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The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to:The biological basis of business (Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes).The neural basis of timing and anticipatory behaviours (European Journal of Neuroscience).Psychological functioning of international missionaries (Mental Health, Religion and Culture).Reinforcement learning and higher cognition (Cognition).New methodologies for intervention and outcome measurement (Neuropsychological Rehabilitation).Dissemination and implementation of cognitive behavioural therapy (Behavioural Research and Therapy).
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Digest Source Type: blogs

Positions in Movement Neuroscience
The Departments of Biology and Physical Therapy at Northeastern University are seeking interdisciplinary applicants in Experimental or Computational Movement Neuroscience. All ranks will be considered (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor). Individuals working on neurophysiological, biomechanical and executive functions in the control of movement, rehabilitation and restoration of function, development, sensorimotor integration, muscle function and other areas related to [...]
Source: Neurobot - November 16, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs

Life Without Parole, But With Health Care
The rising cost of prison health care is due mainly to the aging inmate population according to an article I saw on CNN recently. To me this really wasn't news; is it any surprise that older people have more medical problems? Or that the prison population as a whole is older due to longer sentences? Not really.This story interested me because the Supreme Court is now considering the issue of life without parole for juveniles. The idea is that juveniles can be rehabilitated and should be given a second chance, eventually. I can't help wondering if this issue is coming up now in part because prison officials, and inmate ...
Source: Shrink Rap - November 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Drug Abuse Is a Serious Disease
Drug abuse is never a matter of choice. On the contrary, drug abuse victims don’t decide to be sick, and they can never simply decide to get better. The practical implication, of course, is that no addict can get sober without professional drug abuse treatment. In the end, the road to recovery has to run through a drug abuse treatment center. The good news is that there are plenty of drug abuse rehab facilities in Los Angeles. The bad news, though, is that they aren’t all equally capable of serving their clients. As you explore you drug abuse rehabilitation options, it’s essential that you seek help from people who k...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - November 14, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: christa Tags: Drug Rehab Information Source Type: blogs

Giving Up and Quitting Marijuana
The main element that is necessary in the cessation process is having the determination and motivation to do so; without it all efforts are useless. There are a lot of people who return to the habit even after the so called “cleansing” process. Determination and motivation pave the way for the rest to follow in quitting marijuana. Determination allows one to be interested enough in the possibilities that could happen during the first couple of days of therapy, which may happen to be the hardest part in the process. Determination allows one to be consistent despite the absence of the motivator (who, most of the ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - November 13, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

2010 Hospital Outpatient Echo Payments
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS ) issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for both hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) and ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) for calendar year (CY) 2010: In General: -increase of %2.1in payments to hospitals if they meet Hospital Outpateint Qualtiy Data Reporting Program -establishes payment rate for intensive cardiac rehabilitation -adjusts hospital pharmacy payments to = price + %4.0 -overall CMS estimates Medicare outpatient payments to hospitals will increase by %1.9 in 2010 Specific to echocardiography:
Source: Tim Thigpen's Posts - EchoChief.net - November 11, 2009 Category: Radiologists Authors: Tim Thigpen Source Type: blogs

‘What do I do when I’ve had enough’: The Effect of Emotions on Self-regulation & Chronic Pain
As soon as read the first paragraph of the paper I’ve used as the basis for this post, I knew I was onto something that resonated with my original occupational therapy values. It says this: ‘Living with chronic pain is a balancing act. People with chronic pain are required to make daily decisions about how best to cope with illness-related demands while managing other role-related obligations. Although some people become overwhelmed by the demands of illness and daily life, many, if not most, remain focused and well-adjusted, and do not require the services of a mental health professional. … Why do some r...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 11, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Resilience cognitive behavioural therapy health acceptance activity biopsychosocial coping strategies emotion goal-setting goals rehabilitation self management self-regulation Source Type: blogs

Mild traumatic brain injury important articles
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Source: neurologyminutiae - November 10, 2009 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Addicted to the Internet? Better Not Be in China
Most people don’t realize it, but a good number of individuals in our society are addicted to the Internet. Amongst these individuals are probably bloggers, online video gamers, and individuals who enjoy the Internet a little bit more than their TV. At one time, the average citizen spent five hours watching TV every single day, and now they split that time between the Internet and the TV, or use both at the same time (I know there goes the electric bill, and no wonder no one can spell online). Does this mean they are addicted to both the Internet and the TV? Some psychologists believe so, and perhaps, it is this visu...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - November 10, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

