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Reflection
The calendar tells me we’re already a third of the way through January, but for some reason I’m dragging my feet (or perhaps my incomplete December to-do list is holding me hostage) when it comes to biding farewell to 2012 and fully embracing 2013.
I had originally planned to write about my Red Cross Resolutions this week, but since my Red Cross Resolutions are far too discombobulated for me to transfer them from my still-hazy-from-the-holidays brain to my computer, I’ve decided to go a different route. I’m still reflecting on 2012 – closing doors on the year’s less pleasant moments and surrounding myself with ...
Source: Red Cross Chat - January 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Erin Ferris Tags: Holiday Source Type: news
Career Burnout an Issue for Neurohospitalists?Career Burnout an Issue for Neurohospitalists?
Many neurohospitalists have experienced burnout or worry that they will, according to a new survey. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Submit Your 2013 Emerging Science Abstract
The deadline to submit 2013 Emerging Science abstracts is Tuesday, January 15.
Source: American Academy of Neurology - January 8, 2013 Category: Medical Law Source Type: news
Beta-blockers linked to fewer Alzheimer's lesions
The use of beta-blockers for the treatment of hypertension was associated with fewer Alzheimer's-type brain lesions on autopsy than the use of other antihypertensive medications in a new study.
Source: theHeart.org - January 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Trauma, infection link with stroke seen in children
Research shows that trauma and acute infection are significant risk factors for arterial ischemic stroke in children.
Source: MedWire News - Stroke - January 8, 2013 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
More Cognitive Deficits, Depression in Former NFL PlayersMore Cognitive Deficits, Depression in Former NFL Players
Cognitive deficits and depression appear to be more common in aging former National Football League players than in healthy controls, a new study shows. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Genes and obesity: Fast food isn't only culprit in expanding waistlines -- DNA is also to blame
Researchers at UCLA say it's not just what you eat that makes those pants tighter — it's also genetics. In a new study, scientists discovered that body-fat responses to a typical fast-food diet are determined in large part by genetic factors, and they have identified several genes they say may control those responses.
The study is the first of its kind to detail metabolic responses to a high-fat, high-sugar diet in a large and diverse mouse population under defined environmental conditions, modeling closely what is likely to occur in human populations. The researchers found that the amount of food consumed con...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 8, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Low Vitamin D Linked to HeadacheLow Vitamin D Linked to Headache
Nonmigraine headache -- but not migraine -- is associated with low levels of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin (OH) D, a new study suggests. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Girl, 5, given all clear for brain tumour after family funded U.S treatment denied by NHS, dies after cancer returns
Ruby Owen, from Staffordshire, was told she had beaten the cancer in 2010 after her family raised £170,000 to fund specialist radiation treatment in the U.S when she was turned down by the NHS.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do Beta-Blockers Reduce Dementia Risk?
