After losing her dad two years ago Lisa Talbot said she "didn't want to be here". Buying clothes became her way of coping with grief and soon her home was "full to the brim".
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Making sense of the brain’s memory banks
How our brains transfer and store long-term memories largely remains a mystery in neuroscience. With memory disorders on the rise globally, understanding these complex neurological processes is more important than ever.
https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2026/31/making-sense-of-the-brains-memory-banks
Pivoting with purpose
When chronic illness changed everything, Anita Newport refused to stand still. Instead, she kept pivoting – and in doing so, found a new way to live.
Words & Photo: Amy Russ
Muslims in England are being driven to seek healthcare abroad
Struggling to access NHS care and priced out of private treatment, some are seeking help when they visit family overseas. But not all can afford it
Genetic and Early-Life Vulnerability in Functional Neurological Disorder: A Large-Scale Retrospective Cohort Study
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a common and disabling condition with diverse presentations, such as motor (weakness, tremor, dystonia, gait), sensory, cognitive, and seizure-like symptoms, often in combination.1 It is understood as a disorder of brain network dysfunction, in which the brain generates overly strong predictions about body states that override incoming sensory and motor signals, and symptoms arise from this mismatch.2 Historically, FND has been conceptualised in terms of psychological stress or traumatic experiences, often arising in childhood.3 However, contemporary models situate it within a broader biopsychosocial framework, in which early-life biological influences are poorly characterised compared to psychosocial factors. Previously reported inherited and......
Bioxytran Reports Encouraging Clinical Observations in First Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP) Patient Treated with PLICID, a Novel Galectin Antagonist Designed with Artificial
Once-weekly intravenous treatment was associated with reported improvements in finger function and walking ability, with no adverse events reported during treatment
When Medicine Mistakes Confidence for a Cure
The ancient philosopher Heraclitus reportedly claimed that physicians were "just as bad as the diseases they claimed to cure." Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of medicine, is frequently associated with the observation that "to do nothing is also a good remedy." Timon, in Shakespeare's Timon of Athens, warned readers to " Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays." Even René Descartes wrote in 1637 that "medicine as it is currently practised contains little of much use." Then who could forget the famous proclamation, generally attributed to Voltaire, that "The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, while nature cures the disease."
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/when-medicine-mistakes-confidence-cure-2026a1000rf0?form=fpf
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Professor Jon Stone - Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and MS - looking for a treatable cause of disability
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Neuroimmunology is the study of the complex, bidirectional interactions between the central nervous system (CNS) and the immune system. Tr...
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Doctors treated her symptoms, offered different diagnoses, and tried various approaches, yet nothing fully explained what she was experien...
