Michael Adams was 16 when, after being thrown from his car in a devastating accident, he fractured his skull in three places.
The film producer from New York fell into a coma for two weeks, and woke up a shadow of his former bright, fun-loving self.
For the following decade, he had trouble speaking, making friends and completing the simplest of daily tasks due to extensive nerve damage to his brain.
Until, that is, he happened across what is perhaps
For people with traumatic brain injuries, cognitive functions like memory, attention and mood regulation can become exceedingly difficult. But “there is no therapy for this kind of problem, even though it’s so prevalent,” says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Now, in a small study of individuals who have suffered moderate to severe brain injury, five patients scored better on a test of attention and information processing after having electrodes surgically implanted into
Like many people who have struggled with a mental illness, Emily Hollenbeck had plenty of stories of people not quite getting it. One memorable instance happened as she was about to be anesthetized for an electroconvulsive therapy treatment. The anesthesiologist found out that she had a Ph.D. in psychology. “His eyes settle on me, and he goes, ‘Oh,
[Content warning: This story contains discussion of suicide.]
On a hot, sunny Sunday afternoon in Manhattan, time froze for Jon Nelson. He stood on the sidewalk and said good-bye to his three kids, whose grandfather had come into the city from Long Island to pick them up.
Like any parent, Jon is deeply attuned to his children’s quirks. His oldest? Sometimes quiet
A mother claims she felt like she was ‘slowly dying’ after getting a boob job.
Danielle Sheehan, from Norwich, went from a C to DD cup after winning a £5,000 makeover when she was 19.
But the beauty clinic owner was plagued with eczema and inflammation around her eyes, chest and legs, hair loss and fatigue in the years that followed — and couldn’t work out why.
Medics brushed Ms Sheehan’s symptoms off as ‘stress’ or an ‘autoimmune disease’. Tests
The Kylie Cosmetics founder has been more and more vocal about her use of fillers, filters, and all the rest, and even talked briefly about her family’s impact on modern beauty standards in an episode of The Kardashians. “I think I just see so many young girls on the internet now, like, fully editing,” she said at the time. “I went through that stage, too.”
Jenner also addressed her use of fillers in an interview with HommeGirls, saying that, unlike
Scientists can see chronic pain in the brain with new clarity.
Over months, electrodes implanted in the brains of four people picked up specific signs of their persistent pain. This detailed view of chronic pain, described May 22 in Nature Neuroscience, suggests new ways to curtail the devastating condition.
The approach “provides a way into the brain to track pain,” says Katherine Martucci, a neuroscientist who studies chronic pain at Duke University School of Medicine.
Kelly Ripa und Mark Consuelos hatten in der heutigen Folge von „Live With Kelly and Mark“ eine unangenehme Diskussion über Po-Implantate – als der Schauspieler seine Frau über das Erledigen der Arbeit ausfragte.
Mark, 52, übernahm nach Ryan Seacrests Abreise Anfang dieses Monats neben Kelly, ebenfalls 52, die Co-Moderation der Morgenshow.
Aber die Dinge wurden in der Show ein wenig angespannt, als sie das Thema plastische Chirurgie ansprachen.
Während er einen kürzlich erschienenen Artikel diskutierte, in dem es hieß, dass
A mother has claimed her trip to Turkey for cut-price dental treatment saved her life — by spotting her deadly brain tumour.
Lisa Robinson, from Consett, County Durham, flew out last month for a consultation about dental implants.
Staff at the Magic Smile Turkey dental clinic in Antalya were immediately concerned about her lack of balance, and even asked if she was drunk.
Ms Robinson, 44, was rushed to hospital, prompting her partner, daughter and sister to make the five-hour
NASCAR racer Danica Patrick has opened up about her decision to have her breast implants removed, after claiming they caused hair loss, metal toxicity, weight gain, a change in her hormones, and gut issues.
The professional driver, 40, had a boob job back in 2014 because she said she wanted to have an ‘ideal body,’ but after spending years feeling unwell and not knowing why, she found out was suffering from what she believed to be a condition called Breast
