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Aadite, 9, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder and malnutrition, is watching cartoons while lying on a bed inside his home in Kabit Pura, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, central India, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Aadite's father, Raju, a 1984 gas survivor, died in March 2013 at the age of 32, due to lungs failure. Aadite now lives in a small room with his mother, Lakshmi, 29, who works six days a week as a cleaner, his two sisters Mayuri, 12, Mahag, 7, and his younger brother Anuj, 5. None of the siblings in this family is attending school or any kind of practical education.
Neurology in Clinical Practice brings you the most current clinical neurology through a comprehensive text, detailed color images, and video demonstrations. Drs. Daroff, Fenichel, Jankovic and Mazziotta, along with more than 150 expert contributors, present coverage of interventional neuroradiology, neurointensive care, prion diseases and their diagnoses, neurogenetics, and many other new developments. Online at www.expertconsult.com, you'll have access to a downloadable image library, videos, and the fully searchable text for the dynamic, multimedia content you need to apply the latest approaches in diagnosis and management.
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Justin aide à servir lunch pendant le dîner annuel de l'Institut neurologique de Montréal des Reitman.
Today I finished the necessary connections to hook up a clothes dryer. I've always enjoyed working with my hands and using tools, but these days it is more of a problem. Having a neurological disorder that affects my fine motor control slows things down.
For the most part my hands feel normal until I attempt activities like starting threads on screws and fittings, twisting a wrench or screwdriver, or even using a pencil. The Parkinson's affects my right side more than my left so sometimes I find I have to do things with my left hand which I do instinctively with my right which is my lead hand.
Since I replaced an electric dryer with a gas dryer I had to tee off the supply pipe to my furnace and add the connection and shutoff valve for the dryer, drill a hole through a wall and connect the supply tube. Of course I had to shut off the gas while doing this which in turn necessitated relighting the pilots on the furnace and water heater.
Although I am slower at tasks like these than I was in the past I remain greatful that I can accomplish them at all. I don't have to look far to find people with much more serious problems than mine.
Staying as active as possible and completing chores of this sort not only saves on repair bills, but is also good therapy and helps me maintain a positive mental attitude.
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The vet nurse guessed that this red headed sparrow sustained some kind of neurological damage (versus, say, a broken neck).
Neighborhood kids brought yet another wild creature to my front door on July 4th. The two had been riding bikes and had noticed this tiny bird lying in the grass below a tree. One of the kids scooped it up into his oversized t-shirt (the other, Nancy, telling me that she showed him how not to put his hands all over it, just like I'd showed her last year during the Incident of the Fallen Baby Birds).
We were having a downpour at the time, but I nestled the wounded sparrow into a towel, popped on some Birkies and headed to the nearer of the two emergency vet clinics I'd guessed might be open on a public holiday.
While I drove I had the towel next resting on my lap both so I could keep checking the health status of our tiny patient and also so that ... well, maybe it's the mom in me. Gotta keep 'em close, y'know? Just as I turned into the vet clinic parking lot, the sparrow had a surprising surge of freaked-out energy and spastically flew around the inside of my car, escaping the towel nest, escaping my hands, scaring the crap out of me, and eventually settling underneath the driver's seat. So I hung there, half-in, half-outside the car, reaching underneath the seat to retrieve the frightened and obviously wounded bird.
Once inside the vet clinic we did a wild critter hand-off, I filled out the paperwork based on the little information I had on the creature, and I apologized for not being able to make a donation this time around. The gal at the counter was very kind, thanking me and insisting that the little bird will be fine after a little TLC and a few days.
Neurology in Clinical Practice brings you the most current clinical neurology through a comprehensive text, detailed color images, and video demonstrations. Drs. Daroff, Fenichel, Jankovic and Mazziotta, along with more than 150 expert contributors, present coverage of interventional neuroradiology, neurointensive care, prion diseases and their diagnoses, neurogenetics, and many other new developments. Online at www.expertconsult.com, you'll have access to a downloadable image library, videos, and the fully searchable text for the dynamic, multimedia content you need to apply the latest approaches in diagnosis and management.
If you would like to purchase this title, please click here.