Health Care Lottery
Health care reform has become a lottery windfall for members of Congress willing to sell their vote in exchange for dollars.Washington correspondent Jamie Dupree Tweets and blogs on a regular basis, giving readers and insiders view of sausage making inside the beltway. It is not a pretty sight.The recent debate in the House resulted in a narrow approval of health care reform. The debate over abortion funding with taxpayer dollars got the headlines but there was more going on behind the scenes.Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA) made clear he had won money for a medical school in his Fresno-based district and more."During my negotiations...
Source: InsureBlog - November 10, 2009 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs

Light in darkness
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness. Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works, they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the Sea. Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his mighty power. Psalm 106:6-8My hormone levels dropped again today. I guess that means my "miracle baby" has died already. This is a blessing, and something to be mourned. God is giving me one miracle: a natural miscarriage, lifting from my shoulders the burden to watch over my own health for signs of bleeding a...
Source: Turquoise Gates - November 9, 2009 Category: Cancer Tags: Pain church suffering reconnecting neurologic damage encephalitis small group miscarriage ectopic pregnancy Source Type: blogs

Pros and Cons of Drug Testing
The testing centers provide correct results for the drug tests within a short time period. There are various methods of testing and each method has its own benefit and limitations. So, let us read the pros and cons of drug testing facilities. First and foremost let us analyze why drug testing is essential. Drug testing becomes a must in situations when one needs to find out if the loved one is an addict. It can be anyone in the family - be it your children, spouse or parents you need to ensure that you test them if you doubt that they are addicted. Now this is easier said than done and you need to find the options which wo...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - November 8, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

AA and Spirituality
The concept of spirituality in relation to addiction recovery and general psychiatry. This chapter is directed at defining the nature of spirituality and its relationship to empirical research and clinical practice. A preliminary understanding of the spiritual experience can be achieved on the basis of diverse theoretical and empirically grounded sources, which will be delineated: namely, physiology, psychology, and cross-cultural sources. Furthermore, the impact of spirituality on mental health and addiction in different cultural and clinical settings is explicated regarding both beneficial and compromising outcomes. Illu...
Source: Twelve Step Facilitation.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Alcohol Alcoholics Anon Alcoholism Contrast to other models Recovery Relapse prevention Research Spirituality Stages of Change Addiction clinical cultural physiology psychiatry psychology Theory twelve-step Source Type: blogs

Physical Therapy and Spinal Cord Injury
The choices people make and why they make them captivates me. For a couple of days, I've been thinking about how to convey, in a kind way, something I read. The mom's choices and actions didn't bother me - she's really doing what any good mom would do. What bothered me, "I would call physical therapy places... they either didn't have the equipment, or the manpower or they didn't take my insurance." So, the daughter is now 2 years or so post spinal cord injury and this is what she states about the recovery center her family owns, "There's no other type of therapy place that offers hope like we do. I get to work wit...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Selena Horner Tags: In the News Source Type: blogs

Working memory training
Our rehabilitation company Recolo is now offering the Cogmed working memory training program. Working memory is the ability to hold information in mind for a short period of time and to be able to use this information in your thinking. Problems with working memory are associated with a number of childhood conditions including ADHD, brain injury and poor academic achievement. We decided to provide the Cogmed working memory training in the UK because the research literature on it is impressive. It is effective in improving working memory in 80% of cases. The improvements have been demonstrated in neuropsychological tes...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - November 6, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Jonathan Tags: adhd adhd treatment brain injury brain training computer games head injury rehabiliatation technology working memory Source Type: blogs

Professional Intervention Services Will Give You The Start You Need
Intervention services can very often make the difference between the success and failure of a rehabilitation program. Addiction, after all, is a personal disease, and addiction treatment can only succeed if a patient makes a personal commitment to the healing process. That sort of commitment, in turn, can come only after an addict has been made to recognize the full extent of his problems in a successful intervention. And more often than not, the most successful interventions are those which are managed by a professional intervention specialist. The intervention process is always a traumatic one, fraught with tension and e...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - November 5, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: christa Tags: Addiction Treatment and Program Resources Source Type: blogs

