Any neurologists out there with a background in sleep research who would be willing to be interviewed for a CNET article on delayed sleep phase disorder/syndrome?
I’ve got a young writer who could use some help. Long shot, but if you see this message and would be willing to help with an interview, let me know. Thanks!
"This is a fundamental breakdown in the ability [#Trump's] to use language. . . .There is no healthy older person who speaks that way."
Trump also engages in "tangential speech." . . that's a sign of real brain damage, not being old, not being slow, not losing a step, but of severe cognitive deterioration. What I don’t understand is why those clips aren’t replayed over & over in the mainstream media.
Zoom Video and Zoom Info are TWO DIFFERENT companies. Sorry everyone.
Still not a bad idea to get out of their database however.
This is Zoom's privacy policy. It is an amazing piece of legal engineering granting them the rights to buy, sell, and gather just about any data about business users they want -- including listing you in a Business or Professional Profile (the "directory"):
<https://www.zoominfo.com/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy>
This is their form to opt-out of all tracking in their database which they use to sell your information to 3rd parties. Somewhat ironically, this page won't work unless you turn-off Privacy Badger and Ghostery web browser plug-ins:
<https://www.zoominfo.com/privacy-center/update/remove>
If you use Zoom at work through a business account and don't wish to be listed, consider opting out. They are also collecting information from around the Web outside of Zoom apparently to help build out your profile.
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There's a growing link between microbes, mood and mental health.
@KnowableMag reports: "New research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome. The best way to do that right now is not through pills and supplements, but better food."
Beyond the record waiting lists for #NHS care, there would seem to be 'hidden' waiting lists to get onto waiting lists.... I have certainly experienced this with my wife's #neurology appointments (or lack thereof) and so it comes as little surprise that this problem is widespread.
This is a classic distortion produced by a focus on targets.
The #NHScrisis continues to worsen while NHS staff are pressured into hiding its true extent.
TITLE: Long Covid’s Brain Fog Is Akin to "Aging Ten Years"—N=3,000
Once again -- Thank you Dr. Pope for your summaries.
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Smithsonian Magazine includes an article: “Long Covid’s Brain Fog Is Akin to ‘Aging Ten Years,’ Study Finds—Scientists tested the cognitive function of more than 3,000 participants and found those with longer-lasting Covid symptoms had the strongest decline.”
Here are some excerpts:
People struggling with “long Covid,” or the persistence of symptoms after an initial Covid-19 infection, can face cognitive difficulties such as “brain fog” and memory problems. Now, a study finds the severity of these symptoms is comparable to the brain aging ten years.
By testing the mental speed and accuracy of participants who had and had not been diagnosed with Covid-19, researchers found the cognitive decline was worst for people who had experienced Covid symptoms for more than 12 weeks, according to a study published this month in eClinicalMedicine, a journal published by The Lancet.
“The fact remains that two years on from their first infection, some people don’t feel fully recovered, and their lives continue to be impacted by the long-term effects of the coronavirus,” Claire Steves, a co-author of the study who researches aging and mental health at King’s College London, says in a statement.
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Since the Covid-19 pandemic’s early days, scientists have raced to understand the symptoms associated with long Covid, such as depression, major fatigue, brain fog and even dementia.
In 2020, a separate team of researchers examined the brains of people who had died from Covid-19 and discovered their blood vessels, which were covered with antibodies, had sustained significant damage, reports Time’s Jamie Ducharme. The scientists concluded the virus had somehow caused the body’s immune system to attack its blood vessels, leading to inflammation in the brain.
It’s not clear whether this inflammation is the cause of brain fog and cognitive difficulties in living patients with long Covid, but Lara Jehi, a researcher at the Cleveland Clinic who was not involved in the current study or the 2020 research, tells Time she’s seen it impact both people with long Covid and Alzheimer’s disease. “We found many areas of overlap between the two, and these areas of overlap centered on…inflammation in the brain and microscopic injuries to the blood vessels,” she tells the publication.
