Annual Members Meeting Wednesday September 12, 2012 | IDNY

Annual Members Meeting Wednesday September 12, 2012 | IDNY.  

Vitamin D, cognition, and dementia

Lots of interesting articles this week in Neurology. This is one of them. Vitamin D, cognition, and dementia A systematic review and meta-analysis Cynthia Balion, PhD, Lauren E. Griffith, PhD, Lisa Strifler, BSc, Matthew Henderson, PhD, Christopher Patterson, MD, George Heckman, MD, David J. Llewellyn, PhD and Parminder Raina, PhD + Author Affiliations From the […]

Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar Series

Fabulous slide shows from the Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar Series of the University of Minnesota (sic!) via Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar Series.

Endogenous opioids may protect against minor TBI symptoms

This is an interesting finding. We have shown that people (even “normal” people) with early separation events (early parental divorce, parental loss) have a totally different endogenous opioid reactivity in a challenge test. It would make sense if they therefore were predisposed to more severe TBI and mTBI symptomatology. Morphine protects for head trauma induced […]

Short Sleep May Increase Stroke Risk

This was posted on www.neurologyreviews.com here. SLEEP 2012 MEETING Short Sleep May Increase Stroke Risk 2012;20(7):1,17. BOSTON?Regularly sleeping for less than six hours quadruples the rate of stroke symptoms among middle-aged and older persons with a normal BMI and a low risk of sleep-disordered breathing, according to a study that was presented at the 26th […]

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