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The LITFL Review 077
This article isn’t exactly going to give you the answer on which drug is best, however it does show it was easier to do BVM with suxamethonium. iTeachEM Podcasts in Emergency Medicine Wow…There’s how many….The power of the FOAM. Emphasis on Grades - forget the grades, we as educators and students need to focus more on the learning, and the grades will come. Wish Rob was around when my school report cards came home…could have done with the advice then! The Course of all Courses… Is coming. Check out the video for more. Al Sacchetti’s Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzT...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 24, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review Blogs critical care FOAM FOAMed LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Moral Agency – Who or What? (Gunkel)
Questions concerning moral standing typically begin by addressing agency. The decision to begin with this subject is not accidental, provisional, or capricious. It is dictated and prescribed by the history of moral philosophy, which has traditionally privileged agency and the...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - September 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: David Gunkel Source Type: blogs

Why is it So Hard to Curb Your Cravings?
What’s your weakness? Is it cupcakes, potato chips, bread, a big bowl of pasta, cheese fondue, fried chicken, pizza, ice cream or something else? Do you crave something creamy that melts in your mouth or a salty crunch that takes the edge off? If you do, you’re similar to 100% of women and 75% of men who reported food cravings in the last year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Cravings, once considered the body’s way of signaling that we were missing important nutrients, are now understood to be something quite different. If they were merely a signal that we were short on, say, magnesium (a ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 24, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christy Matta, MA Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Brain and Behavior Eating Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Substance Abuse Addiction Research Alcohol Cravings Apple Pie Ball Game Bran Cheese Fondue Chicken Pizza C Source Type: blogs

3 Sure-Fire Ways to Generate New and Great Ideas
Do you want new and great ideas? The kind that makes people Smile in wonder and possibility after you introduce it Question why they don’t ask for your opinion more often Recognize how intelligent, creative and brilliant you really are If you’re nodding your head, I have a question for you: What’s the problem? Why aren’t you coming up with awesome ideas? Why do you have trouble coming up with even good ideas? It’s probably because you believe that great ideas are reserved for a lucky few. I have some good news and bad news for you. First, the bad (that’s the way I prefer it): To have new and great ideas ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 24, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Robert Chen Tags: creativity self improvement pickthebrain self growth success Source Type: blogs

Why Does Dandruff Shampoo Make my Hair Smell like Rotten Eggs?
Cathy inquires…I occasionally suffer from itchy scalp but this morning I was out of my usual Fructis dandruff shampoo so I used my roommates Head and Shoulders. The one in the dark blue bottle. I swear that my hair has smelled like rotten eggs all day. Why is that and why did this product cause it when others don’t? I thought all dandruff shampoos were essentially the same except for color and fragrance. The Left Brain responds: The majority of dandruff shampoos use zinc pyrithione (ZPT) as the active ingredient. For most people that’s sufficient to alleviate their symptoms. But the Over the Counter Drug ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 24, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Left Brain Tags: Beauty Products That Really Work Dandruff Questions Shampoo Source Type: blogs

Create A Circle Of Influence
We meet many people in the course of our careers. We will get to some know casually, while others will become close friends and trusted allies. Then there are those I call 'centers of influence.'These 'centers of influence' people are like the hub of a giant wheel. As you look back, you can see where many good things, things like contacts, sales and help just when you needed it most, have come from this one person.Wouldn't it be great if you could know that a person was to become a 'center of influence' in your life *before* it happened?Here's the good news... you can!!In fact, not only is developing such relationships pos...
Source: My Act of Combating Neurobigotry - September 24, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: bambang arie Source Type: blogs

