Writing about and commenting on medical and scientific news and developments is hard and time consuming. Everything that is not a part of everyday language has to be referenced, explained and linked. That means whoever writes about this stuff has to have at least some understanding of the topic he/she writes about. Otherwise, it's just copy and paste and that's just a waste of time, for both the writer and the reader.
So, what does happen when it's close to impossible to find the references to something in an article you are working on? Especially when your migraine makes you forget words and meanings (the word for today is Aphasia) and your brain starts playing tricks on you?
Follow me, if you dare...
Here's a piece of what seems to be an important news blurb about a recent scientific development that might affect the treatment of migraine and cancer patients if it's ever put to practice:
"A group of scientists from the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Biotechnology Institute of the University of Granada have found out that the plant “Dittirichia viscose”, known as elecampe, can be used to obtain inhibitors of neurogenic vasodilatation, a significant progress in migraine and cancer treatments.
The study, supervised by professors María del Mar Herrador and Alejandro Fernández Barrero, has been carried out by Julieta Verónica Catalán, assistant professor of the National University of Tucuman (Argentina) and researcher of the University of Granada, and it has been financed by the Unión Europea through the Programa Alban and the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Julieta Verónica used the elecampe plant, abundant in the Mediterranean area, to obtain a method for taking out and purifying a natural product known as ilicic acid."
And this is what a tired, migraine-ridden brain reads:
"A group of scientists from the Department of Organic Chemistry and the Biotechnology Institute of the University of Granada have found out that the plant “Diarrhea viscose”, known as elefant, can be used to obtain inhibitors of neurogenic visualization, a significant progress in migraine and cancer treatments.
The study, supervised by professors María del Mar Herrador and Alejandro Fernández Barrero, has been carried out by Julieta Verónica Catalán, assistant professor of the National University of Tucuman (Argentina) and researcher of the University of Granada, and it has been financed by the Unión Europea through the Programa Alban and the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Julieta Verónica used the elefant plant, abundant in the Mediterranean area, to obtain a method for taking out and purifying a natural product known as illicit acid."
And that, kids, is how you can have fun with your migraines.
If anybody out there could reference the words in bold for me, that would be great. Preferably as if explaining it to a 10-year old and preferably with pictures :P
links:
Scientists obtain anticancer medicines from the elecampe, a wild plant growing in the Mediterranean
Anti-Cancer and Anti-Migraine Drug Candidates Purified from Plants
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Aphasia, $5 dollar words and Migraine News
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2 comments:
That is so hilarious! I read the same thing-- oh boy. I guess it's going to be one of those days!
Aphasia is an issue for me now nearly 24/7. Doc says the result of too many migraines and a long term vitamin deficiency that went un-discovered for years.
My kids have fun with it because sometimes the words that come out are COMPLETELY wrong-- not even related to the word I thought I just said. If it's terribly bad, I can't communicate at all, which is not only one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me, but one of the most frustrating when it happens at an inopportune time (such as speaking on the phone with a potential property buyer and I suddenly start speaking gibberish. Sounds funny, but in reality it was crushing and I've never spoken with the man who is our neighbor since that time.)
I did read the article when it came out tho, and am interested, I just didn't have enough time to really check it out. Now that you've mentioned it again, I am curious just what the scoop is on this plant and 'ilicit acid' LOL!
Ellen Schnakenberg
Migraine and Headache
WEGO Health
http://community.wegohealth.com/
Hi Ellen,
Not too convinced if that 'illicit acid' would be made into any sort of medication for a while. No one seems to be in a hurry so far, as far as that research is concerned.
And the aphasia; darn, that's not even funny. Well, it is, sometimes, I suppose. I got this trick, though - I remembered the word itself, "Aphasia"; over-learned it so I can say it even when I can't speak or understand. If it hits in an inconvenient moment, I just say "Aphasia". Those who know, will understand; those who don't, will think I just used a $5 word in a conversation that they don't know and will run away quietly :P
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