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Your Astrocytes To The Rescue!

Posted on 08. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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ASTROCYTES: NOT JUST FILLER ANYMORE
For decades, neurons have gotten all the glory. They’re smart, sexy, sleek, sophisticated, lightning fast and extremely elitist since they make up only 10% of the brain.
Sandwiched between 100 billion neurons—more or less—you’ll find 10 times as many “glial” cells, (from the latin for glue). Astrocytes are [...]

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Pesticides, Plastic And Permanent Neurotoxicity: The Path To Parkinson’s Disease

Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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In 1966, Lew Welch created this incredibly tenacious tagline that continues to swirl within everyone’s subconscious!
RAID, KILLS BUGS DEAD!
A more liberal interpretation today might read:
“RAID, Kills Brain Cells Dead!”
That may be more macabre than you were counting on, but nevertheless consistent with a new paradigm emerging from basic research in a relatively new discipline—molecular neurotoxicology.
What [...]

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Insomnia, Insanity And A World-Wide Credit Crisis: What’s Keeping You Awake?

Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Can’t sleep? You’re not alone. Some 40 million other people with over 70 different sleep disorders are keeping you company every night. Not much consolation, I know.
Now with a global economic meltdown looming on the horizon, chronic persistent insomnia is on the rise. People are not sleeping in ever increasing numbers.
A recent [...]

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Exploding Head Syndrome: It’s Not What You Think

Posted on 22. Jul, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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photo credit: Puppy Zwolle
Not to be confused with “music-induced tickle” where playing the piano triggers a sneeze or “blip syndrome” when relaxation brings on the sensation of an impending loss of consciousness–exploding head syndrome is all bark and no bite.
No headache in fact! Just the sensation that your head is going [...]

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Need A Neuroprotective “Hangover-Helper”?

Posted on 06. Jul, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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photo credit: andronicusmax
Internet hype and global democracy ideologies aside, the elusive hangover cure does not exist–and mostly likely, never will.
There are simply too many variables involved for a one-size fits all approach. Everything from the amount and rate of alcohol consumption, the presence of congeners (impurities produced during the fermentation process) and genetic makeup [...]

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Son Of A Somnambulist: Sleep-Walking Is Inherited!

Posted on 30. Jun, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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photo credit: Sadistos
Simple insomnia is one thing – but complex sleep-disorders like sleep-walking have kept people and scientists alike puzzled for decades…until now.
Finally, the Finnish Twin Cohort of some 11,220 subjects including some 3,000 twin pairs, is able to shed some scientific light on the genetic nature of sleep-walking.
But first–sleep-walking, (as you may already [...]

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