Granny B Chicago
We will continue to live and love at whatever stage he is at. My name is lost but the loving eyes are still there. Thank you God! Alzheimer's Reading Room Granny B Chicago left the following comment under the article, Alzheimers Caregiver Why are the Little Things Bothering You? I do not know if the is the "place" to tell my story (one of them)....but here goes. I paid close attention when my husband started repeating things/losing things/etc and got help as soon as I could convince him to "let" me go to the Dr. with him. His wonderful Dr. referred us to a neurologist that continues to help me. Family and friend...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 24, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Practice, Changing the Brain, and Better Eating
An article about changing the brain (The brain set free by Laura Sanders, SCIENCE NEWS, 8/11/12) offers more evidence for some of my most persistent advice: If you want to eat differently, you must keep practicing new behaviors. You can’t just do something a few times and decide you’re a failure. Practice changes your brain. Before getting to how the brain alters with practice, let’s look at how it begins laying down neural pathways in our early lives. At first there’s a rush of information into our newly formed brains (just imagine it!), and slowly connections start to form and strengthen between nerve...
Source: Normal Eating - September 24, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs

From the Files of a Nursing Student: Blue
It was kind of a lax weekend, and by "lax"...I mean that there were no looming tests on Monday. Not that this means that they're giving us a breather, because there's a paper due today. (fortunately for me, I have one from the previous attempt at this course, that was never graded & in my eyes, legit for round #2) Hubby is away on a business trip for 9 days, so it's me & the baby. Baby plus keeping up with this place (cats, laundry, etc.) has me so busy I'm really grateful that there isn't another test till next Monday.Four weeks down. Four to go. On Thursday, after I took my hubby to the airport & ran to the grocery store...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - September 24, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs

Brain Scans Show If Ready to Learn
MIT researchers found that activation of the parahippocampal gyrus was associated with better memory if visual scenes followed. Abstract: "The rate of learning or memory formation varies over time for any individual, partly due to moment-to-moment fluctuation of brain state. Functional neuroimaging has revealed the neural correlates of learning and memory, but here we asked if neuroimaging can causally enhance human learning by detection of brain states that reveal when a person is prepared or not prepared to learn. The parahippocampal cortex (PHC) is essential for memory formation for scenes. Here, activation in PHC was ...
Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog - September 24, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide Source Type: blogs

fMRI of Dysgraphia - Lack of Automaticity and Need for Visual Monitoring
Thank goodness for Todd Richards and his collaboration with Virginia Berninger and her group for looking into the brain-basis of dysgraphia. In this interesting fMRI study, good and poor child writers were compared on a task of writing a new pseudoletter. The 'good writers' (scored in the normal or higher range on WIAT writing test) showed a strong coordination between the cerebellum (motor-sensory feedback) and primary motor-sensory areas in the precental and postcentral gyrus. Poor writers had a very different pattern. Their cerebellar activation was stronger in midline structures (trunk > fingers) and also vi...
Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog - September 24, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide Source Type: blogs

Withdrawal from Suboxone or Buprenorphine
I received a question from a reader about withdrawal symptoms from stopping buprenorphine. My answer has relevance to opioid withdrawal in general, and to a common misconception about the duration of withdrawal symptoms.The message:Basically I quit Suboxone about 18 days ago. When I decided to quit I was taking about 8 to 12mgs per day. I got into taking Suboxone from trying to quit a Percocet habit that developed after a car wreck. I was stuck on Suboxone for near 3 years before I finally realized the person I thought I was really wasn’t the person I expected myself to become. So I decided I had enough and quitt...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - September 23, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: SuboxDoc Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Clean Enough pharmacology receptor actions Suboxone tolerance Withdrawal how long does suboxone withdrawal last suboxone half life Suboxone taper Source Type: blogs

Alcoholics Anonymous 1939
The objectives are to bring about extraversion and to provide someone to whom the alcoholic can transfer his dilemma. In a large number of cases, this alcoholic group is now attaining these very objectives because their simple but powerful devices appear to cut deeper than do other methods of treatment because of the following reasons: 1. Because of their alcoholic experiences and successful recoveries they secure a high degree of confidence from the prospects. 2. Because of this initial confidence, identical experience, and the fact that the discussion is pitched on moral and religious grounds, the patient tells his story...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - September 23, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholism ex-alcoholic newcomers permanent recovery PSYCHOTHERAPY Source Type: blogs

