Daily Archives: June 29, 2009

Mayo Clinic Proceedings Reviews Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Psychiatric Diseases

June 29, 2009 – 7:55 am

Pioneering therapeutic trials to investigate the effectiveness of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in hard-to-treat depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette’s syndrome are underway at multiple medical centers around the world, according to a review in the June 2009 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
“Deep brain stimulation has long been seen as valuable for controlling movement disorders,” [...]

By johnjmurphy | Posted in Psychology/Psychiatry, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

Celiac Disease Prevalence and Mortality

June 29, 2009 – 6:15 am

Celiac disease, an immune system reaction to gluten in the diet, is at least four times as common today as it was 50 years ago, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the journal Gastroenterology.
The study also found that subjects who unknowingly had celiac disease were nearly four times as [...]

By Lee Aase | Posted in Digestive Disorders | Tagged , , , | Comments (18)