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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100421:00:44:00

this? a couple things. first of all, there have been pretty significant studies out of big centers, nyu, hopkins, ucla, showing some of the therapies being talked about here are safe. and then sort of the second step of this, the idea that you start to measure effectiveness in people who have overwhelming anxiety, depression, for whom conventional therapy simply hasn t worked. when they start using some of these medications, again, hallucinogenic medication, some early small studies have shown significant benefit. i know you also have some brain scan evidence that may back this up as well, right? they can actually do these tests, campbell, called pet scans. these two areas of the brain have different functions. the lateral cortex gives you a sense of the world and you where the frontal is your judgment and personality. these two things get more connected as a result of taking these medications. dr. ross, there have been studies on the drug psilocybin, if i m saying it right, wh

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100303:15:45:00

dr., always good to see you. great to see you. martha: it is a fear of all of ours and you forget something and you say, gosh is it an early onset of alzheimer s happening in my brain and why would having ambition in life stave it off. alzheimer s is the most common dementia and there are over 5 million people in the u.s. that have it and it is a build-up of abnormal proteins in the brain and they tend to involve the part of the brain that has to do with reasoning, and add advanced reasoning and language, and, knowing where you are, and that is why alzheimer s patients get lost, and we have come a long way, in towards diagnosing this with pet scans and functional mris and very sophisticated ways to see it before you got it and we don t know what to do about it when you have it. what is really interesting about the study, out of chicago, martha, is it looks like, if you have a purpose in life, you cut down your risk of getting alzheimer s, by twice, in other words you are half as li

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140105:15:36:00

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130203:15:08:00

tal-proteins. the same as you see in alzheimers disease. itis not surprising that nfl players have a four times greater probability of dying with alzheimers than the general public. you are saying it sounds like a blood test. the images i was looking at were fmris. what is allowing the diagnosis? they are pet scans. it s like a guide. it measures radioactivity. we have invented a new chemical marker we inject. there s a radioactive tag. the scanner is measuring radioactivity. when you see the red in the scan, there s a lot of abnormal deposit. let s say that we can, as we move forward in science make clear distinctions. all right, there is evidence of

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