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Abstract Cognition depends on integrating sensory percepts with the memory of recent stimuli. However, the distributed nature of neural coding can lead to interference between sensory and memory representations. Here, we show that the brain mitigates such interference by rotating sensory...

What I found most interesting about that article is that Don Luckett of the Center for Scientific Review was quoted, from his own letter to a colleague, saying that he did check the source by ringing the paper: The implication of that seems to be that they knew very well that what Dr Myra...

I was surprized to find that this was by an Aussie as no-one had mentioned it. Very nice indeed. I've never seen anything that really attempted to convey the texture and time-dilation of the situation. I'd be tempted to use it to give people some idea of what it is like but I think that it would...

It still hasn't become old, hearing a physician who has joined the club complaining that physicians haven't a clue...

A longish piece from the BBC World Service in which the plight of two, teenage girls with LC are examined: Coronavirus conversations: Children and Covid-19 (26:30-44:55m). No mention of ME/CFS but it is otherwise well produced.

Another ad for the vaccine cure, this one from Will Stone at "All Things Considered": NPR: ATC: 'Long-Haulers' Are Finding Relief After Getting Their COVID-19 Vaccine (4:01m) It has a compelling anecdote from a woman who was cured only after only reluctantly getting the second injection, after...

BBC: Health Check: Could vaccines help cure long Covid? (3:25m) BBC: Health Check: Do vaccines cure Long Covid? (0:24-7:25m; in the whole episode) The New York infectious disease doctor's anecdote is that he and his colleagues are seeing a third to a half of LC patients reporting alleviation...

I believe that he's quite right to be cautious. It would be very easy to just add to the babble. I think that this problem won't be resolved until the individual causes are resolved and they can label each one with an acronym/initialism and sideline the subjectivity.

I liked how he slipped in the zero-evidence, vaccine ad towards the end. Smooth. Apparently it might "reboot" the immune system. Do they have something to defrag mine? I feel I could do with a bit of defragging.

But that's the value of the Dunedin study in that they did have the lead-levels, from whatever sources, from across the social cohorts and they do seem confident that they could pull that association out of it. But there is some iffiness regarding some questions as the lead author admits in the...

Thanks for that. I was aware that they'd found mercury and selenium associations but not that it was on their website. I shall check that out as I have long had an interest in toxic-metal poisonings. Brisbane has a place in the history of the field as a Brisbane doctor, John Lockhart Gibson...

Science Daily: Childhood lead exposure linked to poor adult mental health BBC WS: Health Check: Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success (21:08m-32:19m) The Health Check item is an interview with Aaron Reuben, the lead author of this paper. This paper was based on data from the...

Key Points Question Is childhood lead exposure associated with the risk of mental illness or difficult personality traits in adulthood? Findings In this longitudinal cohort study of 579 New Zealand children followed up for more than 30 years, greater lead exposure in childhood was...

The authors of the recent NYT Oped "Long Covid Is Not Rare. It's a Health Crisis", Fiona Lowenstein and Hannah Davis, were interviewed on ATC: NPR.org: Months After Contracting Virus, 2 Women Suffer Crippling Effects Of 'Long COVID' (10:35m) No mention of ME/CFS. Some discussion of similar...

MedicalXpress: Study brings new direction for treating neurological diseases << A research team from the School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has recently discovered that SOX9 protein is an essential regulatory factor of choroid plexus function that ensures the...

Significance Tight regulation of the brain microenvironment is fundamental to proper neurologic function. The restriction of molecule entry into the central nervous system from the brain vascular endothelium has been well studied; however, far less is known about the molecular events that...

Good point. While popular magazines do like to bandy the word "toxins" about, metabolic waste products are a thing, as I understand it. As is this "glymphatic" system, even if it is yet to be well descibed. As someone who has been trying--and consistently failing--for years to stow the latch on...

A line of research that I've been interested in for awhile is pretty well described in this article (with a very cool animation): Quanta Magazine: Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons Basically, one might speculate that the failure of brain flushing while sleeping could be due...

Yes, the LC-insularity policy seems to be in full swing. It's also here as a separate report: ABC: 7.30: Up to a third of people take longer to recover from COVID (6:56m)

But the British tradition is that priors aren't introduced into court until it's time to sentence the miscreant...