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Jan. 9th, 2007 09:42 pmI got a check up at the oncologists and he said I look fine, come back in a year. I am working on my paper - I think the light therapy is helping. I have also started reading again. This is handy for finding out anything that you'd like to know in current medical literature
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
A study on the risk of increased drug use while on holiday in Australia. Somehow I think these upright UK lads of 18-35 traveling without a partner would have had a great time where ever they went......
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Who would be there to take care of you in a pandemic? Evidently this isn't something that has been completely sorted out among health care workers - an article entitled "Influenza pandemic and professional duty: family or patients first? A survey of hospital employees."
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I've been reading about the brains of people with post traumatic stress disorder. The hippocampus, which (among its many other functions) is involved with processing emotional memories, is smaller in people with PTSD. The amygdala, which plays a part in regulating emotions, especially fear, is more reactive - gets itself worked up into a later with less stimulus than normally required. The medial pre-frontal cortex, where the complex reasoning skills should sort things out and calm the lower levels of the brain, responds less effectively than it should.
Among many other implications, this might account for the unusual memories associated with the trauma itself - they can be fragmented, difficult to describe, and dim. There is also a possible link to the common complaint among those with PTSD that they have trouble remembering everyday things, but that isn't as clear.
The hippocampus has also recently been implicated in depression, or at least recovery from depression - growing new brain cells in that region is correlated with taking antidepressants.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed
A study on the risk of increased drug use while on holiday in Australia. Somehow I think these upright UK lads of 18-35 traveling without a partner would have had a great time where ever they went......
( Read more... )
Who would be there to take care of you in a pandemic? Evidently this isn't something that has been completely sorted out among health care workers - an article entitled "Influenza pandemic and professional duty: family or patients first? A survey of hospital employees."
( Read more... )
I've been reading about the brains of people with post traumatic stress disorder. The hippocampus, which (among its many other functions) is involved with processing emotional memories, is smaller in people with PTSD. The amygdala, which plays a part in regulating emotions, especially fear, is more reactive - gets itself worked up into a later with less stimulus than normally required. The medial pre-frontal cortex, where the complex reasoning skills should sort things out and calm the lower levels of the brain, responds less effectively than it should.
Among many other implications, this might account for the unusual memories associated with the trauma itself - they can be fragmented, difficult to describe, and dim. There is also a possible link to the common complaint among those with PTSD that they have trouble remembering everyday things, but that isn't as clear.
The hippocampus has also recently been implicated in depression, or at least recovery from depression - growing new brain cells in that region is correlated with taking antidepressants.
( Read more... )
