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I swear to get around to 2021 at some point, I said exactly that last year. This is again from last December, I saw these berries and then noticed the lines of spider silk, it resembled to me a sort of Neural-Pathway or Neural-Network, neurons of some description anyway. It is something to marvel when you look at galaxies and then see neurons in the brain, or the construct of the eye, one can easily see the limitation of the imagination that is the construct behind the simulation we all live in, when these designs start to combine in their individual design.
I hope everyone is well, here's to a great weekend and so as always, thank you! :)
So I probably am insane, I don't care, I applied an awakening to this moment, for me personally I never see a road, I see demonstrational neurological existential consciousness, ready to send out the little messengers of thoughts of which we are all in the driving seat, master this and you master the Universe. Imagine if you would, realising that thinking decides reality and a new universe can be created from thus an infinitesimal moment's conjuring, it can be mind blowing and frightening to yield that level of conscience, be mindful of your thoughts but what an incredible playground of exploration awaits if we could ever can comprehend the absolute freedom that awaits, so go ahead Angel, blow my mind, I am ready!
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
Firstly we want to thank all the team, especially Rachel James (cardiology specialist) & Harry (medic) & Lorenzo (neurology specialist) at:- www.nwspecialists.com/ for all their knowledge and expertise, and for making sure Razz came home in good health and on his way to a full recovery!
We are still waiting for lymph and joint fluid, and a couple of overseas disease results to come back from the veterinary labs .... but so far nothing sinister has shown up!
"FEVER" with unknown origin is what we are dealing with!
This is a pic of Razz enjoying his first night at home (without being attached to intravenous drips) comfy on his sofa. With almost a week in the vets i know Razz is glad to be back home ... that inner craziness he has is starting to show! :-)) x
I submitted dis piece in our local open call for new artist
if accepted you become an Allied Artist of the local community
it was selected and now I am an Allied Artist
Every six months or so, I have a neurologist appointment. At today's visit, while waiting, I pulled my Fujifilm #X100F out. Now this may seem like a weird location, but I am not a big believer in leaving cameras in the trunk of my car (theft). I was intrigued by the scene. One, the available light was good for a pic. Two, I thought it was interesting that the doctor had a jar of safety pins. Perhaps he would use those to re-attach portions of my brain that are loose? When he came into the office, I forgot to ask. Next time.
Rollei Retro 400s 35mm
Pentax Spotmatic II
Takumar 1:1.8 55mm
f16 1/250
No Crop, No filter, No Post Production.
Absolutely True Story. With previous Neurological issues affecting my balance center (vision and ears) after a nasty virus (pre-pandemic). I saw the whole world on a tilt from left to right, constantly, just like this for MONTHS on end!! No, it wasn't much fun as you can well, sort of imagine. haha. Glad I see things 'on the level' now. But if my photo compositions/ image angles start looking a bit on the piss (slope/tilt). Please just roll with it and let's just call it art. haha. Thanks ;)
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16 months ago I developed a serious neurological condition which has stolen the life I had... This pretty much sums it up...
keeping it topical, neurologically speaking.
I have to admit that I particularly love when my heroes turn out to have 'feet of clay'. It serves to make them more human. I love Dr. Oliver Sacks almost as much as I love my 'urinal thief', Marcel.
The famous Zen saying, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him," comes from the 9th-century Chinese Chan (Zen) master Linji Yixuan (Rinzai Gigen), and it's a koan meaning you must kill conceptualizations, false beliefs, or any fixed ideas about enlightenment, even if they appear as a teacher or a holy figure, to find true awakening within yourself.
What a relief it is to find out that your hero is a jester, a trickster, a joker in this pack of cards, so the admonishment to kill them no longer stands.
We can just get on with loving them for being fallible and desperate, in other words exactly the same as the rest of us. I find this to be a great relief.
What's not to love?
Loosing your grip on reality:
Everyone experiences this. The problem is that the people who are most severely affected are obviously unaware of the fact.
While dreaming, we are obviously not aware of the reality that we are asleep. If that were the case we would be awake. When we wake we often say ‘oh, it was just a dream’, but how do we come to such a realisation?
