The surgeon general of Florida wants to scrap vaccine mandates in the state, including requirements for children to be vaccinated to attend school. Also, a Eureka Prize win for infectious diseases research for a team that found a single vaccine could protect against both meningococcal B and gonorrhea. And a call-out for information on GLP-1 prescribing — are they being prescribed to people with no clinical reason to take it?Answering common questions about GLP-1s for weight lossGLP-1s and eating disorders — what are the risks?
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Immunotherapy could treat some psychiatric syndromes
When a person is suffering with psychiatric symptoms we don’t typically look to the immune system for clues.But a study suggests that in a subset of young people an autoimmune issue could be at play – although the exact mechanisms are unclear.While it was a small sample size, a majority of the study participants saw improvements when they received tailored immunotherapy.Guest/sAssociate Professor Elizabeth Scott, youth mental health at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of SydneyReferencesA Case Series of Young People Receiving Adjunctive Immunotherapy for Neuroimmune-Mediated Major Mood or Psychotic Syndromes
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The problem of misdiagnosis in frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia has been in the headlines recently because of the diagnosis of Bruce Willis in 2023. It's one of the most common forms of younger-onset dementia but there are fears many cases are being missed.Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia primarily targets parts of the brain which govern personality and social behaviour.Experts want the diagnostic guidelines to be broadened, as they currently exclude patients with memory loss.Guest/sJulane Bowen, dementia law advocateOlivier Piguet, Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of SydneyReferencesFourteen years later: Reviewing the diagnostic criteria for behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementiaFrontotemporal dementia patients missing out on timely diagnosis and treatment, researchers say
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Mapping pain in the brain — and the placebo effect
Pain flares in different parts of the brainstem depending on which parts of the body are triggered. Researchers from the University of Sydney have used placebo pain relief to uncover this map-like system.The findings could the way for more targeted treatments for chronic pain conditions. Guest/sDr Lewis Crawford, postdoctoral researcher at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of SydneyReferencesSomatotopic organization of brainstem analgesic circuitry
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Mailbag: Cognitive functional therapy
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