brain

Interesting article - a lot if physiological/ psychiatric research but could be relevant subject for many other specialities. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-mitochondria-be-the-key-to-a-healthy-brain/

Per Kristian Eide, Vegard Vinje, Are Hugo Pripp, Kent-Andre Mardal, Geir Ringstad Brain, Volume 144, Issue 3, March 2021, Pages 863–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa443 Published: 23 March 2021 It remains an enigma why human beings spend one-third of their life asleep. Experimental...

Maybe someone we know could do an inquiry and determine that it is psychological trauma. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/30/mystery-brain-disorder-baffles-canadian-medicine

(Paragraphed for clarity) Although post-acute cognitive dysfunction and neuroimaging abnormalities have been reported after hospital discharge in patients recovered from COVID-19, little is known about persistent, long-term alterations in people without hospitalization. We conducted a...

Activation of endogenous retroviruses during brain development causes an inflammatory response Marie E Jönsson, Raquel Garza, Yogita Sharma, Rebecca Petri, Erik Södersten, Jenny G Johansson, Pia A Johansson, Diahann AM Atacho, Karolina Pircs, Sofia Madsen, David Yudovich, Ramprasad...

Summary: A new theory of memory visualizes the brain as an organic super-computer that runs complex binary code with neurons acting like mechanical computers. The theory is based on the discovery of the protein molecule, talin, which contains switch-like domains that change shape in response to...

Persistent Brainstem Dysfunction in Long-COVID: A Hypothesis Edited to shorter paragraphs for easier reading. Paywall, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00793

https://www.jns-journal.com/article/S0022-510X(21)00019-8/fulltext

This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.27.20220715v1

Split from the NZ News thread The 2020 Brain Health Research Centre Lecture Emeritus Professor Warren Tate will present the 2020 BHRC Lecture, entitled "Understanding the biological basis of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and its sudden increase in public profile...

Thought this was interesting. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02713-7

In mice. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-key-role-immune-cells-brain.html An interesting bit from the very technical and way above my head paper the above is based on: immune cells get through the BBB into the brain even as the virus is being cleared by antiviral treatment, and the...

Full Title: Neuroimaging characteristics of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS): a systematic review. https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02506-6

Full title: Using structural and functional MRI as a neuroimaging technique to investigate chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalopathy: a systematic review. Authors: Basim Almutairi, Christelle Langley, Esther Crawley, Ngoc Jade Thai https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/8/e031672

NIH blog Psychological stress damages brain’s blood vessels by Brandon Levy https://irp.nih.gov/blog/post/2020/07/psychological-stress-damages-brain-s-blood-vessels

Brain scanning, 19th century style! https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882 Also notably, Angelo Mosso wrote a textbook on fatigue (La fatica) in 1891, the ideas of which have been repeatedly (re)"discovered" over the decades since.

Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488620301412

In rats. Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014488620301205

To paraphrase, "We've found changes in the brains of people with "FSS", this then proves that "FSS" is valid category! It certainly doesn't mean that there is an actual disease mechanism at work, oh no!" :banghead: Open access...