5 Ways to Respond to a Complainer at Work
We’ve all encountered them at some point – and maybe, at times, we’ve even been one of them: that person at work who corners you in the hallway only to protest a new policy, wail about the inadequacies of a co-worker, grumble about pay or whine about the lack of lumbar support in their office chair. Most of the time, the easiest way to deal with these encounters is to simply tolerate the grumbles and complaints. But at some point, the objections, peevishness and continual negativity become too much to handle; they begin to detract from your work day, impact your mood and leave you feeling drained at the end o...
Source: World of Psychology - September 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christy Matta, MA Tags: Anger Friends General Happiness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Self-Help Stress Co Worker Complainer Friction Hallway Inadequacies Interpersonal Effectiveness Judgment Lumbar Support Negativity Neurological Sciences Source Type: blogs

Beauty Science News – September 23
Beauty science stories are the best! Here are my faves from this week… Find out if your friends are psychopaths (Have them smell your perfume.) A skin lightening breakthrough by L’Oreal? (Hey, at least it’s from a reputable company.) More bogus organic beauty product claims. (Britain loves to kick ass on beauty companies.) Can coconut oil fight cavities? (Hint: this study says yes.) Watchdog group finds dangerous mercury in skin lightening products. (This is why I love the FDA.)
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 23, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

Whole Brain Teaching - very applicable to OTs
<iframe width="853" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aaweXw03kQI?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I LOOVE the ideas in Whole Brain Teaching. Seems very "OT" to me :) I somehow stumbled across this on YouTube, I forget why or how or who showed me, but super impressed. :) This is like a 5 minute video of that teaching in action and it was very neat. I think the ideas of WBT are often ones that OTs could suggest to classroom teachers to help promote more interactive lessons and/or movement, etc.
Source: Occupational Therapy Students (B)e(LO)n(G) - September 23, 2012 Category: Occupational Therapists Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 24th 2012
Discussion - Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! - Genetic Hotspots for Diseases of Aging - A Look at the Allen Institute for Brain Science - Correlating Progressive Frailty in Aging With Parental Longevity - Using Fruit Flies to Study Immune System Aging - Calorie Restriction Greatly Slows Protein Turnover - A Different View of Aging - Longevity in Mammals as a Way to Extend Life of Male Offspring - A Review of Vascular Aging &n...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 23, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The impact of West Nile Virus on survivors
Since 1999, when most people in North America first heard about West Nile Virus, we’ve been measuring the impact of West Nile by looking at its fatality count. It’s time to take note of the impact on the survivors of West Nile meningitis and encephalitis.As of August 2012, an outbreak of 1,590 cases of West Nile virus in 2012 was confirmed by the CDC. This is the highest number of reported West Nile virus cases since the virus was first detected in the U.S. in 1999. Of these, more than half (889) developed neuroinvasive disease (involvement of the brain and nervous system), the most severe form of WNV infection. Th...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 22, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs

Article: Anti-connectome-ism
Anti-connectome-ismhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2012/sep/21/connectome-reviewSent via Flipboard
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 22, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Why Do Women Get Depressed More Than Men?
I recently did research for a women’s magazine about depression in young women (ages 18 to 30). The editors wanted to know why so many more women than men struggle with depression. I got out my copy of “A Deeper Shade of Blue: A Woman’s Guide to Recognizing and Treating Depression in Her Childbearing Years” by Ruta Nonacs, M.D., Ph.D., whose work fascinates me. Below are some excerpts from her book that help to explain why women are more vulnerable to depression and anxiety. Depression is about twice as common in women as in men, with about 1 in 4 women suffering from depression at some point during...
Source: World of Psychology - September 22, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression General Women's Issues 4 Women Adolescence Childbearing Years Decade Researchers Deeper Shade Of Blue Disparity Dramatic Rise Gap Gender Gap Girls And Boys Intense Debate Last Decade No Doubt Physical Changes P Source Type: blogs

