Shadows Whisper

Some questions arrive dressed in discomfort, lingering like silent ghosts at the edges of polite conversation.This is one of them.Yet the hardest questions are often the ones we most need to ask. C…

Mindscapes (in the Sea of Passion)
Muscle abnormalities worsen after post-exertional malaise in long COVID - Nature Communications

In this longitudinal, case-controlled, cohort design study, authors show that post-exertional malaise is associated with severe exercise-induced myopathy, local and systemic metabolic disturbances and infiltration of amyloid-containing deposits in skeletal muscles of patients with long COVID.

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''Interpretation: After #hospitalisation for #COVID19, people are at #risk of multiorgan #abnormalities in the medium term. Our findings emphasise the need for proactive multidisciplinary care pathways, with the potential for imaging to guide #surveillance frequency and therapeutic stratification.''
Fasciation in a female zucchini. The third picture is a normal female flower. The first 2 show abnormal cell proliferation. I have no idea if the bees got in there to pollinate it, or if it can even be pollinated. The 4th picture shows the zucchini itself is about 4 inches long, much longer than a normal and pollinated female fruit. #fasciation #vegetablegardening #gardening #growyourown #veggies #zucchini #abnormalities #deformity
Researchers have identified a new #brain #circuit in mouse #embryos that develops at an unexpectedly early stage. Their findings may provide new insights into circuit #abnormalities in #autism.
#Neuroscience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/ns04182301.html
New embryonic brain circuit discovered

Researchers have identified a new brain circuit in mouse embryos

#newpublication

Structural #MRI studies in first-episode #psychosis and the clinical high-risk state have consistently shown volumetric #abnormalities. Aim of the present study was to introduce #radiomics texture features in identification of psychosis.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02242-z

Am I normal? Are you normal?

"Never get a medical test," my father once advised me, "unless you already know what's wrong." Paradoxical advice, I thought, coming from a doctor. When I suggested as much, he explained that tests are guaranteed to show abnormalities, and while a layman might regard that as the precise point, ab­nor­m­al­ities are mostly irrelevant because no real person is what diag­nos­ticians call normal ...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59785153-am-i-normal

#normalities #abnormalities #books

Am I Normal?

A deep dive into the strange science of the 'Normal', a…

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Parenchymal #lung #abnormalities following #hospitalisation for #COVID19 and viral pneumonitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis http://thorax.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/78/2/191?rss=1