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The Pakistan Autism Meetup Group Message Board › Treatment of Autism in Alternative medicine/Homeopathy
|A former member
i m also using homeopathy for my son.he also had severe constipation a year ago.why i consulted my homeo physician,he told me that sometimes when children are fed on formula milk,their instestines are affected,and if it leads to constipation,we should give 'alumina' to these children.now by the grace of god,my child never had constipation again.if anybody wants to use this medication,plz consult your homeophysician for the dosage and potency because it may vary for different individuals.
with best wishes,
|A former member
another angle to homeopathy. i also gave up ritalin as i was scared that my son would become an addict. then i came to know about a doctor at shujah abad and went there.the amazing aspect was that he would tell about the prob byfeeling the pulse.he is basically a nabbaz.what he said i later reasd on net.although the presentation was different.
it is slow treatment but worth a try.
|A former member
Most Homeopathic doctors measure heart beat and pulse to form their diagnosis, I have not read much about homeopathy, and there is no fully conclusive evidence, however the dosages that the homepaths give is simillar to balancing vitamin deficiency or induce chelation as is done with conventional medicines. Most parents here have had positive results, but very little is written about this on the internet.
|Saira S.
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Karachi, PK
Dear members,
This is another discussion with useful input on alternate medicine and homeopathy.These are personal experiences of some members and parents who would like to follow these advice ,please,be extra cautious as nothing is proved as yet.
take care
|A former member
parents must keep in mind that in MOST cases, the homepath doctor referred to is not a degree holder or diploma holder, neither is he qualified to give the RIGHT medicines, but most homepath doctors give steroids and strange metal powders mixed with water to children, in most cases there is immediate improvement which stops as you stop giving that homepath medicine. There are SOME very few qualified and proven homepath doctors, but they are ahrd to find, you may want to take the advice of regular doctors or other parents to find these few qualified and safe homeopathic doctors, dont take your child to just any homepath, do your asking around and reference research first. It is safer to ask advice of normal doctor about this topic, especially if they have knowledge of autism.
Can parents share the name of doctors who they have used for homepathy, and if they had a positive experience with these doctors
|A former member
Aoa Qazi Sahib,
i am sorry, but i have to disagree with your comments about alternative medicine and specifically homeopathy.
Not every homeopath is a fraud, as you are trying to say.
My son had regressed due to a reknown,qualified and experienced child specialist of my city.and he has shown some improvement with homeopathy.
As he is suffering from autism and lyme disease at the same time so his progress is relatively slow, but still i am satisfied.
Homeopathy is by far the most safe and gentle mode of treatment with least side effects.So, if any body wants to treat their child with homeopathy, make sure he is well qualified and experienced as you would do with any other practitioner.and then leave the rest to GOD.
Being alternative doesnt means it is always bad or dangerous!!!
take care,
P.S if any body is interested in homeopathy,they are most welcome for the questions..
|A former member
I agree with azeem's statement below as he is trying to caution the parents to exercise their parental responsibility and right in making the correct treatment choices for their kids...I would like to know the name and telephone number, approximate treatment cost along with positive affects and/or names and number of children whose autism cure has been achieved by some of the homepaths if its not too much of a trouble..thanks.
saima ijaz.
parents must keep in mind that in MOST cases, the homepath doctor referred to is not a degree holder or diploma holder, neither is he qualified to give the RIGHT medicines, but most homepath doctors give steroids and strange metal powders mixed with water to children, in most cases there is immediate improvement which stops as you stop giving that homepath medicine. There are SOME very few qualified and proven homepath doctors, but they are ahrd to find, you may want to take the advice of regular doctors or other parents to find these few qualified and safe homeopathic doctors, dont take your child to just any homepath, do your asking around and reference research first. It is safer to ask advice of normal doctor about this topic, especially if they have knowledge of autism.
|A former member
if you google autism and homeopathy, u will find a lot of information about it.
to name just one of them, their website is www.homeopathyhouston.com.
They have almost 40-50 cured cases of autism.
i agree that they cost a lot and most of the families here in Pakistan cannot afford them, that is why i always encorage parents to go to a local reputable homeopathic practitioner.
the most important thing is although homeopathy can do wonders, but a well planned structured training program for our kids is still very very important.
|A former member
Do we ignore everything we have learned about sensory integration? behavioral motivations? Neurology?
What about the genetic makeup? The work of those canadian scientists?
I am very sorry to sound like a broken record...homeopathy and general medicine are designed to help alleviate symptoms...not to cure...autism is a spectrum disorder, not a disease...
those parents whose children have identified genetic mutations, rett syndome, or downs /autism, or those parents whose children have auditory processing disorder or visual problems or sensory integration disorder...many, many other forms of complex autism which are not cured... those parents need to be given more than just a handful of herbs and vitamins ...I am one of those parents. And I know what i have gone thru
So for all of those silent majority- who cannot even talk about their child on this forum- know this, every child can learn, no matter how severe. Our child is living proof of the power of effective education and therapy. Please, do not give up if you cannot find that "miracle cure."
Sometimes it is a marathon, not a sprint to win the race.
Don't lose heart.
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|Saira S.
Group Organizer
Karachi, PK
shazia,those are some really touching words and I can probably exactly feel the emotion that you must have felt while writing those words.Repeatedly ,few of us have have been trying to convince all the parents that they have much more than they think they do and its only when they will open their eyes to reality and start working with their child positively with proven interventions they will see the miraculous results they have always been waiting for.
