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Open Letter to All Autism-Affected People: Help Requested

Please forgive my presumptuous plea. i cannot live where i'm living. It's the autism. This location is killing me. Some of you have asked me "what can i do to help?"Here's something:Please read the following...

Psychopathy/Antisocial Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Confusion

Regarding: something published and apparently ignored since February 1, 1996Psychiatric Times. Vol. 13 No. 2: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display/article/10168/54831"Written by Robert D. Hare, Ph.D. Dr. Hare,...

Challenging Popular Myths About Autism

i could say a lot about the popular myths about autism, but i happily don't need to: someone already wrote an absolutely fantastic article. RACHEL COHEN-ROTTENBERG wrote such an accessible, accurate, direct and personally touching article on the topic, i thought it should...

Marijuana As Wonder Drug

"Marijuana As Wonder Drug By Lester Grinspoon, Boston.com, 1 March 2007 The Boston Globe, © Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. Also published as: Marijuana, the wonder drug - International Herald Tribune A NEW STUDY* in the journal Neurology is being hailed as...

An Epitaph for the Bush Administration: A Sobering Conclusion from Cognitive...

Robert Burton, M.D., author and former Chief of Neurology at Mount Zion-UCSF Hospital, examines why most voters will not change their minds about their favorite candidate even if presented with sufficient facts...

HIV patients: Get high, heal your feet

Critics of medicinal marijuana (including the Bush administration, it seems) are raising the red flag here, saying that smoking marijuana is bad for you, even if the painkilling properties are good. The US...

Can mobiles make you infertile?

Can the radiation emerging from mobile phones cause impotency, this subject has been debated on many occasions. There have been reports coming time to time which claims that excessive mobile usage slows down sperm...

Study links arms and legs with memory loss

Short limbs may be a sign ofnutritional deficits early in life that ultimately play a rolein brain development. Having short arms and legs may raise aperson's risk of developing memory problems later in life,...

Tough work removing pig brains

Working in a pork processing plant can be demanding and serious business. The progressive inflammatory neuropathy, as it has been named, has afflicted several employees at the Austin, MN (USA) pork processing plant. Fortunately an identification of this disease has been...

Restless Leg Syndrome Doubles Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

News that Restless Leg Syndrome sufferers were twice as likely to have a stroke or heart disease in comparison to people without RLS, according to a large-scale study.

Mediterranean Diet in Alzheimer's Patients Lengthens Lives

Research coming out of Columbia University:  following a “Mediterranean diet” could help people with Alzheimer’s disease live longer than patients who eat a more conventional Western diet.

Coffee 'protects female memory'

"Caffeine may help older women ward off mental decline, research suggests. French researchers compared women aged 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee per day with those who drank one cup or less per day. Those who drank more caffeine showed less decline in...

Coffee may slow memory declines in women: study

Another score for America's favorite morning beverage. A recent study finds that coffee might help fight age related illness in women. Coffee, shown to be rich in antioxidants, is an $18 billion  dollar...

Study finds smoking wards off Parkinson's disease

"CHICAGO (Reuters) - There is more evidence to back up a long-standing theory that smokers are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease than people who do not use tobacco products, researchers reported on...

What is Arachnoiditis?

If you are just browsing and have run across this story then I promise you that you are about to learn something. If you got here by doing a search on "arachnoiditis," then you might already know what I am going to write about. First, let me tell you that I am not a doctor. I...

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