Common Anticholinergics Medications Found to Cause Long Term Cognitive Impairment of Aging Brain, study finds (sciencedaily)
July 23rd, 2010Autism Has Unique Vocal Signature (sciencedaily)
July 23rd, 2010Comments on “Depression as an inflammatory disease (sciencedirect)”
July 22nd, 2010
MediNewsDigest: so how would regular antidepressant work?
quoting: “…Antidepressants and mood stabilizers suppress different aspects of cell-mediated immunity …”
Now how would therapy work as a body healing approach?
For this let us turn to examples of the mind-body interaction litterature:
CLICK Here for a link where the body’s influence on mind is discussed.
Quoting:
“… inflammatory diseases) can lead to impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, which could then result in impaired hippocampal-dependent cognitive abilities..”
This is a case of a damaged body Immune system affecting the brain processes.
Medinewsdigest: psychoneuroimmunology: the name of the field speaks for itself….CLICK here for a link to an article discussing the connection immunoendocrine–nervous system interactions in patients with allergic rhinitis
MediNewsDigest:
So it is abundantly clear from the litterature that the body can damage the mind processes,and mind processes damage the body. Now can the mind heal an already damaged body?
A positive answer, although tempting, is does not seem all that documented. Quoting this German study:
“.. our results provide preliminary evidence that these immunological variations are not reversible by an 8-week course of inpatient psychotherapy alone….”
Biological ’switch’ found in plants may provide new cancer treatment for humans (beforeitsnews)
July 21st, 2010NICOTINE’S NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS?
July 16th, 2010
MediNewsDigest: Hmm..you have heard of the positive aspect of cannabis for pain, spasticity and other problems. You have heard of the great evil of tobacco bringing in cancer and heart trouble etc.
Well guess what, nicotine, an carcinogen component of tobacco seems to have neuroprotective properties! CLICK HERE for “neurology reviews”’s article
MediNewsDigest: Just in case you thought this was an aberration funded by the topbacco industry, CLICK HERE for sciencedirect’s article on the benefits of chronic nicotine treatment on a rat model of alzheimers’s.
“…Chronic nicotine treatment completely prevented Aβ- and stress/Aβ combination-induced memory impairment….”
This is not an isolated article: CLICK HERE for study of AD
MediNewsDigest: However, this research proclaims the benefits of nicotine-free tobacco against Parkinson’s…
quoting:
“..Our findings indicate that coffee and tobacco contain Nrf2-activating compounds that may account for the reduced risk of PD among coffee and tobacco users. ”
So, obviously, more research is needed
