Shifting children from the controversial diagnosis of bipolar disorder to one that more accurately reflects their symptoms will not by itself decrease the rate of psychopharmacologic treatment and is not enough to help troubled children flourish, according to a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institut...
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May 20, 2010
Children Currently Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder Need More Than The Proposed Diagnostic Change
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February 5, 2010
On communicating through the coma-like state
A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports on how a subset of patients diagnosed as being in a coma-like state can be trained to show specific brain activity to answer yes / no questions despite seeming to be unconscious and unresponsive.Many news reports seem to suggest that researchers have found a way of 'reaching inside coma' with a brain scanner to communicate with
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January 21, 2010
Two drugs show best treatment possibility for MS
In massive news for neurology, The New England Journal of Medicine has published three important studies reporting that two new drugs for multiple sclerosis are more effective than existing treatments and can be taken in pill form.Multiple sclerosis is a bitch. It's a neurological disorder where the immune system starts attacking myelin - the protective covering of nerves in the brain and spinal
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August 5, 2009
The whole body nervous system scan is here
The New England Journal of Medicine has a brilliant research paper describing the first MRI scan capable of imaging the whole nervous system, plus a little something extra.The technology is based on diffusion MRI, a technique which takes advantage of how water molecules move to separate out nerves from the rest of the body.Water molecules bounce around inside all of the body tissues. Nerve fibres
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