What is This Thing Called Neuroplasticity?
And how does it impact addiction and recovery?Bielefeld, Germany—The first in an irregular series of posts about a recent conference, Neuroplasticity in Substance Addiction and Recovery: From Genes to Culture and Back Again. The conference, held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University, drew neuroscientists, historians, psychologists, philosophers, and even a freelance science journalist or two, coming in from Germany, the U.S., The Netherlands, the UK, Finland, France, Italy, Australia, and elsewhere. The organizing idea was to focus on how changes in the brain impact addiction and reco...
Source: Addiction Inbox - January 16, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Tinnitus - 2013 Lancet review
Tinnitus is perception of sound where there is noneIn 2011, British newspapers reported that a rock fan committed suicide to relieve tinnitus that he had for 3 months after a supergroup's gig. Tinnitus is characterized as perception of sound where there is none. The Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine published a review on Tinnitus: Patients do not have to ‘just live with it’ and Tinnitus relief: Suggestions for patients.From NHS YouTube channel:Tinnitus is a common medical symptom that can be debilitating. Risk factors include:- hearing loss- ototoxic medication- head injury- depression At presentation, the possibili...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - December 20, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: ENT Lancet Source Type: blogs
Bearing the Unbearable: Strategies for Dealing with Tinnitus
I have tinnitus, loud tinnitus -- and for the first three months of this condition, I wasn't sure that life would ever be the same again. Well, things are better than ever, and I'm sharing what I did to get my tinnitus under control.Contributor: Ryan WeltonPublished: Nov 12, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - November 12, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
What’s That Buzz? Finding a Solution for Tinnitus
By Lindsay Prusick, AuDEducation & Training Audiologist, Starkey Hearing Technologies
It affects 10 percent of Americans, no one has the same experience, and it does not discriminate. Can you guess what I am talking about? Tinnitus! The topic of tinnitus has become all the buzz.
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears, or in the head, when no external sound is present. The sound is real, but no one except the patient hears it.
Researchers and clinicians have worked for decades to figure out the treatment or combination of treatments that can provide relief to patients with tinnitus. How...
Source: R&D Blog - October 8, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
What’s That Buzz? Finding a Solution for Tinnitus
By Lindsay Prusick, AuDEducation & Training Audiologist, Starkey Hearing Technologies
It affects 10 percent of Americans, no one has the same experience, and it does not discriminate. Can you guess what I am talking about? Tinnitus! The topic of tinnitus has become all the buzz.
Tinnitus is the perception of sound in one or both ears, or in the head, when no external sound is present. The sound is real, but no one except the patient hears it.
Researchers and clinicians have worked for decades to figure out the treatment or combination of treatments that can provide relief to patients with tinnitus. However, ...
Source: R&D Blog - October 8, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth
Conclusions
It is clear from meta-analyses that results of acupuncture trials are variable and inconsistent, even for single conditions. After thousands of trials of acupuncture, and hundreds of systematic reviews (Ernst et al., 2011), arguments continue unabated. In 2011, Pain carried an editorial which summed up the present situation well.
“Is there really any need for more studies? Ernst et al. (2011) point out that the positive studies conclude that acupuncture relieves pain in some conditions but not in other very similar conditions. What would you think if a new pain pill was shown to reliev...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 30, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia acupuncture badscience Bait and switch quackademia CAM quackery Source Type: blogs
Signs & Symptoms of Hearing Loss
By Thomas Tedeschi, AuD
Vice President, Franchise Development
Sonus
It usually starts with the small things. You may not notice them, but chances are people around you do. The TV volume is just a few notches louder than usual. The coworker two cubicles down calls your name, and you miss it. Your cell phone shows missed calls even though the ringer's on. The alarm doesn't wake you, but it woke your spouse.
At some point, someone -- a friend, a family member, maybe even a coworker or your boss -- might point out that you may need to get your hearing checked. If you've found yourself in that situation, or maybe you've...
Source: R&D Blog - May 3, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Signs & Symptoms of Hearing Loss
By Thomas Tedeschi, AuD
Vice President, Franchise Development
Sonus
It usually starts with the small things. You may not notice them, but chances are people around you do. The TV volume is just a few notches louder than usual. The coworker two cubicles down calls your name, and you miss it. Your cell phone shows missed calls even though the ringer's on. The alarm doesn't wake you, but it woke your spouse.
At some point, someone -- a friend, a family member, maybe even a coworker or your boss -- might point out that you may need to get your hearing checked. If you've found yourself in that situation, or maybe y...
