Tag Archives: Mayo Clinic

Small Mayo Clinic investigation demonstrates that changes in blood pressure and heart rate may prove to be more reliable indicators of concussion severity than self-reporting 0

© 2013 Peter Free Citation — to press release Newsroom, Mayo Clinic Researchers Develop Test to Gauge Severity of Concussions, Mayo Clinic (19 March 2013) Findings From the press release: “This has the potential to change the way we approach concussion patients,” says David Dodick, M.D., a neurologist and director of the Mayo Clinic Concussion [...]

Categories: Medicine,Neuroscience,Science

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21 March 2013 – 10:40
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By BrainiYak

An otherwise excellent neuroscience study, which differentiates brain function in normal and Alzheimer’s dementia patients — is almost impenetrably written— and its Mayo Clinic press release is confusingly titled and jumps to an scientifically unwarranted conclusion 0

Citation — to study David T. Jones, Prashanthi Vemuri, Matthew C. Murphy, Jeffrey L. Gunter, Matthew L. Senjem, Mary M. Machulda, Scott A. Przybelski, Brian E. Gregg, Kejal Kantarci, David S. Knopman, Bradley F. Boeve, Ronald C. Petersen, and Clifford R. Jack Jr., Non-Stationarity in the “Resting Brain’s” Modular Architecture, PLoS ONE 7(6): e39731, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039731 [...]

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16 July 2012 – 12:15
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By BrainiYak

Reducing excessive medical costs requires reality-based analysis ─ Atul Gawande did so last year, but no one paid attention 0

The battle for the soul of medicine revolves around two poles Atul Gawande, perennially eloquent surgeon, wrote in The New Yorker last year: When you look across the spectrum from Grand Junction to McAllen—and the almost threefold difference in the costs of care—you come to realize that we are witnessing a battle for the soul [...]

Categories: Medicine,Public Health

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23 July 2010 – 12:16
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By BrainiYak