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by tsoukase 2y ago
Probably not. Unfortunately it will become a mandatory step, which the MRI has substituted only in diagnosis.
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by tsoukase 2y ago
Exclusion of either cause directions is impossible by definition. This is science not mathematics. But saying that the primary mechanism of mental disease lies outside the brain must not contradict decades of research and simple observation
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by tsoukase 2y ago
The gut hypothesis hype is trendy right now. There is some correlation but when things settle down, some of the effect will be attributed to "picky eating". Proving that the source of mental disorders is the brain and not the gut
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by tsoukase 2y ago
Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's have links with the gut too. But I "know" they start from the brain. No advanced or complicated hypothesis
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by tsoukase 2y ago
No developmental anomaly can start after birth. It must preexist but is not detected. Proof: heavy cases of autism are diagnosed at birth, so the beginning lies sometime in uterus. The same holds for the lighter cases too.
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by tsoukase 2y ago
Autism is rooted during fetal brain development. Behavioural and metabolic changes show up later. There is no an egg and chicken problem. The primary disease starts in the CNS and everything else follows
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by tsoukase 2y ago
A thousand iPads cannot offer the experience of a single piano key. And vice versa. So the direct comparison the ad is implying is failed. It could involve 1000 old mobile phones or 100 DSLR cameras or 10 PCs. But then it would be uninteres
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by tsoukase 3y ago
Twenty two years ago I tasted a Nestle candy and found it contained caffeine (except being excessively sweety). It was placed between regular candies in order to fool and addict customers. I never ever bought a nestle product since
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by tsoukase 3y ago
I think the doctor that commited suicide suffered from an acute depressive episode, so the outcome could be prevented by catching it early, taking a break etc As a doctor myself, I believe it's difficult for a non-doctor to understand
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by tsoukase 3y ago
They seem low quality. At the MRI centers I cooperate with, the first image is like a CT and the 7T is like 3T.
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by tsoukase 3y ago
Modern available therapies: 1. Resect the cancer with healthy tissue without knowing the actual borders 2. Pour poisons until just before the patient surrenders and hope for the best 3. Bombard with ionising radiation (Hippocrates: if all t
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by tsoukase 3y ago
This is not cancer resolution. This is 'You die from another cause before you die from the cancer' (I cannot remove the 'lead to death' from my answer above) For the patient it is the same, for the doctor (definition, su
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by tsoukase 3y ago
No worries. Myelin sheath is never catabolized for energy. It is far more valuable and protected behind solid mechanisms. The heart will stop long before. The only non-inflammatory cause of myeline damage is due to acute serum sodium change
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by tsoukase 3y ago
Not GP. Clinico-laboratory detected cancer will never resolve without treatment and will lead to death, fast or slow. I do not understand the second point. Anticancer treatment is very stressful and damaging in many ways (middle ages'
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by tsoukase 3y ago
My mom died in October. Just today, I managed to open up memories through searching her stuff. The thought of the day was that a single kid covers and, literally, can wipe out all the generations that precede. Then, I read this post and the
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by tsoukase 3y ago
One concept I liked recently in my life, in relation to the others mentioned, is "Edoni" (Pleasure) as expressed by Epicurus. I approach it as the cognitive, psychological and physical state where both your senses get enjoyed AND
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by tsoukase 3y ago
My 6 and 7 yo's call infinity the "endless number". Well, at least it is a NaN number :) PS: they seem to _know_ that endless*endless > endless but do not dare to admit it
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by tsoukase 4y ago
My feeling is it will be a failure for all the reasons mentioned and due to the European economic tradition. No wonder why it's called Old world. It will remain so in the future
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by tsoukase 4y ago
Another simplified quote goes like that: Socrates, why don't you write any book? Because it can be used by bad people. And what if it gets to the hands of good one's? Good (smart, wise?) people don't need books...
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by tsoukase 4y ago
I have a question to all that agree to the title: are you married with a usual (in statistical terms) wife? Because, when I try to lower the house temp half a degree and start to put so something on, she starts the common nagging...
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by tsoukase 4y ago
I am a doctor. ALL conversations in HN about mental health go overboard due to two reasons: either generalisation of a N=1 case or trying to apply in practice large scale statistics. Reality lies somewhere in the middle, that is ADs are nei
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by tsoukase 4y ago
Cool down please. You talk about Greece, where a government change can undo in record time what the previous has made. We passed the same laws over and over many times about health, education etc since the last decade. Anything that lasts m
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by tsoukase 4y ago
Vascular Vs degenerative (Alzheimer's) dementias are quite different in everything (symptoms, prognosis, therapy). Only the end stage of each is similar. And there is the mixed dementia which shares characteristics from both.
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by tsoukase 5y ago
Solid and deep points. At era around 2000 things-culture started to decline. No coincidence global IQ and many qualities (eg music, education, human relations) started to decline at that time too
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by tsoukase 5y ago
The problem is there is no EBM without p-values and there is no real world without Bayesian reasoning. So, the two are fundamentally disconnected
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by tsoukase 5y ago
EBM suggests that swimming in a heated swimming pool (controlled studies) can be the same as swimming in open sea/ocean (applying the result in any possible case)
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by tsoukase 5y ago
The defense companies (aka military-industrial complex) lobby US military to force Russia/Ukraine (and in the past Afghanistan, Kosovo etc) to fight in order to push countries for military expenses and orders from the former. In the me
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by tsoukase 5y ago
Too little CSF leads to slit ventricle syndrome with a scary clinical image but not life threatening. Direct consequence is bilateral subdural hygromas.
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by tsoukase 5y ago
Raising -30C is "easier" than raising +30C
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by tsoukase 5y ago
Mt Athos has its own scandal: Esphigmenou Monastery [0], one of the most religiously fanatic places on earth. In short, the monks have seized the building for decades and deny any contact with anyone not heretic, while the official head lie

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