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kallistini t1_j9cp71v wrote

Reply to comment by m-s-c-s in Stroke survivor moves her hand for first time in a decade after groundbreaking treatment by TheTelegraph

Yup. Being able to activate and control the residual muscles is super useful, especially for advanced prosthetics. A lot of people lose the ability because they have no other reason to use those neural pathways and muscles before they’re fitted for prosthetics, but also because there’s no (or limited) biofeedback. There’s some research into using VR to provide visual feedback to help people, but it requires a baseline level of control that some people simply don’t have without neural stimulation like this. The lack of feedback and control is also one of the proposed mechanisms of phantom limb pain

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Typhpala t1_j9coy6s wrote

Reply to comment by Everyusernametaken1 in Females' propensity to deposit more fat in places like their hips, buttocks and the backs of their arms, so-called subcutaneous fat, is protective against brain inflammation, which can result in problems like dementia and stroke, at least until menopause, scientists report. by QualityWork_

You can, its just lowering overall body fat % Men only get abs under 11%ish body fat, women under 20ish (men gather fat there thus require much less fat to have that area clean) Its just a matter of reducing your overall body fat further.

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ParabellumJohn t1_j9cna0b wrote

Reply to The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic by Skoltech_

This might explain long hauling, only after I got my first doses of the vaccine did I start to feel better

Got sick in May 2020, long hauled on/off until I got my first vaccine in middle of 2021

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whyisalltherumgone_ t1_j9clp32 wrote

Reply to comment by BetterCallSal in The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic by Skoltech_

Long COVID and what you're describing is very different than what this post is describing.

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Olderandolderagain t1_j9clm68 wrote

Reply to Mindfulness-based attention training vastly improves the focus and emotional regulation of high school students by TimTars

Personal anecdote. I went to a CBT therapist about 8 years ago and it changed my life. It was the gateway drug into meditation and mindfulness training. Not only did it help with my anxiety, it allowed me to improve focus on activities such as reading or studying. I became more aware of my attention.

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Pillynap t1_j9ckbjt wrote

Reply to Stroke survivor moves her hand for first time in a decade after groundbreaking treatment by TheTelegraph

This is so amazing to me. My mother was a gifted pianist, loved in our community and every school kid knew her because she played at school assembly, concerts etc. One day she had a seizure out of nowhere. She kept having them. The doctor told her that they had identified the problem and they performed a surgery. She came round from the surgery and then almost immediately had a stroke due to a brain bleed from an area the surgeon had missed. They rushed her back in for emergency surgery, the result of which was she survived, barely, but completely lost the use of her left side. I'd visit her every day, massaging her hand, doing exercises with her. Everything I could, hoping and praying through physio she'd regain use of her arm and leg. She never did, but learned to live around it thanks to the amazing care my father gave her. I would have done anything for something to give her back that mobility, and independence, and to hear her play again. Although my mother isn't alive to benefit from this, it does my heart good knowing that someday people will.

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Tex-Rob t1_j9cjamq wrote

Reply to The case of a patient who had COVID for 318 days helped scientists discover a new route for dangerous coronavirus strain emergence. They found mutations enabling T cell escape. Keeping track of mutations is crucial for understanding, monitoring, and controlling the pandemic by Skoltech_

That person suffered so much, would be nice if the R&D community of the medical field paid that back to patients somehow. ahahaha, like they'd do that! One way street, information gained from them making money off you, classic medical world.

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lookn2-eb t1_j9cidgi wrote

Reply to Climate change and the projected savannization of the Brazilian Amazon threaten most land-based mammals that live there, new research shows. The “savannization” here refers to when lush rainforest gives way to a drier, open landscape that resembles savanna but is actually degraded forest. by MistWeaver80

Yeah, no. Warmer temperatures lead to increased rainfall, not less, which is why you are seeing deserts retreating, around the world. COLDER temperatures would lead to the savannization of many forests.

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