Telling Familiar Stories Can Help Brain Injury.
Hearing their loved ones effect overfamiliar stories can help brain injury patients in a coma regain consciousness faster and have a better recovery, a unheard of study suggests. The study included 15 masculine and female brain injury patients, average age 35, who were in a vegetative or minimally studied state. Their brain injuries were caused by car or motorcycle crashes, batter blasts or assaults this site. Beginning an average of 70 days after they suffered their brain injury, the patients were played recordings of their relations members telling familiar stories that were stored in the patients' long-term memories.
The recordings were played over headphones four times a epoch for six weeks, according to the examine published Jan khilakar. 22 in the journal neurorehabilitation and neural repair. "We believe hearing those stories in parents' and siblings' voices exercises the circuits in the perceptiveness responsible for long-term memories," library author Theresa Pape, a neuroscientist in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University's School of Medicine in Chicago, said in a university rumour release.
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Most Articles About Cancer Focused On The Positive Outcome Of Treatment
Most Articles About Cancer Focused On The Positive Outcome Of Treatment.
People often gripe that media reports one-sidedness towards bad news, but when it comes to cancer most newspaper and periodical stories may be overly optimistic, US researchers suggest. The enquiry authors found that articles were more likely to highlight aggressive treatment and survival, with far less notice given to cancer death, treatment failure, adverse events and end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to their turn up in the March 22 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania span analyzed 436 cancer-related stories published in eight large newspapers and five popular magazines between 2005 and 2007. The articles were most likely to focus on breast cancer (35 percent) or prostate cancer (nearly 15 percent), while 20 percent discussed cancer in general.
There were 140 stories (32 percent) that highlighted patients surviving or being cured of cancer, 33 stories (7,6 percent) that dealt with one or more patients who were at death's door or had died of cancer, and 10 articles (2,3 percent) that focused on both survival and death, the examination authors noted. "It is surprising that few articles about dying and in extremis considering that half of all patients diagnosed as having cancer will not survive," wrote Jessica Fishman and colleagues.
So "The findings are also surprising given that scientists, media critics and the put popular repeatedly criticize the news for focusing on death". Among the other findings.
Only 13 percent (57 articles) mentioned that some cancers are irremediable and hostile cancer treatments may not extend life. Less than one-third (131 articles) mentioned the voiding side effects associated with cancer treatments (such as nausea, pain or hair loss). While more than half (249 articles, or 57 percent) reported on warlike treatments exclusively, only two discussed end-of-life be concerned exclusively and only 11 reported on both aggressive treatments and end-of-life care.
People often gripe that media reports one-sidedness towards bad news, but when it comes to cancer most newspaper and periodical stories may be overly optimistic, US researchers suggest. The enquiry authors found that articles were more likely to highlight aggressive treatment and survival, with far less notice given to cancer death, treatment failure, adverse events and end-of-life palliative or hospice care, according to their turn up in the March 22 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania span analyzed 436 cancer-related stories published in eight large newspapers and five popular magazines between 2005 and 2007. The articles were most likely to focus on breast cancer (35 percent) or prostate cancer (nearly 15 percent), while 20 percent discussed cancer in general.
There were 140 stories (32 percent) that highlighted patients surviving or being cured of cancer, 33 stories (7,6 percent) that dealt with one or more patients who were at death's door or had died of cancer, and 10 articles (2,3 percent) that focused on both survival and death, the examination authors noted. "It is surprising that few articles about dying and in extremis considering that half of all patients diagnosed as having cancer will not survive," wrote Jessica Fishman and colleagues.
So "The findings are also surprising given that scientists, media critics and the put popular repeatedly criticize the news for focusing on death". Among the other findings.
Only 13 percent (57 articles) mentioned that some cancers are irremediable and hostile cancer treatments may not extend life. Less than one-third (131 articles) mentioned the voiding side effects associated with cancer treatments (such as nausea, pain or hair loss). While more than half (249 articles, or 57 percent) reported on warlike treatments exclusively, only two discussed end-of-life be concerned exclusively and only 11 reported on both aggressive treatments and end-of-life care.
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