Fringe — Episode 6 (Season 2): “Earthling”
Could have been a contender, but was KO’d by bad science and too many clichés The Plot: A married man in Boston mysteriously turns to ash while waiting to spring an anniversary surprise on his wife. The Fringe team is called in to investigate. Broyles tells Dunham that he’s seen this before — there were five similar deaths several years ago at a hospital in Washington DC. He tells her he was contacted by an “Eastern European” man who provided a strange formula to him and indicated it was the solution to the deaths. Unfortunately, none of the FBI’s scientists could decipher the form...
Source: Polite Dissent - November 5, 2009 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs

Recovery and Rhabilitation (R&R)
By definition complex systems are difficult to know and understand. Without interference these systems usually function as expected but occasionally they malfunction or they are injured. The choice to intervene may not be an option but the manner of intervention is always open to question. The human body, the environment, the interaction of the two and health are at the pinnacle of complex systems. Powerful tools provide the means for discovery of increasing amounts of ever finer details about organ systems and biological processes in the human body but the understanding of how these details function together in the intact...
Source: Fixin' Healthcare - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Rehabilitation and Recovery (R&R)
By definition complex systems are difficult to know and understand. Without interference these systems usually function as expected but occasionally they malfunction or they are injured. The choice to intervene may not be an option but the manner of intervention is always open to question. The human body, the environment, the interaction of the two and health are at the pinnacle of complex systems. Powerful tools provide the means for discovery of increasing amounts of ever finer details about organ systems and biological processes in the body but the understanding of how these details function together in the intact perso...
Source: Fixin' Healthcare - November 3, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

CMS Releases Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Changes for 2010
On October 30, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a display copy of the Final Rule (with comment period), which updates the payment policies and rates for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for calendar year (CY) 2010.2010 MPFS UpdateIn the Final Rule, CMS adopts an update of -21.2 percent for CY 2010 after applying more recent data on spending for physicians' services. Since the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, MPFS rates have been updated annually based on a formula that includes the sustainable growth rate (SGR). The formula has resulted in negative updates sinc...
Source: Medicare Update - November 2, 2009 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Michael Apolskis Source Type: blogs

TENURED SENIOR FACULTY POSITION AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
The Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University invites applications for the position of Senior Faculty at the level of Associate/Full Professor. Candidates should have demonstrated a strong research background and a successful record of obtaining external support for research and training/mentoring activities. Qualifications include: (a) earned doctorate with a specialty in one of the communication sciences or disorders areas, (b) experience in teaching, research and mentoring, and (c) clinical certification is preferred, but not required. Areas of research expertise are open but we encourage ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 1, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs

How the Families of the Alcoholics Get Affected
Indulgence in alcoholism or any other type of drug addiction is a major cause of getting into complex situations. The alcoholic himself, as well as his family, suffer from inexplicable turmoil from this bad habit. An alcoholic not only brings bad reputation to his personal name and character but his entire family is, in most of the cases, victimized by the negative attitude of the society towards them. The problem is not limited to the society alone; it encompasses all major and minor areas of personal and collective lives. Alcoholism may numb the senses of a person for the time being, but when he recovers from the state o...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - November 1, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

Addiction to Tranquilizers - Do You Depend on Medications to Slow You Down?
Tranquilizers are prescription drugs that are used to treat anxiety, insomnia, stress from trauma and panic attacks. It’s a depressant, which regulates the amount of stimulation present in the brain, allowing its user to relax and take things more in stride. Tranquilizers have more or less similar effects to that of alcohol and some other sedatives. Since tranquilizers are normally prescribed to slow down the activity in the brain, preventing panic attacks and anxiety, addiction to tranquilizers is nothing new to those who abuse these prescription drugs. This addiction stems from the user’s dependence in order ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - October 31, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

Learning From Reality
Victor Davis Hanson writes today about another inexperienced politician who was suddenly thrust into the Presidency armed primarily with a Wilsonian Utopian view of the world: Upon entering office, Barack Obama knew little about foreign policy. But then neither did Vice President Harry S. Truman when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12, 1945. President Obama often invokes the supposed mess abroad—especially in Iraq and Afghanistan—left to him by George W. Bush. But Mr. Obama's inheritance is mild compared to the myriad crises that nearly overwhelmed the rookie President Truman. All at once Truman...
Source: ShrinkWrapped - October 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: ShrinkWrapped Source Type: blogs

