Air pollution reduces people’s ability to focus on everyday tasks, study finds
Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains
Another reason to protect your brain from repeat SarsCov2 infections, which can be neurotoxic.
‘I dread the feeling of realising I forgot to do something’ – doctors continue to work despite being mentally unwell
“Six in ten said it contributed to a lack of empathy with patients and similar number cited loss of concentration with fear of making mistakes and practising defensive medicine also a consequence”
Six in ten said it contributed to a lack of empathy with patients and similar number cited loss of concentration with fear of making mistakes and practising defensive medicine also a consequence
Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog (Published 2023)
“There are more Americans who say they have serious cognitive problems…than at any time in the last 15 years…
…Richard Deitz, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, analyzed the data and attributed much of the increase to Long Covid
‘These numbers don’t do this — they don’t just start suddenly increasing sharply like this,’ he said.”
Caught up with quite a few friends over Xmas (most aged under 40) and nearly all now have alcohol allergies, deteriorating eyesight, new auto-immune diseases, shingles, rotting teeth, significant flu/pneumonia after-effects, muscle degeneration or persistent heart, brain or lung…
“Caught up with quite a few friends over Xmas (most aged under 40) and nearly all now have alcohol allergies, deteriorating eyesight, new auto-immune diseases, shingles, rotting teeth, significant flu/pneumonia after-effects, muscle degeneration or persistent heart, brain or lung issues since 2021/22 but shhh, don’t anyone dare say the word COVID.
COVIDIsntOver”
3/ Cognitive Disabilities Skyrocket
“To put this in context: from 2014 to 2019, the average annual growth in cognitive disabilities was about 28k. Since 2019, that number has skyrocketed by more than one million. This is a huge increase and deserves attention.”
A lesion model of envy and Schadenfreude: legal, deservingness and moral dimensions as revealed by neurodegeneration
“Here, we profit from a relevant neurodegeneration model to disentangle the brain regions engaged in three dimensions of Schadenfreude and envy: deservingness, morality, and legality. We tested a group of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), patients with Alzheimer’s disease, as a contrastive neurodegeneration model, and healthy controls on a novel task highlighting each of these dimensions in scenarios eliciting Schadenfreude and envy. Compared with the Alzheimer’s disease and control groups, patients with bvFTD obtained significantly higher scores on all dimensions for both emotions. Correlational analyses revealed an association between envy and Schadenfreude scores and greater deficits in social cognition, inhibitory control, and behaviour disturbances in bvFTD patients.”
Here, we profit from a relevant neurodegeneration model to disentangle the brain regions engaged in three dimensions of Schadenfreude and envy: deservingness, morality, and legality. We tested a group of patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), patients with Alzheimer’s disease, as a contrastive neurodegeneration model, and healthy controls on a novel task highlighting each of these dimensions in scenarios eliciting Schadenfreude and envy. Compared with the Alzheimer’s disease and control groups, patients with bvFTD obtained significantly higher scores on all dimensions for both emotions. Correlational analyses revealed an association between envy and Schadenfreude scores and greater deficits in social cognition, inhibitory control, and behaviour disturbances in bvFTD patients.
New study shows how dementia affects the brain's ability to empathize
“Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy individuals when they witness the pain of others, a finding that it is hoped will increase understanding of this specific dementia disease.” l
Patients with frontotemporal dementia often lack the ability to empathize. A study at Karolinska Institutet has now shown that these patients do not show the same brain activity as healthy individuals when they witness the pain of others, a finding that it is hoped will increase understanding of this specific dementia disease.
Altug Celikbilek lotta per la vita: il tennista turco vittima da un’emorragia celebrale ma a Monastir si gioca lo stesso
Professional tennis player Altug Celikbilek, 28, is in critical condition, after suffering from a brain hemorrhage during a match in the M15 Monastir tournament in Tunisia.
The match was stopped to rush the player to the hospital:
Nearly half of NYC's aspiring drivers failed their DMV road tests this year - Gothamist
“Nearly half of NYC's aspiring drivers failed their DMV road tests this year”
Several weeks ago, I posted about my 8 year-old niece who contracted Covid 4x during the last school year, and is now suffering from significant memory loss.
“If anyone tells you that we are in a better place now than in the beginning of the pandemic, it’s a lie. People are dying more in the chronic phase of Covid than in the acute stage, and those who survive, are left with chronic illnesses that may become permanent.
We must remain resilient.”
‘They do what they want when they want’: Ontario students became ruder in class after the pandemic, study suggests
“They do what they want when they want’: Ontario students became ruder in class after the pandemic, study suggests.
Teachers and students report a significant jump in classroom incivility since returning to class after the 2020 lockdowns.”
Experts find memory troubles in young adults
“Experts are increasingly noticing people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experiencing difficulties remembering things. They compare it to the memory function more regularly seen in 70-year-olds.
Psychologists note younger people complaining of trouble remembering things, needing to write everything down, and missing important events because they forgot about them.”
Not mentioned: COVID COVID COVID. IT. IS. COVID.
Experts are increasingly noticing people in their 20s, 30s and 40s experiencing difficulties remembering things. They compare it to the memory function more regularly seen in 70-year-olds.Psychologists note younger people complaining of trouble remembering things, needing to write everything down, and missing important events because they forgot about them.
Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses With Alzheimer's Again And Again
“…there were no instances where exposure to viruses was protective.”