Here is a chart in my #memoir about my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's, written with #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller, detailing the different kinds of #aphasia, where the "assault," as #doctors call it, first starts in the #brain, and the #diagnosis.
@jeffjarvis. I canceled my #Post subscription after one too many bothsides articles. However, if you have a moment and a spare gift article, would you please post it? #Brain health, specifically #dementia, is a profoundly important issue to me (my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's). I post #ChaunceyDeVega's #Salon pieces, esp. those with #Dr.JohnGartner whenever he covers this issue and how #doctors and #neurologists are speaking out, sometimes. Thank you.
Climate Change presents a range of dire environmental and health challenges. Add brain disease to the list. New research shows that as weather conditions worsen, certain brain diseases — stroke, migraines, meningitis, even Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s — follow suit. Read more from Science Alert: https://flip.it/RDG4WP#Science#ClimateChange#Health#Brain#Neurology
"Dreaming helps prioritize and diminish the severity of emotionally charged memories. Participants who reported dreaming had better recall and were less reactive to negative images.
The research suggests that dreams actively transform emotional responses by reducing next-day emotional reactivity. This could lead to interventions that enhance dreaming to aid emotional processing."
In 2010, #RFKJr was experiencing #memory loss & #mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a #brain tumor. #Kennedy said he consulted several of the country’s top neurologists, many of whom had either treated or spoken to his uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, before his death the previous yr of brain cancer.
Several drs noticed a dark spot on the younger Kennedy’s brain scans & concluded that he had a tumor, he said in a 2012 #deposition reviewed by NYT.
#RFKJr was immediately scheduled for a procedure at Duke Medical Center by the same surgeon who had operated on his uncle….
While packing for the trip, he said, he received a call from a doctor at NY-Presbyterian Hospital who had a different opinion: #Kennedy, he believed, had a dead #parasite in his head.
The doctor believed that the abnormality seen on his scans “was caused by a worm that got into my #brain & ate a portion of it & then died,” Kennedy said in the #deposition.
Brain implant technology is rapidly advancing and can help people find their voice or beat neurological disorders. But what happens when the implant is no longer supported by its producer? Science Alert has more on the technology’s huge potential and its downsides: https://flip.it/yDq3i5 #Science Health #Brain#Technology
Scientists have identified cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the periphery of the body and act as master regulators of the body’s inflammatory response, a finding that could lead to treatments for autoimmune diseases and other conditions caused by an excessive immune response.
"The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human #brain and other complex #networks such as the Internet or a social network of trust relationships between people, according to a new paper published in the science journal Nature’s Scientific Reports."
Scientists have identified the reward pathway that disrupts our natural desire for life-sustaining needs like food and water when drugs like cocaine and morphine enter the system. Science Alert explains: https://flip.it/3dOz_0 #Science#Health#Brain#DrugAbuse