Should mental illnesses be referred to as "braindiseases"?
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Carrie A.Posted
Mon 02 Nov 2009 10:00pm
I stumbled across an interesting article in The Behavior Therapist, published by the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, titled On the BrainDisease Model of Mental Disorders, by Brett Deacon and James Lickel. The "braindisease" model holds that mental illnesses are biologically-based and are the result of underlying alterations
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OUTDATED MEDICAL DOGMA MISSING CNS AND BRAINDISEASE CAUSED BY INFECTION.
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Joanne60Posted
Fri 04 Feb 2011 3:43am
the full article click here
An interesting interview with Bransfield can be found through an earlier post here
Lyme is a BrainDisease
by Virginia T. Sherr
Virginia talks about Lyme Borreliosis being a braindisease as well as a multi systemic disease. She reminds us that it is often accompanied by several other tick borne infections
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New York Times on: Veterans and Brain Disease
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Broken BrilliantPosted
Mon 30 Apr 2012 8:36am
Veterans and Brain Disease
He was a 27-year-old former Marine, struggling to adjust to civilian life after two tours in Iraq. Once an A student, he now found himself unable to remember conversations, dates and routine bits of daily life. He became irritable, snapped at his children and withdrew from his family. He and his wife began divorce proc ...
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'Bilingual' Neurons May Reveal the Secrets of BrainDisease
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Bob DeMarcoPosted
Sat 19 Mar 2011 12:42pm
such as motivation and learning.
The malfunction of these neurons is involved in serious braindiseases such as schizophrenia and Parkinson's. “Our recent research, carried out in part...
Major breakthrough in understanding of brain function...
Alzheimer's Reading Room
A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and McGill University
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Tysabri reports 10 more braindisease cases
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stuartPosted
Sat 19 Feb 2011 12:00am
By Geoff Percival Saturday, February 19, 2011THE owners of multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri have reported a further 10 cases of the rare braindisease PML... in the clinical trial format.
The new cases of PML bring to 95 the total number of Tysabri-users who have contracted the potentially fatal braindisease, with 20 having died from
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Stem Cell Therapies for Inflammatory BrainDiseases Now Possible
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Jeff PilePosted
Wed 02 Jun 2010 4:33pm
the human brain to the site of injuries, in order to fix the damages. This is the final piece to a puzzle that, once completely solved, could allow researchers to create new, stem cell-based therapies for inflammatory diseases of the brain, such as, for instance, multiple sclerosis (MS).According to Center investigators Tom Lane and Kevin Carbajal
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Braindisease could affect more people, research finds
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Healthy SolutionsPosted
Sun 15 Aug 2010 9:39am
By Caroline Parkinson
Health reporter, BBC News
A new form of braindisease, similar to Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, could affect more people than previously thought, researchers in the US say.
It had been thought that only people with one genetic profile were vulnerable to the prion disease VPSPr
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LYME IS A BRAINDISEASE
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Dr. Virginia S.Posted
Fri 12 Sep 2008 10:54am
By Virginia T. Sherr 7-31-05
Lyme borreliosis is a braindisease as well as a multisystemic disease caused by spirochetal bacteria.* Quite frankly, it is an infection... variation through DNA recombinations in the case of relapsing fever, the occurrence of chronic arthritis in the case of Lyme disease, and invasion of and persistence in the brainRead on »
Crossing the Bar: Understanding That Addictions Are a Treatable BrainDisease
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Lisa FrederiksenPosted
Wed 09 Feb 2011 8:14pm
; it is now recognized as a braindisease that can be managed and treated.
It was in fact, a (European-trained) clinical nutritionist, Dr. Charles Lieber, who upset scientific dogma... in the fields of neurology, genetics, psychiatry, pharmacology, and nutrition – and the emergence of neuro-imaging, which can capture the actual workings of the brain – have all converged
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