To better understand long Covid’s effect on the brain, the new study put more than 3,000 participants through 12 different types of cognitive tests designed to measure memory, processing speed, attention, motor control and other thinking skills. A little over half of the participants had previously tested positive for Covid-19, and all were recruited through the Covid Symptom Study Biobank smartphone app.
In the first round of testing in 2021, researchers found the cognitive impairment associated with long Covid was clear, comparable to the brain being under “mild or moderate symptoms of psychological distress,” or ten years of aging, write the authors in the paper.
During the second round of testing, which took place in 2022, patients showed no significant improvement. At that point, some participants’ cognitive decline had lasted nearly two years after infection.
The positive takeaway? Once a person’s Covid symptoms disappeared—regardless of whether they had persisted for three months or one week—their cognitive function appeared to recover.
This, at least, is “good news,” says Nathan Cheetham, a senior postdoctoral data scientist at King’s College London and study co-author, in the statement.
“This study shows the need to monitor those people whose brain function is most affected by Covid-19, to see how their cognitive symptoms continue to develop and provide support toward recovery,” he says in the statement.
About 15 percent of U.S. adults have experienced long Covid, according to the Household Pulse Survey by the National Center for Health Statistics. In the United Kingdom, about two million adults were impacted by the persistent condition as of January 2023, reports the Guardian’s Geneva Abdul.
Steves calls for more research into how long Covid victims can be aided in their recovery process, especially those who have been living with the symptoms for years.
“We need more work to understand why this is the case and what can be done to help,” she says in the statement.
Ken Pope
Hector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Melba J.T. Vasquez, & Ken Pope:
Succeeding as a Therapist: How to Create a Thriving Practice in a Changing World (APA, 2022)
Ken Pope, Melba J.T. Vasquez, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, & Hector Y. Adames:
Ethics in Psychotherapy & Counseling: A Practical Guide, 6th Edition (Wiley, 2021)
None of the hype, boosterism, AI eschatology, or hallucinations of machine consciousness make me half as angry as the “Oh, yeah? Well, that’s all humans do, too” BS that true believers spew when one points out that LLMs are just guessing the most likely next word to generate their output.
This is so far off the mark it’s laughable. You are so much more than an LLM. I can think of a half-dozen things your mind has done in the last half hour that no LLM has ever done.
Hello fellow scientists, I'm looking for academic journal suggestions!
Where would you submit, or where would you go read a paper about clustering subjects based on the similarity network built from their cognitive and motor tests scores after stroke?
Preprint at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.08.23297808v1
The paper discusses both methodology (similarity measures*, graph clustering**, compared to the tradition in the field of PCA and regression), and clinical aspects (typical lesions of cluster, diagnostic power of the assessment).
It is too computerish for some clinical neurology journal, not enough for some computers-in-med/bio/etc journal.
Must be #openaccess
Ofc it's a team decision, won't be based on replies, but I am an early stage researcher and I really value discussions outside my lab!
*it's an old, little known one!
**it may be argued one of the techniques is new, both seem new wrt stroke
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
Here's one of the few more modern articles I found about this Arc gene and how brains work. "Arc Regulates Transcription of Genes for Plasticity, Excitability and Alzheimer’s Disease" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9405677/
Hi. First post on this account. Very recent late Dx #ActuallyAutistic here. Special interests in my bio. Probably should include Autism as a special interest because I'm still in that phase. Nice to meet you. 👋
Op-ed: What we know about toxic chemicals and children’s mental health
"Evidence suggests chemical exposures are altering children’s brains. We need to tackle this interconnected crisis. "
".. a growing body of evidence connecting increased exposure to chemicals in the environment, such as lead, PFAS and BPA, to increased child mental health symptoms like anxiety and depression."
People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city.
The city was once hailed for its response to #addiction. But as #fentanyl flooded streets & ofcls shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.
Suffering from depression and standard anti-depressants aren't working? You might want to read the transcript or listen to the podcast.
"Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of depression."
Many years ago, on another platform, someone said that humans are digestive tracts that eventually evolved nervous systems and brains, and not the other way around.
And that has forever changed how I think about being human.