5 Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp
Implement these five easy ways to help keep your brain sharp so the senior moments will be gone (but not forgotten).Contributor: Georgia LundPublished: Sep 22, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - September 22, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Old Spice Body Wash Dry Skin Defense – Look at the Label
Here’s one for the guys: the #2 best selling beauty product on Amazon.com this week is an Old Spice Body Wash. Why is this interesting? Because of it’s ability to hydrate dry skin. Let’s look at the label and see how it works. Water As always the main ingredient in a body wash or shampoo. Petrolatum What? Petrolatum is a greasy skin moisturizing ingredient. Why is it in a body wash? Ah, that’s the secret of this product. P&G scientists have found a way to incorporate high levels of petrolatum in a body wash and still make it foam! Sodium Trideceth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate These two ingredi...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 22, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

World Alzheimers Report Reveals Negative Perceptions About People with Dementia
Alzheimer's Reading Room Seventy-five (75) percent of people with dementia and 64 percent of caregivers believe there are negative associations for those diagnosed with dementia in their countries, according to survey fielded by Alzheimer’s Disease International and published today in the World Alzheimer Report 2012: Overcoming the Stigma of Dementia. The report was released on Alzheimer’s Action Day as part of World Alzheimer’s Month activities engaging people in the cause and raising awareness about the disease. In response, Alzheimer’s Association® Early-Stage Advisors, men and women from acr...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 22, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Oh the irony!
US Govt Suicide Initiative Ignores Suicide-Linked Drugs Wednesday, 19 September 2012, 4:39 pm Article: Martha Rosenberg US Government Suicide Initiative Ignores Suicide-Linked Drugs by Martha Rosenberg September 18, 2012 It would be laughable if it weren't tragic. Last week US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin introduced a plan to stem the nation's growing suicide rate without addressing the nation's growing use of suicide-linked drugs. Antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil, antipsychotics like Seroquel and Zyprexa and anti-seizure drugs like Lyrica and Neurontin are all linked to suicide in published reports and in F...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 22, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

ADHD medicine is common for Youth and School Kids
Adderall is a psycho stimulant that is approved for cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This medicine is recognized to boost attentiveness and awareness. It has also been recognized to boost libido and cognitive performance. This medication is containing amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine. The mixture boosts the quantity of Norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain leading to the stimulating effects that it has. If we take this Adderall medication as per the prescription then this medicine can really help those who experience from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, this medicine i...
Source: Life With ADHD - September 22, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ADHD Dad Tags: ADHD Medication adhd medicine Common school youth Source Type: blogs

Prazosin Effective for Nightmares in PTSD
Treatment of Nightmares with Prazosin: A Systematic Review - A researcher from the Mayo Clinic discusses his newly published review of literature on the use of prazosin for PTSD-related nightmares. There’s compelling evidence for its effectiveness. In 12 studies, more than half the patients who tried it got better. The main limitation was a small sample size (249 patients in total). Nightmares are a difficult symptom of PTSD and this is hopeful news that people can discuss with their doctors. For full details of the review and how prazosin affects the adrenal system, read the accompanying journal article: “Trea...
Source: Channel N - September 21, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: All Documentary brain nightmares psychiatry psychopharmacology ptsd research science video Source Type: blogs

A Save with Suboxone?
I’d like to share a recent email exchange with a reader. The post is long, but there are several interesting aspects to the discussion. I’ve removed the conversational parts, as well as the identifying information.The initial message:I was an intravenous heroin user for three years. After treatment I was able to stay clean for 6 months… Well apparently to most people I was not clean because I was on Suboxone, but to me I was clean. People are so very discouraging when you tell them you’re clean and they find out you are on Suboxone. It hurts because of how much hard work you put in. I did well for six months, but t...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - September 21, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: SuboxDoc Tags: 12 steps Addiction Buprenorphine Clean Enough pharmacology receptor actions recovery Suboxone tolerance inject buprenorphine inject Suboxone overdose precipitated withdrawal Suboxone reverse overdose Source Type: blogs