Medical Necessity... To Fix A Problem There Cannot Be Two Standards
Health Care Reform... 21.5% reduction in payments to providers... possible shifting of reimbursement to favor primary care physicians... possible reducing payments to physical therapists to increase payments to cardiologists and oncologists. It seems to me to really resolve any problem there are always various considerations. In the case of health care reform... there are at least 3 entities to consider. 1) Medicare - its processes: the inefficiencies, strengths and weaknesses 2) Providers - their processes: how clinical decisions are made, the risk/benefit of the decisions and 3) Patients - their behavio...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - October 28, 2009 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Selena Horner Tags: Current Affairs In the News Source Type: blogs

Getting Personal With Alcoholism And How Alcohol Rehab Can Help
Alcoholism is a personal problem. By the same token, alcohol rehab must be a personal process. No one else has ever experienced alcohol abuse like you have, and your alcohol rehab program must be uniquely your own. The best alcohol rehabs are those which cater to the unique individual needs of their unique individual clients. In the end, nothing less than that could ever possibly be good enough. The good news is that there are plenty of alcohol rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles. The bad news it that they aren’t all equally capable of serving their residents. Before you make an alcohol rehab decision, then, it’s ess...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - October 26, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: christa Tags: Alcohol Rehab Information Source Type: blogs

Regenerative Medicine – Platelet Rich Plasma Provides Joint Pain Relief
As a neurologist who sees many patients with neck, back and various joint pains, I practice an area of medicine known as neuro-orthopedics. As such, I treat patients for their pain without surgical intervention. Many patients with neck, back and joint pain (knee pain, shoulder pain, elbow pain, etc.) can be successfully treated without invasive surgery and the many risk that go along with this. With surgery there is also a prolonged recovery time and need for extensive rehabilitation. The area of medicine that applies to successfully treating patients without surgery or use of narcotic medications is known as regenerative ...
Source: Sarasota Neurology - October 25, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. K Tags: Back Pain General Medicine Nerve Pain platelet rich plasma arthritis blood bones bursitis collagen elbow pain FDA FDA approved foot pain healing Hines Ward joint pain joint pains knee pain leg pain ligament lower ba Source Type: blogs

UK Health News 10/21-22/2009
NHS to outlaw age discrimination – The Guardian 22nd October 2009 “Age discrimination will be outlawed in the NHS and social care from 2012, Health Secretary Andy Burnham is due to announce, following a review of the treatment of older people. The sectors had been expected to fall in line with new equalities legislation being debated by Parliament later than the rest of the country.” tags: Equity, Older People, NHS, Health, News, UHN, The Guardian Additional Stories Age discrimination in NHS must end says Andy Burnham – Daily Telegraph 22nd October 2009 Age discrimination in NHS must end says Andy ...
Source: Fade Library - October 22, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Another 15 Minutes ... Health News from Fade Mass Media Source Type: blogs

john hoeffel, LAtimes: LA city council pressured to enact bad medical cannabis ordinance (2033)
Los Angeles City Council to rush vote on medical pot law The draft ordinance currently being urged would severely restrict the operations of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have exploded across the city in the absence of permanent regulation. By John Hoeffel October 20, 2009 | 10:25 p.m With its moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries declared unlawful, the Los Angeles City Council is now poised to act quickly on a strict ordinance that it has struggled with fitfully for more than two years. On Tuesday, the city attorney’s office delivered a draft that some members want the council to take up within a ...
Source: aids-write.org - October 22, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Richard Kearns Tags: 08 elections HIV prevention justice alliance LA city AIDS coordinator's office McCAB McNC aging and HIV/AIDS americans for safe access / la apla asian-pacific hiv/aids beingALIVE-la black msm gay hiv/aids black women with aids citi Source Type: blogs

