Brain and Mind for Everyone
The mind is what the brain does but humans are more complex than that, this page shares knowledge about health and wellness related to brain and mind!
As brain circuitry changes with aging and illness, our ability to process information changes as well. Our older, well established, basic, "emotional" survival circuits continue to operate till very late in the illness but the more recently evolved, "rational" processing circuits lose its ability to interact with the basic emotional one. That is when we lose the ability to "modulate" our basic r
When people develop any form of dementia, the perception is that they are instantly “gone”, we should change this framework, you can still find the person underneath the illness, you just have to keep looking!
Second COVID mRNA booster (4th overall) is booked for today, the minute it became available, call me vaccine j***y, I just like to take advantage of the beautiful science leveraging a method that bacteria used for billions of years to fight viruses!
30/03/2022
That is unfortunate, aphasia can be caused by lesions like stroke or tumors but also can be part of a neurodegenerative illness called primary progressive non-fluent aphasia, which is a form of dementia!
Bruce Willis 'stepping away' from acting after aphasia diagnosis | CBC News Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting after a diagnosis of aphasia, a condition that causes loss of the ability to understand or express speech, his family announced Wednesday.
23/03/2022
more evidence for the protective nature of lithium against dementia, an old salt that continues to stand the test of time!
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003941
Association between lithium use and the incidence of dementia and its subtypes: A retrospective cohort study Shanquan Chen and colleagues investigate the association between lithium use and the incidence of dementia and its subtypes.
Learned today about Unsinkable, great advocacy for mental health, check it out!
26/02/2022
Important issue in those with attention deficit disorder, often under recognized
Elevated levels of hoarding in ADHD: A special link with inattention Hoarding Disorder (HD) is under recognised and under-treated. Though HD develops by early adulthood, patients present only later in life, resulting in…
19/01/2022
our commentary on Song t al 2021, non-invasive brain stimulation for addiction
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.15797?af=R
Commentary on Song et al: Brain stimulation for addictions‐ optimizing impact via strategic interleaving with pharmacotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and restructuring the micro‐environment Click on the article title to read more.
09/01/2022
A Close Look at Therapeutic Touch Context.— Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a widely used nursing practice rooted in mysticism but alleged to have a scientific basis. Practitioners of TT claim to treat many medical conditions by using their hands to manipulate a "human energy field" perceptible above the patient's skin.Objective.— T.....
17/11/2021
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03341-9
Schizophrenia syndrome due to C9ORF72 mutation case report: a cautionary tale and role of hybrid brain imaging! - BMC Psychiatry Background Frontal variant frontotemporal dementia is a common cause of presenile dementia. A hexanucleotide expansion on chromosome 9 has recently been recognized as the most common genetic mutation cause of this illness. This sub-type tends to present psychiatrically with psychosis being a common....
01/08/2021
Difference between covid vaccinated versus unvaccinated!
07/07/2021
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996421002218
Assessment of treatment resistance criteria in non-invasive brain stimulation studies of schizophrenia Novel treatment modalities, such as non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS), typically focus on patient groups that have failed multiple treatment inter…
Genetic connection between schizophrenia syndrome and fronto-temporal dementia, behavioral variant
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s12888-021-03341-9?sharing_token=QYHURb59gBfI0RYGBuJQy2_BpE1tBhCbnbw3BuzI2RM4dnuVzqI2HMGwtTOcopuINoTMTyWAViQQNwg7UEXu3lp7vOUYH8fn9U1wEHKJL26_RUzlfwUe2A-luvbZU75w3l0jlIyivnO3tdpS8XeAaZIzfqb7D57uvtaf56TLJ9k%3D
05/05/2021
Ontario Shores on Twitter “The care system was stretched long before the hit and put Ontario into crisis. The future looks bleak if we don't take action, writes Dr. Amer Burhan (), Physician-in-Chief at Ontario Shores. https://t.co/4nTku0gv1t”
05/05/2021
Mental Health Week with Dr. Amer Burhan, Physician-in-Chief at Ontario Shores Dr. Amer Burhan, Physician-in-Chief at Ontario Shores, offers thanks to staff and dishes on what helps keep him healthy from a and pe...
12/04/2021
First look at the accumulating evidence of longer term neurological and psychiatric complications of COVID-19 infection, the effect of the illness is widespread and goes beyond taking the breath away!
The neurology and neuropsychiatry of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the early literature reveals frequent CNS manifestations and key emerging narratives - Abstract - Europe PMC The neurology and neuropsychiatry of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the early literature reveals frequent CNS manifestations and key emerging narratives
27/02/2021
on vaccination against COVID-19
#CoVaccinated with Dr. Amer Burhan, Physician-in-Chief at Ontario Shores The science is solid and the vaccine will save lives says Dr. Amer Burhan, Physician-in-Chief at Ontario Shores. Dr. Burhan encourages everyone at Ontario Sh...
03/02/2021
another paper out this month, thanks Aturan Shan for supporting this with the team!
The Effect of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) on Attention and Memory Function in Stroke Rehabilitation Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Background: In recent years, the potential of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) for therapeutic effects on cognitive functions has been explored for populations with stroke. There are various NIBS methods depending on the stimulation site and stimulation parameters. However, there is no systemat...
Our paper on TRD is now published!