The pill has always been accused of all ills but the majority have been disqualified. The controversy concerning the association oral contraceptives and risk of cerebrovascular accident (stroke) that has lasted for forty years will be ended. However, ladies do not be worried, the risk of stroke in oral contraceptives is rare.
Cerebrovascular diseases are caused [...]
The mad cow disease or BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) is due to a new infection called a “prion.” The other agent is a protein which could transmit its contagion to other proteins on contact.
A major epidemic
The mad cow disease was discovered in 1986 in Britain. She touched the herds of English very important: 446 animals [...]
Depression and stroke cérébralLa depression is often the result of anomalies, including neurochemical, in some areas of the brain. The achievement of these areas by a stroke actually promotes the onset of depression. But it remains difficult to prove.
To demonstrate that a relationship did exist between the location of brain damage during stroke and the [...]
The consumption of coffee reduced in proportion to the risk of Parkinson disease.
Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative reached small nerve centers called basal ganglia because they form small balls at the base of the brain. These ganglia are involved in the onset of voluntary movements and in patients with Parkinson’s disease show a classic clinical [...]
ECT cause few side effects and are sometimes helpful in severe psychiatric illness.
ECT has a bad reputation. At the time of their introduction into medicine in the 1940s, they were indeed performed without anesthesia. They then cause muscle contractions impressive. To avoid fracture allegedly caused violent movements of members, patients were attached. At that time [...]
