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momsalive1I 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......
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/1/abstract
"Risk factors for illicit drug use while backpacking were being regular club goers, being male, Sydney based, travelling without a partner or spouse, having been in Australia more than four weeks, Australia being the only destination on their vacation and drinking or smoking five or more days a week."
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."
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/6/311/abstract
"Our results suggest that a modest majority of HCP [health care providers], but only a minority of hospital administrators, recognises the obligation to treat patients despite the potential risks. Professional ethical guidelines allowing for balancing the needs of society with personal risks are needed to help HCP fulfil their duties in the case of a pandemic influenza."
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.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16891564&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17174137&query_hl=25&itool=pubmed_DocSum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17058525&query_hl=34&itool=pubmed_DocSum
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......
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/7/1/abstract
"Risk factors for illicit drug use while backpacking were being regular club goers, being male, Sydney based, travelling without a partner or spouse, having been in Australia more than four weeks, Australia being the only destination on their vacation and drinking or smoking five or more days a week."
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."
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/6/311/abstract
"Our results suggest that a modest majority of HCP [health care providers], but only a minority of hospital administrators, recognises the obligation to treat patients despite the potential risks. Professional ethical guidelines allowing for balancing the needs of society with personal risks are needed to help HCP fulfil their duties in the case of a pandemic influenza."
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.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16891564&query_hl=15&itool=pubmed_DocSum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17174137&query_hl=25&itool=pubmed_DocSum
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17058525&query_hl=34&itool=pubmed_DocSum
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Date: 2007-01-10 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-13 12:27 am (UTC)I think it is very cool that your brain can re-grow. That the brain can't grow new cells was one of those things I was "always taught" and I love it when it turns out not to be so.