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Psychotropics and Youth, Part 3 ? Equip Teachers with Prescription Pads?
Contentious debate is brewing over the large role educators play role in recommending what students receive psychotropics, even though they have limited knowledge of treatment. Consider the standards by which one teacher described the benefits of psychotropics to researchers in a recent pilot investigation: the children are ?better able to attend to their work… they [...]

Why Some Human Brains Become Leaders, While Others Followers?
The human brain is a biological pattern making machine. At birth, a baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way. These billions of neurons in human brain have extraordinary capacity to construct and weave strings of useful information patterns which gets ever more complex [...]

Brain Blogger Finalist for Two 2010 Research Blogging Awards in Neuroscience ...
Out of over 400 nominations, Brain Blogger is a finalist for two Research Blogging Awards for 2010 in the categories Best Blog — Neuroscience and Best Blog — Psychology. The Awards honor “outstanding bloggers who discuss peer-reviewed research.” We would like to thank the expert panel of judges who positively reviewed our site, the other blogs [...]

Tall Tales of Diabetic Amputations
Diabetes is the leading cause of nontraumatic amputation in developed nations. Lower-limb amputations are particularly common in type 2 diabetes and impose a substantial burden on the patient?s and caregiver?s quality of life, as well as profound economic and health care burdens for the individual and society. Many studies have attempted to outline the risk [...]

Psychotropics and Youth, Part 2 ? The Solutions
“Prescribed psychotropic medications are now high on the research agenda,” assert Lakhan and Hagger-Johnson. Their study advocates new approaches to research to address the rising concern over dramatic increases in psychotropic prescriptions for both children and young. Our first post delineated the five erroneous myths often adhered to when prescribing youth?s psychotropic medication. Here are the [...]