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Articles & Studies | By January 23, 2008 | By Lindsey Kay, MD | 1 Comment
Preventing Dementia with Salmon, Gardening and Sugar-Free Soda
Research in the field of dementia prevention and treatment is widespread, as people are living longer and thus developing dementia at a higher rate. Three recently published studies point to the importance of diet and exercise in the development of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, the two most common types seen in aging individuals. Read more →
- Big Tobacco’s Stealth Tactics and the Pellet Technology
- Girlfriends Help Women Live Longer
- Gooble Gobble, One of Us, ADD, One of Us
- Your Sixth Sense, or Eighth, Needs Menudo
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- The Cigarette Century and Beyond
- Wanted: Visiting GI Surgeon, Must Demonstrate Expert Video Gaming Skills
- The Synapse, Volume 1, Issue 7
- Emotions Change Water Structure
Well, if you think that the anti-tobacco lobby has won the war, think again. Do the Wall Street charts show a downtrend - I don’t think so. It’s true that conventional advertising for cigarettes through magazines and billboards is down at its all time low, but recent statistics from the Federal... Read more →
Women deal with so many stressors in life and that is not to say men do not. It is just that women seem to take on more as wives, mothers and daughters. This is an addition to career stress which adds to an already full life. Stress is a normal response that we feel when we are overwhelmed and overworked.... Read more →
I keep hearing that all our children are being diagnosed ADD. Perhaps this comes from our fear of being maligned, diagnosed, and forced to conform to some dystopian, fascist mind control future in the making. Or perhaps it’s fueled by our morbid fascination with subcultures of freaks. Hence, this... Read more →
In grammar school, they told us that thought was the sixth sense. But you hear all kinds of crazy things in grammar school. The picnic benches had bolts that, should their paint chip off, would release kooties, but I live to tell you about it. Thinking is largely about processing existing sensory data,... Read more →
Welcome to the thirty-third edition of Encephalon. We at Brain Blogger are honored to host this neuroscience blogging carnival. We received many quality posts that we have included below. Enjoy your readings; you will certainly learn a great deal! Read more → Read More →
We needed a truthful account of how cigarettes have become the highest selling addictive drug in the history of the human race, lawfully. Alan Brandt, Harvard Professor of History of Medicine and Science, and author of the recently published “The Cigarette Century - The Rise, Fall, and Deadly... Read more →
Any doubts that playing video games make better endoscopic surgeons have been dispelled by a series of studies from the mid 1990s. The latest confirmation, published in the Archives of Surgery, comes from a study on video games and laparoscopic surgery, at Beth Israel Medical Center, NY, aptly named... Read more →
We at the Brain Blogger are privileged to host the 7th edition of the Synapse, “a neuroscience carnival devoted to all areas of neuroscience including neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry, and neural systems — healthy brains to perverse minds — neurotransmitters to theories of mind.”... Read more →
Is it brain power or energy of consciousness? The way our thoughts can change our body and our world. Dr. Masaru Emoto discovered that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward them. He found that water from clear springs and water that has... Read more →
Friday, August 8, 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
- The Bipolar Trend
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- The Science of Brain Freeze
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Rabies Virus Helps Deliver Drugs into the Brain
- Public Health Needs a Shot in the Arm
- Medical Students Can Make A Difference
- What Makes A Good Doctor? - A Patient’s Perspective
- Can this Economic Downturn Lead to Better Psychosocial Health?
- Fall Prevention - Who is Ultimately Responsible?
- Anti-Epileptic Drugs and the Risk of Suicide
- Real Life Medicine in Nepal - The Headache Phenomenon
- The Trans Fat Ban - Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup Next?
- The Lighter Side of Medicine
- Viruses Cause Cancer?
- There Is No Sham In Acupuncture
- Finding New Ways to Treat Depression
- Medicine and the Law - Part 5: Abandonment
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Seventh Edition
- Why Your City Planner Is Making You Fat
- A Bad Mix - Cell Phones and Children?
- Emergency Rooms - Overcrowded and Understaffed
- Which Came First - Depression or Diabetes?
- A Fatal Lack of Data
- When Age Is Just A Number
- Your title should be the "Pharmaceuticals Industry is looking to new ways to pr...
- Thanks for the great information, especially about how postpartum depression is ...
- [...]Over at Brain Blogger, What Makes A Good Doctor? - A Patient’s Perspective,...
- I do believe that the DSM has been used as a replacement for causes and effects....
- A shocking video. And I see that it has sparked a lively debate. I believe that ...
- As a patient, I agree with your list except I would add another.
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- At first good bedside manners are the most important attributes for a physician....
- Know that compassion pushes away depression. Sometimes it is necessary to brake ...
- The problem with HFCS is that, because it is utilized differently in the body, i...
- I believe as long as a physician is capable to make appropriate decisions, and i...
- It is my understand that the final rule from CMS includes 12 events for no-pay a...
- Addictive potential? Marijuana has no addictive potential. Don't be taken in by ...
- Yay! Interesting......
- Basically we all need to take more control of our lives. There are some rather ...
- Thanks for the post...
- I am not opposed to biometric technology. My own hospital requires multiple pass...
- Thanks for ur article ..i read it and love it.....very touchy...hope these so c...
- I was under the impression that the latest research found high-fructose corn syr...
- Greetings from Japan.
Yes, Kampo is a "Japanese invention" that has A LOT OF go...
- I agree with Kristen, who wrote so well.
Being a German acupuncturist with 25 y...














