At the Dentist's Office, X-Rays, Root Canals and, Now, Pampering - New York Times: "AT her dental appointments, Deann Romanick sips green tea and takes in the scent of lavender and the sounds of New Age music. She gets a free paraffin hand wax treatment, blankets, a warm neck pad and video eyeglasses in which she can watch 'Seinfeld' episodes while the dentist works on her teeth.
...
The pampering eased her through a root canal and a tooth replacement, and now, with her fear of dental work gone, she has moved on to more elective procedures. Ms. Romanick, 34, a graduate student from Germantown, Md., spent $399 for teeth whitening and next plans to straighten her teeth with removable plastic braces, which can cost up to $3,500.

'I was totally afraid of the dentist,' she said. 'Now I go to the dentist every six months and I just can't wait.'

What's that? Enjoy the dentist's office? That is the hope of a growing number of dentists who are turning their practices into 'dental spas' that offer such perks as fresh-baked cookies and overstuffed couches and services like body waxing, facials, massage and pedicures."

ABC 7 News - College Opens Anatomy Lab to High School: "During hourlong tours, the high schoolers get to see a cadaver, touch a human heart and brain, and learn from fourth-year medical students. Nearly 700 students toured the lab last year."

High School Short Course in Anatomy: "This spring 142 junior and senior high school students came to the anatomy lab at Northern Illinois University for a short-course in human gross anatomy funded by an Outreach grant from the American Association of Anatomists. When they arrived some were excited others were not so sure but they left with a profound sense of accomplishment and a renewed enthusiasm for learning."

Panel Warns of a Crisis in American Physics - New York Times: "The report says: 'The committee has concluded that the price the United States would pay by forfeiting a leadership position in particle physics is too high. Leadership in science remains central to the economic and cultural vitality of the United States.'"

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Overseas doctors protest at change in immigration rules: "Hundreds of overseas doctors yesterday demonstrated outside the Department of Health over an abrupt change in the immigration rules which will force many of them to quit the UK.
Around 10,000 to 15,000 doctors, mostly from the Indian subcontinent but also from Africa, are working in British hospitals while training to become specialists or are looking for jobs in order to do so. But last month the government announced that any UK or EU applicant, even if not as well qualified, must have priority over doctors from elsewhere."

Charlotte Observer | 04/22/2006 | Who goes to church the most?: "A new analysis by the Gallup Organization finds that Church of Christ members and Mormons are most likely to attend worship.
Pollsters found that 68 percent of Church of Christ members said they attend services at least once a week or almost every week, followed by 67 percent of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gallup looked at more than 11,000 Gallup Poll interviews conducted between 2002 and 2005. The breakdown for some specific denominations:"

Lateral reticular nucleus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "The Lateral reticular nucleus is a nucleus of the medulla oblongata involved with co-ordinating baroreceptor signals to control arterial blood pressure. It is often abbreviated to LRN."

Dictionary.com/dysmetria: "dys·me·tri·a (ds-mtr-, -mtr-)
n.

An inability or impaired ability to accurately control the range of movement in muscular acts."

Small vessel stroke and small vessel disease are NOT the same. Be careful to differentiate between the two. Must have risk factors for SVD and normal cardiac function to be given that diagnosis

benign coital cephalgia = sex headache

Dictionary.com/dysmetria: "Main Entry: dys·met·ria
Pronunciation: dis-'me-trE-&
Function: noun
: impaired ability to estimate distance in muscular action"

Polyneuropathy can be caused by large doses of B6. It is neurotoxic at levels above 50mg/day. 10mg/day is recommended max.

Most common cause of ischemic stroke=emboli

talk again-then-die --> extradural hemorrhage

nystagmus toward deafferented ear

prolactin - only hormone to be chronicaly inhibited.

Prolactine tumor - Only brain tumor that can be treated with medicine (must be taken from then on).

prepositus hypoglossi nucleus -integrates the PPRF's phasic signal to provide the tonic signal of the abducens motor neurons.

Inferior alternating hemiplegia involves CN XII and the adjacent
corticospinal fibers. Middle alternating hemiplegia involves CN VI and the adjacent corticospinal
fibers. Rostral alternating hemiplegia involves CN III and the adjacent corticospinal fibers.

Dictionary.com/diplopia: "Main Entry: dip·lo·pia
Pronunciation: dip-'lO-pE-&
Function: noun
: a disorder of vision in which two images of a single object are seen because of unequal action of the eye muscles called also double vision —dip·lo·pic /-'lO-pik, -'läp-ik/ adjective"

Dictionary.com/hypesthesia: "Main Entry: hyp·es·the·sia
Pronunciation: 'hI-pes-'thE-zh(E-)&, 'hip-es-
Variants: or hy·po·es·the·sia /'hI-pO-es-/ or British hyp·aes·the·sia or hy·po·aes·the·sia
Function: noun
: impaired or decreased tactile sensibility —hyp·es·thet·ic or hy·po·es·thet·ic /-'thet-ik/ or British hyp·aes·thet·ic or hy·po·aes·thet·ic adjective"

Entrez PubMed: "Experiences of spiritual visitation and impregnation: potential induction by frequency-modulated transients from an adjacent clock.

