Found a terrific feature of Google Maps called My Maps on Google Maps Mania. For example a map with all the interesting Beatles locations in the UK and the USOn this video you can see how to use My maps.Related posts: Googel Maps Summer Games Brain Maps Google Docs Guide ..read more »

Technology Review: Brain Electrodes Help Treat DepressionElectrically stimulating specific parts of the brain using an implanted electrode can help severely depressed patients, according to two studies published this month. The findings are the latest evidence suggesting that "deep brain stimulation," a surgical therapy already widely used to treat Parkinson's disease, could be an alternative treatment for people with severe depression.Still, experts urge caution in interpreting the results. For one thing, says Karl Deisseroth, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies experimental treatments for depression, "no placebo-controlled trials have been done" to confirm how well the therapy works on a larger population.Doctors .....read more »

This book was published in 2006 by Corwin Press. To me a new publisher not very well known. I mostly read fiction or computer books. I am also a teacher in a large university hospital, at least to Dutch standards. Education is progressing and the use of the web with students becomes common sense. Besides "Blackboard" the use of wikis in educating medical students recently started in our curriculum. Since I am interested in computer, software and the web this urged me to look for books that are about web tools and integration of these techniques in education.This book is .....read more »

Wikipedia has a lot of information about ECT. Also in the Dutch version thanks to one of the members of the WEN. Soon there will be a version on DVD. The new DVD will concentrate on about 2,000 articles, with emphasis on mostly unchangeable topics such as geography and literature. The most valuable information to my opinion is the new initiative: Citizendium.Wiki with stricter editing rules and obligatory disclosure of editor's real names, mostly professionals.It also has information about ECTRelated posts: What Kind of a Person Writes on Wikipedia or Blog or Medblog? Wikipedia opinion based. China alllows access to English Wikipedia ..read more »

I am writing a systematic review about antidepressants. For this I need a "forest plot". Found a nice and comprehensive article in the BMJ.In short this what a "forest plot" is: Forest plots show the information from the individual studies that went into the meta-analysis at a glance They show the amount of variation between the studies and an estimate of the overall result.And here is link with a spreadsheet to make a forest plot in excel:www.evidencias.com/forest01.xls Related posts: rTMS: old versus new trials Antidepressants have Limited Efficacy in Juvenile Depression ..read more »

In his commentary in the Journal of ECT Prof. Max Fink pleads for a ECT Accreditation Service (ECTAS) as in the United Kingdom. In the eighties and nineties of the previous century national surveys of actual practice of ECT in the U.K. revealed deficiencies in the practice of ECT. One third of the clinics did not meet the guideline standard, 41% still used outdated equipment. First in Scotland psychiatrists undertook a 3 year cycle of audits to systematically answer questions about patient demographics and outcome. Each ECT clinic was visited twice. In 2003 this initiative was followed in the U.K. .....read more »

When reading the book: "Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and powerfull web tools for classrooms from Will Richardson I came across this link: The Shifted Librarian. In her post on thursday, April 19, 2007 she had a wonderfull suggestion. Use pbwiki as a presentation wiki, put your presentations on this wiki or anything else. In this way you can ad projects to your blog. I'll do that in the recent future as well as place a review of the aforementioned book when I've finished reading it.Related posts: The Savvy Technologist The Extreme Presentation Method: Advanced Presentations by Design Getting Things Done ..read more »

Science is an art, art is science but so is soccer. This is a serious blog, but so is soccer.Messidona, enjoyRelated posts: Eat for Goals ..read more »

A recently published article by our group in the Journal of ECT. This article describes the long term follow-up of patients who participated in a 6 month continuation trial after ECT. The group with and without relapse during this 6 month period were compared with regard to recurrence of depression up to 8 years later.You can read the abstract following this linkRelated posts: Long Term Side Effects of Electroconvulsive therapy in Bipolar disorder Long-term psychodynamic therapy better than short-term Long Term Efficacy of Deep Brain Stimulation ..read more »

This website aims to represent the science, the sociology and the emotion of electroconvulsive therapy fairly and in a way that can be easily understoodRelated posts: ECT online, an english website about electroshock Electroshock in Mass Media New Website For Youth with Depression ..read more »