Interesting medical TV documentaries

I watched it last night. It was interesting, however I was not so convinced with MIT guys, they could make people recover memories?
 
Frozen from dusk til dawn - mysterious illness documentary
Interesting documentary on channel 5:
During the day, Abdul Rasheed and Shoaib Ahmed, 9 and 13, are like any other brothers who laugh and play together.

But as soon as the sun goes down they collapse into a vegetative state - completely paralysed and unable to talk.

The brothers, who live in Pakistan, have been dubbed 'the solar kids' as their parents claim they get their energy from the sun.

The case has baffled doctors who have no idea what is causing their symptoms.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...2-brothers-paralyzed-night.html#ixzz56WtiPpVE

available to view here for next month:
https://www.my5.tv/frozen-from-dusk...ozen-from-dusk-till-dawn-extraordinary-people

they are eventually treated with and respond to L-dopa
 
erin said:
I watched this program last night, it was very interesting.
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Yes it was interesting. I had particular empathy when tests were normal and the family were being accused of making it up... strangely familiar territory.
The dopamine connection was interesting too - it seems to pop up in many mechanisms
 
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