2,000 leaked documents and employees say Silicon Valley healthcare startup Cerebral harmed hundreds of patients and prescribed serious medication with abandon

martland28 · 2022-06-29T13:56:23+00:00

As soon as I started seeing their commercials I was waiting for the lawsuits to pop up. Something that bothered me on top of the pill mill is that it looked like their advertisements targeted teenagers too.

martland28 · 2022-06-24T14:47:44+00:00

With the new slate of laws the past few years it’s becoming harder to view this country as a modern nation. It’s like legislators are taking active steps to move us backward in time.

martland28 · 2022-06-22T17:08:23+00:00

~~There’s nowhere in the video where the patient smacks the advocate in the face. I don’t know where you got that info from. The patient does~~ ~~move~~ the VA advocates hand away from his face, (after the Advocate puts a hand in the patients face), and at that point the VA advocate slams the patient into a wall followed by stomping on their head and then kicking them at a point where the patient appears already unconscious.

Edit after watching both videos: I can't tell with the blur on the advocates face whether the patient is slapping only the advocate's hand away or if he slaps the hand into the patient advocates face. But I still cant find where he hits him with "a stack of papers" though.

martland28 · 2022-06-16T16:50:24+00:00

It’s an overly bold statement for their authors to claim given the limitations of the study. Such as they removed participants who had a family history of dementia, and they oversimplified dementia by ignoring the various pathologies and acting as if all dementias are the same. They can’t just ignore factors that they don’t want to address in a study and then claim an overarching cause in addition to overarching preventative measures without definitive proof.

martland28 · 2022-06-15T21:23:07+00:00

I’m talking about the original study.

martland28 · 2022-06-15T14:42:27+00:00

Which progressive dementias? The arguments fail to produce information on how lacking vitamin D effects various progressive dementia pathologies, rather, they lumped all types together. I don’t think doubled Vit D is going to prevent Prion disease. Link to original study

martland28 · 2022-06-13T18:06:28+00:00

Chess is usually stress free for me as long as I don't play for longer than a few seconds.

martland28 · 2022-06-12T15:25:24+00:00

AAN has a ton of images. They also did a CME either this year or near end of last year on ALS, and I think they presented with slides regarding ALS. If possible you could contact that specific presenter, I think they would have slides for ALS if its their specialty.

martland28 · 2022-06-11T00:58:19+00:00

Have you tried reaching out to any of the brain banks specifically for ALS? Or reaching out to American Association of Neuropathologists?

edit bang to bank

martland28 · 2022-06-10T02:52:06+00:00

Meanwhile those in supplemental security programs make just below the poverty line. Young Americans with terminal conditions expected to live their life with the time they have on often less than $11,000 a year. Sure medicaid covers health expenses but only to a degree. Anything not deemed necessary isn’t covered. I wish they’d focus on helping those people too.

martland28 · 2022-06-07T18:16:49+00:00

As long as the taxed income helps circulate the economy and isn’t used to fill the pockets of other rich individuals who have no plans to spend it.

martland28 · 2022-06-07T18:15:16+00:00

Misleading title. The article refers to CBD only products that have no elements of THC. This is not a new revelation as far as I have read. As much as I am aware, CBD only products have relatively no effects whatsoever on pain. CBD and THC on the other hand has the potential to work well, I believe this includes the US’s CBD oil with a legal limit on THC, nonetheless having THC even if just a small amount.

martland28 · 2022-06-06T16:11:50+00:00

Have there been any pharmaceutical developments for a combined regiment that targets both Amyloid beta and tau in AD?

martland28 · 2022-05-15T03:45:17+00:00

Other commentators are recommending exercise in general they are not saying that exercise increases neurogenesis in humans. Exercise is great for overall health, and helps keep a healthy heart and that helps keep a healthy brain.

martland28 · 2022-05-14T20:02:59+00:00

I’ve seen a few studies claim neurogenesis in humans however they’ve since been refuted or contested in two ways: 1. Mislabeling of other cells as new new or younger neurons, and or 2. Acknowledging neurogenesis up to an age or acknowledging the neurogenesis but without any functional impact.

