How brain pacemakers erase diseased messages
...p-pop, silence, pop-pop-pop, silence' -- propagate pathological information within brain circuits," said Warren Gr...tant 'pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop,' you've erased that pathological information." Grill said the high-frequency deep brain stimulation acts like a surgical lesion, a...Study finds mix of disease processes at work in brains of most people with dementia
Few older people die with brains untouched by a pathological process, however, an individual’s likelihood of having clinical signs of dementia increases with the number of different disease processes present in the brain, according to a new study. The research was funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA...New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning
...poisoned. Of those poisoned, 27 died, 66 developed pathological conditions, and 6 had conditions resulting in a jury verdict. Jury verdicts have averaged $4.8 million per incident (range=$1 million-17.5 million). Poisoning occurred at hotels of all classes. According to Lindell K. Weaver, MD, medical director...