week, usually at night.
“My biggest fear is that if I’m not here to help him, that when I wake him up, he will be dead from seizures,” she told WBZ-TV.
It’s a scary but real possibility.
Dr. Tobi Loddenkemper, an epilepsy specialist at Bost...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: miketoole Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Boston Children's Hospital CBS Boston Dr. Mallika Marshall Dr. Tobias Loddenkemper Embrace Epilepsy Leonor Colon Seizure Watch Source Type: news