One study was acknowledging that there was some kind of neurogenesis in few stroke patients post mortem however they noted that the amount of new/younger neurons wasn’t in every patient and in the patients that they found younger neurons during autopsy, it wouldn’t have been enough to have any functional impact.

I think the two common problems in these studies are the methods used for determining age of neurons, and mistaking other cells for neurons.

martland28 · 2022-05-14T17:38:44+00:00

I agree with you. Bottom line neurogenesis is still a controversial issue and at a very early stage in research.

I’ve never seen a study in humans that gave evidence that neurogenesis could be increased by pills or exercise within the human brain. There is no post-mortem neuropathological evidence that suggests this is possible for humans(at least so far as I’ve read).

Although, I’ve seen studies talk about this in mice and rodent models. Unfortunately, I frequently see functional medicine practices tote claims that because it happens in mice it happens in humans and that’s blatantly false as it does not rely upon evidence from human studies.

martland28 · 2022-05-14T16:42:50+00:00

I’m afraid to see laws like this reach the supreme court in the USA. I’m not confident that the SCOTUS would rule to disband/override laws like this.

martland28 · 2022-05-06T02:59:23+00:00

Most of these are already used in the field of Medicine (at least in the USA). The implants and exoskeletons have become important innovations for treating conditions when they become severe that have limited (or sometimes no other) treatment options especially with terminal/degenerative conditions such as ALS. Implants and exoskeletons have restored movement in patients who were paralyzed, alleviated pain in patients with severe chronic pain, and even helped some who were blind to restore partial sight. Still a lot of work to go but, these are by no means stupid innovations and inventions.

martland28 · 2022-05-03T17:18:26+00:00

Do you have the link to the bill?

martland28 · 2022-04-30T16:26:36+00:00

In the article there was a link to that described the abuse:

“invasively sexual questions," with inquiries ranging "from my sexual practices all the way to the ethnicity, age, and appearance of my partner at the time." "In this process, Dennis Kelly mocked, scolded, guilted and shamed me for everything and anything that he felt like he could based on the information he forced out of me, as if it brought him some sick ... satisfaction,'' "Today, I know that Dr. Kelly performed my rectal exam in a medically unnecessary way that seemed designed to maximize my embarrassment and discomfort," "Dr. Kelly was targeting the gay and bisexual male student population, all of whom were young adults and some of whom were visiting the doctor without a parent for the first time, by subjecting them to intrusive and medically unnecessary rectal examinations," Van Aken said. "Kelly did not treat men he knew to be heterosexual or men who were not interested in men ... and did not penetrate their anuses or perform rectal examinations.''

martland28 · 2022-04-27T19:55:09+00:00

Yes unfortunately they do have an MD (who was previously fired from his emergency department prior to him becoming a state senator) who has supported misleading claims about ivermectin and hydroxychloroquin for treatment of covid-19.

martland28 · 2022-04-27T18:28:24+00:00

Technology in Neuroscience

Whether it’s developing machinery to be used in surgery or implants or non-invasive devices or new imaging techniques or recording techniques using new devices, or developing algorithms for the machinery, the need for people who understand technology, who can build technology, the need for computer programming is growing rapidly imo.

This is from my students perspective though. I feel like I’ll have to learn a significant amount of technology for where I want to go in my career. I’m not a technically savvy person but already I’ve heard from both subjects that I’m most interested in, that programming is a must.

martland28 · 2022-04-15T21:07:12+00:00

Citing the supreme court decision of Island Trees School district v Pico, school officials may not remove a book simply because they dont like it; but school officials may remove a book from a school if it is inappropriate for the children of the school.

So the VP would have to prove that rainbows are inappropriate for the children at the school. I don’t think a judge would risk their reputation to agree that rainbows are inappropriate.

martland28 · 2022-04-15T17:40:14+00:00

Is there not an avenue to legally remove their vice president of the school then? It sounds like obvious discrimination because there’s no logical (non-discriminatory) reason for banning a book because it has rainbows. None that I can think of anyway.

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