Source: R&D Blog - May 3, 2013 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Subtle Signs of Mother’s Dementia
We all need to be circumspect of subtle changes in personality, balance, judgment, memory and anything else uncharacteristic in our friends and family. Be Proactive and we can be less Reactive.
By Elaine C. Pereira
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Falling
The recent article on the Alzheimer’s Reading Room, Problems with Balance, Walking, Falling Can Be an Early Sign of Dementia, started me reflecting on a series of falls my mother experienced as well as other soft signs of her decline, or not so soft when she fell to the floor.
At four feet, eleven inches, my mom was definitely petite and slender. She maintain...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 16, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Papilledema pearls
1. Cotton wool spots OFF disk may suggest hypertensive syndrome 2. Hemorrhages off disc suggest central retinal vein occlusion 3. New onset pulsatile tinnitus is significant finding indicating need to look for increased ICP, as well as transient obscurations, graying of vision for twenty seconds, with postural change and headache. Field before acuity is affected, disc edema usually affected. 4. MRI findings may include disc enhancement, occassionally, enhanced perioptic space (40 %), flattening of posterior globe (80 %), empty sella Get MRI/M...
Source: neurologyminutiae - April 8, 2013 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
How I Quit Gambling
Projectile vomiting can be your friend.
I never should have found myself inside casinos in the first place. As a former alcoholic, cigarette smoker, and drug abuser, taking up gambling does not, in retrospect, sound like a solid life plan. But in my addictive heyday, gambling was definitely a part of my life. I would go the casino, stand inside the entrance, gaze out across the dark, jangling world of the slot machine floor, populated by solitary figures seated on stools, busily drinking and smoking cigarettes, and mutter: “My kinda people.”
And they were. Lurking out there were a significant number of fellow addict...
Source: Addiction Inbox - February 8, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Tinnitus Evaluation Program Offers Treatment Measure Outcomes
By David W. Holmes, PhD
MelMedtronics will release its new Tinnitus Evaluation Program (TEP) software in October. This product is Medicare-compliant and reimbursable, creating opportunity for an untapped revenue stream in audiology and otolaryngology practices. Medicare approved a new CPT code for tinnitus evaluation (CPT-92625) seven years ago, and four evaluation requirements comply with the procedure. Frequency match, intensity match, minimum masking level, and presence of residual inhibition must be documented for patients’ tinnitus measurements.
Medicare currently reimburses an average of $67.44 (depending on geogr...
Source: R&D Blog - September 26, 2012 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Tinnitus Evaluation Program Offers Treatment Measure Outcomes
By David W. Holmes, PhD
MelMedtronics will release its new Tinnitus Evaluation Program (TEP) software in October. This product is Medicare-compliant and reimbursable, creating opportunity for an untapped revenue stream in audiology and otolaryngology practices. Medicare approved a new CPT code for tinnitus evaluation (CPT-92625) seven years ago, and four evaluation requirements comply with the procedure. Frequency match, intensity match, minimum masking level, and presence of residual inhibition must be documented for patients’ tinnitus measurements.
Medicare currently reimburses an average of $67.44 (depending on geo...
Source: R&D Blog - September 26, 2012 Category: ENT & OMF Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Promising Results in Controlling Tinnitus with Brain Training
I had the great pleasure of visiting a wonderful research team studying the neurological origins and treatment of tinnitus at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis last week. About 30 million U.S. citizens have tinnitus. For about 4 million of them, the tinnitus is identified as “severe” – which means that it is continuously disturbing and intrusive, makes normal sleep very difficult or impossible, has extended cognitive impacts, and grossly degrades the sufferer’s quality of life.
Dr. Jay Piccirillo and Dr. Harold Burton have conducted very important studies in tinnitus patients in their Wash U labor...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 4, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness Brain Fitness Program Brain Plasticity Brain Science BrainHQ Neuroscience Posit Science Source Type: blogs
Promising Results in Controlling Tinnitus with Brain Training
I had the great pleasure of visiting a wonderful research team studying the neurological origins and treatment of tinnitus at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis last week. About 30 million U.S. citizens have tinnitus. For about 4 million of them, the tinnitus is identified as “severe” – which means that it is continuously disturbing and intrusive, makes normal … Continue reading → (Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D.)
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - April 4, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Michael Merzenich Tags: Brain Fitness Brain Fitness Program Brain Plasticity Brain Science brain training for tinnitus tinnitus treatments washington university of st. louis Source Type: blogs
