A Chemist Reenacts Drunk Historyhumans have been fermenting alcoholic beverages since as early as 10000 B c. but we've probably enjoyed the effects of natural fermentation much longer than that.
Humans metabolize the ethanol in alcoholic drinks thanks to enzymes called alcohol dehydrogenase 4 or ADH4.
To analyze how ethanol digestion changed over time Steven Benner a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution built enzymes in the lab that estimated how extinct primates metabolized alcohol.
and out of consciousness insisting that he was a professional baseball player late for spring training in Phoenix. Amato's mother rushed him to the emergency room where doctors diagnosed Amato with a severe concussion.
It would be weeks before the full impact of Amato's head trauma became apparent:
35 percent hearing loss in one ear headaches memory loss. But the most dramatic consequence appeared just four days after his accident.
He searched the Internet for an explanation typing in words like gifted and head trauma.
Amato searched the internet for an explanation typing in words like gifted and head trauma. the results astonished him.
He read about Tony Cicoria an orthopedic surgeon in upstate New york who was struck by lightning
A bad fall at age three left Alonzo Clemons with permanent cognitive impairment Amato learned
Finally Amato found the name Darold Treffert a world-recognized expert on savant syndrome a condition in which individuals who are impaired typically mentally demonstrate remarkable skills.
Treffert now retired from the University of Wisconsin School of medicine diagnosed Amato with acquired savant syndrome.
In the 30 or so known cases ordinary people who suffer brain trauma suddenly develop almost-superhuman new abilities:
A stroke transformed another from a mild-mannered chiropractor into a celebrated visual artist whose work has appeared in publications like The New yorker
The neurological causes of acquired savant syndrome are understood poorly. But the Internet has made it easier for people like Amato to connect with researchers who study savants
Removing the child locks on one's brain through brain injury or hallucinogen use may seem like the shortcut
and believe me it does unlock artistic abilities but the cost of bypassing the right hemisphere wrecks havoc on one's sense of mental balance.
Someday we may find ways to unlock the savant potential in everyone; however I suspect that the abilities gained will come at the cost of the annihilation of other types of logical processing being done by the brain.
He's an amazing guy. 1. 7 Million brain trauma deaths per year (US only...estimated 7-10 savants alive worldwide.
and my reaction to stress is disproportionate. What we (and medical professionals also) need to take away from this is that
although not all of us become savants brain damage usually requires personal reorganization. We also have to realize that disabled also usually implies other-abled.
I almost died from anaphylactic shock. What bothers me the most is had that I to wait over five years for a diagnosis of brain damage.
Shouldn't patients be advised when they experience concussion or anyphylaxsis to watch for changes in cognition and responses to environmental stimuli?
I'm also asthmatic. When I'm having trouble breathing and my brain gets less oxygen my concentration is affected
People under the influence of drugs also experience temporary or in some cases permanent reorganization of cognitive process.
I discontinued all the opiates over a year ago now but still live with chronic pain.
Social Interaction Therapy has merit to reduce feelings of separation anxiety in our existing military populations through social media
Have no particular delusion of Grandeur and do not believe that I am any more than I am.
Neck injury 2005 artificial disk 2007 discontinued opiods for Pain Mgmnt. Noveber 2011. Got on facebook got camera realized people weren't seeing what I was seeing (from studying everything from micro to macro relative to science) tried to develop creative visualization to see (sense energy
I have no personal delusion that I am smarter than anyone else have met many smarter people in my life.
Maybe not the stringent definition of acquired savant syndrome but My understanding (or lack thereof lol) has thought the that I'm supposed to Help change the world.
I would very curious to study the creative possibilities of minds of recovered eating disorder patients for two reasons:
firstly while an individual is afflicted with an eating disorder the connection between food and I need it is blocked or destroyed.
Similar to Paulagem's comment about anoxic brain damage subjecting the brain to an intense period of malnutrition might bring about a similar surge in creative output.
#Obama Expected To Launch Massive Study Of The Human Brainpresident Obama is planning to back an exhaustive study of the human brain that could help researchers gain insight into everything from Alzheimer's to mental illness to artificial intelligence the New york times reports:
I'm sure they'll definitely only use it to help people with Alzheimers. Just keep moving people nothing to see here.
and now have a good understanding of how they cause disease and are creating therapies such as enzyme replacement
and gene silencing/overexpression to treat these. Stop being paranoid scientists are not elitists...We are little kids who still have the passion to ask why not.
