NY Times Articles: Myths of Weight Loss, Alzheimers, and DSM V

Several articles on the NY Times website may be of interest.

MYTHS OF WEIGHTLOSS: This, from the wellblog describes an article published in one of the world's most well-respected medical journals, the New England Journal of medicine identifying several weight loss myths.  Its a quick read, with a  useful reminders to students about research design and the potential pitfalls when publishers don't remember correlation does not prove causation.

ANTICIPATING ALZHEIMERS and MEMORY LOSS: Waiting for the Forgetting to Begin, also a well-blog article describing degenerative process of memory loss in a neurologist, whose father had Alzheimers, is a powerful and interesting article that makes me interested in reading the authors book, publication date 2013. 

In follow-up to Kristin's posting about DSM V, there are also articles discussing the changes in grief and explaining mild neurocognitive disorder.


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