Slight Hearing Loss Means Cognitive Impairment
When it comes to the important task of holding onto your marbles in your 50’s and beyond, pouncing immediately on hearing loss is vital.
Tetris Terror Therapy
If I ever got caught up in a terrorist attack, shortly afterwards you’d find me playing Tetris on my phone
Autistica: Supporting Mental Health in Autism
Mental health has taken a back seat in autism, yet individuals and families reported that mental health problems are the biggest challenge that they face day to day.
Prof Irene Tracey explains How Brains Change Pain
Dr Jack interviews pain guru Prof Irene Tracey of the University of Oxford whose lab uses brain imaging to better understand how brains produce & regulate pain.
Epilepsy surgery spreads across UK
Can you imagine having to knock out your own child in case their recurrent epilepsy seizures last so long that they might hurt
The Future of Schizophrenia by Dr Jack Lewis
Positive symptoms are usually reliably controlled in most schizophrenic people (assuming they can tolerate the side effects) using clozapine – an anti-psychotic medications that works in mysterious ways and even in most patients for whom the many other available drugs aren’t effective. With psychosis successfully supressed by such drug therapy, it is the negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction that are by far the most severe impediment to a schizophrenic individual being well integrated into society and able to live a relatively normal, independent life. The biggest hope for an effective therapy in the coming few decades stems from a combination of 1) drugs that increase brain plasticity and 2) cognitive training, which together might help schizophrenic people to develop a whole host of social skills and basic mental processes that have become compromised during disease progression.
A Brief Overview of Acute versus Chronic Pain by Dr Jack Lewis
Chronic pain is a very broad subject so this is NOT a comprehensive review. Rather I’ve tried to create a brief and accessible overview that might help people understand some of the basic principles of acute and chronic pain
Ischaemic versus haemorrhagic stroke
This article explains the basic difference between stroke versus haemmorhage. Many different types of disability can result when the blood supply is interrupted according to which brain areas are damaged. It is almost always possible to regain some if not all of the lost functions by training intact brain areas to take over from damaged regions through absolute dedication to hours and hours of rehabilitation exercises.