Ask an Expert About Alzheimer's, Part 3
Ask an Expert About Alzheimer's, Part 3
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Part 1 of responses can be found here, and Part 2, is here. In our third and final part, he responds to questions dealing with treatment, patient care and new clinical trials. Enlarge This …. DBR New York. A. Choline is an essential nutrient for …
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Through Meditation, Veterans Relearn Compassion
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Despite how common this is, there are no easy answers for how to treat PTSD. Talk therapies can work, but they take a long time and not all vets stick with them. Antidepressants, like Prozac, have been disappointing. In 2007, a VA study found that no …
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Citicoline Supplement Doesn't Help Brain Injury in Study
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A dietary supplement sold as a brain stimulant failed to help head trauma patients improve in function and thinking in a study, challenging the drug's use as a treatment option for the condition, researchers said. … “We were disappointed to find that …
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Ecstasy (Yes, the Club Drug) as a Treatment for Autism? – A new study in the journal Biological Psychiatry suggests that MDMA—that’s the club drug, ecstasy—may be used to ‘enhance the psychotherapy of people who struggle to feel connected to others.’ For this reason, it’s suggested that the drug might be used with those who have autism, schizophrenia, or antisocial personality disorder. Researchers do note that ‘these effects have been difficult to measure objectively, and there has been limited research in humans.’ And it’s pretty hard not to look at this latest idea about treating autism with several grains of salt. The new study, Is Ecstasy an “Empathogen”?, was undertaken by University of Chicago researchers and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. According to the lead author, Dr. Gillinder Bedi: “We found that MDMA produced friendliness, playfulness, and loving feelings, even when it was administered to people in a laboratory with little social contact. We also found that MDMA reduced volunteers’ capacity to recognize facial expressions of fear in other people, an effect that may be involved in the increased sociability said to be produced by MDMA.” The study found that the use of MDMA can make others ‘seem more attractive and friendly.’ However, MDMA can also make others seem ‘less threatening, which could increase users’ social risk-taking’—and which could, and would, one might think, pose potentially significant problems for those with psychiatric disorders or individuals on the autism spectrum, who may …