You should too. Personally I support the promotion of science and technology. As a world superpower it should be the Americans'responsibilities to fund world-benefitting research.@
and to be achieved over the coming 10 years (goal is focused on large medical advancements). After falling behind on physics research
There is no doubt that there is a great unmet need to better prevent diagnosis and treat Alzheimer's disease Parkinsons'disease multiple sclerosis schizophrenia and many other devastating neurological disorders and this requires increased research and development funding from government charities and industry.
However I really seriously question the wisdom of diversion of a significant amount of limited resources available at this juncture for basic scientific research towards the specific goal of mapping brain activity patterns at the cellular level.
and posted in the Columbia University Academic Commons the proponents ultimately seek to determine how the brain computes by creation of a detailed anatomical highway map of the brain.
This would initially be done in animal models for brain injuries such as TBI and PTSD or for psychiatric disease.
or molecular pharmacology to treat neurological disorders will be compromised with a major effort that is fixated on mapping neuronal connections that in the end may not really be able to rectify the pathological processes that underlie the most common brain and spinal cord diseases.
In the vast majority of these illnesses it is the destruction of neurons and other supporting brain cells that leads to loss of brain function.
and expand depending on for example the sensory inputs nutrition and exposure to toxic substances. good deal! The sooner this project is finished the sooner we can figure out what was wrong with the brains of the people that reelected Nobama;
The Reefer Madness of our Climate Change War is to Obama what the Iraq War was to Bush
A Spanish dental surgeon and amateur astronomer named Jaime Nomen first spotted 2012 DA14 last year âÂ# hence the 2012 in its name âÂ
Our planet has about a 30 percent chance of getting hit by a Tunguska-sized 40 meter asteroid in the next 100 years--compare that to the 23 percent chance an American has of dying of cancer.
and we undoubtably loose those kinds of leap ahead genious all the time to childhood disease or other causes.
Consider the Black plague's 75million death count. Very tramatic to society and civilization-that was a third of Europe.
Bad yes but hardly a plague w
#Even Hobby Drones Could Be made Illegal In Texason a hazy day last January an unmanned aircraft enthusiast piloted his camera-equipped drone in the vicinity of a Dallas meatpacking plant cruising around 400 feet in the air.
Organic farms could use aerial surveillance to monitor crop health and target insect or weed infestations he said.
and developing countries could use it to check crop health. The drone industry just has an image problem Egan said.
But the legislation doesn't discriminate between ill intent and intent to surveil and incidental surveillance.
#Majority Of Foodborne Illness Caused By Green Vegetableshere's some food for thought: According to a new study by the CDC the greatest number of foodborne illnesses in the U s. are caused not by raw cookie dough
or undercooked meat or questionable shellfish but by leafy green vegetables. Of the 9. 6 million cases of food-borne illness reported each year 51 percent are caused by contaminated plants;
leafy greens alone contribute 23 percent of the total more than any other commodity. All the meat and poultry commodities combined--beef game pork and poultry--were responsible for 22 percent of illness
and dairy carried 17 percent. Many of the contaminants lurking on leafy greens are noroviruses--the bugs that cause
what most of us call the stomach flu--deposited by food handlers according to a story in the New york times
. But before you throw caution to the wind and sit down with a big bowl of raw cookie dough
but poultry is still more likely to kill you. stomach flu--deposited by food handlersdoes this mean the migrants are taking dumps in the field LOLHOW much of this effect is down to the fact that we are all hyper aware of handling raw meats
a lot of this illness could be avoided right at the kitchen by understanding better standard cooking food cleanliness.
Saying the illness IS CAUSED by vegetables is just absolutely wrong and misleading and not a scientific statement by any means.
The foodbourne illness IS CAUSED by dirty workers and too much fertilizer/pesticides. This is a ridiculous title for the article and the article isnt even informative.
Buzz70. Com@-hms-While that's a really good point the study separates incidents into the groups illnesses hospitalizations and deaths.
This article references only the illnesses group in which the greens are responsible for the majority of the incidents.
However moving into hospitalizations sees a big rise in meats and dairy while the deaths group I believe is dominated by meat (poultry
when you have the gastric flu? an unknown starling you have seen never or the lettuce you had with your lunch.
@African Rover for the most part viral infections are not transmissible between species . If you get norovirus it came from a human and specifically human fecal contact.
