Headache & Pain
Acupuncture in headache treatment
In 1997, the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel suggested that acupuncture may be effective or useful in treating 14 disorders,
Oct. 11, 2020
Lewy body dementia: Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in neocortex on autopsy
At autopsy of elderly patient with Lewy body dementia, there was a high burden of alpha-synculein-positive Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the neocortex, consistent with a primary neuropathological diagnosis of Lewy body disease or dementia with Lewy bodies along with high levels of Alzheimer disease-associated tau tangles and amyloid plaques consistent with a secondary diagnosis of Alzheimer disease. (Contributed by Dr. David J Irwin.)
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