The preliminary results of a new study to be presented at a conference in March are causing scientists to ask if beta-blockers, a class of drugs commonly used to treat high blood pressure and heart conditions, can reduce dementia risk. The study found autopsies of elderly men revealed those who took beta-blockers had fewer brain changes normally associated with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. The study is due to be presented as an abstract on 21 March 2013 at the American Academy of Neurology's (AAN's) 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alzheimer's / Dementia Source Type: news
Mercury Pollution And Prenatal Exposure
Cleaning up mercury pollution and reducing prenatal exposure to the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) could save the European Union 10,000 million per year, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health. New estimates suggest that between 1.5 and 2 million children in the EU are born each year with MeHg exposures above the safe limit of 0.58µg/g and 200,000 above the WHO recommended maximum of 2.5µg/g...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news
How Morphine Can Increase Pain
For individuals with agonizing pain, it is a cruel blow when the gold-standard medication actually causes more pain. Adults and children whose pain gets worse when treated with morphine may be closer to a solution, based on research published in the on-line edition of Nature Neuroscience. "Our research identifies a molecular pathway by which morphine can increase pain, and suggests potential new ways to make morphine effective for more patients," says senior author Dr. Yves De Koninck, Professor at Université Laval in Quebec City...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pain / Anesthetics Source Type: news
Evidence Mounts For Link Between Pesticides And Parkinson's
For several years, neurologists at UCLA have been building a case that a link exists between pesticides and Parkinson's disease. To date, paraquat, maneb and ziram - common chemicals sprayed in California's Central Valley and elsewhere - have been tied to increases in the disease, not only among farmworkers but in individuals who simply lived or worked near fields and likely inhaled drifting particles...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Parkinson's Disease Source Type: news
New Year Resolutions Relating To Physical Activity Can Be Hard To Keep
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem that has both social and neurobiological causes. According to the results of an Ipsos survey recently published, the French have put "taking up a sport" at the top of their list of good resolutions for 2013...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sports Medicine / Fitness Source Type: news
Link Discovered Between Rainfall And Brain Infection In Sub-Saharan Africa
The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demonstrate that these brain infections are linked to climate. Hydrocephalus -- literally "water on the brain" -- is characterized by the build-up of the fluid that is normally within and surrounding the brain, leading to brain swelling. The swelling will cause brain damage or death if not treated...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Chronic Inflammation, Suppression Of Cell Regeneration, And Neuronal Cell Loss Contribute To Wide Range Of Motor And Cognitive Deficits
Researchers from the University of South Florida and colleagues at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital studying the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) using rat models, have found that, over time, TBI results in progressive brain deterioration characterized by elevated inflammation and suppressed cell regeneration. However, therapeutic intervention, even in the chronic stage of TBI, may still help prevent cell death. Their study is published in the current issue of the journal PLOS ONE. "In the U.S., an estimated 1...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
Potential Neuroprotective Response Induced By Antidepressant Drug
The production of new neurons in the adult normal cortex in response to the antidepressant, fluoxetine, is reported in a study published online in Neuropsychopharmacology. The research team, which is based at the Institute for Comprehensive Medical Science, Fujita Health University, Aichi, has previously demonstrated that neural progenitor cells exist at the surface of the adult cortex, and, moreover, that ischemia enhances the generation of new inhibitory neurons from these neural progenitor cells. These cells were accordingly named "Layer 1 Inhibitory Neuron Progenitor cells" (L1-INP)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology / Neuroscience Source Type: news
The perils of iron deficiency: Natural ways to supplement an infant's diet
The latest medical research from the Umea University in Sweden reveals that iron supplementation can help boost brain growth in infants, potentially keeping them safe from developmental problems later in life. Low birth-weight babies who are born prematurely are the...
Source: NaturalNews.com - January 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Beta blockers linked to lower dementia risk
Brain changes linked to dementia less likely in those on beta blockersRelated items from OnMedicaNICE takes U-turn on dementia drugsCholesterol not associated to women’s dementia riskNew guidance for elderly with high BPSome antipsychotics linked to raised mortality in dementiaStatin use after stroke not linked to bleeds
Source: OnMedica Latest News - January 8, 2013 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Stereotactic brain radiosurgery helps small unruptured arteriovenous malformations
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with small unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVM)
may benefit from stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), Mayo Clinic researchers say.
Source: Modern Medicine - January 8, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Insufficient attention paid to diabetic foot screening: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many elderly Germans with prediabetes and diabetes were unaware they had
clinical peripheral neuropathy in a recent study, and the researchers say more adherence to testing guidelines is
needed.
Source: Modern Medicine - January 8, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Hold the diet soda? Sweetened drinks linked to depression, coffee tied to lower risk
(American Academy of Neurology) New research suggests that drinking sweetened beverages, especially diet drinks, is associated with an increased risk of depression in adults while drinking coffee was tied to a slightly lower risk. The study was released today and will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 16 to 23, 2013.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Study shows cognitive benefit of lifelong bilingualism
(Society for Neuroscience) Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published in the Jan. 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Compared to their monolingual peers, lifelong bilinguals also show different patterns of brain activity when making the switch, the study found.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 8, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Total Sodium in the Brain Increases Dramatically in Advanced Relapse-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
This study showed total sodium concentrations to be significantly increased in advanced disease--particularly in normal-appearing brain tissues, concomitant with disability.
