Effects of Low-Level Blast on Neurovascular Health and Cerebral Blood Flow: Current Findings and Future Opportunities in Neuroimaging
Kilgore, Madison O.; Hubbard, W. Brad
Low-level blast (LLB) exposure can lead to alterations in neurological health, cerebral vasculature, and cerebral blood...
The “torpillage” neurologists of World War I: Electric therapy to send hysterics back to the front
Laurent Tatu; Julien Bogousslavsky; Thierry Moulin; Jean-Luc Chopard
The French neurologists and psychiatrists who were mobilized during the Great War were confronted with numerous soldiers with...
Clinician-associated traumatization from difficult medical encounters: Results from a qualitative interview study on the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667321523000215
Abstract:
Patients with hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome often experience...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
The buzz of the internet.
Not to be a downer but this study should be considered unblinded (and uncontrolled) and has subjective outcomes.
Also, everybody wants to talk about the MDMA but this study is more accurately about 'MDMA-enhanced...
A familiar issue..
https://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/2019/03/31/a-classic-case-of-science-he-said-she-said-how-psychologists-trying-to-prevent-ptsd-got-controversial/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brzl3w/wwis-secret-shame-shell-shock
Interesting and moving in itself, interesting in parallels I saw with Me treatment - eg military believed it had to have physical cause and if not found (with technology available then) it was malingering and also...
Study from Norway on 124 patients with a mixed psychiatric population of whom 39 diagnosed with PTSD. Paper is published in the journal Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
PTSD patients show increasing cytokine levels during treatment despite reduced psychological distress
Results: Overall...
The work was done in mice. The method used to modulate dopamine levels - optogenetics - was new to me, and fascinating. The researchers think their work has relevance to depression and PTSD.
Should low dopamine levels prove to be relevant in ME, some of the results from the study may also...
Paywalled at http://journals.lww.com/psychosomaticmedicine/Abstract/2017/10000/The_Microbiome_in_Posttraumatic_Stress_Disorder.14.aspx
Article on paper - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171025103140.htm
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