I hope that all the kids with autism can make their parent see how blessed they are to have a child with lot of challenges but at the same time with lot of unique talents,purity of heart and unconditional love.And the parents realize that its their responsibility to give this child opportunities to learning,living a full life and offering the world the amazing things he has to offer.
good luck to all parents and I can give one assurance that when you are on the right track no matter how slow the progress is you will reach your goals but if you are on the worng track ,then no matter how fast you run you will never reach your destination .so be careful in choosing your tracks because you are making decision not only for yourself but also for the little child who cannot stand up for himself and who is dependent on you to to guide him.
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By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter There has been a worrying rise in the number of working-age men and women having strokes, a charity has warned. In England in 2014 there were 6,221 hospital admissions for men aged 40-54 - a rise of 1,961 on 14 years earlier, a Stroke Association study shows. Experts said unhealthy lifestyles were partly to blame for the rise, though the growing population and changes to hospital practice also played a part. Overall the rate of strokes is going down in the UK, however. Researchers say based on their findings strokes should not be considered as a disease of the old. Strokes are caused by blood clots or bleeds to the brain and can lead to long-lasting disability. The majority occur in people aged over 65, and though rates are decreasing in this group, this report suggests growing numbers of younger people are at risk. Experts analysed national hospital admission data spanning 2000 to 2014. Trends for people in their 40s and early 50s appeared to be getting worse. In women aged 40-54, there were an extra 1,075 strokes recorded in 2014, compared with 2000. Experts said growing obesity levels, sedentary lives and unhealthy diets - which raise the risks of dangerous blood clots - all played a part. And they argued strokes among this age group had long-lasting personal and financial impacts on individuals and their families, as well as on the economy. Recovering patients can find it difficult to return to work and should have more support from employers, the report suggests. Jon Barrick, of the Stroke Association, said: "These figures show stroke can no longer be seen as a disease of older people. "There is an alarming increase in the numbers of people having a stroke in working age. © 2015 BBC.
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|By Rebecca Harrington It's best to treat the good with the bad, new medical insights into brain attacks suggest. Doctors are beginning to think the side of the brain opposite to a clot in stroke patients is just as important a target for treatment as the damaged tissue when it comes to a faster recovery. Only in the past few years have researchers discovered that the uninjured side of the brain becomes more active after a stroke to help its fallen neighbor. In some instances, it pumps out proteins that induce damaged neurons to begin repairs and others that trigger new blood vessels to form. It can even extend its own neurons across hemispheres to restore function. Current stroke treatments largely target the damaged tissue. "I think everyone thought, 'The other side of the brain is working pretty well,'" says Stanford University neurologist Gary Steinberg. "'Why don't we leave that alone?'" In light of the growing evidence that the healthy hemisphere provides aid naturally, however, doctors are now investigating how to boost its healing actions. One such drug, shepherded by Adviye Ergul of Georgia Regents University and Susan Fagan of the University of Georgia, activates receptors on uninjured tissue that trigger pathways to reduce harmful inflammation and support the growth of neurons and blood vessels on the side of the brain with the clot. The drug increases repair rates in rats that have experienced stroke—results described recently in the Journal of Hypertension—and Ergul and Fagan say the therapy could become available to humans in the next five years. © 2015 Scientific American
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By Nicholas Bakalar Air pollution — even for just one day — significantly increases the risk of stroke, a large review of studies has found. Researchers pooled data from 103 studies involving 6.2 million stroke hospitalizations and deaths in 28 countries. The analysis, published online in BMJ, found that all types of pollution except ozone were associated with increased risk for stroke, and the higher the level of pollution, the more strokes there were. Daily increases in pollution from nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and particulate matter were associated with corresponding increases in strokes and hospital admissions. The strongest associations were apparent on the day of exposure, but increases in particulate matter had longer-lasting effects. The exact reason for the effect is unclear, but studies have shown that air pollution can constrict blood vessels, increase blood pressure and increase the risk for blood clots. Other research has tied air pollution to a higher risk of heart attacks, stroke and other ills. The lead author, Dr. Anoop Shah, a lecturer in cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, said that there was little an individual can do when air pollution spikes. "If you're elderly, or have co-morbid conditions, you should stay inside," he said. But policies leading to cleaner air would have the greatest impact, he said. "It's a question of getting cities and countries to change." © 2015 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 20727 - Posted: 03.28.2015
By GINA KOLATA After three decades of failure, researchers have found a treatment that greatly improves the prognosis for people having the most severe and disabling strokes. By directly removing large blood clots blocking blood vessels in the brain, they can save brain tissue that would have otherwise died, enabling many to return to an independent life. The study, published online Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine and conducted by researchers in the Netherlands, is being met with an outpouring of excitement. One reason the treatment worked, researchers suspect, is that doctors used a new type of snare to grab the clots. It is a stent, basically a small wire cage, on the end of a catheter that is inserted in the groin and threaded through an artery to the brain. When the tip of the catheter reaches the clot, the stent is opened and pushed into the clot. It snags the clot, allowing the doctor to withdraw the catheter and pull out the stent with the clot attached. About 630,000 Americans each year have strokes caused by clots blocking blood vessels in the brain. In about a third to half, the clot is in a large vessel, which has potentially devastating consequences. People with smaller clots are helped by the lifesaving drug tPA, which dissolves them. But for those with big clots, tPA often does not help. Until now, no other treatments had been shown to work. One in five patients who had tPA alone recovered enough to return to living independently. But one in three who also had their clot removed directly were able to take care of themselves after their stroke. And that, said Dr. Larry B. Goldstein, director of the Duke Stroke Center, is "a significant and meaningful improvement in what people are able to do." © 2014 The New York Times Company