It’s hard work researching teamwork
In this study by Loisel, Falardeau, Baril, José-Durand, Langley, Sauvé, & Gervais, (hereafter ‘the authors’), they observed a single team discussing the cases of 22 workers off work due to musculoskeletal pain. They painstakingly transcribed then analysed the discussions (338 meetings, 75 hours of discussion transcribed!)… The team consisted of : general practitioner, occupational therapist, kinesiologist, psychologist, ergonomist, and team coordinator. They held weekly team meetings to decide on progress, messages to give to employer and participant (an investment in meetings that I don’t...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 21, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Groupwork Return to Work health occupational therapy psychology research healthcare pain management physiotherapy rehabilitation RTW teamwork treatment values Source Type: blogs

‘Reefer Sanity’
Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post: Arguments for and against decriminalization of some or all drugs are familiar by now. Distilled to the basics, the drug war has empowered criminals while criminalizing otherwise law-abiding citizens and wasted billions that could have been better spent on education and rehabilitation. By ever-greater numbers, Americans support decriminalizing at least marijuana, which millions admit to having used, including a couple of presidents and a Supreme Court justice. A recent Gallup poll found that 44 percent of Americans favor legalization for any purpose, not just medical, up from 31 perce...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Tim Lynch Tags: General Law and Civil Liberties decriminalization drug drug war drugs gallup poll justice kathleen parker legalization liberty Marijuana Supreme Court Washington Post Source Type: blogs

CMS Reopens Medicare DMEPOS Competitive Bidding
On October 21, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Press Release announcing that it is now accepting Round One Rebids from accredited/bonded suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) in 9 competitive bidding areas.The 9 competitive bidding areas include: Cincinnati - Middletown (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana) Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor (Ohio) Charlotte - Gastonia - Concord (North Carolina and South Carolina) Dallas - Fort Worth - Arlington (Texas) Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas) Miami - Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach (Florida) Orlando - Ki...
Source: Medicare Update - October 20, 2009 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Michael Apolskis Source Type: blogs

Inducing a virtual hand ownership illusion through a brain-computer interface
Authors: Perez-Marcos D, Slater M, Sanchez-Vives MV The apparently stable brain representation of our bodies is easily challenged. We have recently shown that the illusion of ownership of a three-dimensional virtual hand can be evoked through synchronous tactile stimulation of a person's hidden real hand and that of the virtual hand. This reproduces the well-known rubber-hand illusion, but in virtual reality. Here we show that some aspects of the illusion can also occur through motor imagery used to control movements of a virtual hand. When movements of the virtual hand followed motor imagery, the illusion of ownership of ...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - October 20, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Mental practice & mental simulation Telepresence virtual presence Source Type: blogs

What is Involved in Drug Addiction Treatment?
Drug addiction is a condition, which is characterised by an irrepressible and compulsive need to use drugs. It is a complex and chronic disease, which can take over your life, and make it difficult to focus on other aspects. It is a pathological condition, which is described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). It has been proved that prolonged drug use has a negative effect on brain functioning. Fortunately, there is a way out. There are treatments available for all kinds of drug addictions. Drugs fall into two categories, hard and soft. Hard drugs include cocaine, heroin,...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - October 20, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

What health reform can learn from Regina Holliday
by Rahul Parikh, MD If you want to get insights into the problems of our health care system, look at a mural by Washington DC resident Regina Holliday. Holliday is a 37-year old mother of two and an art teacher. Last summer, her husband, Fred, died from kidney cancer at the age of 39. The Hollidays’ experience is a case study in the ugliest, most festering problems of American health care. To share that horror story and to advocate for change, she began painting a portrait of a health care system that is fragmented and insensitive. It is a system where caregivers like Regina have to unfairly shoulder many bureaucrat...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 19, 2009 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Kevin Tags: Health policy and politics health reform patient Source Type: blogs

That old mind-body thing again…
I am not a philosopher. Neither am I very conversant in the arguments around consciousness. But working in pain management means the mind-body debate is something I run into now and again. Is pain all about the body? Is pain all about the mind? Or is it both? Which influences the other? This debate can often be pushed to one side in the day-to-day practicalities of helping people live well with their chronic pain, but it is often raised when we’re talking about whether it’s important to focus on reducing the underlying disease process (and hopefully reduce the pain) or whether it’s more important ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 19, 2009 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Chronic pain Coping Skills health research therapy biopsychosocial CBT cognitive behavioural therapy coping strategies function healthcare rehabilitation science treatment Source Type: blogs