Bacterial infections are a completely different story. We have seen more E coli infections recently that can be blamed on animal waste
and fertilizers from animal waste which is possibly why buell mentioned them. In the United states raw sewage is applied to conventionally grown produce...
along with being the staple (raw spinach leaves cabbage etc) in many vegan diets it would seem that statistical probability alone dictate that they cause the most illness due to contamination by outside factors.
and fruits to washed in OZONISED water to remove up to 99%pesticides germs micro bacteria and any type of infection.
And here I was hoping that they were going to implant GPS chips in the leaches
1 billion people did not starve they were simply surviving below a basic level of nutrion that leads to good health.
For hospitals fire houses police stations or other agencies deemed essential I put emergency power generators on the roof of buildings with the means to run power on its own circuit.
I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you...Yes that is so said the fox.
or Metropolis...with the 1%living lavishly above the clouds and teh rest of us wasting away...
and birth control will take a full generation perhaps even two generations to even begin to show a sustainable reduction in population.
and losing minimal requirements for apartment square footage is insult to injury for the youth in our state that can barely keep apartments
but was lost to a staph infection. I worked 16 years with a fused knee just as many of the workers of my generation would.
Swimming is one of the best therapies for arthritic bodies. I live alone and do not require a larger dwelling
@nkfro sorry about your Arthritis I know what you are going through. I do suffer from it as well not yet to the same extent as you do but
Sorry about the arthritis but seriously...this isn't a good idea that's my opinion based on the reality of living in NY.
'when buying cars-just patient. I do not like debt. Aside from a couple of medical bills that are being paid down religiously
I have no debt. At all. Even with disability insurance I could not have been prepared properly for my current life if
And of course inflammatory ill-informed articles like the one (s) our humble author has been known to write do little to help improve peoples'knowledge
Progressives have need an irresistible to change the rest of the world RIGHT NOW rather being patient
in health related costs-payback 3 years ROI 40%unemployment rate close to zilch. No a single large scale state investment which has this kind of potential return.
Contrary to James Hansen's hysterical claims that CO2 increases warming feedbacks studies show that the correlation between CO2
#Herd Of Secret Drug Goats Discovered At Biotech Ranchlet's say you're a giant biotech company in sunny California
You use the goats to produce all kinds of antibodies that you then extract and sell to biological researchers all over the world.
You are in fact one of the world's biggest suppliers of these antibodies--a true industry leader.
along with the 841 goats 12 of which were not technically speaking in good shape. To make matters worse the inspector could tell that the barn had been used for a while
or a suspended license for their violations of animal welfare and for lying to the USDA but an even bigger problem (for Santa cruz Biotechnology) may come from the NIH who currently exempts off-the-shelf antibodies from the set of animal treatment rules that governs NIH-funded research.
If the NIH decides to change that rule Santa cruz Biotechnology may soon long for the simple days of USDA oversight. via Nature Liars should not prosper especially by breaking the law and
I understand some animals are used for medical science and all but they should still be clean and humane to the animals.
I hate big Pharm! They don't care about the animals under their supervision they don't care about people's illnesses they just care about corrupting governments
and selling their crap. whoa darth maybe you want to dial it back. First this doesn't seem to be a pharmaceutical company.
They're not making or selling drugs to anyone. They're extracting antibodies for use in research by other companies.
Second it doesn't sound as if they're a real big operation. They might produce a large percentage of the antibodies used in research
--but that could be a pretty small market. I'm also not sure how an animal cruelty story comes under the heading of science
or science news. Should they be busted--sure but I don't see this as science. HAHA Robot Liars should not prosperlying is the only way to succeed in the US
which has had the worst experience with BSE commonly known as mad cow disease of any country in the world.
Can't imagine a mad cow outbreak and just banning beef import or looking at beef products only...
A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeat burgers. Her condition is said to be stable.
Based on the idea that our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't suffer from the pains of obesity cancer gout
. I won't argue with the fitness side. Technology has decreased everyones need/desire to get up and move.@
@radioactivecatany decent nutritionist will tell you that paleo isn't a complete answer. And there's some debate on
âÂ#Âoebased on the idea that our hunter-gatherer ancestors didn't suffer from the pains of obesity cancer gout
âÂ# There is another part to the health equation that is not being given equal time in this and many other articles.
and this is known to have a positive health effect. There is no question that the Paleo diet is the healthy way to go as grains dairy etc. lead to obesity disorders
and diseases-ailments that did not exist until the agricultural revolution. I exercise 5 days/wk
and eat hunter gatherer diet (paleo). So in 80+years I will check in and let you know how I am feeling. uptil
Unless you have a sensitivity to gluten (especially celiac disease) the gluten (which is a protein) isn't causing the weight gain.
