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Genetic Testing Can Help When Selecting Antidepressants
In the GUIDED study, pharmacogenomic testing significantly improved response and remission rates for difficult-to-treat depression patien...
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First CTE Diagnosis During Life Confirmed After Patient’s Death
Nov 24, 2017
| Emergency Medicine, Human Interest, Internal Medicine, Men's Health, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Psychiatry & Mental Health, Surgery, Video of the Week, Women’s Health
52 months after a suggestive brain scan indicated a strong possibility of CTE in a former NFL player, the diagnosis has been confirmed by autopsy following the ex-players death.
Nov 22, 2017
| Family Medicine, Human Interest, Internal Medicine, Men's Health, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Psychiatry & Mental Health, Women’s Health
Primary care physicians (PCPs) remain the gatekeepers of medicine and are on the front-lines of diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of a plethora of conditions. Adult attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed systematically and the initial tool for diagnosis is a 6-item screening...
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UCL Scientists Have Big Plans to Decode the Language of Neurons
Nov 17, 2017
| Medical Informatics, Men's Health, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry & Mental Health, Video of the Week, Women’s Health
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Researchers from University College London (UCL) are working on a project with the lofty goal of analyzing the entirety of a brain's neuronal activity in real time. Most estimates place the number of neurons in the average brain somewhere between 70 and 100 billion. Trying to...
