How Stuff Works: How the liver works
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Marshall Brain
HowStuffWorks.com (MCT) - There is lots of talk these days about the gas tank in your car, especially when it comes to the cost of filling it up. But here's a question: Have you ever thought about the gas tank inside your body? Yes, each human being has a "gas tank". It's your liver. Let's take a ...
Hand-drawn maps give personal perspective
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Tony Gonzalez
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - On the East Coast, where people "don't have a good idea of what the rest of the country looks like," it's helpful, in conversation, to have a map. So Glen Lindeke drew one.
Now his maps (two, in fact) are on display with nearly 60 others at the Hand Drawn Map ...
Build Your Brain
Fortanasce Neurology Center
8/13/2008, by Vincent M. Fortanasce M.D.
You have probably heard of aerobics, walking, running, and swimming to build endurance and anaerobic weight training to build muscle. Now there is neurobics, brain exercises that flex the brains muscles! PET and MRI show that activity of the brain increases with unfamiliar tasks. Routine tasks ...
FORT Brain Knox
Fortanasce Neurology Center
8/13/2008, by Vincent M. Fortanasce
THE MYTH: The Fixed Bank Account
"Old dogs don't learn new tricks."
Before Dr. Evan Snyder's monumental discovery in 1992 that adult human stem cells exist in the brain, it was thought that out brain was a fixed bank account. Most believed that we continually draw on this account as we live, ...
The Incredible Shrinking Brain
Fortanasce Neurology Center
8/13/2008, by Vincent M. Fortanasce M.D.
The Godfather I and II were the greatest series in cinema history. I never forgot the scene with, "What’s his name playing Sonny you know he also played in that other movie with the same person that was...." Twenty years ago I could remember telephone numbers told to me once and keep them for ...
I Lost My Father to Alzheimer's Disease
Fortanasce Neurology Center
7/21/2008, by Vincent M Fortanasce MD
It seems like only yesterday I was awakened at 7 o’clock. As I answered the telephone, I quickly recognized it was my mother. She sounded frantic, afraid; her voice trembled in a way I never heard before. If my dad was the boss or the king of the castle, my mother was always the guardian angel, ...
Brawn, the Brain-Booster
Fortanasce Neurology Center
7/15/2008, by Vincent M. Fortanasce M.D.
The secret to keeping the mind sharp is regular exercise. Research confirms that exercise actually makes the brain bigger and better! While preparing for the Olympics in weight-lifting, I noticed that my pre-medical grades improved drastically with my strength training. This was contrary to the ...
Prayer and Science
Fortanasce Neurology Center
7/15/2008, by Vincent M. Fortanasce M.D.
Research demonstrates that prayer is nurturing and healing. Through meditation and prayer one actively stimulates the frontal inferior gyrus, the optimistic center of the brain. This diminishes the adrenaline sympathetic nervous system and augments the vagal or relaxation system of the nervous ...
The Health-care ‘concierge medicine' trend
McClatchy Newspapers
6/25/2008, by Judith Graham
The toniest up-and-coming trend: consumers contracting with professionals to help them navigate the complexities of modern medicine. CHICAGO (MCT) - For his family's health, it was a good investment, Harry Scharling figured.
Late last year it cost $41,000 a year for a VIP package for himself and ...
Clinics try new approach to depression
McClatchy Newspapers
6/22/2008, by Maura Lerner - Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS - Sherry Claude recalls the first time she saw a doctor for depression. She had been in a "down mood" for three weeks when she worked up the courage to make an appointment. Her doctor, a general practitioner, brushed aside her concerns.
"He told me I really just had the blues and I ...
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