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Sleep Disorders Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury
Patients with traumatic brain injuries need longer sleep times to heal the injured brain, and persistent pleiosomnia at 18 months implies that ongoing abnormalities are producing an increased need for sleep.
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Eating Behavior in Frontotemporal Dementias
In a prospective, controlled study of 49 patients with dementia and 25 healthy controls, marked hyperphagia is restricted to behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia patients that is likely due to differing neural networks, while increased sucrose preference is likely controlled by a similar network in both behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia patients.
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Migraine with Aura and Systemic Right-to-Left Shunt: Risk for Stroke?
Right-to-left shunts, as detected by transcranial Doppler, are more common in patients with migraine with aura, but are not correlated with increased risk of silent posterior circulation infarcts or white matter lesions on MRI.
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Feds Update Nutrition Labels for Modern Era
Overhaul aims to help Americans make healthier food choices.
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FDA Ponders Implant for Opioid Addiction
Federal regulators consider latest technique to combat an epidemic.
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House of Representatives’ Zika Bill is ‘Just Not Enough’
Both chambers of Congress passed their own Zika funding measures, setting the stage for a negotiation battle as the CDC waits for funding.
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It's Simple, It's Just Not Easy
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Noninvasive Diagnosis of Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy
A testing strategy combining bone scintigraphy and laboratory testing allows accurate diagnosis of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy without the need for a biopsy.
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Can MRI Diagnose Myocarditis?
New quantitative MRI technique performs better than the older Lake Louise criteria for diagnosing myocarditis as compared to the standard of endomyocardial biopsy.
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Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Heart Failure Patients May Be Particularly Beneficial
Atrial fibrillation ablation leads to better outcomes in heart failure patients compared to amiodarone.