Incessant Blog Reading Triggers Near Insanity: Scientists Baffled

Posted on 07. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Incessant blog reading or “inbleading”, apparently has its consequences. “Bleaders” (incessant blog readers) net-wide, are reporting irrational behavior and brief memory lapses following extended periods of extreme blog hopping.
Of course that is all made up. But before you sail away, ask yourself, “just how well is my brain able to discern [...]

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Brain Bliss: What’s Empathy Got To Do With It?

Posted on 05. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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The “empathic” brain. We all assume we have one, but like “hen’s teeth” it’s rarer than you think. The unbridled capacity to share and completely comprehend the emotional state of another person…well it’s what’s being human is all about…isn’t it? Empathic helping behavior is observed among all primates, not just humans. [...]

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Have You Seen My Ventral Tegmental Area?

Posted on 02. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Not yet. But thanks to the advent of fMRI (functional MRI) it won’t be long before total strangers are methodically scrutinizing hemodynamics (blood flow) within various regions of the brain to bypass conscious cognitive processing and asking the question, “you’re not lying are you”? Forget Total Recall where memories are simply erased and [...]

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Save Your Heart–Save Your Head: In Five “E”asy Steps

Posted on 02. Mar, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Remember you heard it here first.
There now exists a formidable body of literature linking cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. More than ten years ago I found myself lecturing my patients on the not-so- subtle connection between abdominal obesity; insulin resistance; syndrome-X and endothelial-cell dysfunction. With abdominal obesity, fat is progressively packed around [...]

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Brain Health And The Seven Human Sirtuins (sir-2-ins)!

Posted on 26. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Who guessed that the second law of thermodynamics† would be invoked to explain the neurobiology of aging. Rather than one master mechanism to explain the gradual failing of complex neurochemical processes, a shroud of dysregulation slowly, (mostly), yet inexorably engulfs our delicate brain mitochondrial DNA. Since brain mitochondrial DNA is especially sensitive [...]

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How To Keep Your Hippocampus Happy!

Posted on 19. Feb, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Humans have two hippocampus’s— hippocampi really.
You know, like octopus and octopi, hippopotamus and hippopotami?
I know what you’re thinking, enough already. Like it or not, the word silliness will probably help you remember the fact that you have a hippocampus–or– it may drive you to the next blog.
Either way, having happy hippocampi (I [...]

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