Atkins diet is a weight loss diet where you follow measurements and a regiment in the hopes of reaching ketosis.
or dairy then at least recognize the rudimentary facts-1) there are better sources of fiber calcium etc in other foods. 2) for all diseases/conditions the foods that doctors recommend eliminating are wheat gluten
and lead to a multitude of illnesses. 4) Children from birth and throughout development are much healthier
For centuries physicians used a urine flavor wheel to help them diagnose a patient's illness based on the taste of the patient's pee.
While this wasn't particularly accurate overall it was quite helpful in detecting diabetes mellitus a disease that makes a patient's urine taste sweet.
There's no anesthesia involved but some sedatives will be used along with it.)It's already available in some parts of Europe but no FDA approval yet.
Here's the word from the gadget's site: The aspiration process is performed about 20 minutes after the entire meal is consumed
For optimal weight loss patients should aspirate after each major meal (about 3 times per day) initially.
Over time as patients learn to eat more healthfully they can reduce the frequency of aspirations.
One patient avoided eating cauliflower broccoli Chinese food stir fry snow peas pretzels chips and steak. Other than that it sounds convenient (unless you live in China) albeit a little gross.
One patient avoided eating cauliflower broccoli Chinese food stir fry snow peas pretzels chips and steak. Other than that it sounds convenient (unless you live in China) albeit a little gross.
Mmmm I can see a future alcoholic changing the polarity of this device and sneaking a drink without anyone knowing.
skip the direct vomit portal and eat 30%less. Hmm would I be seguing to say that this device sucks?
There are surgical methods that are permanent and work much better with less hassle that this.
I got the Duodenal Switch bariatric surgery and lost 240 pounds. My weight is stable at nearly four years out.
$50the bike clock I found so-so perhaps I am stricken with cycle cell anemia. Keep track of bees is fun;
Although the 145 bison to be given away have a clean bill of health many of the park's bison are carrying a disease that devastates livestock herds.
Brucellosis is caused by the bacteria Brucella abortus so named because it causes cattle to miscarry their fetuses.
The disease has been eradicated in 48 states everywhere except Wyoming and Montana where 50 percent of Yellowstone s wild bison may be infected.
and the park has attempted to lower the prevalence of the disease in wild bison. Part of the plan included culling diseased bison from herds
and another part used calves that tested negative for Brucella to establish a small disease-free population that was kept segregated from untested bison.
Although a 2011 study said that the measures have not been successful in reducing the prevalence of brucellosis in the overall population there hasn t yet been documented a case of transmission between Yellowstone bison and livestock.
#Unleashing An Epidemic To Kill The Tumbleweedsdana Berner wants to start an epidemic among tumbleweeds.
Berner is a pathologist with the U s. Agricultural research service who studies the diseases that afflict plants.
Without the predators and diseases that normally munch at them in places like Russia and Hungary they can grow in incredible numbers.
At the time plant pathologists in Hungary noticed a fungus infecting and killing local tumbleweeds.
Knowing the Americans would be interested they mailed a sample to the Agricultural research service's Foreign Disease-Weed Science Research Unit in Fort Detrick Maryland.
The safety tests included inoculating plants of species related to the Salsola tragus tumbleweed that C. salsolae and U. salsolae target.
Those tests were performed in a biosafety level 3 greenhouse a precaution that was meant to protect not the human researchers who aren't susceptible to the diseases studied in the greenhouse but all of the plants outside of it.
which a species is susceptible to certain pathogens based on its genetics. The model is used a widely one for checking
Only a few species were vulnerable to infection at all. Those that were didn't seem to suffer in overall health from the infection.
One helpful fact: Plant diseases tend to infect closely related species and there are no plants native to the U s. that share tumbleweeds'Genus salsola.
Now it's a question of waiting which depends in part on whether the approval committee is convinced by Berner and his coworkers'safety tests.
and given how many direct impacts of climate change they are already taking on (changing agricultural patterns family health
In many parts of the world this means by default that women's health and women's rights need to be enhanced and protected.