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Link ID: 20429 - Posted: 12.18.2014
By Amy Ellis Nutt Debbie Hall undergoes external brain stimulation at Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center. Hall was partially paralyzed on her left side after a stroke. Doctors are conducting a study to see if a device known as NexStim can `prep` a stroke victim's brain immediately prior to physical therapy so that the therapy will be more effective. (The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center) Using non-invasive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, researchers at Ohio State Wexner Medical Center may have found a way to help prep a stroke victim's brain prior to physical therapy to aid a more complete recovery. When one side of the brain is damaged by a stroke, the corresponding healthy part goes into overdrive in order to compensate, said Dr. Marcie Bockbrader, principle investigator of the study. She believes the hyperactivity in the healthy side may actually slow recovery in the injured side. The technology, called NexStim, employs TMS to prepare a stroke patient's brain for physical therapy by sending low-frequency magnetic pulses painlessly through a victim's scalp to suppress activity in the healthy part of the motor cortex. This allows the injured side to make use of more energy during physical therapy, which immediately follows the transcranial magnetic stimulation. "This device targets the overactive side, quieting it down enough, so that through therapies the injured side can learn to express itself again," said Bockbrader, an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, in a new release.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 20349 - Posted: 11.24.2014
by Colin Barras LOCKED in but not shut out: for the first time people who have lost the ability to move or talk because of a stroke may be able to communicate with their loved ones using a brain-computer interface. Brain injuries can leave people aware but almost completely paralysed, a condition called locked-in syndrome. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can help some people communicate by passing signals from electrodes attuned to their brain activity as they watch a screen displaying letters. Subtle changes in neural activity let researchers know when a person wishes to select a particular on-screen item, allowing them to spell out messages by thought alone. Until now, BCIs have only been tested on healthy volunteers and people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease that leads to muscle wasting. But no one had tested whether the technology could help people locked in after a brain stem stroke. Now Eric Sellers and his colleagues at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City have tested the technique on a 68-year-old man. After more than a year of training he learned to communicate reliably via the BCI. He took the opportunity to thank his wife for her hard work, and to give his thoughts on gift purchases for his children (Science Translational Medicine, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3007801). © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 11: Motor Control and Plasticity
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 5: The Sensorimotor System
Link ID: 20185 - Posted: 10.09.2014
Erin Allday When a person suddenly loses the ability to speak or to understand what others are saying, the hardships that cascade from that loss can be overwhelming - from the seemingly trite to the devastatingly depressing. What hit Derrick Wong, 49, hardest was losing the ability to tell a joke. Ralph Soriano, 56, hates taking his car to the mechanic, knowing he will barely understand what's being said. "Girls," said Luke Waterman, 30, with a sigh. Flirting used to come easy. All three men - actually a pretty happy, hopeful gang for the most part - are longtime members of a group therapy program at the Aphasia Center of California, an Oakland nonprofit that offers treatment and ongoing education to people who have suffered communication disorders as a result of stroke or other brain injury. The nonprofit specializes in long-term therapy, an area of aphasia treatment that has taken off in the past few years. For many decades, doctors and speech pathologists assumed that patients had a window of six months to a year to recover language skills lost to a brain injury. Now, anecdotal reports and clinical research suggest that the window is much wider, and may even stay open a lifetime. "There is evidence that people can improve and regain skills, even years after a stroke," said Blair Menn, a speech language pathologist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City. © 2014 Hearst Communications, Inc.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 19996 - Posted: 08.26.2014
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Childhood treatment with human growth hormone is strongly associated with an increased risk for stroke in early adulthood, a new study has found. The study adds evidence to previous reports suggesting an increased cardiac and cerebrovascular risk in children treated with growth hormone. Researchers studied 6,874 children, average age 11, who were small for their age but otherwise generally healthy and were treated with growth hormone from 1985 to 1996. They followed them to an average age of 28. There were 11 strokes in the group, four of them fatal. The analysis found that this was more than twice as many strokes as would be expected in a population this size, a statistically significant difference. The results, published online in the journal Neurology, were particularly striking for hemorrhagic stroke, the type caused by a ruptured blood vessel — there were more than seven times as many as would be expected. The authors acknowledged that they were unable to take into account some risk factors for stroke, such as family history and smoking. "Subjects on growth hormones should not panic on reading these results," said the senior author, Dr. Joël Coste, a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Hôtel Dieu hospital in Paris. "The doctor prescribing the hormone or the family doctor should be consulted and will be able to inform and advise patients." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 5: Hormones and the Brain
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 19995 - Posted: 08.26.2014
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Stimulating the part of the brain which controls movement may improve recovery after a stroke, research suggests. Studies showed firing beams of light into the brains of mice led to the animals moving further and faster than those without the therapy. The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, could help explain how the brain recovers and lead to new treatments. The Stroke Association said the findings were interesting. Strokes can affect memory, movement and the ability to communicate. Brain cells die when their supply of oxygen and sugars is cut off by a blood clot. Stroke care is focused on rapid treatment to minimise the damage, but some recovery is possible in the following months as the brain rewires itself. The team at Stanford University School of Medicine investigated whether brain stimulation aided recovery in animal experiments. They used a technique called optogenetics to stimulate just the neurons in the motor cortex - the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movements - following a stroke. After seven days of stimulation, mice were able to walk further down a rotating rod than mice which had not had brain stimulation. After 10 days they were also moving faster. The researchers believe the stimulation is affecting how the wiring of the brain changes after a stroke. They detected higher levels of chemicals linked to the formation of new connections between brain cells. Lead researcher Prof Gary Steinberg said it was a struggle to give people drugs to protect brain cells in time as the "time window is very short". BBC © 2014