What would it be like if you couldn't tell the difference?
"People think they're awake when they're dreaming, so wake-dream confusion is universal," says Allan Hobson, a dream researcher and professor in the division of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School. "But some conditions are probably more associated with thinking that a dream was real."
It's common in people with psychotic disorders like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, for whom delusions are a fact of everyday life. "The boundaries between cognitive states are blurry for these people," says Patrick McNamara, a neurology professor at Boston University. "Other studies have found they're often very creative individuals—because they can cross these cognitive boundaries, they're also more vulnerable to these confusion states."
This big problem may relate to a small section of your brain, a fold called the paracingulate sulcus. Studies show that people with a less pronounced fold experience more hallucinations and are worse at identifying imagined and real events.
I often imagine that I know what I am doing - most often I am wrong.
neurological merge with my head in the air and my heart on the ground . look around look around . drown drown drownd
Neurologically Operated Refrigerated Automaton, or N.O.R.A. was meant to be Victor's solution to both preserving his beloved wife, and allowing her to continue to function in the world while he could focus on finding her a cure. Only the years as a human snow cone and constant battles Batman have not been kind to Nora. While technically still alive, her body and mind have suffered extensive tissue damage, and she can no longer control N.O.R.A. Instead Victor has taken over the controls. Now outfitted with a mammoth freeze cannon, hurling pissed off polar bears, and a doomsday failsafe that will trigger a cataclysmic nuclear winter, N.O.R.A. Will become the vehicle of Victor's ultimate revenge against Batman and a world whose heart has grown cold.
My entry for FBTB's Mech Madness 2012
Causes of gradual vision loss
1.Painless loss
Refractive error - this is characterised by an improvement of the visual acuity with the use of a pinhole (if you don't have a specific occluder with pinholes, a biro point-sized hole in a stiff piece of cardboard will do). Refer to the optician.
Cataracts - the patient often complains of glare in dark conditions (and so difficulty in driving at night) and may complain that colours appear more dull than they used to. There may be an abnormal red reflex and, in advanced cases, the cataract may be visible to the naked eye (this is increasingly rare these days). Other aspects of the examination should be normal unless there is concurrent pathology. Refer routinely.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) - suspect AMD if the patient is aged >50 years and is presenting with either of the following symptoms, usually affecting one eye at a time:
Distortion of vision, where straight lines appear crooked or wavy.
Painless loss or blurring of central or near-central vision. The person may describe a black or grey patch affecting their central field of vision (scotoma).
Various other visual symptoms can occur, or AMD may be an incidental finding by an optometrist. Visual acuity on a Snellen chart may be normal or reduced. When viewing an Amsler chart (or graph paper), patients may see breaks, waviness, or missing portions of the lines. Refer urgently if AMD is suspected.
Chronic (primary) open-angle glaucoma - is most commonly picked up through screening. If it is so advanced that the patient is the first to notice it, very little can be done. It is characterised by a progressive peripheral visual field loss and 'cupping' of the optic discs (the central area of the optic disc enlarges and the peripheral rim thins out). The degree of urgency depends on how advanced the damage is.
Diabetic retinopathy - the problem may be due to the diabetic microvascular problems (ie exudates and haemorrhages), to associated pathology (eg, diabetic cataract) or unrelated pathology (eg, glaucoma). Refer promptly (within a week), as prompt treatment may prevent deterioration.
Compression of optic nerve or optic pathway - rare, but should be considered if there is a history of headaches and if you find any neurological or endocrinological abnormalities (eg, acromegaly) on examination. Look for a relative afferent pupillary defect (not usually present in the above conditions), a pale or swollen optic disc (the margins are not clear) and visual field defects.
Drugs, toxins or nutritional deficiency - eg:
Amiodarone - various effects on the eye
Antituberculous drugs - ethambutol and isoniazid (optic neuritis).
Hydroxychloroquine (maculopathy).
Systemic steroids (cataracts and glaucoma)
Phosphodiesterase inhibitors (eg, sildenafil).
