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Surrealistic Imaging Experiment #1
"The case against the realist position needs to be considered, after considering the materialist position. The latter, more poetic however than the former, admittedly implies on the part of a Man, a monstrous pride, but not a new and more complete degeneration. It should be seen, above all, as a welcome reaction against certain ridiculous spiritualist tendencies. Ultimately, it is not incompatible with a certain nobility of thought.The realistic position, in contrast, inspired by positivism, from Thomas Aquinas to Anatole France, appears to me to be totally hostile to all intellectual and moral progress. It horrifies me, s...
Source: The Neurocritic - October 9, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Mob Doctor, Episode 4: “Change of Heart.” A Medical Review
Another week of Mob Doctor with more ludicrous medicine, more random mobster action, more stupid high school friends of Grace, and more hours of Grace being gone from the hospital with no one noticing. At a neighborhood bar, Grace and her boyfriend Brett are shooting pool when several old friends of hers come in. One of them is standing atop the, but slips off, lacerating his scalp. He shows up a few hours later at the hospital complaining that his wound won’t stop bleeding – Grace takes him into a backroom and staples the laceration up. But then her nurse notices a “halo sign” on his jacket (a halo sign occurs w...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 9, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Source Type: blogs

Fungal meningitis update from the CDC
Multistate Meningitis Outbreak Investigation CDC is coordinating a multistate investigation of meningitis among patients who received epidural steroid injections (medication injected into the spine). Several of these patients have had strokes related to the meningitis. In several patients, the meningitis was found to be caused by a fungus that is common in the environment but rarely causes meningitis. This form of meningitis is not contagious. The source of the fungus has not yet been identified, and the cause of infections in the other patients is still being assessed. General Information: Is the source of the outbreak...
Source: PharmaGossip - October 9, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

The News from #ACEP12 Day 1
aka American ER Doc Gone Walkabout… 019 Dispatches from ACEP/fake news from North America: Newflash from ACEP: For the first time at ACEP Scientific Assembly, the number Ultrasound courses on offer exceeds the total number of registrants. ACEP notes that each registrant should be able to have truly personalized attention. On a related note: EMF has a announced a grant for researchers interested in trying to show unequivocally that there is some bodily part that remains resistant to bedside ultrasound imaging. (In another related note, an EM physician has reported a new technique for ultrasonographic relationship imaging ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - October 8, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Rick Abbott Tags: American ER Doc Gone Walkabout Conference Emergency Medicine Featured Health Social Media Twitter #ACEP12 rick abbott Scientific Meeting Source Type: blogs

PA to MD
by Tyrranon (Posted Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:45 pm)Did you even read the original posters complete post? I assume by your user name and signature that you are an M.D. Which would indicate to me that you know what a P.A. is. The gentleman stated he has been a practicing P.A. for the last seven years. While I am fairly certain P.A. school most likely does not prepare an individual to practice medicine as well as medical school does, the fact still remains that the original poster has essentially been practicing medicine for the last seven years. Has it been completely independently? No, he has had a M.D. or D.O. to fall back on i...
Source: Med Student Guide - October 8, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

Some 13,000 May Have Gotten Meningitis-Linked Drug - WSJ.com
An estimated 13,000 patients may have been exposed to the tainted spinal steroid injections which have sickened more than 100 people with fungal meningitis and killed eight, federal officials said Monday, as clinics and surgery centers continued to reach out to those who could be affected. It was the first estimate of the potential scope of the meningitis outbreak, which has been traced by federal and state investigators to three lots of methylprednisolone acetate injections produced by New England Compounding Center. Some 105 people in nine states have been sickened by fungal meningitis, said Curtis Allen, a spokesman fo...
Source: Psychology of Pain - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Scientist that Developed Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Wins Nobel Prize
The man that envisioned a better way than destroying human embryos to get embryonic-like stem cells has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka developed the technique to take an adult cell and reprogram it to an embryonic-like state as a way to avoid the destruction of human embryos. Dr. Yamanka's reprogrammed adult cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and have become a boon for the stem cell field allowing researchers to create new pluripotent stem cell lines for study without creating or destroying embryos. In the New York Times, Dr. Yamanaka stated, When I saw the embryo, I suddenly r...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - October 8, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Source Type: blogs

Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Yields Some Optimism
After weeks of anticipation, Eli Lilly released complete data for studies of its solanezumab Alzheimer’s compound and results indicated that cognitive decline was slowed by 42 percent in patients in the early stages of the disease in one trial, and there were also positive signs from another trial, although the showing was not statistically significant. However, a pre-specified secondary analysis of pooled data yielded a 34 percent reduction in cognitive decline in patients with mild Alzheimer’s, which was statistically significant. Although the overall showing was mixed, the results, nonetheless, underscore im...
Source: Pharmalot - October 8, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Alzheimers Eli Lilly Solanezumab Source Type: blogs

Lost & Sound
Lost and Sound trailer [subtitled] - music, deafness and the incredible human brain... from Lindsey Dryden on Vimeo.Subtitled trailer.
Source: Deaf Village - October 8, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: At The Rim Tags: Deaf Music VB Source Type: blogs

Self-Sabotage: A Pathway to Destruction
The world was a treacherous place for our species, once upon a time. We are wimpy creatures. The tigers have bigger, sharper teeth; the insects have poisonous stings; the gorillas have muscles bodybuilders can only dream of; the sea is filled with seemingly alien creatures — even 99 percent of plants would kill us if we consume them. In other words, before the invention of fundamental technology such as weapons and farming, humans were at the mercy of their environment. This constant danger burned a crucial lesson into our DNA: stay safe. What is self-sabatoge, and what can we do to overcome it? This is why we do th...
Source: World of Psychology - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Tess Pajaron Tags: Brain and Behavior General Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Alien Creatures Bodybuilders Comfort Zone Constant Danger Farming Freaks Fundamental Technology Gorillas Insects Invention Source Type: blogs

Mammograms Detect More than Breast Cancer!
It is October, the month to focus on breast cancer prevention and treatment. Good news – what you do to protect your breast health protects your heart health as well. Did you know a mammogram is not only a tool for early detection of breast cancer, it can also detect early heart disease? It is true! Mammograms can predict heart disease too! click to tweet this! According to a study published in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), along with detecting a lump, mammograms can also detect calcium deposits in the blood vessels of the breast, an indicator of early heart disease. Calcium deposi...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - October 8, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Award Winning Blog Heart Health busy woman's guide to a healthy heart Women and Heart Disease Source Type: blogs

Does Coconut Oil Fade Hair Color?
CYW asks…I have been pre-pooing my hair with coconut oil for several months. I recently read an article that mentioned coconut oil’s ability to remove dye from hair. I’m questioning whether this is true and if so, just how does the oil removes hair dye. Finally, are you aware of another oil I can use that won’t cause my dye to fade? The Right Brain responds: Thanks for a very interesting question! We’ve blogged a lot about the benefits of using coconut oil because it can penetrate into the cortex of your hair where it can help strengthen and protect it. But does that cause any problems for ha...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 8, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Right Brain Tags: Beauty Myth Busting Hair Colors Questions Source Type: blogs

Top stories in health and medicine, October 8, 2012
This series is brought to you by MedPage Today.1. No Healthcare Savings with ACOs. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) that improved diabetes outcomes by as much as 10% achieved minimal or no cost savings.2. Aspirin: Protects Brain as Well as Heart. Low-dose aspirin may help forestall cognitive decline in elderly women at high cardiovascular risk.3. Weight-Loss Drug May Work in Diabetes. One of the newly approved weight-loss agents may also help type 2 diabetics keep their disease in check. Follow KevinMD.com on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 8, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: News Diabetes Endocrinology Health reform Primary care Source Type: blogs

How to Stop Eating Your Emotions
Many of us turn to food when difficult feelings arise. And it’s understandable. Eating is a quick way to adjust our emotions, according to clinical psychologist Susan Albers, PsyD, in her book Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating & Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food. We’re able to immediately soothe or distract ourselves, she writes. But, of course, eating only stuffs down our emotions. And, in turn, we never process our feelings or truly nourish ourselves. The result? Our emotions consume us, and we’re left feeling miserable. In her book, Albers offers valuable ways we can effectively cope with...
Source: World of Psychology - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books Brain and Behavior General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Accor Amp Balanced Relationship Clinical Psychologist Compassion Compassion And Kindness Dole Emotion Emo Source Type: blogs

Breast Cancer Screening Saves Lives
There has been a lot of debate in the last few years on the benefits, risks and limitations associated with routine breast exams. Some of the reports out today are confusing for women who are undergoing regular screenings.The NHS's National Cancer Director in the UK has issued a review that reveals good news for women. Despite the reports of over diagnosis, the report shows that routine breast screening does save around 1,300 lives a year in the UK alone.This significant number is because a diagnostic mammogram detects cancer at an early stage before other signs and symptoms are noticed. The sooner cancer is detected, the ...
Source: My Act of Combating Neurobigotry - October 8, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: bambang arie Source Type: blogs

Fringe — Episode 2 (Season 5): “In Absentia”
With this episode Fringe takes one more stop on the way to becoming a video game (dodging steam bursts in tunnels and receiving a quest to find missing artifacts). The Plot: Walter is unable to get the Thought Unifier to function properly (technically, the device is functioning, it’s his brain that’s not properly wired). Instead the team decides the best bet is to search Walter’s old lab at Harvard in the hope he left some written notes. Unfortunately, in the intervening years, the Observers have taken over and sealed off the campus, turning it into some sort of high tech experimental facility. Luckily, Walter knows...
Source: Polite Dissent - October 8, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs

Sleep apnea plays dual role in stroke
This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff. Sent from my iPhone
Source: Dr Portnay - October 8, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer’s Journal: Brilliant Romanian Scholar Didn’t Regret Losing His Mind
When all would fade into darkness, when Alzheimer’s overtook him, he didn’t suffer because he never realized he’d lost anything. If anything, Alzheimer’s actually made him happier. By Marie Marley Alzheimer's Reading Room Dr. Edward Theodoru Ed had been a true Renaissance man, as were many Europeans of his generation, but he stood out among them because his memory was phenomenal. It was his most distinguishing feature. He remembered everything he read, heard or saw. It was that simple. We often refer to such people as "walking encyclopedias," but Ed was far more. Ed was a walking library. Many times...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 8, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Lilly Phase 3 Clinical Trial Solanezumab for Alzheimer's Disease
"Alzheimer's disease causes significant burden on patients, caregivers and our society. We believe these data in patients with mild disease may provide a step toward a potential treatment option." ~ David Ricks, senior vice president and president, Lilly Bio-Medicines. Alzheimer's Reading Room The results for Solanezumab (Lilly) are being widely covered in the media today. Here is the press release from Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY). Lilly's analysis, as previously reported, showed primary endpoints, both cognitive and functional, were not met in the two Phase 3, double-blind, placebo-co...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 8, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

In search of the super-humane (those who identify with all of humanity)
The pages of psychology's journals are filled with sorry tales of people's intolerance and prejudice towards one another. Against this darkness, Sam McFarland and his colleagues urge us not to forget the brighter stories - the heroes of the past who put themselves at risk because they felt empathy towards outsiders. Consider the French Pastor Andre ́ Trocme ́ and his wife, who helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust. "We don't know what a Jew is," Trocme ́ said when instructed to hand over the names of all the Jews. "We only know people." The ability and inclination to identify with all of huma...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 8, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

The Glenn Foundation Funds Another New Aging Research Lab
In recent years the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research has established a number of laboratories focused on aging research, building and funding an infrastructure to help grow and sustain this scientific community. The Foundation has donated modestly to SENS research to reverse aging in the past, but these laboratories are firmly in the mainstream of biogerontology. The researchers involved typically investigate mechanisms of aging and ways to slow aging only - this being the slow, hard road ahead that will never lead to methods of rejuvenation. Here is news of the latest: Under a new $3 million grant from the Glenn Fou...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Deadly Threat of Silent Heart Attacks - NYTimes.com
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/the-deadly-threat-of-silent-heart-attacks/?ref=health The Deadly Threat of Silent Heart AttacksFor more than six months, Harriett Cooke had been uncommonly tired, panting when she walked her sixth grade science class to the cafeteria and struggling to keep her eyes open when she drove home at night.One day, during a class trip outside the school, she just couldn't go on. "I sat there on the side, I put my head down on the table, and I knew I shouldn't be feeling like this," said Ms. Cooke, 67, who lives in Durham, N.C.Making excuses, she left and stopped at her d...
Source: Dr Portnay - October 8, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs

Researchers Find Gene Linking Age-Related Cataracts and Alzheimer's Disease
This study gives hope that we are moving toward earlier diagnosis and new treatment targets for this debilitating disease." A correlation between cataracts and Alzheimer's has been seen before. A study last year found a link between cataract surgery and improvements in people suffering from mild cases of Alzheimer's disease. Permalink | Facebook | Twitter | Recent Headlines | News Feeds
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - October 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: alzheimers cataracts Source Type: blogs

Is it time to rename my blog?
When I first started my blog it was called 'Caroline's Cancer Blog' for a very brief period. Then I settled down with 'Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog' because it was about coping with breast cancer. Now more than five years later, my breast cancer seems to be cooperating and not stressing me out (as much) as it did before.But now I have all sorts of other medical stressors:Thyroid cancer mysteries. What the hell is going on in my neck? We keep repeating ultrasounds and get conflicting reports - bigger, smaller, same size.Back pain. Degenerating disks to start with and living on pain meds. Fibromyalgia. This isn't fun. ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 7, 2012 Category: Cancer Tags: breast cancer thyroid cancer fibromyalgia stress health being a patient back pain Source Type: blogs

Beauty Science News – October 7
Beauty science news for the Fall… Is drinking a lot of water really good for your skin? Can crying into your cosmetics kill bad bugs? Yay FDA: More crack downs on products making bogus hair loss claims. Why even the best known preservative systems needs to be re-tested. Can joint pain medicine reverse the signs of aging?
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 7, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

"I" before "C" do you really mean "WE"
In conclusion. Many of you tell me your Alzheimer's patient sticks to you like glue. Follows you around. Wants to know where you are when they can't see you. Wants to know where you went, and when you will be back. Well that was my observation. Dotty was stuck to me like glue. So I decided if that was the case, "I" would "C" if the power of "WE" would work for "US". Okay, that is my suggestion. It is now up to you to decide. You have anything better to do? What’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Dementia and the Eight Types of Dementia How the Loss of Memory Works in Alzheimer’s Disease, an...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 7, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 8th 2012
This article shows us what failure will look like: what the end goal will be some decades from now if the "only work to slow aging" and "don't talk about extending life" factions continue to dominate the research community: "Dame Linda Partridge, a geneticist at University College London, claimed drugs will soon be available which can lower the risk of diseases like cancer and dementia by tackling the root cause - age itself. Rather than promising immortality, taking the drugs from middle age or earlier could dramatically shorten the period of illness and frailty that we typically experience before we die. Speaking at the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 7, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

indian summer vacation
The way Joe and I schedule our lives we end up planning most of our family vacations more than a year in advance, and around the Spring of 2011 we made plans to rent a cottage in Jamaica for summer vacation the following year. Well, turns out that despite my neurosis about planning things well ahead of time, you actually can make plans too far in advance, because it turns out we were a little busy this past July. Luckily, the rental place was very nice about allowing us to reschedule once we told them the reason, and so we took our family summer vacation and moved it to a week in the fall. To this week, as a matter of fact...
Source: the underwear drawer - October 7, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs

Capitated care, Young Brains, & Suicide Prevention Police
Thank you to everyone has been participating in our multi-post discussions of Capitated Care versus Fee-for-Service. Based on the input of our readers, I've come to the conclusion that in systems with capitated care (i.e., a national health system): 1) Our readers are pleased with that, feel it provides better blanket coverage to a large population and the emphasis is more on medicine and less on money. 2) Capitated care is less about service with a smile. 3) Capitated care does a better job with treating populations but may not be the best care for the individual with an outlier problem. We'v...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 7, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

"Paternalism and Psychic Taxes: The Government's Use of Negative Emotions to Save Us from Ourselves"
Recently Posted to SSRN: "Paternalism and Psychic Taxes: The Government's Use of Negative Emotions to Save Us from Ourselves" Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 22, Forthcoming GARY LUCAS, JR., Texas Wesleyan University School of Law Paternalism has become increasingly...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - October 6, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)
Last Edition's Most Popular Article: What is Creativity? Art as a Symptom of Brain Disease, Brain Blogger In The Popular Press Valium’s Contribution to Our New Normal, New York Times Is internet addiction a mental illness?, The Guardian Mental Healthcare...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - October 6, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs

Senior High School and the adaptation problem
American senior high school might be weak by world standards, but the topics are far above what I did 25 years ago. Consider these mainstream 10th grade "human geography" questions, based on a college freshman textbook that's too expensive to distribute to students:1-NIR Map pg.54-What continent has the highest overall NIR rate-explain why you think that is?2-TFR map pg.55-Why do you think North America has a TFR of under 2.1? (give one reason)3-TFR map pg.55-Why might the TFR in Africa be so high, 4.0 or above for most countries (one reason)?4-Babies born in sub-Saharan African countries can expect to live only into what ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - October 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: education Source Type: blogs

Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Researchers Looking Into Link Between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Vaccinations
CONCLUSION By cherry picking their research preferences, the MRC has potentially condemned many to suffer a life blighted by this tragic condition. Instead of funding studies researching a variety of possible causes, it appears the MRC only choose to fund the ‘it’s all in the head’ theories drummed up by psychiatrists only interested in lining their own pockets. It is a pity they have such a closed view when handing out financial support. How can we ever learn more about this debilitating disorder when research is being suppressed in this appalling manor? Copyright Notice We are publishing this information to educate...
Source: vactruth.com - October 6, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) encephalitis Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) spinal cord or brain inflammation (encephalomyelitis) Source Type: blogs

Shame on Scientific American
I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in a recent Scientific American article on fragrance. In response to a reader’s question about “toxic” ingredients in perfumes, the article’s authors gave a completely one-sided answer by quoting the Environmental Working Group. Rather than present a balanced view they chose to only tell the perspective of one lobbying group. You can show your support for SCIENCE by leaving a comment on this Scientific American article. And if you’re interested in learning more about the science behind fragrance safety, go to Cosmeticsinfo.org. Image credit: http:/...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 6, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

The Bestest Cheapest Care Possible
If you've been hanging out here on Shrink Rap for the past few days, you know we've been talking about how the healthcare dollar gets spent. Do capitated systems (coverage for all with a single pot of moo-la) make it harder to get services? Our readers say "No." Do fee-for-service systems inspire doctors to order more and more services so they make more and more money at the mercy of the helpless patient and the poor insurance company? Are psychiatrists who do psychotherapy a total waste of money when cheaper professionals could do the same job? Some of the questions that have come up i...
Source: Shrink Rap - October 6, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Who Flipped the Switch?
I swear, Elijah has a switch somewhere on him and someone just FLIPS IT OFF or ON, not sure which one and he turns into a different child. I guess this is life with someone with a neurological condition. It is something that I try to understand on a da...
Source: Deaf Village - October 5, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: The Shaddox Boys Tags: Cochlear Implant Deaf vm Source Type: blogs

Scientists Reprogram Adult Cells Into Neurons
All of the cells in our body have all the same DNA in the nucleus. So what makes a heart cell a heart cell and a muscle cell a muscle cell? The different cell types in our bodies express different genes which give them their unique characteristics. Scientists are discovering that by introducing certain factors , they can reprogram a cell into a different kind of cell.Researchers in Germany have taken brain cells, called a pericytes, and reprogrammed them into neurons that successfully carried electrical impulses. Neurons are those long funny-shaped cells that are the building blocks of the nervous system. This announcement...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - October 5, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Genetic Engineering Source Type: blogs

When all the world is shining
The Surgeon has experienced three legitimate "religious experiences" in his life. The first was one day in the summer in the mid nineties while living at his aunt and uncle's house in Akron. He was studying half heartedly for the MCAT while working as a backroom kitchen grunt at a local restaurant/cabaret joint. He didn't have a girlfriend. His friends were all down in Columbus having an amazing time, apparently, and he spent his days nannying for his two younger cousins. He was uncertain of the path his life should take. He felt time was crunched, that he was running out of time t...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - October 5, 2012 Category: Surgeons Source Type: blogs

Cause of death: Defensive medicine
1. A 40-year-old female sees her family physician for burning chest pain after she eats hot peppers. She had it only once while exercising. Her family physician sends her to the emergency department and she gets admitted for chest pain. Rather than going home with treatment for her GERD, she ends up dead. This never should have happened, but the family never learns what really killed her.2. A 33-year-old father of 3 dies on a hospice ward, bloated with steroids, on tube feeds with a tracheostomy. He was stricken down too young, his family is told, by a rare form of brain cancer. It was an unlucky fluke, they are told, but...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 5, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Physician Emergency Malpractice Primary care Source Type: blogs

banana dance
this work week has been full of good things, but a little too full. my brain is tired. luckily, the internet is also full of good things to take my mind off of work. here’s the “banana dance”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8cbZL44VM&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Source: Organization Monkey - October 5, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs

Biofeedback now a “Level 1 — Best Support” Intervention for Attention & Hyperactivity Behaviors
PracticeWise, the company that maintains the American Academy of Pediatrics “Evidence-based Child and Adolescent Psycho-social Interventions” (see current edition here) has just announced it will elevate biofeedback to “Level 1 — Best Support” as an intervention for Attention & Hyperactivity Behaviors in the next edition. Working Memory Training will stay at Level 2 — Good Support. Studies influencing the decision included: Beauregard, M., & Levesque, J. (2006). Functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of the effects of neurofeedback training on neural bases of selective attention and res...
Source: SharpBrains - October 5, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Health & Wellness biofeedback cognitive-behavioral-therapy hyperactivity impulsivity Neurofeedback pediatrics PracticeWise psycho-social working-memory-training Source Type: blogs

Crowdfunding A CNS Project
Ethan Perlstein at Princeton is the main author of this research on sertraline that I blogged about earlier this year. Now he's looking to crowdfund his next research project, on the neuronal effects of amphetamines. He's trying to raise $25,000 to do radiolabeling and electron microscopy studies, which would make this the largest crowdfunding experiment in the sciences so far (but still, I might add, small change compared to the sorts of grants that much of academia spends its time trying to line up). What he's looking at is 2 to 3 months of work for one MS-level scientist. In this post he describes some of the reactions...
Source: In the Pipeline - October 5, 2012 Category: Chemists Tags: The Central Nervous System Source Type: blogs

The Return of CB1
CB1 ligands were all the rage a few years ago, headlined by Sanofi's rimonabant. These looked like the best shot at the obesity market in a long time, if you were of an optimistic frame of mind. But the entire class came crashing down with the regulatory rejection of rimonabant itself, followed by the failure of Merck's taranabant in the same area. (Pfizer publicly dropped out of the area, and number of other CB1 programs never even upped periscope, after watching the chaos up there on the surface). Now there might be another shot. CNS side effects doomed the original ligands, but many people thought that the brain was th...
Source: In the Pipeline - October 5, 2012 Category: Chemists Tags: Diabetes and Obesity Source Type: blogs

7 Tips for Setting Your Purpose & Defining Your Success
In the months before my wedding, there were more celebratory events than I can count on my body parts. (Forget just using fingers!) Bridal showers, lunches, dinners, drinks with friends, drinks with family, bachelorette parties — events galore. At every single one of these events, I was showered with love — and with desserts. In preparing for a wedding, desserts mean Problem City. If you’ve ever tried to fit into a wedding dress or even an old pair of pants, you know what I’m talking about. Saying no is all it takes, but resisting a luscious piece of cake is probably the hardest thing EVER! How my taste bud...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 5, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Marcella Chamorro Tags: confidence creativity happiness motivation goal setting goals how to be successful inspiration productivity tips purpose reflection Source Type: blogs

Does Oily Scalp Cause Hair Loss?
FeebleChicken asks…I went to a salon to get treatment for my hair because I’ve been noticing hair loss after doing rebonding. I couldn’t decide if it was breakage or they were falling off from the roots. The stylist looked at my scalp and said it was too oily and recommended me to do a 5 step Shiseido treatment which cleans sebum off the scalp followed by its shampoo, a moisturing treatment treatment, a rinse and 2 tonics. The ingredients claimed were zanthoxylum piper fruit which is suppose to reduce hair loss and greying. The Left Brain responds: I assume you’d like to know if this treatment is r...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 5, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Left Brain Tags: Beauty Myth Busting Hair Loss Questions Save Money On Beauty Products Source Type: blogs

Study Reveals How Green Tea Improves Memory
Green tea has been enjoyed for centuries, and its benefits have been widely touted. It is reputed to help treat many of modernity’s worst ills, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, HIV infection, and neurodegenerative diseases. New work done in China furthers the observations that green tea can help prevent neurodegeneration. The report, published in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, starts to elucidate the mechanism by which it does so [1]. Green tea is rich in a group of antioxidant known as catechins. Antioxidants are important for neutralizing free radicals that we absorb form the environment and th...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - October 5, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Diana Gitig Source Type: blogs

Neurodiversity Author and Ideologue Steve Silberman ALMOST Acknowledges Low Functioning vs High Functioning Autism Reality
Neurodiversity autism author and ideologue Steve Silberman ALMOST acknowledged the common sense reality of differences in autism function levels but at the last minute he turned and walked away once again. In an article at Scientific American titled Contributors Lee Billings and Steve Silberman talk autism, space travel, and extraterrestrial life (Part 1) Silberman talks briefly about the realities of low functioning autism and how the challenges they present COULD lead one to conclude that there really are differences in functioning levels. Then he abruptly struts away and denies those same differences. H...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - October 5, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Waiting in the medical system: putting cues in the queues.
One of the concerning issues in managing our emergency departments is the number of patients that present, and are Triaged, but become frustrated and leave before treatment has commenced. During busy periods, were there is high overcrowding, these ‘did not waits’ (DNW) may be well over 10% of total ED presentations. There are several interventions that can be made to lessen the number of DNW’s most of which revolve around: early referral to another service if appropriate using some form of hot-team to begin assessment/testing prior moving to final treatment area ‘attentiveness’ to the patients needs and keepin...
Source: impactEDnurse - October 4, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics Source Type: blogs