Persinger MA, Koren SA.

Department of Psychology, Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada.

A left-handed Roman Catholic female adolescent with a history of early brain trauma reported nightly visitations by a sentient being. During one episode she experienced vibrations of the bed, an external presence along the left side that moved into her body, inner vaginal (not clitoral) and uterine sensations, and the sense of being impregnated by a force she attributed to the Holy Spirit. After the latter experience she felt an invisible baby superimposed upon her left shoulder. Analyses of the measurements for magnetic anomalies within her bedroom indicated an electric clock about 20 cm from her head while she slept. The complex form of the 4 microT magnetic pulses generated by the clock was similar to shapes that evoke electrical seizures in epileptic rats and sensitive humans."

Paresthesia : "What is Paresthesia?
Paresthesia refers to a burning or prickling sensation that is usually felt in the hands, arms, legs, or feet, but can also occur in other parts of the body."

What's in a Name?: "Many medical conditions and diseases have been named after a person; this type of name is called an eponym. There has been a long-standing debate in the scientific community over whether or not to add the possessive form to the names of eponyms. For quite a long time, there was no established rule as to which to use, but general usage decided which form is acceptable. So you saw both possessive and non-possessive names in use.

In 1974, a conference at the US National Institute of Health attempted to make a standard set of rules regarding the naming of diseases and conditions. This report, printed in the journal Lancet, stated: 'The possessive form of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder.'(7) Since that time, the name has traditionally been called 'Down syndrome' in North America (note that 'syndrome' isn't capitalized). However, the change has taken longer to occur in Great Britain and other parts of Europe, for reasons that aren't quite clear to me."

Mobius syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Mobius syndrome is caused by abnormal development of the cranial nerves. This rare disorder has a number of causes. Most often affected are the cranial nerves VI and VII. Occasionally the cranial nerves V and VIII are affected.

If the cranial nerve VI is affected, the patient suffers from loss of lateral gaze. If cranial nerve VII is affected, the patient suffers from bilateral facial palsy — mask-like expressionless face with mouth constantly held open. If cranial VIII is affected the patient suffers from hearing loss.

Although its rarity often leads to late diagnosis, Infants with this disorder can be identified at birth: by a 'mask-like' expression detectable during crying or laughing due to paralysis (palsy) of the sixth and seventh cranial nerves."

Porencephaly:"Porencephaly is a type of Cephalic disorder. This is an extremely rare disorder of the central nervous system involving a cyst or cavity in a cerebral hemisphere. The cysts or cavities are usually the remnants of destructive lesions, but are sometimes the result of abnormal development. The disorder can occur before or after birth."

Math Humor: "Top 10 Excuses for Not Turning in Math Homework

10. It's Isaac Newton's birthday.
9. I couldn't decide whether i is the square root of -1 or i are the square root of -1.
8. I accidently divided by 0 and my paper burst into flames.
7. It's stuck inside a Klein bottle.
6. I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook.
5. I had too much pi and got sick.
4. Someone already published it, so I didn't bother to write it up.
3. A four-dimensional dog ate it.
2. I have a solar calculator and it was cloudy.
1. There wasn't enough room to write it in the margin."

ABC News: Mind the Baby Gap: Spacing Out Pregnancies Is Important: "Researchers reviewed data spanning more than 30 years and found that if the time between pregnancies was less than 18 months or more than five years, the babies born during the second pregnancy were at a higher risk of having difficulties early in life. The analysis was published in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association."

Hemiparesis: "Hemiparesis is the paralysis of one side of the body. It is caused by the lesions of the corticospinal tract, which runs down from the cortical neurons of the frontal lobe to the motor neurons of the spinal cord (see the second paragraph of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and is responsible for the movements of the muscles of the body and its limbs."

One and a half syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "One and a half syndrome is a rare kind of ophthalmoparesis that is caused by a conjugate horizontal gaze palsy in one direction and an internuclear ophthalmoplegia in the other. The most common manifestation of this unusual syndrome is being only able to adduct one eye to the midline while being unable to move the other eye."

Dysarthria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Dysarthria (from New Latin dys-, prefix meaning 'mis-', 'dis-', 'accidental' + Greek -arthro, joint) is a speech disorder resulting from neurological injury. Any of the speech subsystems (respiration, phonation, resonance, and articulation) can be affected."

FOXNews.com - Mediterranean Diet May Cut Alzheimer's - Health News | Current Health News | Medical News: "New research links a Mediterranean diet rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, legumes, cereals, and olive oil to a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

The finding, published in the early online addition of Annals of Neurology, comes from a study of 2,258 older adults in New York. At the study’s start, participants were in their 70s, on average, and none had dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia in seniors."

B.C. hospital renovations bump surgeries: "VANCOUVER- A new $25-million orthopedic surgery program at the University of B.C. Hospital is a source of annoyance for surgeons who now have to perform half their day surgeries at private clinics because they are being displaced by operating room renovations.

After Premier Gordon Campbell announced the province would pay $25-million this year to UBC Hospital so it could handle 1,600 hip and knee replacements in two dedicated operating rooms as of April 3, Vancouver Coastal Health had to renovate operating suites and find ways to make room for the joint replacements."