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 19979 - Posted: 08.20.2014
Ian Sample, science editor Stroke patients who took part in a small pilot study of a stem cell therapy have shown tentative signs of recovery six months after receiving the treatment. Doctors said the condition of all five patients had improved after the therapy, but that larger trials were needed to confirm whether the stem cells played any part in their progress. Scans of the patients' brains found that damage caused by the stroke had reduced over time, but similar improvements are often seen in stroke patients as part of the normal recovery process. At a six-month check-up, all of the patients fared better on standard measures of disability and impairment caused by stroke, but again their improvement may have happened with standard hospital care. The pilot study was designed to assess only the safety of the experimental therapy and with so few patients and no control group to compare them with, it is impossible to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the treatment. Paul Bentley, a consultant neurologist at Imperial College London, said his group was applying for funding to run a more powerful randomised controlled trial on the therapy, which could see around 50 patients treated next year. "The improvements we saw in these patients are very encouraging, but it's too early to draw definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of the therapy," said Soma Banerjee, a lead author and consultant in stroke medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. "We need to do more tests to work out the best dose and timescale for treatment before starting larger trials." The five patients in the pilot study were treated within seven days of suffering a severe stroke. Each had a bone marrow sample taken, from which the scientists extracted stem cells that give rise to blood cells and blood vessel lining cells. These stem cells were infused into an artery that supplied blood to the brain. © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 19929 - Posted: 08.09.2014
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR The incidence of stroke in the United States has declined significantly over the past two decades, a new analysis has found. The decreases were apparent in people older than 65, the most common age group for stroke, and were similar in men and women and in blacks and whites. There were decreases in stroke deaths as well, but they were concentrated in younger research participants. The report appeared in JAMA. Researchers followed 14,357 people, ages 45 to 64 at the start of the study, from 1987 to 2011. After accounting for coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, smoking, statin use and other factors, they found that the incidence of stroke decreased by about 50 percent over the period of the study, and stroke deaths by about 40 percent. Smoking cessation and better treatment of hypertension and high cholesterol accounted for part of the decrease, according to the senior author, Dr. Josef Coresh, a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and improved medical care and more rigorous control of risk factors probably helped as well. Increased diabetes prevalence, on the other hand, contributed to higher risk. "The decrease in stroke also suggests that there's a decrease in smaller strokes that we may not detect," he said, "and that would bode well for overall brain health and the potential for decreasing the risk of dementia with aging." © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 19839 - Posted: 07.16.2014
By Smitha Mundasad Health reporter, BBC News Researchers have identified a gene that may put people at greater risk of strokes and heart attacks. Writing in PLOS ONE they say the gene fault may encourage the formation of blood clots - the ultimate cause of most heart attacks and strokes. Scientists hope gene tests may help doctors one day to pinpoint individuals more likely to suffer these conditions. But experts say lifestyle factors such as smoking and exercise have the greatest influence on risk. Around one in 10 people in the Caucasian population carries this variation of the gene, named PIA2. And researchers from King's College London reviewed more than 80 studies involving about 50,000 people - the largest analysis of this genetic fault to date. Threat to under-45s They found individuals with PIA2 were more likely to have a stroke - caused by a blood clot blocking blood supply to the brain - than those without the gene. Scientists calculate the gene increases a person's risk of having a stroke by 10-15%. But how significant this increase is depends on an individual's baseline risk - influenced by factors such as smoking, diet, weight and exercise, the scientists say. Heart attacks are caused by a blockage to the blood vessels that carry oxygen to the heart. More than 100,000 heart attacks are recorded in the UK each year And for people with two copies of the gene the risk rises by up to 70% from this baseline. In a second study published in the same journal, the scientists show PIA2 is also linked to an increased risk of heart attacks in people under 45. More research is needed to see whether this holds true for the whole population, they say. About 150,000 people have a stroke in the UK each year and more than 100,000 heart attacks are recorded annually. BBC © 2014
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 19785 - Posted: 07.03.2014
By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Scientists say they have devised a helmet that can quickly determine whether a patient has had a stroke. It could speed diagnosis and treatment of stroke to boost chances of recovery, the scientists say. The wearable cap bounces microwaves off the brain to determine whether there has been a bleed or clot deep inside. The Swedish scientists who made the device plan to give it to ambulance crews to test after successful results in early studies with 45 patients. When a person has a stroke, doctors must work quickly to limit any brain damage. If it takes more than four hours to get to hospital and start treatment, parts of their brain tissue may already be dying. But to give the best treatment, doctors first need to find out if the stroke is caused by a leaky blood vessel or one blocked by a clot. A computerised tomography (CT) scan will show this, but it can take some time to organise one for a patient, even if they have been admitted as an emergency to a hospital that has one of these scanners. Any delay in this "golden hour" of treatment opportunity could hamper recovery. To speed up the process, researchers in Sweden, from Chalmers University of Technology, Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, have come up with a mobile device that could be used on the way to hospital. The helmet uses microwave signals - the same as the ones emitted by microwave ovens and mobile phones but much weaker - to build a picture of what is going on throughout the brain. BBC © 2014