Others drugs - tetracyclines (benign intracranial hypertension), isotretinoin, tamoxifen (various possible effects on vision).
Alcohol, smoking and nutritional deficiency - eg:
Tobacco-alcohol amblyopia.
Methanol poisoning.
Vitamin A deficiency (classically causes night blindness).
Hereditary retinal dystrophies are rare and, depending on the exact problem, present anywhere from early childhood to middle age. Some are rapidly progressing; others are very slow. Typical features particularly include poor night vision and intolerance to light. Poor appreciation of movement in the peripheral visual field may also be a feature. Ask about similar problems in family members (who may not have been diagnosed). Children should be referred more promptly than adults for whom a routine referral is fine. These patients will need genetic counselling as well as support where the prognosis is poor.
Cerebrovascular disease (stroke and TIA) - although these are likely to present acutely. TIA causing visual loss is termed amaurosis fugax.
Papilloedema - eg, from intracranial hypertension.
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2. Painful loss
This is much rarer and tends to suggest a more sinister pathology such as:
A progressive neoplastic (eg, choroidal melanoma) or inflammatory process (eg, chorioretinitis).
A systemic problem (eg, sarcoidosis or collagen vascular disease).
Lesions on the optic nerve (eg, optic neuritis, granuloma or neuroma).
Intracranial pathology or masses (may present with headache, or with endocrine symptoms if a pituitary tumour).
Intracranial hypertension (may have headache).
All these patients should be referred. Referral is more urgent than with painless conditions and patients should really be seen within a few days.
If there is a problem, don't wait seek medical help.
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Candid street shot Bergen, Norway.
Myself , Champaz and Blacky want to send two very special friends a "get well" Message...... Mystery is a sweet baby girl who's been very sick for a while now, just like my Blacky.... Her mummy (Dale) has been very worried and concern for her to get better and fast..... SO SWEET MYSTERY PLEASE GET BETTER xoxoxoxo Auntie Michelle , Champaz and Blacky....
OUR dear sweet friend Sandy isn't feel well at the moment, she has bad back problem at present, i know only too well how back pain can kick you hard , so myself and Champaz and Blacky , want to send you "GET WELL ",HUGS AND KISSES to knock that pain in the butt and fast...... Michelle Champaz and Blacky xoxoxoxoxoxox..
SO MY TWO FRIENDS GET WELL AND FAST, HUGS ,KISSES ,HEADBUTTS AND PURRRRRRS ALL COMING YOUR WAY FROM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA...... xxxxxxx Michelle.
By architects G. Chiaureli, L. Kiladze, I. Maskharashvili, F. Kartvelishvili and B. Gegelia, 1975. Tbilisi, Georgia.
Photo: Stefano Perego.
sarahallegra.comThis photo is another part of my Enchanted Sleep series, on living with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, more commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or CFS, in the US. The fact that the US calls it CFS instead of ME as the rest of the world does is a big problem, though it might seem trivial at first.
The name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome came about in the mid 1980s to create an insurance loophole so patients could be denied coverage. The disease ME has been around forever, under a wide variety of names, but it is rarely given a new one purely to hamper giving aid to those who have it. There are numerous articles all over the web about it, but I especially like the ones at Name Us and The Hummingbird Foundation.
The name Chronic Fatigue Syndrome sucks. Fatigue is a symptom, not the illness itself. Not only is it very unhelpful in actually describing the disease, it's patronizing and trivializing. Because the definition of CFS is so broad, almost any chronic illness (and many mental illnesses) can be made to fit within them. This has greatly contributed to the widespread belief that people who claim to have CFS aren't really sick, that, at best, they're suffering from clinical depression.
Depression is an evil bitch too, and I have experienced both, but it is not the same thing as ME. Here's a simplified example of one of the many differences between depression and actual ME: when you're depressed, things that once brought you joy no longer do, and you feel unmotivated and apathetic about everything. When you have ME, you long to be able to do the things that once brought you joy, but your body will not let you. Many times, having ME will bring on clinical depression, but the depression is a symptom of the disease, it is not the disease itself.