Source: Consultant Live - January 7, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Beta blockers may reduce Alzheimer's risk, study finds
Beta blocker drugs for hypertension may protect the brain from effects of Alzheimer's disease. Beta blockers, a venerable class of blood pressure drugs that has fallen from favor in recent years, may help protect the aging brain against changes linked to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia that rob memory and mental function, new research indicates.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Beta blockers 'could cut Alzheimer's risk': Drugs found to protect against changes in the brain
A study has suggested drugs prescribed since the 1960s to lower blood pressure may protect against changes in the brain which can be signs of Alzheimer's.
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can Blood Pressure Drugs Reduce the Risk of Dementia?
SAN DIEGO – People taking the blood pressure drugs called beta blockers may be less likely to have changes in the brain that can be signs of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 65th Annual Meeting in San Diego, March 16 to 23, 2013.
Source: American Academy of Neurology - January 7, 2013 Category: Medical Law Source Type: news
Compression-Only CPR Improves Survival with Good Brain Function
Source: American Heart Association
Related MedlinePlus Page: CPR
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Beta-Blockers Linked to Fewer Alzheimer's LesionsBeta-Blockers Linked to Fewer Alzheimer's Lesions
The use of beta-blockers for the treatment of hypertension was associated with fewer Alzheimer's-type brain lesions on autopsy than other antihypertensive medications in a new study. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Mass. Governor Proposes Compounding Laws
(MedPage Today) -- The Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy would be able to assess fines against compounding pharmacies that violate state law under legislation introduced late Friday by Gov. Deval Patrick (D).
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
NFL retirees more likely to have depression and cognitive problems, brain study shows
Study also found differences in NFL retiree's white matter, areas of brain responsible for sending information
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Former NFL players' brains may show marker for cognitive issues
A marker for later cognitive problems may be starting to show up in the brain tissue of former National Football League players.
According to a study published Monday in JAMA Neurology, researchers found that cognitive problems and depression are more...
Source: WDSU.com - Health - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study: Parkinson's Disease Itself Does Not Increase Risk of Gambling, Shopping Addiction
MINNEAPOLIS – Parkinson's disease itself does not increase the risk of impulse control problems such as compulsive gambling and shopping that have been seen in people taking certain drugs for Parkinson's disease, according to new research published in the January 8, 2013, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Source: American Academy of Neurology - January 7, 2013 Category: Medical Law Source Type: news
Can blood pressure drugs reduce the risk of dementia?
People taking the blood pressure drugs called beta blockers may be less likely to have changes in the brain that can be signs of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, according to a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
HPV-Cancers Rise as Cancer Deaths Decline (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Overall cancer death rates continue to fall for both men and women and across major ethnic and racial groups, according to the annual Status of Cancer report.
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Simulated mission to Mars reveals critical data about sleep needs for astronauts
In the first study of its kind, researchers have analyzed data on the impact of prolonged operational confinement on sleep, performance, and mood in astronauts from a simulated 520-day space mission to Mars. The findings revealed alterations of life-sustaining sleep patterns and neurobehavioral consequences for crew members that must be addressed for successful human interplanetary spaceflight.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Retired NFL Players at Risk of Brain Deficits (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Retired football players appear to be at increased risk for experiencing cognitive deficits and depression as they grow older, and for developing abnormalities in brain white matter and blood flow, a small cross-sectional study suggested.
Source: MedPage Today State Required CME - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Outcome of Kid's Concussion Hard to Predict (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Identifying children most likely to have persistent neurological symptoms following concussion remains a largely hit-or-miss proposition, a systematic literature review suggested.
