Neuroscience
Jane Gross writes in Sunday's New York Times about chemo brain, in which folks who have received chemotherapy also exhibit signs of severe cognitive impairment. Mostly this is women who’ve received aggressive treatment for breast cancer -- one woman found 4 gallons of milk in her fridge after buying a fifth, with no recollection of having purchased the other four gallons.
Gross writes, "There is now widespread acknowledgment that patients with cognitive symptoms are not imagining things, and a growing number of oncologists are rushing to offer remedies, including stimulants commonly used for attention-deficit disorder and acupuncture."
Health: Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion
By Jane Gross ... Sunday, April 29, 2007
Research is leading to new attitudes about the cognitive side effects of life-saving treatment.
Natasha Mitchell, of Australia's All in the Mind radio programme, reported on chemo brain a few months ago. "[S]hort-term memory loss, foggy thoughts, fatigue - lingering sometimes years after chemotherapy. Could chemo be doing more than killing off cancer cells? New research suggests it may be more toxic to your nerve cells than cancer itself."
Our neurotoxic world (part one): Chemotherapy and the brain, from All In The Mind - 10 February 2007
Interesting stuff.
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: "chemo-brain"
Impaired Cognitive Function and Hippocampal Neurogenesis Following Cancer Chemotherapy Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Feb 14; Christie LA, Acharya MM, Parihar VK, Nguyen A, Martirosian V, Limoli CL Abstract PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of breast cancer survivors...
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
A Brown University press release describes a study published in this week's issue of Science:Antipsychotic Drugs Stop Fatal Viral Infection In Brain Cells PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Generic antipsychotic drugs can protect brain cells from a virus that...
- Business World: Ecopia's Eco-4601 And The Blood-brain Barrier
This corporate press release on BusinessWire about a drug candidate for treatment of primary brain tumors: Ecopia's Lead Cancer Compound Shown to Cross Blood-Brain Barrier September 23, 2004 08:26 AM US Eastern Timezone ...
- Abstract Of The Day
From PubMed: Wefel JS, Lenzi R, Theriault R, Buzdar AU, Cruickshank S, Meyers CA. 'Chemobrain' in breast carcinoma?: A prologue. Cancer. 2004 Aug 1;101(3):466-75. Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer...
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Neuroscience
Chemo Brain
Jane Gross writes in Sunday's New York Times about chemo brain, in which folks who have received chemotherapy also exhibit signs of severe cognitive impairment. Mostly this is women who’ve received aggressive treatment for breast cancer -- one woman found 4 gallons of milk in her fridge after buying a fifth, with no recollection of having purchased the other four gallons.
Gross writes, "There is now widespread acknowledgment that patients with cognitive symptoms are not imagining things, and a growing number of oncologists are rushing to offer remedies, including stimulants commonly used for attention-deficit disorder and acupuncture."
Health: Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion
By Jane Gross ... Sunday, April 29, 2007
Research is leading to new attitudes about the cognitive side effects of life-saving treatment.
Natasha Mitchell, of Australia's All in the Mind radio programme, reported on chemo brain a few months ago. "[S]hort-term memory loss, foggy thoughts, fatigue - lingering sometimes years after chemotherapy. Could chemo be doing more than killing off cancer cells? New research suggests it may be more toxic to your nerve cells than cancer itself."
Our neurotoxic world (part one): Chemotherapy and the brain, from All In The Mind - 10 February 2007
Interesting stuff.
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: "chemo-brain"
Impaired Cognitive Function and Hippocampal Neurogenesis Following Cancer Chemotherapy Clin Cancer Res. 2012 Feb 14; Christie LA, Acharya MM, Parihar VK, Nguyen A, Martirosian V, Limoli CL Abstract PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of breast cancer survivors...
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
A Brown University press release describes a study published in this week's issue of Science:Antipsychotic Drugs Stop Fatal Viral Infection In Brain Cells PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Generic antipsychotic drugs can protect brain cells from a virus that...
- Business World: Ecopia's Eco-4601 And The Blood-brain Barrier
This corporate press release on BusinessWire about a drug candidate for treatment of primary brain tumors: Ecopia's Lead Cancer Compound Shown to Cross Blood-Brain Barrier September 23, 2004 08:26 AM US Eastern Timezone ...
- Abstract Of The Day
From PubMed: Wefel JS, Lenzi R, Theriault R, Buzdar AU, Cruickshank S, Meyers CA. 'Chemobrain' in breast carcinoma?: A prologue. Cancer. 2004 Aug 1;101(3):466-75. Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer...
- Focus On Brain Cancer: Discovery To Recovery
The Focus On Brain Cancer: Discovery to Recovery conference is sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center. The Focus On Brain Cancer conference is for adults who are newly diagnosed, in treatment of survivors of brain cancer. At this conference, adults with...