There is a big movement to officially change the US's name from CFS to ME, bringing us up to speed with the rest of the world. Obviously, I am very much in favor of this. Even places where the disease is called ME and the medical community agrees it's a real, physical illness, it's hard to get taken seriously, by the public or medical community. There is still a lot of ground to cover before we get the recognition we need.
This photo is about the lack of attention and care we with ME have had, and the horrible effects of what merely changing a name can do to a whole group of people. The girls are shown discarded, piled like trash... the medical community doesn't like problems it can't fix and seems like it would much rather we suffer in silence than attempt to get whatever help we can. Since the research is pointing more and more to ME being a neurologic disease, specifically of the central nervous system, I wanted to highlight the spines and necks, and the added feeling of fragility it added was a bonus.
It's really ridiculous that we have to not only fight our bodies every day but all the ignorance, misinformation and prejudice. However, I am quite excited to introduce you to the documentary about ME, Canary In A Coal Mine! Not only is the film going to blow you away, I am also going to be partnering with them in some cool ways which I will share when the time comes :) For now, I'll leave you with an excerpt from their site:
"How would you begin to nourish your body if every food you ate, every object you touched had the capacity to cripple or heal you? How would you fill your life, and what would you toss aside, if you only had three hours a day to live it? What worlds would unfold before your eyes if everything you knew suddenly came to a grinding halt?
Canary in a Coal Mine is about how Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ("Chronic Fatigue Syndrome") may be an indicator of the human costs of our changed environment; a medical system that is ill-equipped to treat an illness that challenges its every assumption; and the power of a name."
I've already ranted enough for one day, so I'll finish up. For anyone wondering, fibromyalgia does seem to essentially be the same thing as ME, although there are disagreements about this. Lastly, wish me luck tomorrow as I get my next round of nerve-blocking injections to dull the constant pain I feel. It usually puts me out for a little over a week, but hey, maybe I can catch up on a lot of editing :)
Models: myself and Aly Darling.
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The last remaining Ravenswood abandoned hospital is finally being rehabbed. Work started recently to make this old hospital into new retirement senior living, apartments will be made into supportive living. Before it closed, this building of the hospital was being used for Neurologic and Orthopedic spinal and brain care. I was born in Ravenswood hospital in the section that was demolished and turned into a french school. Lycee Francais
I learned several months ago that I have a neurological condition called synesthesia. When I look at letters, or numbers, or hear/read words, I see certain colors inside my head. These colors are always the same for its co-responding letter/number; A is always a rusty red, and 4 is always dark grayish-purple.
I also have spatial-sequence synesthesia, which means that I see periods of time (such as the months of the year) in a three-dimensional space around me, with the winter months behind and summer directly ahead. Pain also registers as color, which is actually rather helpful: When I get migraines, I can tell by the color what has caused them and how much medication to take for it.
I see colors for days of the week, musical instruments, everyday sounds, musical tones, and even some smells (like bonfire smoke and gasoline).
I suck at math, though, cuz the colors make me confuse large numbers. 12134 has the same colors as 14321, only in a different sequence, which, when first 'seen' looks almost exactly the same.
Synesthesia is caused by a 'malfuncion' in the wiring of the brain's senses. It doesn't disable me in any way, though does occasionally cause migraine headaches from sensory overload.
The above painting (done in acrylic on particle board) is what I 'see' when listening to Snow by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
If you'd like to purchase this or any other original works of other songs, or would like to commission a song personally, please contact me at lionheart09@comcast.net
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That oak tree at the Thomas Center, Gainesville, Florida. 1948 Ansco Shur Shot Jr box camera on Kodak Tri-X film. I'm always amazed at how well this camera does. It is so minimal.
The Tri-X 400 film is too fast for this camera. This is first time I've tried stand development - Ilfosol DD-X 1+9 for 45 minutes. I think the contrast boost from the stand development worked for this frame.