We know what we have to do to prevent irreparable harm. We have the technological imagination
According to Lapowsky the product called Bioensure is a blend of microscopic fungi that Dr. Rusty Rodriguez and his wife Dr. Regina Redman first discovered in the 1990s.
and these beautiful places where moisture limits growth to take samples Dr. Toby Ault lead researcher of the study tells Popular Science.
The contamination was so widespread that experts have estimated between 4000 and 93000 extra cancer deaths have occurred
And since wild boar dig through soil for food they are affected particularly by this contamination. They also eat underground mushrooms and deer truffles
Each permeable packet contains Curoxin vapor a proprietary disinfectant that releases slowly inside a clamshell container
and envelops fresh food in an antimicrobial cloud. The effect? Water loss and fungal growth are arrested significantly
#The Swine flu You Can Get From American County Fairsbefore 2012 outbreaks of so-called influenza A variant infections in the U s. only popped up once in a while in the medical literature.
The strain normally infected pigs and was seen rarely in humans. Then in 2012 healthcare workers across the U s. reported 309 human cases of influenza A (H3n2) variant also known as H3n2v.
Sixteen people were hospitalized and one woman in Ohio died. Researchers think there were likely thousands of cases of H3n2v that year that went unreported or unconfirmed.
Epidemiological studies indicated nearly all of the people who became sick with H3n2v in 2012 caught it from prize piggies shown at county fairs.
However this kind of research only draws conclusions based on people's sickness and their behaviors. Now a new in depth study of the genetics of H3n2v in swine and humans in Ohio shows the epidemiological studies were right.
Samples of flu viruses taken from pigs and from people in Ohio during the 2012 outbreak were genetically close to one another according to the study
which involved swabbing the insides of 834 pigs's noses. We've decided pig boogers=poogers.
In addition all of the cases recorded across the state were more than 99.5 percent similar to one another genetically indicating that it was just one flu strain that took residence in humans and swine alike.
It's a little funny to think of getting a flu from a pig at the county fair.
That's not exactly the kind of scene you imagine for the beginning of a sci-fi movie about the next big pandemic.
which influenza viruses evolve. Swine are susceptible to avian human and swine flus and these virus can circulate inside pigs for varying lengths of time with no signs of illness.
This makes them great meet-markets for flu viruses to exchange genetic material. The H1n1 flu that reached pandemic proportions in 2009 first spent some time circulating among pigs in Asia Europe and North america.
Luckily H3n2v doesn't readily move between people which limits its ability to spread. People mostly catch it directly from swine.
The U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people who are susceptible to complications from the flu--such as young kids older adults
and pregnant women--avoid pig barns at fairs. Keeping away from sick-looking pigs is important but not adequate.
Seven of those 10 fairs were associated with reported human illnesses. And even more scary six of those seven fairs didn't have any sick-looking pigs.
Public health departments should monitor pigs closely for Influenza a viruses the study authors wrote in their paper
which was published in the September issue of the journal Emerging Infectious diseases. That probably means more investigators gathering poogers at fairs.
Breakfast prognosis: There are still other areas of the world that produce coffee but climate change experts are predicting that over the course of the next decade warmer temperatures could impact coffee growers around the world leading to even more coffee shortfalls.
Breakfast prognosis: If you re a fan of domestic vegetables the outlook is grim. California-grown produce is likely to be expensive
Breakfast prognosis: Prices of flour are still in flux but with much of the world s breadbaskets in turmoil (environmental or political) your whole wheat toast could get more expensive.
Breakfast prognosis: Milk prices have declined this year from a high of $3. 74 per gallon in May to $3. 65 in July.
Breakfast prognosis: For Nutella in particular the prognosis is good. The brand consumes about 25 percent of the world s hazelnut crop
but in July their parent company Ferrero announced that they d purchased one of Turkey s largest hazelnut producers effectively buying out the middleman.
A nasty virus that causes severe diarrhea in pigs has killed off an estimated 5-10 percent of pigs in the United states causing prices to rise dramatically.
but the disease is deadly to piglets. Breakfast prognosis: Pricier pork products are definitely here
but as Bloomberg Businessweek reports the higher prices haven t deterred bacon fanatics from their morning ritual.
Breakfast prognosis: Grim. In addition to the shortfall from Brazil orange growers in Florida and elsewhere are facing the disease known as citrus greening
which is already forcing some of them out of business
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