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Huseman's family is a firm believer in his idea and his daughters said they'll be first in line to put their dad on such a registry.

"At that time when he got confused, which we knew was out of the ordinary, that would have been the time to take the picture and put him on this list," Huseman's daughter, Sheila Erck, said.

Neither daughter wants to face again what they went through last Friday when their father quietly drove off at 4 a.m.

"If the police could have got him on Highway 41 before he ever got to Oshkosh, we could have had him back within an hour," Erck said.

The Huseman family hopes every police department does what the Menasha police are doing.

"They've done it for kids, why can't they do it for the elderly?

" Cindy Lynn, another daughter, remarked.

"I think it's very important." "Very happy ending, and it could have ended very badly.

He could have gotten to Milwaukee or Chicago, somewhere with maybe a car accident, killed someone else, himself," Erck said.

And Erck and Lynn feel a registry will go a long way toward providing happy endings for other families with a loved one suffering from ba href=/dementia/a/b who wanders off.

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However, such an indicator can also be a precursor of infection or other genuine, verifiable physical illness.

Quick onset of confusion or behavior change is a well-known symptom of an infection to those of us working in the nursing-home settings.

While we do respond to their symptoms, conscientious professionals do not just medicate without real evidence of what is happening with the patient.

Lab test are done to confirm our suspicions and the correct antibiotic is prescribed AFTER proper medical testing is done.It is appalling that a child can be prescribed mind-altering, potentially deadly drugs for ADHD with no certainty that they even have an illness.

The practice of psychiatry diverges greatly from science of medicine.

Objective medical testing is not required before treatment is prescribed.

If ADHD is a physical illness, how can it be that a psychologist can diagnosis it?

Would a psychologist diagnose heart disease, diabetes or cancer?

This may be undeniable proof that "mental illness" is not physical in nature.The public must demand full informed consent in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of "mental illness".

Patients must be given complete testing and competent medical care.

Full informed consent would include the true statement that "mental illness" like ADHD may be caused by genuine physical illness and is treatable by medical, non-psychiatric means.

It would inform patients and parents that a label of "mental illness" can be a permanent mark ...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b March 29, 2006 Antiseizure drug may treat HIV-related ba href=/dementia/a/b Valproic acid, an antiseizure drug, has shown promise in treating HIV-related ba href=/dementia/a/b, reports the Omaha World-Herald.

A safety and efficacy trial of 22 HIV patients suffering from ba href=/dementia/a/b showed that valproic acid helped improve nerve cell function and boosted cognitive performance, researchers from the University of Nebraska and the University of Rochester, N.Y., write in the journal Neurology.

Brain scans also showed improvements in brain metabolism, the researchers report.

The study subjects were given smaller doses of the drug than is typically used to treat seizures.

The researchers say these small doses of the medication could help protect neurons in the brain from damage caused by HIV, which leads to the onset of ba href=/dementia/a/b.

Low doses of the drug may also be useful in combating other neurological diseases caused by damage to brain and nerve cells, the researchers suggest.

"The bottom line is that not only is it safe and well-tolerated in this particular population of patients, but using a really small dose, we were actually able to restore nerve connections in an area of the brain that is really ravaged by HIV," Harris Gelbard, a Rochester professor of neurology and lead study investigator, told the World-Herald.

Additional studies are planned.

(The Advocate) Assoc...