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A disused neurosurgery wing of a former district hospital. Taken in the operating theatre equipped with a pair of Brandon Medical operating lights
Neurologically Operated Robotic Automoton, or N.O.R.A. was meant to be Victor's solution to both preserving his beloved wife, and allowing her to continue to function in the world while he could focus on finding her a cure. Only the years as a human snow cone and constant battles Batman have not been kind to Nora. While technically still alive, her body and mind have suffered extensive tissue damage, and she can no longer control N.O.R.A. Instead Victor has taken over the controls. Now outfitted with a mammoth freeze cannon, hurling pissed off polar bears, and a doomsday failsafe that will trigger a cataclysmic nuclear winter, N.O.R.A. Will become the vehicle of Victor's ultimate revenge against Batman and a world whose heart has grown cold.
“I have Spastic Diplegia Cerebral Palsy (CP). A neurological condition I was born with which causes muscle tension and weakness. My particular form of CP affects mainly my legs. I can walk but only for short distances, hence the wheelchair. I got my first wheelchair when I was about seven or eight. I remember it was an awful huge bright red thing. Entirely unsuitable for me. The width of the chair was too wide for me to be able to reach the self-propel bars. Which meant that I couldn’t self-wheel the chair at all. Even if I could have reached the bars, it would probably have been too heavy for eight year old me to self-propel. It meant I was reliant on other people to push me around. The one I have now is much much better. It’s light, compact and designed specifically to make it easy to self-propel. Everyone should be able to access a wheelchair which is suitable for their needs, but unfortunately obtaining a good quality one can be very difficult, time-consuming and expensive.”
50 sec exposure shot on Olympus E-30.
- Perpetual events may be mistaken for continuous actions depending on the amount of time between each cycle or separate actions. This is the case with consciousness when we observe it from a quantified perspective. The flow of time is nothing but our perception on the changes in observable values.
Wessex Neurological Centres Iveco daily emergency transfer ambulance seen here en route to Southampton General Hospital.
This has had a Double Dash Light added since I last saw it.
NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION - a doctor supervised program for people with nervous system diseases, trauma or disorders.
We Keep You Moving.
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~My son Dylan Sharp has a Rare Neurological Movement Disorder. Dylan first got hospitalized in February of 2015, & we knew it was some type of a movement disorder when he was 9 years old. We waited, then Dylan's other test results came in September & was officially confirmed in Nov. of 2015 that our son has a Rare Neurological Movement Disorder @ the age of 10. Dylan's results showed us nothing any of our Dr's here had ever seen before, we don't even have a name for what Dylan's disease is, other than it falls under a type of movement disorder, and that it's rare.
WASHINGTON — A study from a Pentagon think tank theorizes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has Asperger's syndrome, "an autistic disorder which affects all of his decisions," according to the 2008 report obtained by USA TODAY.
Putin's "neurological development was significantly interrupted in infancy," wrote Brenda Connors, an expert in movement pattern analysis at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Studies of his movement, Connors wrote, reveal "that the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality.”
In light of recent “ developments in Ukraine” where Putin authorized the killing of innocent men, women and children, we must ask the question again? is Putin the full quid?
One would think that Putin overstepped the mark in a big way when he threatened nuclear warfare on anyone interfering with his wish to grab Ukraine by force
Terrorism is expected of mentally retarded, maladjusted frustrated human being blaming others for his failures to get what he wants in life so he lashes out in anger at anyone he comes across; terrorism from an intelligent head of one of the most powerful nations on earth is a sign that his “brain” is degenerating and disintegrating
In other words Putin brain is out of order!
The pentagon think tank made a correct diagnosis!
Why is the world ignoring it? it is anyone’s guess!
Thomas Jefferson — 'The government you elect is the government you deserve.'
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Mobile phones use electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range.
Cell phone users had an increased risk of malignant gliomas.
The link between cell phone use and a higher rate of acoustic neuromas.
Tumors are more likely to occur on the side of the head where the cell handset is used.
One hour of cell phone use per day significantly increases tumor risk after ten years or more.
Neurosurgeon at Lake Forest Hospital, PAWL has called for major research initiatives to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors.
Pawl''s editorial is published in the November issue of the journal Surgical Neurology.
One author suggested that long-term cell phone use is "more dangerous to health than smoking cigarettes."
