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Vestibular disorder symptoms I have experienced by ci4me2007 Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Dec 2008 6:33pm I came across an interesting website for an organization called VEDA (VEstibular Disorder Association). I found this list of possible symptoms that is very interesting. Image copied from “vestibular system.” Online Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 23 Jan. 2008 Here is an explanation of the Vestibular system. I did not initially place all Read on »

Interesting News articles related to Postpartum Mood Disorders and the legal system by Atlanta Mom .. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 07 May 2009 9:06pm An Illinois woman serving a life sentence for killing her children while suffering from postpartum psychosis will go free as the disorder gains more attention. Writers... and awareness...our legislators and judges can bring much needed awareness to perinatal mood disorder through their positions. Read on »

Dick Schwartz: Internal Family Systems and Eating Disorders by castlewoodtc Posted Fri 17 Dec 2010 3:17am Treatment Center for Eating Disorders. Castlewood has been utilizing Internal Family Systems therapy for many years. Our entire staff has received training in this amazing, non pathologizing model of therapy. Please check out this small segment from his lecture: Dick Schwartz- Internal Family Systems and Eating Disorders Read on »

U.S. Has Highest Number of People Afflicted With Bi-Polar Disorder-It’s The Health System by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Wed 09 Mar 2011 2:35am Ok are we bi-polar because of our horrible health system? It is enough to make anyone depressed! Chances are we probably diagnose more cases here in the US as perhaps... friend who have been diagnosed at different levels and sometimes you forget as a friend that they have the disorder until the depression side sets in as the mania side is usually Read on »

Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: an unusual scleroderma-like fibrosing disorder by Jan Posted Wed 09 Mar 2011 2:16am Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) is a fibrosing disorder, recently described in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease, usually after exposure to gadolinium (Gd... of systemic sclerosis. However, the different topographic distribution of the skin thickening and hardening, usually involving the limbs and trunk, whilst sparing the face, the lack Read on »

Oral, pharyngeal and esophageal motility disorders in systemic diseases by Jan Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:56pm antibodies and chest imaging are usually required for diagnosis. Esophageal inflammation resulting from systemic disease is usually the result of a few specific disorders: sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, and other rare skin disorders. Systemic Sclerosis and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Studies on the pathogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD Read on »

Pleural Involvement in Systemic Autoimmune Disorders by Jan Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:58pm Research by Bouros D. and Colleague Systemic autoimmune diseases, a heterogeneous group of immunologically mediated inflammatory disorders including multiorgan... and prognosis of pleural involvement in both conditions. The definition of pleural disease in the remaining systemic autoimmune disorders is unquestionably imprecise and assumptive Read on »

Clinic Notes: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the Immune System by Dr. Gary B. Doctor of Philosophy

Posted Wed 30 Jun 2010 10:34am in the child with OCD. Low serotonin levels are implicated in both disorders and often both are treated with medications that increase serotonin levels although the improvement, if any, is usually small. A recent study in mice links OCD to problems in the immune system. It was already known that PANDAS, an abbreviation for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Read on »

Vasculopathy and disordered angiogenesis in selected rheumatic diseases: rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis by Jan Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 4:57pm

1 Comment BY Alisa E Koch and Oliver Distler Angiogenesis is important in the pathogenesis of systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, a family of related disorders that includes rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis. Rheumatoid arthritis is the rheumatic disease in which the role of angiogenesis has been studied most extensively. However, whereas Read on »

Evaluation of a Records-Review Surveillance System Used to Determine the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders. by Kev Leitch Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 28 Jun 2010 3:12pm that estimates the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of a population-based autism spectrum disorders (ASD) surveillance system...-review-surveillance-system-used-to-determine-the-prevalence-of-autism-spectrum-disorders/">Evaluation of a Records-Review Surveillance System Used to Determine the Prevalence Read on »