https://www.europesays.com/uk/149083/ Lowering Blood Pressure May Cut Dementia Risk by Up to 15% #BloodPressure #BrainResearch #Dementia #Health #Hypertension #LiaoningClinicalResearchCenterForHypertensiveDiseases #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/uk/130913/ Chronic Stress Quietly Raises Your Stroke Risk #BrainResearch #Health #MentalHealth #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology #Stress #stroke #UK #UnitedKingdom #UniversityOfRochester
Turns out, boredom may have some advantages. @ScienceAlert explains in more detail, including how we all need to “embrace the pause.”
[P] So! Microplastics can cause tissue inflammation and inflation (yes, both) and we've found huge amounts of plastics in human brains. This isn't a forefront of emergency study why, exactly? I worry that the contemporary apathy we're seeing is related to exponentially increasing levels of plastic within the brain. We've never seen levels of global apathy like this—is the cause for it microplastics? Given how widespread this is...
https://www.europesays.com/uk/123097/ Implanted Device Restores Arm Function After Spinal Cord Injury #BrainImplant #BrainResearch #Health #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #Neurotech #SCI #SpinalCordInjury #UK #UnitedKingdom #UTDallas #VagusNerveStimulation
https://www.europesays.com/uk/120518/ Long COVID Is Fueling a Mental Health Crisis in Children #BrainDevelopment #BrainResearch #Depression #DevelopmentalNeuroscience #Health #KennedyKriegerInstitute #LongCOVID #MentalHealth #neurobiology #neurodevelopment #Neurology #Neuroscience #Psychology #UK #UnitedKingdom
The Doctor's Bookshelf (a blog of books every doctor should read, courtesy of Dr. Ibrahim Imam) lists Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, and The Brain, written by me and #UCSF #Neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, as one of the Ten Incredibly Moving Patient #Memoirs about the Brain.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/114510/ How Therapy Rewires the Brain to Ease Chronic Pain #AarhusUniversity #BrainResearch #Health #neurobiology #Neurology #Neuroscience #pain #PainRelief #Psychology #UK #UnitedKingdom
A new study suggests that people who remember small, seemingly unimportant details are actually better at coming up with creative ideas. “This means that creative thinkers view and interpret our world differently,” said Dr. Felix Chan, an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham in England. @sciencefocus has the details:
Einstein used to say that when he was stuck trying to figure something out, taking a break to play his violin would help.
I have multiple questions about this. Was it just the taking a break that helped? Was it specifically engaging in something calming? Or did it have to do with engaging a particular part of the brain related to playing a violin?
https://www.europesays.com/uk/55658/ New Biomarker Enables Early, Accurate Diagnosis of Parkinson’s #BrainResearch #Genetics #Health #neurobiology #Neurology #Parkinson'sDisease #RUB #UK #UnitedKingdom
If you made a list of things that could advance the field of science, having a mouse watch “The Matrix” and “Star Wars” probably wouldn’t make it to the top. And yet, scientists recently were able to map and render into a 3D atlas a small portion of a mouse’s brain about the size of a grain of sand. The results were a revelation. “"A millimeter seems small, but within that millimeter there are kilometers of wiring," Jacob Reimer, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine said. Read more from @LiveScience, including the role those movies played:
"And this is where we come to our current Secretary of Health, Robert Kennedy Jr. He points at the increase in children diagnosed with autism as a crisis in need of a solution. He blames vaccines for our “disability,” flying fearlessly away from the current scientific consensus. This is incredibly damaging to us, as individuals and as a community, regardless of age or severity.
The vast majority of us -- assuming that we don’t also have other, more disabling conditions -- do not want to be seen as suffering from a mistake. We are who we are not because of vaccines or bad mothering. Our existence is a feature, not a bug. Genetics is the primary cause of autism, if you want to understand why it happened to this or that individual. More generally, autism is one of the ways to be human. The idea that autism can be cured or overcome is as insulting as the idea that gay people can be cured or that to be successful women should act more like men. We don’t want to be cured; we want to be accepted and allowed to be who we are. RFK Jr. stands for the opposite of that. Whether he understands it or not, he is guilty of inciting hatred and self-hatred against our community.