Other recent commentators have raised similar concerns.
www.lef.org/magazine/2007/8/report_cellphone_radiation/Pa...
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The last remaining Ravenswood abandoned hospital is finally being rehabbed. Work started recently to make this old hospital into new retirement senior living, apartments will be made into supportive living. Before it closed, this building of the hospital was being used for Neurologic and Orthopedic spinal and brain care. I was born in Ravenswood hospital in the section that was demolished and turned into a french school. Lycee Francais
Wessex Neurological Centres Iveco daily emergency transfer ambulance seen here en route to Southampton General Hospital.
This has had a Double Dash Light added since I last saw it.
Foto donata alla Fondazione Maugeri per la SLA
Gifted Photo to the Maugeri Foundation for ALS
Good News!!!
ALS causing gene discovered
Using a new sequencing method, researchers have discovered a gene that appears to cause some instances of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
A team of researchers led by scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institutes of Health Using make the discovery, which may lead to novel ways to treat the more common form of this fatal neurodegenerative disease.
Researchers don't know exactly what causes ALS, which destroys the motor neurons that control the movement of all the body's muscles, including those that control breathing.
However, studies into the familial form of the disease, which affects 5 percent to 10 percent of those diagnosed with the disease, could shed some light on why motor neurons die in all types of ALS, said study leader Bryan J. Traynor of theJohns Hopkins University.
"If you look at the spectrum of diseases caused by dysfunctional genes, our knowledge of almost all of them has grown out of the familial form of those diseases," said Traynor.
By finding the genes associated with those diseases, researchers can insert the causative genes in animals, creating models that can help them decipher what takes place to cause pathologies and develop ways to stop them, he said.
In the new study, Traynor and colleagues used a new technique known as exome sequencing to search for more.
The team used exome sequencing on two ALS patients and 200 people without the disease. Their search turned up a gene called VCP, short for valosin-containing protein.
When the researchers looked for other instances in which this gene was mutated in 210 additional ALS patients, they found four different mutations that affect VCP in five individuals.
None of these mutations were found in the genomes of hundreds of healthy controls, suggesting that VCP is indeed the cause for some of the ALS cases.
The findings were published in the journal Neuron. (ANI)
SLA, identificato il gene VCP
Da oggi, la lotta alla Sclerosi Laterale Amiotrofica (SLA) conquista una posizione.
E' stato infatti individuato il gene VCP (Valosin Containing Protein), presente sul Cromosoma 9 e causa della malattia.
Questo il risultato di una ricerca del NIH di Bethesda (sezione Laboratorio di Neurogenetica), dell'Università e dell'Ospedale Molinette di Torino (sezione Dipartimento di Neuroscienze), dell'Azienda Ospedaliera OIRM Sant'Anna (Sezione laboratorio di genetica molecolare), e dell'Ospedale Universitario di Modena (sezione centro SLA), diretta dal profeesor Brian Taylor e pubblicata su "Neuron". La ricerca è stata finanziata dalla dalla Fondazione Vialli e Mauro, dal Ministero della Salute e dalla FIGC (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio); inoltre, il lavoro è stato sostenuto dal Consorzio ITALSGEN, che riunisce 14 centri universitari ed ospedalieri italiani che si sono uniti per la lotta contro la SLA.
Gli scienziati hanno osservato VCP incuriositi dal suo curriculum. Tale gene è infatti origine di un'altra malattia neurogenetica (la Demenza Frontotemporale associata a miosite a corpi inclusi e malattia di Paget) ed è inserito nel processo che porta all'accumulo di proteine anormali. E, ricordano gli esperti, la SLA è legata alla morte dei motoneuroni, causata dalle proteine aberranti.
Partendo da qui, il professor Taylor e colleghi hanno esaminato porzioni di DNA, sfruttando la tecnica degli Esomi, che permette di sequenziare tutta quella parte di patrimonio genetico che codifica per le proteine. In questo modo si sono raccolte le informazioni sul gene.
Per i ricercatori, i risultati ottenuti aiuteranno a gestire la patologia, rendendo più facili altri trattamenti.