From the session: "The Neuroscience of Art:
What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation?" (February 21 to 26, 2015)
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In recent years, there have been an increasing number of scientific investigations into art, exploring what actually happens in the brain during the creative process. Most of these collaborations have been based in neuroscience and psychological approaches to how art is perceived, produced and created, with music the main focus of studies carried out to date. These studies have yielded important new information that relates to a very basic fact of human biology: all behavior, even that as complex as creativity, can be linked to brain function. Building on this fundamental linkage, the neurobiology of art promises to yield exciting new insights as this research field evolves. Creative behavioral patterns are likely to be a critical component for developing the neurological capacity for innovation.
This Salzburg Global program represents a pioneering step to establish a neutral international forum to discuss state-of-the-art findings from a cross-disciplinary perspective, prioritize future research, and expand creative opportunities for learning, innovation and collaboration. While much research is taking place in various national and regional settings, more global dialogue is needed between specialist silos in order to catalyze knowledge exchange around the results, implications and potential practical applications of new cutting-edge research.
Bunch of people camp together in this spot every year, making chili on Saturday night for sale and having a great time. Fun bunch!
Color of Life Color Conceals: Cuttlefish are excellent examples of cryptic coloration. Chromatophores in the cuttlefish skin are controlled neurologically, allowing almost immediate color change disappearing into its background right before your eyes.
Ref: California Academy Color of Life exhibit 2015
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiidae (Cuttlefishes, shell internalized)
Genus/species: Sepia bandensis
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS:. ISepia bandensis has 8 arms with rows of suckers along each and 2 feeding tentacles. It moves by the undulation of lateral fins that surround the body. Cuttlefish have an internal shell within their bodies that they can fill with more or less gas to create neutral buoyancy. The cuttlebone is often collected and used as a calcium supplement, beak sharpener, and all-purpose toy for caged birds.
Like most cephalopods, cuttlefish have 3 hearts. Two hearts pump blood to the gills, and a central heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body.
Length: 5 cm–10 cm
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: The Indo-Pacific region, including the Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea.
Found in shallow coastal waters near or on coral reefs or sandy substrates.
DIET IN THE WILD: Crustaceans and fish. The Cuttlefish changes colors and patterns as it approaches prey then ejects its feeding tentacles to capture its prey with its suckers and eating it with a parrot-like beak and a radula. Active diurnally.
ACADEMY DIET: Shrimp and crab (M Avila, staff biologist)
LONGEVITY: Life span: 6 mos. to 3 yrs.
REMARKS: Masters of camouflage, cuttlefish and most cephalopods can change their colors, shapes and textures in seconds to avoid predators and blend into their surroundings. They have keen vision, but are color blind.
They also produce large amounts of ink, both as a decoy and foul-tasting deterrent. Known as sepia ink, after the genus name of cuttlefish, it was a dye once prized by artists.
The Steinhart Aquarium is the first institution in the U.S. to breed dwarf cuttlefish. To date, (2010) more than 350 have hatched at the Academy, most of which have been sent to other aquaria and research institutions. Quote from Rich Ross, Academy biologist and cuttlefish breeder extraordinaire: Over time, [cuttlefish] learn to recognize and respond to you, and will often greet you when you walk into the room (or maybe they just know you bring the food). They are smart, beautiful and unusual, and unlike certain other eight-armed cephalopods (think octopus), they don’t try to escape from your aquarium!
LOCATION; Waterplanet Defense section
References
California Academy Color of Life exhibit 2015
The Marine Biology Coloring Book 2nd Ed. Thomas Niesen 2000
EOL Encyclopedia of Life eol.org/pages/591499/details
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/3953684359/in/album-721...
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1yp
10-15-11, 11-7-14, 7-22-15
June Hackett, member of the Expert Patient Programme, commented at our awareness event on what a difference a personal budget had made to her life.
Laboratorio di Ricerca sull'Afasia della Fondazione Santa Lucia. Diretto dalla Prof.ssa Paola Marangolo.
