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We implanted electrodes in the fornix of
patients
with Alzheimer's disease, we turned it on, and we looked at what happens to glucose use in the brain.
We are going to operate on 50
patients
with early Alzheimer's disease to see whether this is safe and effective, whether we can improve their neurologic function.
And I think that we will see that we will be able to chase more of these evil spirits out from the brain as time goes on, and the consequence of that, of course, will be that we will be able to help many more
patients.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
And it frees up the nurses and the nurse's aides from doing that mundane work of just mechanically pushing stuff around to spend more time with
patients.
I don't know how this journey is going to end, but this much seems clear to me, at least: We can't keep blaming our overweight and diabetic
patients
like I did.
I dream of a day when our
patients
can shed their excess pounds and cure themselves of insulin resistance, because as medical professionals, we've shed our excess mental baggage and cured ourselves of new idea resistance sufficiently to go back to our original ideals: open minds, the courage to throw out yesterday's ideas when they don't appear to be working, and the understanding that scientific truth isn't final, but constantly evolving.
Staying true to that path will be better for our
patients
and better for science.
They're like nature's version of those inkblot images, you know, that shrinks used to show their
patients
in the '60s, and I think if you consider the shapes you see in the clouds, you'll save money on psychoanalysis bills.
Approximately 8% of
patients
diagnosed with chronic insomnia are actually suffering from a less common genetic problem called delayed sleep phase disorder, or DSPD.
I mean, you have
patients
that actually suffer pains, and you try to get an objective science of that.
There is a problem with vaccines around the world not getting to
patients.
With wireless connectivity these days, there is no reason why patients, doctors and nurses always have to be in the same place at the same time.
Already in medicine, biofabrication techniques have been used to grow sophisticated body parts, like ears, windpipes, skin, blood vessels and bone, that have been successfully implanted into
patients.
Well, to my surprise, when I published this work and began to speak out against this particular brand of psychotherapy, it created some pretty bad problems for me: hostilities, primarily from the repressed memory therapists, who felt under attack, and by the
patients
whom they had influenced.
Therapists can't ethically plant false memories in the mind of their
patients
even if it would help the patient, but there's nothing to stop a parent from trying this out on their overweight or obese teenager.
One approach, the one we use mainly, is to look at
patients
with sustained damage to a small region of the brain, where there's been a genetic change in a small region of the brain.
One of the things we've found was, about half the
patients
with phantom limbs claim that they can move the phantom.
But however, about half the patients, this doesn't happen.
Patients
become depressed.
And then, when you've amputated the arm, this learned paralysis carries over into your body image and into your phantom, OK? Now, how do you help these
patients?
Now, this technique has been tried on dozens of
patients
by other groups in Helsinki, so it may prove to be valuable as a treatment for phantom pain, and indeed, people have tried it for stroke rehabilitation.
This has also gone through clinical trials, helping lots and lots of
patients.
All of these questions that philosophers have been studying for millennia, we scientists can begin to explore by doing brain imaging, and by studying
patients
and asking the right questions.
But the problem is, there's only so much you can take, and also when you do that operation, your
patients
might actually have significant pain in that defect site even two years after the operation.
So just to wrap up, I'd like to actually say that being able to work in this sort of field, all of us that work in this field that's not only super-exciting science, but also has the potential to impact on patients, however big or small they are, is really a great privilege.
We have a noble path to curing the disease,
patients
and doctors alike, but there doesn't seem to be a noble path to dying.
Rosalie had developed a condition known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome, in which
patients
with either impaired vision or total blindness suddenly hallucinate whole scenes in vivid color.
We still don’t fully understand what causes them to come and go, or why certain
patients
develop them when others don’t.
Patients
with schizophrenia often have elevated levels of serotonin in the brain.
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