One big change is that the role of social isolation in hastening the progress of the disease is becoming clearer — and thus more easily avoided.
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With humans, it is likely more complex but identifying the neural correlates of expectation may help produce more effective pain relief in humans and animals.
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Parnia says he is not religious. Rather, his views are the outcome of clinical experience in a field where doctors have literally never gone before.
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The use of people with dementia in cruel experiments during the Nazi era illustrates the thesis of Richard Weikart’s new book, Unnatural Death.
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Increasing longevity and widespread early diagnosis will mean that delaying the progress of the disease becomes very important over the next few decades.
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Dr. Post considers it implausible that “rementia,” the sudden, brief return of a personal identity, can be explained purely in material brain terms.
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Once the legalization train leaves the station, it is no longer containable or controllable. The category of “killables” never stops expanding.
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Although Narayanan frowns on pro-lifers using information to show the individual humanity of the unborn child, that’s clearly where the science points.
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Maybe it comes down to the traditional advice about the internet in general: If it sounds unbelievable, don’t believe it, and when in doubt, doubt.
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A little-reported 2021 case study published in Neurology Clinical Practice shows how resilient the human brain can be. A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues. The damage was serious enough that a decision was made, with her consent, to remove almost all of the right side of her brain (hemispherectomy). As the study authors put it, “only a small disconnected right occipital pole was retained.” What impact would that have on her mind? The right hemisphere of the brain is thought by neuroscientists to play a specific role in “nonverbal” cognitive abilities. From Simply Psychology, we learn, Left hemisphere function The left hemisphere controls the right-hand side of the Read More ›
As a medical scientist, he looks at how new findings will help develop new treatments to revive people now considered hopeless and restore brain damage.
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Parnia concludes that science suggests, at a minimum, that our consciousness and selfhood “are not annihilated when we cross over into death.”
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Fauci’s early career was brilliant; he gained the trust of angry opponents during the AIDS years. But the art of listening seemed to desert him later.
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My mother died of Alzheimer’s, and she was never less than fully human and as worthy of love and regard when she became incompetent.
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There are significant differences between NDEs and drug trips, as psychologist Steve Taylor notes.
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The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey of doctors, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, which asked doctors this question: “In addition to adults with terminal illnesses, [which] other groups of patients who should be MAID eligible?” The answers are disturbing. From the survey: Majorities of doctors surveyed answered that they would be willing to be present when the deed is done. Here’s the question: “If it were available (or is available), what is your willingness to be present when patients took MAID drugs?” Again, disturbing results, with 61% either probably or definitely, yes: That’s only a hop, skip, and a jump to willingness to do the deed. And no Read More ›
To her credit, reporter Sharon Kirkey at least provides a brief counterpoint to the pro-euthanasia narrative, something often entirely missing in many media.
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As we learn more about memory, it takes a while to even process what we are learning but the research may help treat memory-related disorders.
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Nanotechnology poses risks, of course, but Stephan thinks that a bigger risk is reduced funding for groundbreaking research in the years ahead.
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Such compassion is on the outs in these “enlightened” days. Indeed, it may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born.
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