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I’m learning a lot about why I’ve always felt the way I do, I read over some old Flickr descriptions when I was in high school to find signs of my condition showing. Looking back you can see all the signs I wasn’t healthy, but at the time I didn’t know it wasn’t normal. Funny how a Flickr account was something I used to tell everything, things I didn’t really tell my parents.
Aphrodite.
Dite had been sick for about a month. She had fallen from a closet about 6 feet up and had a series of seizures. She had been sleeping a lot before then, but she's 12. That wasn't abnormal. The doctors gave her medicine and oxygen and summized middle ear infection? Neurological? It was hard to tell. Another episode two weeks later, not getting better, getting better, not eating, eating. A couple of days ago she came out to greet me for the first time in weeks. She sat by the window on her favorite scratch board. I was thrilled, although a part of me had the dreaded suspicion that this was the rise before the fall.
Monday I'd found 2 four leaf clovers. In my lifetime, when I find them I am on the brink of great changes. I've always believed that it's God's way of saying it will be ok. Wednesday Dite had another episode. This time worse. I brought her to a cat specialist. The diagnosis: Toxoplasmosis at best, and likely a brain tumor. We treated her with the antibiotics and anti-inflammatories that would cure the first, and hoped for the best. Friday night all I wanted to do was come home and hold my girl. I felt the end coming. I knew. I lay with her, but she couldn't get comfortable without curling herself into a tight space so I brought her to her little cat-cubby hole. She curled up and I went back to sleep.
At 6am I heard her kick her water-bowl. I jumped up, hoping she'd just been clumsy on her trip to and from the litter-box. She was such a good cat. Even in her illness she made her best effort to use it diligently. She lay stretched out half in her cubby hole. I lifted her up and brought her to bed. She was having another episode, a bad one. I held her to me and we lay in bed for an hour. She purred. Then without warning, without sound, her body tensed up, her legs and arms stretched out in contraction. I held her.
One look in her face. One eye dilated completely and the other contracted. I was with her. Her breathing quick and shallow, I walked her over to the vet next door, told her I loved her and gently assisted her into her new life.
Later that morning, I came across a new family of ducklings crossing the road and again came across a baby deer maybe hours old wobbling across a back road. With death comes birth.
It was as if God or Dite or some Holy Spirit was reminding me of Gods plan. A birth, a life, an end. All things in cycles.
She was my best friend. My constant companion. She never let me down, like so many in life do. She will forever be in my heart, forever be part of me, and I her. I love you Dite.
This photograph was taken in the Winter of 2000/2001. She was about a year and a half old. This is how I will always remember her, curled up to my body, warm ... loving, loved.
This is a clinical neurology book for the student, non neurologist, and those that teach them. The book covers neuroanatomy, history taking and examination and then proceeds to discuss the clinical features of common problems as well as some of the more common rare, neurological disorders, in a way that will demystify a part of medicine that students find complex and difficult to understand. The book is accompanied by a DVD explaining concepts, demonstrating techniques of performing the neurological examination and demonstration of abnormal neurological signs.
The first chapter is devoted to neuroanatomy from a clinical viewpoint. The concept of localising problems by likening the nervous system to a map grid with vertical meridians of longitude (the ascending sensory pathways and the descending motor pathway)and horizontal parallels of latitude (cortical signs, brainstem cranial nerves, nerve roots and peripheral nerves) of the nervous system is developed. Subsequent chapters take the reader through the neurological examination and the common neurological presentations from a symptom oriented approach. Chapter 4 contains a very simple method of understanding the brainstem, the "rule of 4". Chapter 6 discusses the approach after the history and examination are completed. The final chapter is an overview of how to approach information gathering and keeping up-to-date using the complex information streams available.
Judith, who has Parkinson's, spoke at our Neurology Awareness event about her personal experience using the RENEW exercise programme, saying it had given her "a completely different life". She said: "I'm well today because of RENEW, and because everyone works in harmony including the doctors and specialist nurses".
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Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring explains the essentials of video EEG for use in all settings. This full-color atlas thoroughly covers the basics of performing video EEG for diagnosis along with how to use video EEG for the diagnosis and interpretation of seizures and mimickers of seizures during treatment of epilepsy, in the emergency department, and in the intensive care unit.