Amber
This is a post about how chasing government targets impacts directly on patient care. I've often written about our chasing of our 'Cat A' targets - that we are tasked by the government to reach 75% of these calls within eight minutes. I've also written about how I think our senior management have put this priority above many others. There is another target that we should be hitting - calls that are given 'Cat B' (serious but not immediately life threatening), we should be reaching these calls within 19 minutes. In my part of the LAS we have been failing in this second 'Cat B' target. ----- One of the things that really sur...
Source: Random Acts Of Reality - October 19, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Authors: Reynolds Tags: Main Page Ambulance newtag Source Type: blogs

Treatment Approach Adopted at Christian Drug Treatment Centers
Drug addiction like any other from of addiction is basically a psychological disorder that is caused by a number of factors. It can surface in anybody at any age. In most cases it is found that getting rid of drug addiction completely is not an easy task but with various forms of medication available these days it is possible to achieve this target and lead a normal life. Of the numerous types of drug rehab centers that have flourished all over the United States in the past few years, the Christian drug treatment centers have been most successful. Instead of focusing solely on medication and therapeutic services, these pro...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - October 18, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Karen Halls Tags: Addiction Addiction Recovery Addiction Help Addiction Articles Source Type: blogs

Situationism in the News
Below, we’ve posted titles and a brief quote from some of the Situationist news over the last several weeks. * * * From Reuters India: “Brain science starting to impact varied fields” “[…] More and more, though, images showing neurons firing in different areas of the brain are gaining attention from experts in fields as varied as law, marketing, education, criminology, philosophy and ethics. They want to know how teachers can teach better, business sell more products or prisons boost their success rates in rehabilitating criminals. And they think that the patterns and links which cognitive neuroscience is f...
Source: The Situationist - October 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Abstracts Illusions Neuroscience Situationism in the news Source Type: blogs

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Mr. Smokey Goes To WashingtonOkay, actually it’s Dr. Smokey, but that is another post for another time… I’m on the road this week, in Our Nation’s Capitol, for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists 2009 Annual Conference. Possessing 7 lumbar vertebrae as I do, lumbopelvic motor control is one of my favorite topics, and as luck would have it, that is the theme of this year’s conference! I attended an excellent pre-conference course on rehabilitative ultrasound imaging by Deydre Teyhen. The keynote addresses today were so well attended that it was har...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - October 16, 2009 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Smokey The Evidence-Based Cat Source Type: blogs

Brain-Computer Interface Allows Person-to-person Communication Through Power Of Thought
From ScienceDaily.com: New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought — with the help of electrodes, a computer and Internet connection. Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) can be used for capturing brain signals and translating them into commands that allow humans to control (just by thinking) devices such as computers, robots, rehabilitation technology and virtual reality environments. This experiment goes a step further and was conducted by Dr Christopher James from the University’s Institute of Sound and ...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - October 16, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Perlmutter Tags: Heads Up Source Type: blogs

Latest neuroscience on Twitter
I am a avid user of Twitter and find all sorts of interesting information on there. As with the web, however it is difficult to sort out what is important. It also moves so fast that it is hard to keep track. This post highlights some important tweets I have seen regarding advances in neuroscience in the last two weeks. 1. Repairing brain cells- Researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University group at Montral University have developed a new technique to help repair damaged nerve cells. The study was in the October 7 issue of Journal of Neuroscience. They show that...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - October 15, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Jonathan Tags: brain development brain injury computer games neuroscience rehabiliatation technology twitter web advances Source Type: blogs

A brain signature for literacy
Not Exactly Rocket Science covers a fantastic study on how the structure of the brain changes as illiterate adults learn to read and write. The research was conducted on rather a novel group of participants. Most were ex-members of guerilla forces in Colombia that had recently put down their weapons to re-integrate in society. Colombia has a sizeable program to rehabilitate ex-paramilitary 'reinsertados' that includes social support and education, as many have never attended school. As the researchers note, this sets up an interesting natural experiment: After decades spent fighting, members of the guerrilla forces hav...
Source: Mind Hacks - October 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Integrating Source Type: blogs