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 2: Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 2: Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System
Link ID: 19741 - Posted: 06.17.2014
A selfie video that a 49-year-old Toronto-area woman took to show numbness and slurred speech she was experiencing helped doctors to diagnose her as having a mini-stroke, after she had earlier been given a diagnosis of stress. When Stacey Yepes's face originally froze and she had trouble speaking in April, she remembered the signs of stroke from public service announcements. After the symptoms subsided, she went to a local emergency room, but the tests were clear and she was given tips on how to manage stress. The numbing sensation happened again as she left the hospital. When the left side of her body went numb while driving two days later, she pulled over, grabbed her smartphone and hit record. "The sensation is happening again," the Thornhill, Ont., woman says at the beginning of the video posted on YouTube by Toronto's University Health Network. "It's all tingling on left side," as she points to her lower lip, trying to smile. Yepes remembers that doctors said to breathe in and out and to try to manage stress, and she says she's trying. "I don't know why this is happening to me." About a minute later, she shows that it's hard to lift up her hand. "I think it was just to show somebody, because I knew it was not stress-related," she said in an interview. "And I thought if I could show somebody what was happening, they would have a better understanding." After going to Mount Sinai Hospital in downtown Toronto, Yepes was referred to Toronto Western Hospital's stroke centre. © CBC 2014
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Link ID: 19740 - Posted: 06.17.2014
By SAM KEAN UNTIL the past few decades, neuroscientists really had only one way to study the human brain: Wait for strokes or some other disaster to strike people, and if the victims pulled through, determine how their minds worked differently afterward. Depending on what part of the brain suffered, strange things might happen. Parents couldn't recognize their children. Normal people became pathological liars. Some people lost the ability to speak — but could sing just fine. These incidents have become classic case studies, fodder for innumerable textbooks and bull sessions around the lab. The names of these patients — H. M., Tan, Phineas Gage — are deeply woven into the lore of neuroscience. When recounting these cases today, neuroscientists naturally focus on these patients' deficits, emphasizing the changes that took place in their thinking and behavior. After all, there's no better way to learn what some structure in the brain does than to see what happens when it shorts out or otherwise gets destroyed. But these case snippets overlook something crucial about people with brain damage. However glaring their deficits are, their brains still work like ours to a large extent. Most can still read and reason. They can still talk, walk and emote. And they still have the same joys and fears — facts that the psychological caricatures passed down from generation to generation generally omit. The famous amnesiac H. M., for instance, underwent radical brain surgery in 1953 and had most of the hippocampus removed on both sides of his brain; afterward, he seemed to lose the ability to form new long-term memories. Names, dates, directions to the bathroom all escaped him now. He'd eat two breakfasts if no one stopped him. Careful testing, however, revealed that H. M. could form new motor memories — memories of things like how to ride a bicycle — because they rely on different structures in the brain. This work established that memory isn't a single, monolithic thing, but a collection of different faculties. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
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Link ID: 19570 - Posted: 05.04.2014
By Gabriella Rosen Kellerman By 1664, the year he published his most famous book of neuroanatomy, Cerebri Anatome, Dr. Thomas Willis was already renowned in Britain for saving lives. Fourteen years earlier, the corpse of executed murderer Anne Green had been delivered to Willis and some of his colleagues for autopsy. Upon opening the coffin—the story goes—the doctors heard a gasp. Ms. Green, they discovered, had been hanged but not executed. Thanks to the resuscitation efforts of Willis and his colleagues, Green survived, and was given a stay of execution. She died fifteen years later. The episode supposedly drew jealousy from Willis's contemporaries, who could have had no idea just how many lives Willis's work would one day save. Among the important discoveries included in Cerebri Anatome, considered the founding text of neurology, is the Circle of Willis, a map of the interconnecting arteries at the base of the brain. Such circular connections among arteries are called anastomoses. They enable blood to reach vital tissue along multiple routes so that when one is blocked, the blood has an alternative outlet. The Circle of Willis is perhaps most important because of its implications for stroke. Stroke, which is the third leading cause of death in this country, occurs when blood flow to the brain is disrupted. This can occur when an artery gets blocked with plaque or a clot (called an ischemic stroke) or when at artery bursts (called hemorrhagic stroke). Many of these problems, particularly the latter kind of stroke, occur in the Circle of Willis. © 2014 Scientific American
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Related chapters from MM:Chapter 2: Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System; Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language
Link ID: 19564 - Posted: 05.03.2014
National Institutes of Health researchers have identified gene variants that cause a rare syndrome of sporadic fevers, skin rashes and recurring strokes, beginning early in childhood. The team's discovery coincides with findings by an Israeli research group that identified an overlapping set of variants of the same gene in patients with a similar type of blood vessel inflammation. The NIH group first encountered a patient with the syndrome approximately 10 years ago. The patient, then 3 years old, experienced fevers, skin rash and strokes that left her severely disabled. Because there was no history of a similar illness in the family, the NIH group did not at first suspect a genetic cause, and treated the patient with immunosuppressive medication. However, when the NIH team evaluated a second patient with similar symptoms two years ago — a child who had experienced recurrent fevers and six strokes by her sixth birthday — they began to suspect a common genetic cause and embarked on a medical odyssey that has led not only to a diagnosis, but to fundamental new insights into blood vessel disease. In their study, which appears in the Feb. 19, 2014, advance online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers describe how next-generation genome sequencing, only recently available, facilitated a molecular diagnosis for patients in their study. The researchers found that harmful variants in the CECR1 gene impede production of a protein vital to the integrity of healthy blood vessel walls. The researchers showed that faulty variants in their patients' DNA that encode the CECR1 gene cause a loss of function of the gene's ability to produce of an enzyme called adenosine deaminase 2 (ADA2). Without it, abnormalities and inflammation in blood vessel walls result. The researchers call the new syndrome, deficiency of ADA2, or DADA2.
