Email has it's advantages. It is a fast way to communicate. Writing a good clear email message is something you will have to learn. Pushing the send button to quick can lead to embarrassing situations.But don't get stuck to much to email. Sometimes it is better to talk to someone about something. Not all topics lend themselves for email. Besides the number of emails in your inbox can be overwhelming. It can ruin your life. So use email right and appropriate.An important reason email is plaguing so much of your time is the amount of unnecessary or badly written email .....read more »

Game players perform best and fastest in a computer game world lit with a warm (reddish) as compared to a cool (bluish) lighting. Red lightning in a Computer Game also induced the highest level of pleasantness in game users.It was probably the level of pleasantness induced by the warm lighting that enhanced the players' better performance in that digital game world.These were the results of a recent article in CyberPsychology & Behavior: Lighting in Digital Game Worlds: Effects on Affect and Play PerformanceThese results are important for game designers and developers of online communities and visual worlds. Nevertheless maybe in .....read more »

This would be my ideal workspace. Were can you buy these kind of workspaces?For more crazy workspaces see CyberNotesRelated posts: Ideal Workplace, Found It! Einstein’s Messy Desk Your Desk Cannot Be Replaced by Mobile Working ..read more »

Anyways, the other thing I am going to try to do (on Dr. X's advice) is actually two things: keep painting even if my creativity seems to have disappeared. He says to keep doing the things that make me feel good when well, even if they are hard to do, or I don't feel like it. Secondly, give myself permission to slow down and ride out the low cycle. He expressed that he knows these are both easier said than done. I appreciate that he gets that.This quote from Vicarious Therapy inspired me on this subject. I have read some .....read more »

If you like this short video go see the whole talk at The Story of StuffThe Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.According to Presentation Zen:Here is a good example of a passionate presenter giving a .....read more »

Found a new recent blog called Electroconvulsive Therapy, all about.... you guessed it.It has a recent post on cognitive side-effects with ultrabrief stimulus. The results were presented as a poster at the European congress of psychiatry of the AEP in Nice, France, 4-9 April.We concluded that bifrontal and unilateral ultra-brief pulse ECT are effective treatment techniques that do not cause measurable cognitive side-effects or cognitive complaints.The author also has a blog called: A day in the life of a shrink. It is in Dutch or should I say Belgian.Related posts: Major enhancements to Electroconvulsive therapy 11 New Sites and Blog posts with .....read more »

Another open labeled trial with rTMS. It is a continuation trial after a recent double-blind placebo controlled trial with rTMS.This study is discussed in a recent post on this blog: Finally some good news about rTMS?Considering the outcome on the time point at week 4, Dr Shock is not very impressed by the results. For significant difference with the primary outcome 6 patients had to be excluded from the analysis. The mean difference between active and sham on the severity scales is in the range of 2-3 points, significant but hardly clinical relevant. The NICE guidelines use a difference of .....read more »

Medicine in every aspect is influenced by the pharmaceutical companies and medical device industries. This influence also jeopardizes medical publications in, until recent respected journals. These are the tricks used to influence the medical publications even in high ranking medical journals:They use Guest authorship. This has been defined as the designation of an individual who does not meet authorship criteria as an author.First authorship is wrongly attributed to academically affiliated investigators who had little or nothing to do with the reported research.They use Ghostwriting. This has been defined as the failure to designate an individual (as an author) who has .....read more »

Traders on a London trading floor had higher testosterone levels when they make more money than on an average day. The winner effect. Their results also suggests that high morning testosterone predicts greater profitability for the rest of that day.The role of cortisol in these men wasn't that clear. After some fancy brainstorming and analysis they discovered that cortisol was likely responding to uncertainty rather than the other way a round.We found a significant relationship between testosterone andfinancial return and between cortisol and financial uncertainty.The ups and downs on Wall Street are simply a matter of hormones. maybe we are .....read more »

Most of the incidents referred to flirtations or sexual remarks.The majority experienced 1 incident of sexual harassment, 6.7% reported 3 or more incidents.The offenders were all male except in one case, 66% were patients the others were medical doctors or residents.Three of 10 students reported that the incident had a negative influence on their functioning afterwards.The majority (77.8%) discussed the incident with their peers, usually other medical studentsThree quarters of the students were satisfied with the way the incident was dealt with13.3% experienced a lack of special support afterwardsStudents from two medical schools in The Netherlands received a semi-structured questionnaire .....read more »