Neuroscience
From yesterday's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Lost in cancer's fog
'Chemobrain' impairs thinking, memory after chemotherapy; anecdotal brain effects are just starting to get serious study
By JOHN FAUBER
01 September 2007
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
[snip]
In two small groups of testicular and breast cancer patients, between 60% and 70% of the patients experienced some cognitive decline that was tied to the onset of their chemotherapy, said Christina Meyers, a professor and chief of neuropsychology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
"It's subtle," she said. "We are not talking about dementia or anything grossly obvious."
Within one year, about half of the patients were back to their pretreatment levels of cognitive ability, Meyers said.
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Neuroscience
Chemotherapy and Neuropsychological Functioning
From yesterday's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Lost in cancer's fog
'Chemobrain' impairs thinking, memory after chemotherapy; anecdotal brain effects are just starting to get serious study
By JOHN FAUBER
01 September 2007
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
[snip]
In two small groups of testicular and breast cancer patients, between 60% and 70% of the patients experienced some cognitive decline that was tied to the onset of their chemotherapy, said Christina Meyers, a professor and chief of neuropsychology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
"It's subtle," she said. "We are not talking about dementia or anything grossly obvious."
Within one year, about half of the patients were back to their pretreatment levels of cognitive ability, Meyers said.
[snip]
[ ... Read the full article ... ]
- 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...
- Functional Neuroimaging, Alzheimer Disease, Neuropsychology Function, And The Hippocampus
One of many recent news article over the past year about the application of functional neuroimaging technologies, this time in Wisconsin and with specific concern about the hippocampus and the hippocampal region and its relation to neuropsychological...
- Cognitive Dysfunction In Individuals With Cancer
Advances in treatment and care have improved the survival rates of patients diagnosed with cancer. Survival raises issues of treatment-related morbidity, symptom experience, and concern over the incidence of cognitive dysfunction. Methodological concerns...
- Animal Bioacoustics & Speech Processing
I‘m in Milwaukee for a conference (about which probably more later), and was happy to have the local newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, delivered to my hotel room rather than a bland national paper. Even better, there is a fascinating animal...
- 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...