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Related chapters from MM:Chapter 15: Brain Asymmetry, Spatial Cognition, and Language; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 19277 - Posted: 02.22.2014
Women have a poorer quality of life after a stroke than men, a study has found. The US research, published in Neurology, assessed the mental and physical health of 1,370 patients three months and a year after a stroke. Women had more depression and anxiety, pain and discomfort, and more restricted mobility. UK experts said women tended to have strokes later, and might therefore need more support. But the study did say more people survive a stroke now than 10 years ago because of improved treatment and prevention. The researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, looked at patients who had had a stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA), also known as a mini-stroke. Quality of life is calculated using a formula that assesses mobility, self-care, everyday activities, depression/anxiety and pain. At three months, women were more likely than men to report problems with mobility, pain and discomfort, anxiety and depression, but the difference was greatest in those aged over 75. After a year, women still had lower quality-of-life scores overall than men but the difference between them was smaller. Support needs Prof Cheryl Bushnell, who led the study, said: "We found that women had a worse quality of life than men up to 12 months following a stroke." BBC © 2014
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry; Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
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Link ID: 19221 - Posted: 02.08.2014
By Susan Berger, The chiropractor had just worked on Lynne Beliveau's neck when she became dizzy, unable to see or move. Rushed to the hospital, Beliveau had a shunt inserted to relieve pressure caused by swelling in her brain. The Ashburn woman suffered a series of strokes and today, eight years later, the 41-year-old mother of three suffers from constant vertigo. Elizabeth Haran Caplan knew she was in trouble seconds after a chiropractor in Oklahoma City manipulated her neck. The room got dark and she felt dizzy. Because of her years of service as a combat medic in Kosovo and Somalia, she knew what was happening and yelled, "Stop. I'm having a stroke." More than a decade later, she is blind in her left eye and has problems swallowing without choking due to paralysis of one side of her throat. Approximately 20 million Americans visit chiropractors each year, according to the American Chiropractic Association, seeking relief from back pain, neck pain, headaches, sinus problems, ringing in the ears and more. For many, the manipulations provide relief. But one of the techniques chiropractors use, called cervical neck manipulation or "cracking the neck," has raised concerns that it can cause serious harm. "I have jumped out of airplanes, escaped bullets in Somalia," said Haran Caplan, 47, who retired from the Army nine years ago as a lieutenant colonel. "Who knew the most dangerous place I would put myself would be on a chiropractor's table?" © 1996-2014 The Washington Post
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New Year's honours for Mizen parents and Anglican archbishop31 December 2013 | by Liz Dodd
A couple who founded a charity in memory of their murdered son and the head of the Anglican Communion's mission to the Holy See are among the Christians honoured in the New Year's Honours list this year.
Margaret and Barry Mizen, whose 16-year old son Jimmy was murdered in south-east London in 2008, have said that their Catholic faith helped them cope with their loss.
They have been made MBEs for services to young people. The Jimmy Mizen Foundation gives talks in schools and has paid for minibuses for community groups.
Mrs Mizen, 60, dedicated the award to her son's memory.
"On the night that Jimmy died, I promised him two things in the quiet of my bedroom when I was trying to make sense of what happened, and that was that I would do everything to keep his name alive and that I would dedicate my life to working for peace. I feel that this is something that will help me fulfil my promise to him," she said.
The New Zealand-born head of the Anglican Church's mission to the Holy See has received a knighthood.
Archbishop David Moxon, 62, who until his move to Rome last spring was one of the three Anglican archbishops in New Zealand and the South Pacific, has been appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of his services to his Church.
He said: "I respect this honour as a sign of the role that the Church I am a part of plays in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia. This role is the quest for a united Church committed to Christ and the search for a world where God's justice and peace usher in a society which values everyone. That is the goal and the mission of the Church in the world. The Gospels hold that every person created by God is to be honoured, one way or another."
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by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky , Jochen Greven
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Read from May 06 to June 12, 2012
Probably best consumed by those who've read other, more substantive works by Walser, who would derive more satisfaction from these often-impressionistic vignettes of his time in Berlin. My favorite pieces are the least impressionistic in character; Berlin is such a concrete, nit-and-grit place and apparently was in Walser's time as well--it doesn't fare well as a Platonic notion.
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Published: Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 20, 2007 at 10:37 p.m.
THIBODAUX -- Golden Meadow will be getting a million-dollar town hall that can also be used as an emergency response center, thanks to federal tax dollars.
The U.S. Department of Agricultures Rural Development Program awarded the town an $850,000 grant and a $258,000 low-interest loan to pay for the project, which Golden Meadow Mayor Joey Bou ziga said has been needed for several years.
The money was awarded April 5. Bouziga said the department gave the town permission Thursday to start drawing up project plans, which will be sent to the agriculture departments planning commission for approval.
"Our city hall is 50 years old and its sitting on the ground," not elevated in case of flooding, Bouziga said.
The building will house the towns operations year-round and will be available as a shelter and staging area for first responders during an emergency. Officials from the town of Grand Isle, the Lafourche Parish Sheriffs Office and other agencies would have access to the building if needed, the mayor said.
"It will be a building we can crank up real quick to better serve our people," Bouziga said.
Bouziga said paying back the loan shouldnt be a problem. The towns budget for the current fiscal year is $1.2 million, he said.
The loan will carry an interest rate of 4.15 percent and it could be paid back at about $12,000 per year, said Clyde Holloway, state director for the agriculture departments Rural Development Program.
Holloway said the money came from a pool of about $7.7 million in hurricane-recovery money his office had to distribute.
"This will be a good project for Golden Meadow, the parish and the region," Holloway said.
Originally, the agriculture department offered a $358,000 grant and $750,000 loan, but it doubled the size of the grant at the urging of Holloway and U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, whose district includes Golden Meadow.
"I am pleased the USDA Rural Development took a fresh look at Golden Meadows request and used their discretion in re-evaluating what the town could realistically afford to contribute to this project," Melancon said in a news release.
In a letter to agriculture department officials, Melancon argued that the need for the facility was demonstrated during hurricanes Katrina and Rita and that the town was developing the building as a public service; the building will not produce revenue for the town, he said.
