Yearly Archive for 2008
BioPsychoSocial Health | By March 18, 2008 | By Lindsey Kay, MD | 2 Comments
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the Brain Revisited
A few weeks ago, I wrote about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and the abnormal brain activity seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in a recent clinical trial. These findings supported the theory that patients with IBS have an altered sensation of abdominal pain and respond more strongly and more emotionally to pain than unaffected patients.
Now, researcher at the the University of Buffalo, State University of New York have shown that the powers of the mind can be harnessed to effectively reduce the symptoms of pain, bloating and altered bowel function. Read more →
- Medicine Deception: Uncovering the Facts
- Why People Stop Taking Anti-Depressants: Part 1
- Brain Blogging, Twenty-Ninth Edition
- Chronic Pain and the Brain
- Who’s Gonna Take Care of You When You Are Sick?
- Make Money for Charity Debating Fundamentalists, Part III: More Ideas
- Videophilia Takes Over
- When Entertainment Encourages Epidemics
- Make Money for Charity Debating Fundamentalists, Part II: The Ten Ethical Debating Rules
- Magnetoencephalography: A Breakthrough Imaging Technique for Pediatrics
- Sentinel Events - When Doctors Make Mistakes
Here, I present just two of the many possible “unknowns” about the medications that are prescribed by health care providers: 1. The FDA requires two studies to show that a medication that is awaiting approval from the FDA is superior to a placebo — not exactly the best measurement of... Read more →
Recently I read an AP article entitled Experts: Troubled patients may go off meds. This article used the recent college shootings by Steven Kazmierczak as an example of someone who stopped taking a psychiatric drug and then “lost it.” In a nutshell, the article goes on to explain reasons... Read more →
Welcome to the twenty-ninth edition of Brain Blogging — a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” Please remember to submit your blog entries using the... Read more →
The brains of chronic pain patients fail to maintain the state of “activity equilibrium” seen in healthy patients. New research has demonstrated that a key emotional control center in the frontal lobe remains active constantly in chronic pain, while in pain-free patients it shuts down in... Read more →
I ask this question because as a medical professional I believe this is a significant question for all of my patients to consider. Whether you are currently healthy or sick, young or old, this is the key question. All too often, I see patients who don’t have an answer to this question. Perhaps... Read more →
In part one, I gave an example of a book that you could have someone read, when that someone preferred a Biblical version of the age of the earth. The book was Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth. The reason I’m suggesting this book as an example is that it takes you through... Read more →
The benefits of spending time outdoors are numerous –- fresh air, sunshine, relaxation. Who wouldn’t want that? Apparently, many Americans don’t. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago tracked outdoor activities over several decades, and found a sharp decline among US... Read more →
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a press release calling for ABC to cancel its pilot episode of a new drama Eli Stone. Renee R. Jenkins, MD, President of the AAP, accused ABC of “reckless irresponsibility” in screening a television program that may give parents the false impression... Read more →
In part one, I suggested two games that hold people accountable for having a meaningful debate. Here are my suggestions for the rules of ethical debate that you can use for awarding points. The first items have more points because they are the most important ones; focusing the strongest attention to... Read more →
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an imaging technique that is currently being used before resective surgery in pediatric epilepsy patients to determine whether or not surgery is necessary and if the surgery will be successful. Before this technique was implemented, doctors had to rely on symptoms caused... Read more →
In the medical world, certain events that happen in the care of a patient are called sentinel events. These are unexpected events that cause serious physical or psychological injury or harm to a patient. These are usually procedure-based events such as operating on the wrong extremity or inadvertently... Read more →
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Bipolar Trend
- Are You Vegetarian? How Do You Get Enough Protein?
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- Is War A Psychosis?
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Health Care and Politics II - The Democrats
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Giving Thanks All Year Long
- How Much Social Capital Do You Have?
- Should Doctors Engage in Racial Profiling?
- Going Green for Health Inequality
- Are Boys Really More Hard-Wired for Math than Girls?
- The Need for Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs
- Musical Medicine - Recovery After a MCA Stroke
- Are We Worshipping Celebrities or Heroes?
- Alcohol 101 - the Best Class on Campus
- School Bullies - Is the Amygdala to Blame?
- Reversing the Irreversible - Neuromotor Prostheses for Spinal Cord Injury
- How Much is a Pound of Prevention Worth?
- Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Hand Motor Skills
- New Drug Approval - Lacosamide for Epilepsy
- Why Infidelity May Not Be Cheating Anymore
- Alzheimer’s Drug to Treat Binge Eating Disorder
- Brain Blogging, Forty-First Edition
- Diagnosing Child Abuse
- Hypnosis and Chronic Pain
- Hitler’s Guide to Propaganda - The Psychology of Coercion
- May the guidance of God (Allah) be upon you Mr Macher,
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- JJ: This is very true - here in the US the fear campaign has worked wonders in m...
- Hi Blogger. I can see from your posts that you're copying and pasting from a re...
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- And lastly this: A sixteenth-century Swiss chemist named Paracelsus gave us th...
- the number of cases of measles and reported deaths from measles for the years 19...
- From the NY Time Aug 24 2008:
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- Typhoid - In 1911 immunisation of US army troops with typhoid vaccine became com...
- I'm still waiting for the name of the acceptable English translation of the Kor...
- And I will leave you with this one Shivers - From a study of more than 17,000 Ca...
- The internet is the last refuge of scoundrels, like Guy Macher, or whois2811, an...
- In light of the Muslim attacks in India, I find my brain telling me that religio...
- Please substitute sports for celebrity, and tell me if there is any difference....
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- Hi Herd Rebel I don't know what took place but the e-mail link I gave for visiti...
- Hi Herd Rebel, it surely is a catch 22 situation, because here in Britain you ca...
- I agree with the need for more quality outdoor space such as nature trails which...
- Hey Evan, see below, I'm copying this entire message. I looked at some of these ...
- Really? I have some friends in Australia and UK (I just threw UK in there) and ...
- Researchers found that applying transcranial direct current stimulation, a weak ...


