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Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement

Stroke Breakthrough stroke drug heals the brain to restore movement By Bronwyn Thompson March 19, 2025 This drug discovery promises molecular rehabilitation for stroke patients  Depositphotos View 1 Images There’s newfound hope for stroke patients in recovery, with what researchers believe … Continue reading

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Source: The Deep View: AI for Good: Traumatic brain injuries: Quote: A recent, systematic, review of algorithmic approaches to TBI diagnosis found that “each algorithm has a strong ability to automatically identify and quantify important CT findings caused by TBI. (Personal comment before reading this I can vouch for another aspect. Researching family lore via Grok3 and it really fills in gaps I had never quite grasped). The speed of roll out of data incredible. If you are thinking of writing a book, take your headings and input to Grok3 AI …

AI for Good: Traumatic brain injuries Source: Unsplash Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often described as “the silent epidemic” for a simple confluence of reasons: a steady lack of awareness of and research into it, its widespread reach — impacting nearly 70 … Continue reading

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Neoscope – Futurism: Human Intelligence Sharply Declining. Quote: “…but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world’s changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they’d read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012…”

Mar 16, 6:45 AM EDT/ by Noor Al-Sibai Human Intelligence Sharply Declining The benchmarks are not looking good, folks. No, it’s not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across … Continue reading

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists … Mental Health Mortality & the Doomsday Clock

The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse. Apocalypse now? Mortality and mental health correlates of the Doomsday Clock By Samuel Justin Sinclair, David A. Silbersweig | March 12, 2025 Existential threats to global society have … Continue reading

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Grok 3. Using X = suggestion = ask a question. Years writing about how TBI has impacted on my life, taking prompts from articles read, this takes just a minute. This is AI and it is time for people to engage in this leap frog era of knowledge which is about power.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can have a wide range of long-term effects, depending on the severity of the injury, the area of the brain affected, and the individual’s overall health and recovery process. Below is an overview of potential long-term … Continue reading

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MIT Press Reader: Hallucinations and the dying mind…Quote: “In palliative care and hospice spaces, well over half of cancer patients are delirious in the last week to hours before death.”

The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind. By: Michael Erard        When William Brahms’s … Continue reading

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Mother Jones: The DOGE Acting Administrator Isn’t New to the Trump World. Quote: “Fast forward to 2025, and Gleason is now at the helm of one of the most controversial and constitutionally questionable initiatives in recent memory, administering an agency that’s leading mass firings, gutting health agencies, and issuing return-to-office orders.”

February 25, 2025 The DOGE Acting Administrator Isn’t New to the Trump World Amy Gleason was a data cruncher and efficiency aficionado in the early Covid response. Advertise with Mother Jones Mother Jones illustration; National Archives; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for … Continue reading

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Brain’s Working Memory Limits Tied to Learning, Not Just Capacity

Brain’s Working Memory Limits Tied to Learning, Not Just Capacity FeaturedNeuroscience ·February 25, 2025 Summary: A new study reveals that working memory limitations stem from learning challenges rather than storage capacity. Using a computer model of the basal ganglia and thalamus, … Continue reading

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Cognitive decline risk could prompt rethink of ‘healthy’ vitamin B12 levels. Source: New Atlas. Comment: TBI and cognitive impairment. My mum was a wise GP and realised the benefit of vitamin B12, which she gave to a lot of her elderly patients. Every three months I have an injection of Cytamin B12 and it makes such a difference.

By Paul McClure Alzheimer’s & Dementia Cognitive decline risk could prompt rethink of ‘healthy’ vitamin B12 levels By Paul McClure February 19, 2025 Vitamin B12 levels can affect brain functioning, especially in older adults People who sit on the low or high … Continue reading

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Source: The Electric Typewriter. Mother Jones publication 2002. “Disorders Made to Order” – mental illness is the focus. Now its 2025 and the Trump Administration is going to challenge the Pharmaceutical industry.

July/August 2002 Issue Disorders Made to Order Pharmaceutical companies have come up with a new strategy to market their drugs: First go out and find a new mental illness, then push the pills to cure it. Advertise with Mother Jones Fight … Continue reading

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