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The Adoption of Health IT by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

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Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Dr. David Blumenthal is the newly appointed National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. You may have seen his name as the director of the Institute for Health Poli ... Read on »

Tax Your Way Thin by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The obesity epidemic in the United States has stirred emotions and inspired calls for public health initiatives to get American thin. The idea of food taxes on sugar-sweetened ... Read on »

Objective Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at the earliest clinical stages can be difficult. Given the variability in clinical threshold at which there is functi ... Read on »

Free Will and the Philosophy of Science by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health For many years the discussion over the existence of free will was limited to philosophers and theologians. Scientists started talking about free will once science started sepa ... Read on »

Electronic Health Information - Small Steps, but No Giant Leaps by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health More than 5 years ago in his state of the union address, President George W. Bush announced a goal that all Americans have electronic health records within 10 years. Since the ... Read on »

Emotions and the Brain by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I’ve recently started to think about emotions. I’m not a very emotional person. I guess I’m just like many other men. I admit that I’m stereotyping her ... Read on »

Who Gets to be a Doctor? by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I was intrigued by a recent article in the New York Times describing how a Swedish medical school admitted a student whom they later learned had done jail time for murder. App ... Read on »

Cognitive Theories and Brain Damage by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Cognitive theorists postulate how information is processed. For example, is it like a computer where all the information is broken down into bits, processed, and then reassemb ... Read on »

Father’s Milk by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health There’s a great scene in Meet the Parents in which Ben Stiller’s character Greg is trying to convince his future father-in-law, played by Robert DeNiro, of his his ... Read on »

Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Industry by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

1 Comment Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health With the intensifying call for transparency in corporate America, several pharmaceutical companies have announced plans to jump on the proverbial bandwagon early. In anticipat ... Read on »

Curry in a Hurry - The Health Benefits of Turmeric by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Over the past few decades, the emergence of India as an international superpower has been slow and steady. In the United States, this has translated into a simmering public aw ... Read on »

Metabolic Syndrome and Cognitive Decline by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure, impaired levels of blood cholesterol, altered glucose metabolism o ... Read on »

Hope for Future Treatment Options for Lou Gehrig’s Disease by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurological disorder which always results in death. This condition is often called Lou Gehrig’s disease after the A ... Read on »

Changing the Error of Our Ways by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health We all have bad habits. I don’t sleep nearly enough, and by mid-afternoon I’m a basket case without an infusion of chocolate. I know I should probably sleep more a ... Read on »

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

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Welcome to the forty-fourth edition of Brain Blogging. In this round, we discuss the innate ability to empathize, the connection between moral disgust and foul smells, whethe ... Read on »

Depression and Diabetes Linked in Pregnancy by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Diabetes in pregnancy is associated with increased morbidity for the mother and the infant. Complications of pregnancy-related diabetes include birth defects, congenital abnor ... Read on »

Carbon Monoxide Poisioning by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Every year around this time there’s a news article about people dying from carbon monoxide poisoning, either from a faulty furnace or from sitting in a running vehicle w ... Read on »

How Strong is Your Evidence? by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health If you’ve had heart problems, chances are you’ve received some advice from your doctor on how best to care for your condition. Maybe you were advised to take an as ... Read on »

Timing of Hospital Discharge a Predictor of Readmission by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Patients and their families often do not want to be hospitalized over a weekend; Hospital staff does not want to keep patients over a weekend. But, could the push out the hosp ... Read on »

Relying on a Peripheral Brain by Dr. Shaheen Lakhan Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health In the old days, medical students used to walk around with pockets bursting at the seams. Why? Because they were carrying around hand-written notes, cards, and mini textbooks ... Read on »

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