Melancon spokeswoman Robin Winchell said 2005s hurricanes showed the need for a staging area inside the south Lafourche levees. From there, emergency workers would have access to Port Fourchon and the La. 1 corridor, to name two examples.
Officials at Port Fourchon said Friday that they didnt know anything about the Golden Meadow project.
Port Director Ted Falgout said agencies can already respond from the Port Commissions building in Galliano, which is less than 10 miles north of Golden Meadow by car and provides access to the South Lafourche Leonard Miller Jr. Airport.
In an earlier interview, Chris Boudreaux, director of emergency preparedness for Lafourche Parish, also said he was unaware that the town had applied for the grant.
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Skip to comments.Miss Oklahoma Named First Runner Up in Miss USA Pageant After Answering Immigration Question
Posted on 05/17/2010 8:07:36 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
An unhappy crowd booed Miss USA judge Cesar Nunez when he asked Miss Oklahoma a question about Arizonas immigration law on Sunday nights pageant.
Now some are wondering if Woolard's answer cost her the crown.
The "The Office" star asked Woolard if she supported Arizonas law, which requires police to verify a person's immigration status if there's "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the country illegally.
Woolard said she supports the law, saying she is against illegal immigration, but is also against racial profiling.
While many Americans are opposed to gay marriage, Prejean claimed she was victimized for her answer.
In perhaps a repeat of last years contest, Woolard lost the crown after answering a controversial question that may be unpopular with some, but reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And not of the judge!
They should have asked the winner, "muslim immigrant" Rima Fakih, about her views on Israel's right to exist.
Miss Oklahoma
"In perhaps a repeat of last years contest, Woolard lost the crown after answering a controversial question that may be unpopular with some, but reflects the opinion of the majority of Americans."
Boy. The LefTards sure have us locked up tighter than a drum, don't they? I can't WAIT for the backlash on ALL of this PC cr@p. I sure would like to see some sanity return to this coutnry.
She should have said that like AG Holder, she hadn't read the bill and refused to comment.
Politics does not belong in beauty pageants. They are just looking for a fight.
And in case anyone missed it, Miss Oklahoma was dissed for an Arab-American from Michigan:
(Media-Newswire.com) - Rima Fakih was named the 2010 Miss USA winner last night in a star studded event from Las Vegas. Tima Fakih is the first Arab-American to win the Miss USA pageant in its history.
Fakih is a 24 year old college graduate from the University of Michigan with a degree in economics.
The keys to her win in the pageant was a direct answer about birth control and insurance coverage where she said: I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though its a controlled substance...
With the Miss USA crown comes an apartment in New York, salary and health coverage.
Miss Oklahoma was the second place runner up winner.
what, they didn't ask "Rima" about immigration (like Jews to Israel) or about gay marriage?
Congratulations Miss Michigan!
Hopefully, her name becomes as well known as Prejean.
Um... have you read about Miss Michigan?
You realize she is a member of Hezbollah lol?
Yes, she LOST because of her answer!
Hey, Trump are you against this too?
Are you profitting from ILLEGALS in you fledging casinos?
Instead we had a MUSLIM win the crown.
How politically correct is THAT?
Why do I feel Donald Trump has manufactured all this, just to jerk our chain, and gain publicity for "his" pageant?
I dare say she is prettier than the MUSLIM WOMAN who WON!
Hmmm, maybe because Donald Trump has manufactured all this, just to jerk our chain, and gain publicity for his pageant.
She is smoking hot. They gave the crown to the Muslim. Idiots who watch TV keep people like Nunez employed.
She's a winner in my book. It took integrity to answer the question honestly knowing that it would hurt her.
I just don't understand why it can't be made known that profiling has a big part in law enforcement.
Oh my. What a horrible law. Letting police harass people at random on vague suspicions. That's like Nazi Germany. Oh wait, the Arizona law doesn't allow police to do that. Never mind.
I wonder if Nunez has read the law.
The issue here is that it looks like Miss Oklahoma was given the Carrie Prejean treatment.
Trying to create a repeat of last year's controversy, I see.
I cannot believe she wasn't booed off the stage by the liberal PC crowd that was sure to have been heavily represented for political reasons.
Everything is political these days!
Just look at who WON this pagent!
"profiling" has a big role in human survival as well...
i just don't understand why it can't be understood that this law expressly prohibits racial profiling by it's very provisions.
Terrorist beauty queens need love, too! LOL!
"And in case anyone missed it, Miss Oklahoma was dissed for an Arab-American from Michigan.." ~ Diana in Wisconsin
The PC bottom line:
LOL - rhetorical question of the week!
Well, when the "prevailing story" doesn't match the facts,
always look for an ulterior motive.
He most definitely HAS!
You don't know that for sure. You just suspect it.
"When I was watching the opening or the parade of states, I thought Miss Michigan was gorgeous, so I don't have a problem with her winning. I also liked Virginia and Oklahoma. All three did well when answering their ambush questions...
Congratulations Miss Michigan!"
Are you uninformed or pro Hezbollah?
May 16, 2010, - 11:38 pm
Donald Trump, Dhimmi: Miss Hezbollah Rima Fakih Wins Miss USA; Rigged for Muslima? Miss Oklahomas Arizona Immigration Answer
By Debbie Schlussel
Its a sad day in America but a very predictable one, given the politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate in which were mired. The Hezbollah-supporting Shiite Muslim, Miss Michigan Rima Fakihwhose bid for the pageant was financed by an Islamic terrorist and immigration fraud perpetratorwon the Miss USA contest. I was on top of this story before anyone, telling you about who Fakih is and her extremist and deadly ties.