We defy simple categorization. The vast majority of us aren’t intellectually deficient. We have all the emotions and empathize with others. We see allistic social rules and cues, body language and facial expressions, and those linguistic tics and mannerisms that enforce social pecking orders. But other things speak to us more loudly. We’re intensely curious, so we ask indelicate questions. We want to get to the heart of the matter, so we don’t pad our words with softeners. We want the world to make sense, and often go out of our way to make it so, even when those around us don’t notice, care, or do anything about it."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/guest-post-one-autistic-man-explains
#goodnews #inspiring #Science #health #technology #medicine #neurology #insurance #Florida
Man Living with Tremors for 30 Years Is Cured by Ultrasound Beam Paid by Medicare: ‘It’s unbelievable!’
Blood tests are being heralded as a new, less invasive and time-consuming way to determine risk and aid in an earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
@CNN reports on the latest research: https://flip.it/1tupOT
Here is an example of what #neurology and #PhilosophyOfTheMind are faced with trying to elucidate #Consciousness - that slippery notion of ‘who we are’.
I am neither a scientist nor philosopher, but it seems to me that looking for consciousness in the electrical potential activity of brain cells is never going to explain a whole lot. Imagine trying to explain an electron by solely studying magnetism in excruciating detail as best we can with instruments designed to detect only what we theorise is measurable in a magnetic effect - I.e. to see what we wish to see. That is similar to what neurologists are doing by measuring brain cell activity as a way to identify, and hence classify, consciousness.
In the end, the research may prove fruitful and lead to other discoveries and theories about brain cell activity and the communication channels of the body, but that is the only thing which will be elucidated, brain cell activy - nothing like consciousness (a slippery concept as I said).
The link will take you to the abstract, summary, results and conclusion of the scientific paper, but the paper itself is behind a paywall I’m sad to say (#Grifters have to make money out of publishing someone’s hard work - so dictates capitalism where profit is made from someone else’s sweat and effort, Bah! It wouldn’t be so distastful if $ were extracted only to recoup #publishing costs and wages, but shareholders? Leeches!)
Using the health records of more than 280,000 older adults in Wales, researchers found those who received the shingles vaccine were 20 per cent less likely to develop dementia over the next seven years than those who did not receive the vaccine.
#science #vaccines #BrainScience #neurobiology #neuroscience #neurology #pathology #disease
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368
We've incorporated watching foreign language films with subtitles as part of my #Parkinsons Plus MSA occupational therapy. Hearing the foreign language and having to read the words while observing the movie and the characters works different elements and zones of my brain thus "reawakening" brain nerves. #neurology We will do just about any novel therapy to keep the brain and nerves functioning throughout my body.
Now on to the movies: A lot of the movies are independent films.
The big movie studios could learn a lesson from some of these independent films. Enough with all the production room cgi garbage and just shoot a feck'n good story.
We've been watching independent and low budget movies and the difference from a computer-generated editing production with effects added and straight filming is tremendous.
I think the studios exec should watch some independent lgbtq movies. Get back to filming good stories.
Could you imagine what the studios would do to An Officer and A Gentlemen today? Probably enhance it up with unnecessary cgi garbage.
In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. Her memory of the murder was relatively fresh at just one year. But the murder happened 20 years earlier. According to the prosecution, Eileen repressed her memory of the murder. Then much later she recovered it in complete detail. The case launched a huge debate between memory researchers who argue there is no credible scientific evidence that repressed memories exist and practicing clinicians who claim that repressed memories are real. Read more from @ScienceAlert:
They cured symptomatic rabies in mice.
RABIES. #rabies #medicine #science #neurology https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/emmm.202216394