Pump Break.
(No, not "pump broke." That would suck.)I wanted a little bit of a device break earlier this week. After dealing with itchy Dexcom rashes and doorknobs tugging hard on pump tubing and just feeling a little excessively-robotic over the last few weeks, I wanted to disconnect and decompress for a few days, before upcoming travel forced familiarity (and for me, device necessity). Because I live in that "hope for the best, plan for the worst" cliche, I have all the MDI tools on hand at the house. I carry a Humalog pen with me all the time (in case my pump borks), so there's always one...
Source: Six Until Me. - September 21, 2012 Category: Diabetes Source Type: blogs

Is the Internet making us dumber? (Nope, just different)
Is the Internet Really Making Us Dumber? (Der Spiegel): “In Germany, scores increase by about 3 IQ points each decade. In fact, the tests have to be adjusted every few years to keep up. The test currently used for children is called the WISC-IV. A person claiming to have an IQ of 130 needs to specify which test generated that result: WISC-III? WISC-IV? The astonishing upward trend in IQ levels is known as the “Flynn effect,” named after American political scientist James Flynn… Developing countries such as Kenya are also making gains. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is making less progress — Flynn surmises this...
Source: SharpBrains - September 21, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning cognitive-ability cognitive-skills Flynn-effect Internet IQ WISC-IV Source Type: blogs

Best Post of the April 2012: Photomicrographs of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 case
The next in our "Best of the Month" series is from April 26, 2012. It's a follow-up from a prior post in which I showed the gross finding from the same case of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6:A month ago, I posted gross photographs from an autopsy case of mine of a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6. I am now following up with histologic images for this case. The most striking feature was the marked loss of Purkinje cells, which makes sense because SCA6 involves mutation of a calcium channel that is highly expressed on Purkinje neurons:Many remaining Purkinje neurons demonstrated degenerative changes, including mis-s...
Source: neuropathology blog - September 21, 2012 Category: Pathologists Tags: Best of the Month series Source Type: blogs

Salon vs Drugstore Haircare: Put it to the Test
Heide says… I deal with the silicone impacted client every day from store brand usage. Most of the time it’s to the point of running my fingernail over the hair strands and being able to peel off the residue and actually show it to my client. I find it odd that the Brains perpetuate that it couldn’t happen, or it will happen equally with store or salon bought. I’ve used salon products for more then 20 years and I can’t do that to myself nor can I do that to anyone else who uses salon products. Can you explain why I can peel off the layers of “junk” from a Pantene, TREsemme, or Dove ju...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 21, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Right Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

"The Sensitivity of Neuroimaging Data"
The Sensitivity of Neuroimaging Data by Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs has been published in the most recent issue of Neuroethics: Abstract When new methods of generating information about individuals leave the confined space of research application the possibility of morally dubious application...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - September 21, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: September 21, 2012
When life hands you a difficult situation, the last thing you want to do is lean into it. But it may be the best thing you ever did. You may struggle with frustrating family members or impossible co-workers on a regular basis. Over time, the experience can leave you drained, on the verge of calling it quits and it could transform you into a difficult person yourself. But there is another option. I have had many opportunities to work with difficult people. It’s tempting to want to leave a job because being around them is so unpleasant. But what if you can’t just walk away from a job or an experience that’s...
Source: World of Psychology - September 21, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Amp Anger Attitude Beautiful Way Boss brain Bullies Bully Co Workers Compassion And Kindness Current Situation Difficult Situations Emotional Health Emotional Issues Family Members Fingers Happy Moments Source Type: blogs

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)
Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Return of the Pedophilic Brain Tumor: Acquired vs. Innate Pedophilia, The Neuroethics Blog In The Popular Press Fear Can Be Erased From the Brain, Research Shows,...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - September 21, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Adam Kolber Source Type: blogs