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
Retired Athletes at Higher Risk of Brain Deficits (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Retired football players appear to be at increased risk for experiencing cognitive deficits and depression as they grow older, and for developing abnormalities in brain white matter and blood flow, a small cross-sectional study suggested.
Source: MedPage Today Geriatrics - January 7, 2013 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: news
Fake mission to Mars leaves astronauts spaced out
Trip to Mars in pretend spaceship on Moscow industrial estate affects sleep, activity levels and motivation of six-man crewAs the cheerless skies and grim economy sap all will to return to work, take heart that even on a trip to Mars, it is hard to get out of bed in the morning.The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever: a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.Though chosen for the job as the best of the best, the would-be spacefarers spent more and more time under their duvets and s...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: The Guardian Psychology Russia World news Mars Human biology Europe Science Space Source Type: news
Fake mission leaves astronauts spaced out
Trip to Mars in pretend spaceship on Moscow industrial estate affects sleep, activity levels and motivation of six-man crewAs the cheerless skies and grim economy sap all will to return to work, take heart that even on a trip to Mars, it is hard to get out of bed in the morning.The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever: a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.Though chosen for the job as the best of the best, the would-be spacefarers spent more and more time under their duvets and s...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Tags: The Guardian Psychology Russia World news Mars Human biology Europe Science Space Source Type: news
The Lure of the Incomplete Task
A waiter remembers every detail of an order but promptly forgets them when the plates hit the table. Evidently, the human brain strives to complete ongoing activities and focuses on details of the incomplete task. The lure of the incomplete task transcends memory to motivate a lifetime of creative achievement.read more
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - January 7, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nigel Barber, Ph.D. Tags: Creativity Evolutionary Psychology Memory Work academics achievement motivation ambitious people ancestors aspiration level aspirations conclusions creative achievement decent chance gestalt psychologists human brain laborato Source Type: news
The psychoanalyst's tale – why we need to tell stories to relieve our sorrows
After practising as a psychoanalyst for 25 years, Stephen Grosz has written a book - of the stories his patients learnt to tell on the path to recoveryThere's a lot of the literary in Stephen Grosz. You can tell from the chapter titles of his book, with their familiar fireside whiff of Aesop or Kipling: How Lovesickness Keeps Us From Love; How Anger Can Keep Us From Sadness. Often, too, his limpid, pared-down fables conclude with an observation so elegant and so penetrating that it is almost an aphorism: Better to have lost something than be something someone forgot; Closure is the false hope that we can deaden our living ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Jon Henley Tags: The Guardian Psychology Mental health Culture Books Features Interviews Science Source Type: news
Benefits of respiratory treatment for extremely premature infants persist
There are no significant differences in death or neurodevelopmental impairment between toddlers who underwent early continuous positive airway pressure or early surfactant administration as extremely premature infants, research shows.
Source: MedWire News - Pediatrics - January 7, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Former NFLers at Risk for Brain, Mood Problems
Problems in thinking skills and depression may be more common in former National Football League players compared with other people as they age, according to a new study.
Source: WebMD Health - January 7, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cognitive deficits from concussions still present after two months
The ability to focus and switch tasks readily amid distractions was compromised for up to two months following brain concussions suffered by high school athletes, according to a new study.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Detrimental effect of obesity on lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease
Researchers have recently used a neurodegeneration model of Alzheimer's disease to provide experimental evidence of the relationship between obesity and disorders linked to the tau protein. This research corroborates the theory that metabolic anomalies contribute massively to the development of dementia.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
Opiate Medications: Pain Management Versus Addiction
Although powerful medications such as opiates are often necessary to treat acute and chronic pain, opiates are highly addictive. Physicians may be inadvertently contributing to the increasing problem of opiate addiction through efforts to keep their patients pain free. What can be done about this?read more
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - January 7, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Neuroscience Psychiatry Source Type: news
Modern parenting may hinder brain development, research suggests
Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 7, 2013 Category: Science Source Type: news
