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Effect of Early Life Stress on Behavior and Cognition by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

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Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The human brain undergoes rapid development from late gestation to early childhood. The brain structures that are developing or undergoing age-related changes are more vulnera ... Read on »

Logging On for Psychotherapy by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The explosion of the Internet allows people to use their computer for things that previously needed to be done in person. Now, communicating with friends and family, networkin ... Read on »

Drugs and Pharmacology, Seventeenth Edition by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Welcome to the seventeenth edition of Drugs and Pharmacology. Today, we discuss how banning over-the-counter drugs to thwart drug abuse could affect you, how bacteria respond ... Read on »

Laughter’s the Best Remedy by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Groucho Marx once said, “A clown is like an aspirin, only he works twice as fast.” Indeed, research suggests that humor can minimize our perceptions of physical pa ... Read on »

New Antipsychotic Agent in the US Market by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health More than 50 years ago, the first antipsychotic medications appeared in the United States. While these drugs -– fluphenazine, haloperidol, chlorpromazine, and others &md ... Read on »

Will Healthcare Workers Refuse the Swine Flu Vaccine? by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The first doses of vaccine for the Influenza A H1N1 virus (“swine flu”) should be available in October of 2009. Due to an initial limited supply, the World Health ... Read on »

Brain Blogging, Forty-Seventh Edition by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Welcome to the forty-seventh edition of Brain Blogging. In this round, we discuss whether science is in need of another cognitive revolution, how to reinforce our cognition, h ... Read on »

Mood and Functional Disability – A Positive Feedback Loop by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Emotional or mood problems are more frequent in people with disabilities (of any severity or duration) than in the general population. Rates range from about 20% to 50%, depen ... Read on »

Do Warning Labels Work? by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health While illicit drug use in the United States is certainly a public health concern, the increasing use of legal, over-the-counter (OTC) drugs for non-medical use is alarming. Th ... Read on »

How Young is Too Young to Diagnose Depression? by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Any parent can attest that the “Terrible 2’s” are a moody, temperamental time in the life of a toddler. Many kids are irritable and seem to throw temper tant ... Read on »

Swine Flu – A Lose-Lose Situation for Public Health Authorities by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health After the great SARS terror of 2002 which was predicted to cause more devastation than AIDS, and the bird flu panic of 2006 when we were warned that a quarter of Britons might ... Read on »

Creating an Artificial Brain by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. Henry Markram recently announced that he expects to have a computer model of the human brain in ten years. As part of the Blue Brain Project, he is part of a team trying t ... Read on »

Health Insurance for All – A Weighty Issue by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The prospect of universal health coverage for all Americans is weighing heavily on lawmakers right now. But, if the current proposals pass Congress, Americans may be looking a ... Read on »

The Reality of the Brain-Computer Interface by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Imagine having the ability to turn on the television and change the channel without using a remote control. Or better yet, imagine navigating the internet and sending emails u ... Read on »

In Sickness and Mental Health by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Most couples promise to love each other in sickness and in health when reciting marriage vows. Now, simply saying those words may lead to better health. Numerous studies have ... Read on »

Social and Physical Pain Share Neural Architecture by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” may be more defensive than accurate. Indeed, most languages rely on words that ... Read on »

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A Medical Mystery by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Medical mysteries pop up every now and then that are either misdiagnosed or dismissed as either a psychosomatic or a psychological disorder. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is ... Read on »

The Psychobiology and Psychoanalysis of Dreams by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Have you ever experienced waking up in the night, sweating and gasping for breath because some strange dream is mystifying you? Most people have experienced dreams of being ch ... Read on »

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – An Inside Look by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health While performing research for my next article, I found a paper in The Open Neurology Journal reporting the results of a scientific study which confirmed both the presence and ... Read on »

The Genetics of Alcoholism by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Alcohol consumption is probably as old as human civilization, and so is its abuse. The social and physiological ill effects of alcoholism are well known. What is less clear is ... Read on »

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