medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded about their efficacy. The widespread use of lobotomies in the 1920s and 1930s gave...
On telling the truth to patients with dementia Objectives—To discover what dementia sufferers feel is wrong with them; what they have been told and by whom, and what they wish to know about their illne... M Marzanski - 《Journal of Medical Ethics》 被引量: 224发表: 2000年 I Would ...
Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, characterised by mental deterioration and degeneration of the brain, is distressing for both sufferers and those who care for them, and Celebrities' Favourite Books is dedicated to those affected.Containing around 100 letters from well-known people nominating ...
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In the very earliest literature about the condition of schizophrenia, originally termeddementia praecox, it was often described as ‘a waking dream’ where the sufferers lived in a ‘twilight zone’. Eugen Bleuler, the Swiss psychiatrist who invented the term schizophrenia in 1908, believed that ...
author of The Hummingbird'Touching and intelligent'NEW YORK TIMESIn Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time...
Similar symptoms can be found in frontotemporal dementia in humans, which is presumably caused by a mutation of the gene for PS1, when amyloidogenesis (i.e., formation of Aβ) does not occur. From the abovementioned information, it follows that neurodegeneration may proceed even without the ...
Another recent craze was metformin, a drug intended to treat diabetes, but which is claimed to stave off dementia and cancer; others extol the benefits of placental cells. Craig Venter has a company called Human Longevity, which received $300 million in start-up funds. This goes beyond 23...
the recurrent nightmares that are often experienced by sufferers from posttraumatic stress disorder; in collaboration with a clinical colleague, Walker has developed a treatment for this. Inadequate sleep is a contributing cause of so many illnesses that Walker describes it as a form of self-...