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Mental Illness from a New Perspective

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From McGill University- The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a wide range of early onset psychiatric problems (from depression, anxiety and...

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Accreditation Nation

FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  Naturopathic medical education is a recognized higher-education enterprise that meets the same standards as first-professional doctorate (MD, DO, DC, OD, etc) training. This is true of naturopathic training in both the United States and...

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Hydrotherapy- Part 3

JAMES SENSENIG, ND LETITIA DICK-KRONENBERG, ND, VNMI   This column is transcribed from a weekly live conversation produced by the Naturopathic Medical Institute (NMI). The goal of NMI is to preserve and promote the principles of naturopathic philosophy...

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Repairing Severed Spinal Cord Injuries

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From Northwestern University- Northwestern University researchers have developed a new injectable therapy that harnesses "dancing molecules" to reverse paralysis and repair tissue after severe spinal cord injuries. In a new study, researchers...

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Acute Flaccid Myelitis Update from the CDC

Node Smith, ND The CDC has updated its report on Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) this month, and voices its concern for the condition, which causes serious weakness in the arms and legs of predominantly children. CDC has reported 386 confirmed cases of AFM in the United...

Postpartum Depression Risk May Increase with Winter Births

Research News Release from: Springer Publishing Women in late pregnancy during darker months of the year may have a greater risk of developing postpartum depression once their babies are born. This is consistent with what is known about the relationship between...

Work Environment Complexity Hinders Healthy Lifestyle

Node Smith, ND What do we do when the complexity of our lives is preventing us from making changes to improve our health? According to a new study, changing multiple behaviors may not be realistic for individuals in high stress jobs with demanding and variable...

Scientists Develop Bioelectric Stimulator for Damaged Nerves

Node Smith, ND A collaborative team from Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine have created what they are terming the first example of “bioelectronic medicine.1” The device is a biodegradable implant that works to increase the rate of...

WNF: A History of Naturopathy in South Africa

Naturopathic News Wendy Ericksen-Pereira, ND Nicolette V. Roman, PHD Rina Swart, PHD A huge growth in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) took place in South Africa in the 1960s that paralleled what was happening in other parts of the western world....

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Genetic Testing Could Indicate Risk of Kidney Disease

From Columbia University Irving Medical Center A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person's risk of developing chronic kidney disease -- and it works in people of African,...

Regenerating Cardiomyocytes 

From University of Houston Researchers at the University of Houston are reporting a first-of-its-kind technology that not only repairs heart muscle cells in mice but also regenerates them following a heart attack, or myocardial infarction as its medically known....

Each Neuron Computes Movement Signals autonomously, and as a Whole

From Technion-Israel Institute of Technology From the moment we are born, and even before that, we interact with the world through movement. We move our lips to smile or to talk. We extend our hand to touch. We move our eyes to see. We wiggle, we walk, we gesture, we...

Could Being ‘Over-Confident’ be Detrimental to Health?

From University of Vienna Older people who overestimate their health go to the doctor less often. This can have serious consequences for their health, for example, when illnesses are detected too late. By contrast, people who think they are sicker than they actually...

An Interesting Look at Telepresence in University Classrooms

Node Smith, ND Telepresence robots help university students learning remotely to feel more a part of the class, new research by Oregon State University suggests. The findings are particularly important given the nationwide shift to online instruction caused by the...

How do Psychedelics Work?

Node Smith, ND Perhaps no region of the brain is more fittingly named than the claustrum, taken from the Latin word for "hidden or shut away." The claustrum is an extremely thin sheet of neurons deep within the cortex, yet it reaches out to every other region of the...

Synthetic Red Blood Cells

Node Smith, ND Scientists have tried to develop synthetic red blood cells that mimic the favorable properties of natural ones, such as flexibility, oxygen transport and long circulation times. But so far, most artificial red blood cells have had one or a few, but not...

Cycles of Negative Thinking Could be Linked to Dementia

Node Smith, ND Persistently engaging in negative thinking patterns may raise the risk of Alzheimer's disease, finds a new UCL-led study. 'Repetitive negative thinking' (RNT) linked to subsequent cognitive decline In the study of people aged over 55, published in...

REM Sleep Important in Retaining Memories

Node Smith, ND The presence of dreaming during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep indicates that memory formation may occur during this sleep stage. But now, researchers from Japan have found that activity in a specific group of neurons is necessary for memory...

Thyroid Infection May Follow COVID-19 in Some Patients

Node Smith, ND COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a new case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory thyroid...

COVID-19 May Lead to Delirium and PTSD

Node Smith, ND People taken ill by coronavirus infections may experience psychiatric problems while hospitalized and potentially after they recover, suggests an analysis of past research led by the UCL Institute of Mental Health with King's College London...

How the Coronavirus Transferred From Animals to Humans

Node Smith, ND A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Virus was...

A Molecule that May Stop Drug Cravings

Node Smith, ND Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampens the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also may represent a new class of drugs that could be more specific with fewer side effects than current...

REM Sleep Important in Retaining Memories

Node Smith, ND The presence of dreaming during rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep indicates that memory formation may occur during this sleep stage. But now, researchers from Japan have found that activity in a specific group of neurons is necessary for memory...

Thyroid Infection May Follow COVID-19 in Some Patients

Node Smith, ND COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis, according to a new case study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. COVID-19 infection may cause subacute thyroiditis Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory thyroid...

COVID-19 May Lead to Delirium and PTSD

Node Smith, ND People taken ill by coronavirus infections may experience psychiatric problems while hospitalized and potentially after they recover, suggests an analysis of past research led by the UCL Institute of Mental Health with King's College London...

How the Coronavirus Transferred From Animals to Humans

Node Smith, ND A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Virus was...

A Molecule that May Stop Drug Cravings

Node Smith, ND Duke University researchers have developed a synthetic molecule that selectively dampens the physiological rewards of cocaine in mice. It also may represent a new class of drugs that could be more specific with fewer side effects than current...

What Happens in the Brain to ‘Disconnect’ During Sleep?

Node Smith, ND During sleep and under anesthesia, we rarely respond to such external stimuli as sounds even though our brains remain highly active. Now, a series of new studies by researchers at Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of...

Physician Heal Thyself: It’s in the Roots of Our Medicine

Aaron Wong, ND, RTC Imagine how we would feel if we went to work feeling passionately inspired to see all of our patients. Challenges would come up, but in those times we would know we could make decisions clearly and ethically and that if we needed help, we could...

Notes from the Field: March, 2020

Nature Cure Clinical Pearls Jared L. Zeff, ND, VNMI, LAc The following is not an article prepared for a medical journal. Not every statement of fact is cited or referenced. This is a commentary on the medicine, a running set of observations about practice in the...

A Return to Balance

The Vital Conversation James Sensenig, NDJudith Boice, ND, LAc, FABNO, VNMI This article joins a series of articles in NDNR that are based on transcripts of the Naturopathic Medicine Institute (NMI)’s Wednesday morning call-in program, The Vital...

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Ketamine for Alcoholism

Ketamine for Alcoholism

Edited By NODE SMITH, ND From The University of Exeter- People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial. The Ketamine for reduction...