Parkinson’s: New Clues to Alleviating Gait Disorders and Falls (ScienceDaily)
MediNewsDigest: A promising avenue of research for the difficult issue of Parkinson's falls
Quoting ScienceDaily ,Journal of Clinical Investigation, via EurekAlert "…Chantal François and Etienne Hirsch, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie — Paris 6, France, has now determined that the presence of gait disorders in patients with Parkinson disease and in aged monkeys with Parkinson-like disease was associated with loss of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in a region of the brain known as the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN).."
Categories: Parkinson's, Uncategorized, neuroscience Tags: CareResourceGuide, falls, Gait Disorders, medinewsdigest, New Clues, Parkinson's, ScienceDaily
Categories: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Fibromyalgia Tags: CareResourceGuide, chronic fatigue, correlation, Fibromyalgia, medinewsdigest, pubmed, relationship, Rhinitis
Brain-Computer-Interface Enables Coma Patients To Communicate (medicalnewstoday)
MediNewsDigest: The “Coma” is much less inert state than thought. CLICK HERE for link to medicalnewstoday.
CLICK HERE for link to wikipedia on the major tool to assess the depth of the coma.note the scale was created in 1974! outdated? Scale is based of responses to unassisted stimuli…..What would happen to the scale if bioelectronics devices were put in the evaluation?
MediNewsDigest: This is a link to an interesting website “coma care” who purports to work for the rights of patients in coma. Note that it is based in South Africa
MediNewsDigest: see our post of Feb 5, 2010: “Vegetative State and Brain Function: COVERT COGNITION IN THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE (sciencedirect)”
Categories: Uncategorized, brain, coma states, neuroscience Tags: Brain, CareResourceGuide, Coma, Communicate, Computer, Enable, Interface, medicalnewstoday, medinewsdigest, Patients
Accupuncture for Fibromyalgia? (fibromyalgia-symptoms)
MediNewsDigest: Accupuncture should be a “natural” against pain and achieve some success.CLICK HERE to link to fibromyalgia-symptoms
CLICK HERE for the link to sciencedaily on accupuncture and pain.
MediNewsDigest: Somewhow it does not seem that accupuncture gets the full recognition as standard treatment for pain as we would expect…. We need to follow this and see why….
Categories: Alternative Medicine, Chronic Pain, FMS Fibromyalgia, neuroscience, pain Tags: Accupuncture, CareResourceGuide, Fibromyalgia, medinewsdigest, treatment
Categories: Multiple Sclerosis, Uncategorized, autoimmune diseases, spasticity Tags: CareResourceGuide, dependency, medinewsdigest, Multiple Sclerosis: Severe, paraspasticity, pubmed, Spasticity, zolpidem
Categories: FMS Fibromyalgia, Fibromyalgia, Uncategorized, neuroscience, pain, psoriasis Tags: CareResourceGuide, Fibromyalgia: Gabapentin, Lyrica, mdlinx, medinewsdigest, Neurontin, pregabalin, systematic review
Categories: Alternative Medicine, Uncategorized, neuroscience, tinnitus Tags: CareResourceGuide, helpful, medinewsdigest, Qigong, sciencedirect, study, Tinnitus, treatment
Categories: MS Multiple Sclerosis, Uncategorized, neuroscience, tinnitus Tags: cannabinoid, CareResourceGuide, medinewsdigest, Multiple Sclerosis, sciencedirect, sjcrg, Tinnitus, treatment
Categories: Bone Health, MS Multiple Sclerosis Tags: BMD, bone mineral density, CareResourceGuide, interferon beta 1B, medinewsdigest, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, pubmed
Categories: Uncategorized, insomnia, neuroscience Tags: CareResourceGuide, insomnia, medication, medinewsdigest, sleeoing pills, WebMD