"Why do I feel Donald Trump has manufactured all this, just to jerk our chain, and gain publicity for his pageant?"
Ann Coulter was interviewed this morning on local talk radio and said the same...it's Trump the publicity whore. She said she hoped talk radio people didn't even discuss it today. Trump wants the attention.
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Everything is proceeding as we have forseen.
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LAS VEGAS Lebanese immigrant Rima Fakih says it was a certain look from Donald Trump that tipped her off that she had won the 2010 Miss USA title.
The 24-year-old Miss Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown.
She told reporters later that she believed she had won after glancing at pageant owner Trump as she awaited the results with the first runner-up, Miss Oklahoma USA Morgan Elizabeth Woolard.
Thats the same look that he gives them when he says, Youre hired, on Trumps reality show The Apprentice, she said.
Shes a great girl, said Trump, who owns the pageant with NBC in a joint venture.
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She nearly tripped over her gown.
She called birth control a controlled substance.
She argued that contraceptives should be covered by health insurers because they are expensive and then said you could get them for free from your OB/GYNs office.
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EXCLUSIVE: Miss USA Contestant is Shiite Muslim Hezbollah Supporter, Used Pageant Name to Promote Muslim Female Subjugation; Hezbo Taqiyyah Allows Bikinis?
My intelligence sources laugh at the overwhelming praise and bragging over Fakih on several Lebanese Hezbollah Arabic language blogs. After all, she will be parading around on-stageas all Miss USA contestants doin a bikini, a complete no-no according to Hezbollahs strict Muslim rules about covering women up. But, as we all know, and as one source confirms, Muslims frequently go against Islam in this way for propaganda purposes. Its a form of taqiyyah, the Muslim concept of deceiving infidels.
Hezbollah Muslims believe that Fakih is a tremendous propaganda tool for them. And, in fact, on Sunday Night, some of Dearborns key Hezbollah figures and agents are holding an event to watch the broadcast at Dearbornistans La Pita restaurant, whereseveral witnesses confirmthe restaurant staff frequently sings Hezbollah war songs in the kitchen after hours. The owner of the restaurant is also a Shiite Muslim Hezbollah supporter.
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Miss USA Contestants Hezbollah Martyr Family
I guess she is not a practicing muslim, strutting around in a swimsuit and all.
Odds are they are putting this young girl in the spotlight only to later slam her and the issue of AZ down hard in the public spotlight.
They even have a name for them: "profilers"!!
advertising,insurance, fashion, movies, music etc...i.e. certain GROUPS are targeted to sell a product and that's profiling. It's just called "marketing"...but it's the SAME THING.
What's the diff when LEO's use it to protect us and uphold the laws??
Trump doesn't give a rat's ass, he knows controversy = big ratings.
Trump is proof that PT Barnum was right!
Now, if you want to make it all about politics, be my guest. For me, no thanks. I have greater things to worry about.
Why would a disgusting deviant be allowed to serve on such a panel?
Rima Fakih swimsuit score raises a few brows among pageant enthusiasts
Among the beauty pageant enthusiasts, there is some discussion now about Rima Fakih swimsuit performance. The Miss Michigan was crowned the Miss USA 2010 at Sunday nights pageant and to achieve that, she had to do a considerable living down since she scored lowest in the swimsuit section.
8.3 are all the judges could offer her and till the interview round, it was Miss Oklahoma Woolard who looked the hot favourite. But it was a question from The Office star Cesar Nunez which is thought to derail her campaign.
It's allowed if you do it to spread Islam and Sharia just like it is permissible to steal, murder, lie, and just about anything else. As long as it is in some way beneficial to the cause of Allah it is permissible.
More PC crap from Hollywood.
Numbnutz Nunez, of course, inaccurately quoted "reasonable suspician", when the law was amended and signed by Brewer, states that a person has to be "lawfully stopped, detained, or jailed".
This lie is reported on a daily basis in our Leftist and treasonous media.
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Jaguar has officially confirmed that its rival for the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 will go on sale in the UK in 2015.
The new model will fit and be priced just underneath the XF in the line-up. The announcement was made by Jaguar's global brand chief, Adrian Hallmark.
Speaking on the eve of the Frankfurt show, he described the new model as "the most advanced, efficient and refined sports sedan in its class."
Hallmark also confirmed that Jaguar's new C-D-segment model range will include models that emits less than 100g/km of CO2 and those that can hit 300kmh (186mph).
The new small Jaguar will be built on the firm's new iQ[Al] architecture, previewed with its C-X17 SUV Frankfurt Motor Show car, which has been a work in progress for the past year.
Hallmark added, "The first product that to use the new architecture will be an all-new, midsized, premium sports sedan, priced just below the existing XF. Jaguar will deliver a sports saloon with an unparalleled breadth of performance and efficiency."
In addition to a four-door saloon, Jaguar is expected to build an SUV, an estate and possible a 4 Series-rivalling coupe using the same architecture.
However, while rival carmakers used common platforms, Jaguar Land Rover doesn't fully subscribe to the idea of platform commonality to save money.
Instead, it believes that architectures that can be built on the same line using similar parts are best – for example, the Range Rover and Range Rover Sport use the same Premium Lightweight Architecture (PLA) but only share 25 per cent of parts/
The new small Jaguar will be built at a new site in Solihull, W Mids, and be powered by a range of new four-cylinder turbo petrol and diesel engines.
These engines will be built at a new plant in Wolverhampton, which is under construction at a cost of £355million, and will be operational by 2015 to coincide with the launch of the new four-door.
A flagship R version of the new saloon will be powered by Jaguar's latest V6 petrol engine, while the iQ[Al] architecture has been engineered to accept rear and four-wheel drive.


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