Hari's Random Thoughts by Hariharan Ramamurthy: 9/24/17

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

what did they test?

One test involved placing pieces of sticky tape on their paws and watching how long it took them to become aware of it.

A healthy animal would quickly notice the tape and take it off.

It took the untreated animals a month to recover sufficiently to feel the tape and remove it.

Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery OPEN ACCESS

Deepak M. Kalaskar

Peter E. Butler

Shadi Ghali

Edition: 1

Published by: UCL Press

Pages: 472

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/j.ctt1g69xq0

http://www.jstor.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/stable/j.ctt1g69xq0

OTOLARYNGOLOGY/HEAD AND NECK SURGERY US military surgeons Book

OTOLARYNGOLOGY/HEAD AND NECK SURGERY COMBAT CASUALTY CARE IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM

https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo64622/

Military Medicine Textbooks

The TMM Series Published Textbooks Medical Consequences of Nuclear Warfare (1989)

Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast, and Burn Injuries (1991)

Occupational Health: The Soldier and the Industrial Base (1993

) Military Dermatology (1994)

Military Psychiatry: Preparing in Peace for War (1994)

Anesthesia and Perioperative Care of the Combat Casualty (1995)

War Psychiatry (1995)

Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (1997)

Rehabilitation of the Injured Soldier, Volume 1 (1998)

Rehabilitation of the Injured Soldier, Volume 2 (1999)

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments, Volume 1 (2002)

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments, Volume 2 (2002)

Ophthalmic Care of the Combat Casualty (2003)

Military Medical Ethics, Volume 1 (2003) Military Medical Ethics, Volume 2 (2003)

Military Preventive Medicine, Volume 1 (2003)

Military Preventive Medicine, Volume 2 (2005) Recruit Medicine (2006) Medical Aspects of Biological Warfare (2007)

Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare (2008) Care of the Combat Amputee (2009)

Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (2011)

Military Quantitative Physiology: Problems and Concepts in Military Operational Medicine (2012)

Medical Consequences of Radiological and Nuclear Weapons (2013) Forensic and Ethical Issues in Military Behavioral Health (2014)

Combat Anesthesia: The First 24 Hours (2015)

Sleeping pills offer hope to STROKE victims How some unscrupulous scientists raise the hopes of some sufferers

How some unscrupulous scientists raise the hopes of some sufferers

This is the headline of Daily mail from UK

Sleeping pills offer hope to STROKE victims: Tablets taken for insomnia 'could help survivors regain the ability to eat, and walk unaided'

A popular sleeping pill could help repair brains damaged by strokes.

In experiments on mice, animals given zolpidem recovered much more rapidly than usual.

“If the dramatic results are replicated in people”, it could mean that many more stroke survivors regain the ability to eat, dress or walk unaided, greatly improving life for them and their carers.

There are 15 million people worldwide who suffer a stroke each year, with nearly six million deaths.

So what happens in mice is totally different from what happens in men.

In some people who take zolpidem the usual decoupling of the muscle tone from sleep is lost so much so they act out their dreams and somnambulism people driving cooking while “awake/asleep” (let us call this “Zolpie” state unlike the Zombie state which is very popular on television nowadays”

So it is quite possible that the mice have become “Zolpies” and are just sleepwalking.

To claim this as a big break through i think is premature and downright fraudulent.