The Mind Diseased

II: The Diseased Spinal Cord

A recent PubMed search of the literature for ‘‘horse OR equine AND spinal OR vertebral’’ revealed 462 citations relevant to equine spinal cord disease. I have circa 500 additional papers, many of which are in languages other than English and in nonrefereed journals, that relate to equine vertebral and spinal cord disease. Finally, several contemporary texts review our understanding of equine sp...

The Triune Brain: Limbic Mind Mind Plastic, Emotional Mind

Problem statement: The theory discussed is revealing, as compared to studies on the human brain, the fact that he has inherited the structure and organization of three fundamental types of reptiles, ancient or primitive mammals and mammals, or recent evolved. What is very disconcerting is that nature has been able to connect with each other and establish a sort of communication between them. Ap...

The Sounds of the Diseased Heart

ticated research techniques frequently show us that these drugs don't work at all! Gottshalk et al. fail to show that anxiety is more decreased by Librium than by a placebo. This, despite the fact that a large (25 mg) single dose of Librium was used and the tests for anxiety are some of the most sensitive available. Why then are these drugs so popular? Certainly not because they may increase ho...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Nerve Ingrowth Into Diseased

METHODS: We collected 46 samples of intervertebral discs from 38 patients during spinal fusion for chronic back pain. 30 samples were from pain levels clinically established by discography and 16 samples were from adjacent vertebral levels with no pain. We obtained 34 control samples of intervertebral disc from previously healthy individuals with normal histology within 8 h of recorded death. W...