FDA allows marketing of magnetic stimulator for migraine with aura “It’s like something you’d see on Star Trek”. That’s how it was described five years ago in this video: therapeutic magnetic stimulation in migraine. This technique is investigated for much longer. Now, yesterday, the FDA allowed marketing … 14. Dez. 2013 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 6 Kommentare
K-Mart: Remove the Pharmacy Surprise ad from airplay and issue an apology Would you dare script the mother say, “I lied, I don’t really have breast cancer”? Two days ago, a petition on Change.org appeared that I would like you to consider signing. Change.org is the go-to … 16. Aug. 2013 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | Keine Kommentare
Flogging a dying rat and riding the wave Are their any signs of heightened consciousness in dying brains? Or is it just a wave of death as others have called it—more sober: a latency to unconsciousness. A new study [1] suggests exactly that, … 15. Aug. 2013 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 1 Kommentar
A Prescription for Fear Revisited “A text was not something fixed and eternal but the product of the reader’s mind in conjunction with the author’s“. That’s just one sentence in the ongoing debate on Virginia Heffernan’s text “Why I’m a … 18. Juli 2013 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | Keine Kommentare
Migraine trending on Twitter for 3 days On my way back to Germany with my flight being delayed, I have some time to write about the International Headache Congress that I’ve visited here in Boston. We had many good talks, some about … 30. Juni 2013 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 1 Kommentar
The butcher and lepidopterist A long time ago, I heard that my great uncle—he was only referred to as Uncle Sepp—collected butterflies. Someone in my family mentioned it. Actually, Uncle Sepp was a butcher. He lived in New Jersey. … 30. Dez. 2012 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 1 Kommentar
What we learn from mapping migraine aura Some time ago, we published a paper in PLoS ONE on early migraine symptoms called migraine aura. These symptoms can be mapped onto the human cortical surface. We used individual drawings of the visual field … 24. Nov. 2012 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 4 Kommentare
More brain, please! But where? The next generation of brains: from retinal gigapixel to curved cortices. The pattern of the highly folded surface of the brain is a prominent features of the human brain. It looks a bit like a … 01. Nov. 2012 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | Keine Kommentare
Engineering consciousness Do we consider consciousness as a matter of physics or rather—engineering? I read a nice post by Sean Carroll: Feynman on Initial Conditions, Evolving Laws, and What We Consider Physics. Consciousness is the obvious candidate … 24. Okt. 2012 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | Keine Kommentare
Like a receptor It is a bad hair day for Lefkowitz, as I learned this morning form the SciAm podcast “The 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry“. And since there was also a brief mentioning of migraine in this … 10. Okt. 2012 | Von Markus A. Dahlem | 1 Kommentar