Why Trying To Change Yourself Never Works
When was the last time you met someone who said, “Um, can you please reject me? I mean, I really thrive and feel amazing about myself in atmospheres of rejection and hatred.” Nope, doesn’t happen. Why? Because we were made for love. Just turn on the radio and television for ten minutes to find out what the human heart is searching for. Our movies are centered around it, our reality shows showcase people fighting for it, and just about every pop star can’t stop singing about it. The human heart wants to be loved. In Brain Rules for Baby, Dr. John Medina describes how the ultimate environm...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - September 21, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Christa Black Tags: self improvement change happiness love pickthebrain relationships Source Type: blogs

No matter what (Alzheimer's Aunt) & Alzheimer's day
I've been trying to stay away from the whole Alzheimer's Aunt (AA) situation. It's mostly making me angry, as you can tell from my posts here. One of my cousins told me something today, though, that I need to share. Alzheimer's Aunt is supposed to be filling out some kind of lifestyle questionnaire for the elder care lawyer, so the lawyer can help guide her into the right paperwork, etc. One of the questions was about being kept alive by machines, being resuscitated, etc. Alzheimer's Aunt stated, emphatically, that if there is even a percent of a percent of a chance, she is to be revived and ...
Source: Had a Dad Alzheimers Blog - September 21, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: GBP })i({ Source Type: blogs

No matter what (AA) & Alzheimer's day
I've been trying to stay away from the whole Alzheimer's Aunt (AA) sitatuation. It's mostly making me angry, as you can tell from my posts here. One of my cousins told me something today, though, that I need to share. AA is supposed to be filling out some kind of lifestyle questionnaire for the elder care lawyer, so the lawyer can help guide her into the right paperwork, etc. One of the questions was about being kept alive by machines, being resuscitated, etc. AA stated, emphatically, that if there is even a percent of a percent of a chance, she is to be revived and kept alive by any and all means n...
Source: Had a Dad Alzheimers Blog - September 21, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: GBP })i({ Source Type: blogs

How to Effortlessly Attract Your Dream Life by Designing Your Perfect Average Day
Are you happy with the life you’re living now?Do you think there’s room for improvement?There always is, isn't there?Having a clear vision and knowing exactly what your ideal life looks like will get you moving towards your dream life faster.I’m not talking about cars, houses and lots of money. I’m talking about what you REALLY want, think experiences, friends and so on.We tend to think in vague terms and not really know what we want. We just know we want something better than what we have.I know I’m guilty of this. I’ve always found it hard to write things down, but once I’ve done it, I feel clearer and much...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - September 21, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Henri Junttila Source Type: blogs

Healthy Eating and Bingeing
Disregulated eaters often don’t know how to gauge progress when they give up the diet mentality and begin following the rules of “normal” eating. Due to your all-or-nothing thinking, my guess is that you may ignore meaningful markers of recovery, one of which is eating healthfully much or most of the time while still occasionally bingeing. Learning to view your eating in an objective, balanced way, will help you keep moving forward. Tattoo this on your brain, puh-lease: Becoming a “normal” eater takes anywhere from many months to a few years. As much (maybe more) about changing your thinking as it is ...
Source: Normal Eating - September 21, 2012 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs

Is the NeuroAD system the Answer to Alzheimer's Disease?
The NeuroAD system not only stopped Alzheimer's patients' symptoms from deteriorating, in some cases it actually improved patients' cognitive performance. Alzheimer's... The Alzheimer's Reading Room is the number one source of life news and information for the entire Alzheimers and Dementia community.
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 21, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Links for World Alzheimer's Day
Today, September 21, is World Alzheimer's Day and to mark the date Alzheimer's Disease International has published a new report on combating the stigma of Alzheimer's Disease. And to join in the day's events I've collected together a number of Alzheimer's related reports, journal abstracts and stories from the Research Digest archive: A flicker of light in a sea of darkness - the woman with Alzheimer's who retained the ability to pun. Recommended book from 2008: Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research. Alzheimer's patients retain their taste in art. A test for distingui...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 21, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Why We Need to Study the Brain’s Evolution in Order to Understand the Modern Mind - a must-read essay by Ferris Jabr for Scientific American. 2. Naomi Wolf’s new book, Vagina: A Cultural History is attracting criticism for its distortion and over-simplification of the neuroscience of sexual desire. Maia Szalavitz for Time said the book "profoundly misrepresents how the brain works" before providing a corrective account of the literature (see also). 3. The winners of this year's Ig Nobels have been announced, including a prize for b...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 21, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