MedPAC Releases Updated Medicare Payment Basics Documents
On October 14, 2009, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) released updated documents for its Medicare Payment Basics series, which provide an overview of 18 Medicare payment systems. To view the updated documents, visit the Medicare Payment Basics page of the MedPAC website or click on any of the following links: Oxygen and oxygen equipment payment system Skilled nursing facility services payment system Physician services payment system Psychiatric hospital services payment system Rehabilitation facilities (inpatient) payment system Part D payment system Outpatient therapy services payment system Med...
Source: Medicare Update - October 14, 2009 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Michael Apolskis Source Type: blogs

Guest Post: Toine Pieters on Cognitive Enhancement
Toine Pieters, of the Deparment of Metamedica, VU Medical Centre and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, has written a guest post for the Neuroethics & Law Blog. You should also check out his article, with co-author Stephen Snelders, "Psychotropics Drug Use: Between Healing and Enhancing the Mind," from the July issue of Neuroethics. Here is his guest post: Cognitive-enhancing drugs: what's in the nameThe practice of students taking cognitive-enhancing drugs, such as methylphenidate, has become so common that those who don't "dope" are at an unfair advantage, argues a psycho...
Source: Neuroethics & Law Blog - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Adam Kolber Source Type: blogs

A Variety of Resources
The Uninsured: A Primer http://www.kff.org/uninsured/7451.cfm Updated with 2008 data, reviews the basic profile of the uninsured population, how they receive care, the latest trends in health insurance coverage, key issues in increasing coverage and basic statistics on the uninsured. More detailed breakdowns are available in supplemental data tables. [Kaiser Family Foundation Update] Updated Guide Available on Asylee Eligibility for Resettlement Assistance Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) announces the newly updated publication, Asylee Eligibility for Resettlement Assistance: A Short Guide. The guide ...
Source: BHIC - October 14, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: siobhan Tags: Articles Low Income Minority Health Concerns Public Health Websites Source Type: blogs

Bad news, good news
Bad news: Went in for my 3rd set of trigger point injections (read part 1 & part 2 & part 3) this past Tuesday. During the initial examination, was told by doctors (there were 2 of them) that the tissue around my shoulder blade (where the pain is REALLY bad) does not react like a trigger point. As one doc put it, “You’ve got a good, old-fashioned mechanical problem. The padding between bone, muscle and skin is very thin.” Essentially, it looks like the pain is caused from the wear and tear of my bone hitting the muscle, which then hits the skin. In my case, the muscle is weak and in constant strai...
Source: Cancer, life, and me - October 11, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: Chris Tags: General emotion health kyphosis ligament muscle pain pain management physical therapy psychologist trigger point injections trigger points UC Davis wheelchair Source Type: blogs

NIH Funding Opportunity: Mechanisms, Models, Measurement, and Management in Pain Research
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), "Mechanisms, Models, Measurement, & Management in Pain Research," is to inform the scientific community of the pain research interests of the various Institutes and Centers (ICs) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to stimulate and foster a wide range of basic, clinical, and translational studies on pain as they relate to the missions of these ICs. New advances are needed in every area of pain research, from the micro perspective of molecular sciences to the macro perspective of behavioral and social sciences. Although great strides have ...
Source: Psychology of Pain - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Drug Rehab- Your Help Resource for a Drug-Free Life
Drug rehab is only a shorter term for drug rehabilitation but also all encompassing. It is the treatment process that a drug dependent person will go through either as in-patient or out-patient of a drug rehabilitation clinic.Contributor: KNOWLEDGE BASEPublished: Oct 11, 2009
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - October 11, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Accountability In Addiction Recovery
Ultimately in order for someone to have success in addiction recovery they need to have a sense of accountability towards themselves. With that said, it's also beneficial to feel accountability towards someone/something outside of yourself. In very early recovery just being accountable to ourselves doesn't always work out very well. We are usually still plagued with addictive thinking. That is why learning self accountability through being held accountable to sources outside of ourself is so important in addiction recovery. My personal experience with learning accountability in early recovery came when I was in an outpatie...
Source: What Winners Do - October 10, 2009 Category: Addiction Authors: Erin Tags: addiction recovery accountability in addiction recovery addictive thinking Source Type: blogs