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One of the interesting things about social media is catching up with people from your past and finding out what they are doing now. I have caught up with quite a few people who have spread out all over the globe and whom I would have never have heard from otherwise. One of the friends [...]
In the first and second parts of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. This continues on how in my adult life I sought out her history.
In the last post (“Brief History of My Mom, Part 1″) I wrote about my Mom’s sudden death when I was four and half years old. That was a terrible blow for me. She was a radiant person who was described as “turning on like a light bulb” when her friends walked into the room.
Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.
This week the travelling blog team moves to Dubrovnik, Croatia, for the Sixth Annual Mind and Brain Conference, where I gave a talk about “PTSD and Brain Plasticity.” One of the main themes of the conference was neurofeedback, and we have conversations about consciousness and identity…
Today we have an interesting Alt CME (Alternative Continuing Medication Education, always free of interferenece from drug companies) case that was approached by doctors of different disciplines.
A 33 year old white female developed the sudden onset of nausea, vomiting, and changes in mental status.
OK, I (partially) stole the title of this posting from another posting about a paper in Psychology Today about complicated grief and bereavement…
Hmmm… Interesting title, you say. Yes indeed! Not everyday you read about bastards in the Science Section of the New York Times. That, of course, is why readers have to come to alternative news sources like the Drug Safety and Health News Blog to find information on more uncomfortable topics in the realm of medicine and [...]
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