A Look at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
A comprehensive understanding of the brain is an important line item for future medical development, as the research community will have to develop ways to repair the brain and reverse aspects of its aging while preserving the structures that encode the mind. Here is a look at one of the higher profile projects of recent years: "Paul Allen, the 59-year-old Microsoft cofounder [has] plowed $500 million into the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a medical Manhattan Project that he hopes will dwarf his contribution as one of the founding fathers of software. The institute, scattered through three buildings in Seattle's hip F...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 21, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Kids cured of cancer still have problems
A favorite though sad story of mine that I like to tell my medical students concerns an adolescent I treated for leukemia many years ago. He was extremely bright and was planning a career in mathematics. Years of leukemia treatment had taught us that even though we can “cure” leukemia in the blood and bone marrow, it would come back in the brain and spinal fluid unless we treated those areas also. At that time, once the initial treatment was over, we would then administer radiation therapy to the brain along with chemotherapy into the spinal fluid. These extra treatments are needed because chemotherapy given into the b...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - September 20, 2012 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

"Brain, Decision, and Debt"
Recently Posted to SSRN: "Brain, Decision, and Debt" In R. Brubaker, R. M. Lawless, & C. J. Tabb (Eds.) A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt (pp. 167–180). New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 BRIAN KNUTSON, Stanford University - Psychology...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - September 20, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs

Attention: Why do SuperAgers Maintain Memory and a Thick Cortex?
This study shows that, however, such brain atrophy is not ineluctable. A few older people seem to be protected from the deterioration of memory and brain cells that accompanies aging. Although there may not be that many people who qualify as SuperAgers (only 10% of the people who thought they had great memory actually met the criteria for the study), these results are encouraging. Trying to understand what makes these Super Brains special may help in preventing age-related cognitive impairments and perhaps even in fighting the more severe changes associated with dementia. So why do these people have such a good memory and...
Source: SharpBrains - September 20, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Pascale Michelon Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Alzheimers-disease Cerebral Cortex cognitive-decline dementia memory memory impairment MRI neuroplasticity SuperAgers Source Type: blogs

Three ways of looking at touch coding
At SfN, a block of three posters by myself, Simon Peron and Daniel O’Connor will showcase three ways to approach the problem of touch coding. My work on whisker force measurements, and single cell and silicon probe based cortical recordings during active objection localization : Program#/Poster#: 677.18/KK18 Presentation Title: Encoding whisking-related variables in the mouse barrel cortex during object localization Location: Hall F-J Presentation time: Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Authors: *S. A. HIRES, D. O’CONNOR, D. GUTNISKY, K. SVOBODA; Janelia Farm Res. Campus, ASHBURN, VA ...
Source: Brain Windows - September 20, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: andrewhires Tags: brain imaging Calcium circuit mapping in vivo Multiphoton Neuronal Control optogenetics Source Type: blogs

GCaMP6 candidate presentations
The first public presentation of data on candidates for GCaMP6 will be presented here. This is obviously a big deal for brain imaging. Reliable detection of single action potentials and synaptic calcium signals using improved genetically-encoded calcium indicators *T.-W. CHEN, J. YU, R. A. KERR, V. JAYARAMAN, L. L. LOOGER, K. SVOBODA, D. S. KIM FFF77 / 927.08Oct 17 – 4:00pm/5:00pm and here Engineering next generation GCaMP calcium indicators using neuron-based screening T.-W. CHEN, T. J. WARDILL, J. P. HASSEMAN, G. TSEGAYE, B. F. FOSQUE, E. R. SCHREITER, B. E. KIMMEL, R. A. KERR, V. JAYARAMAN, K. SVOBODA, L. L. ...
Source: Brain Windows - September 20, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: andrewhires Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs