Welcome to the Forty-Sixth Edition of Encephalon, a neuroscience blog carnival.The best neuroscience posts of recent on The NeurocriticRelated posts: Encephalon #66 Encephalon #56 Encephalon 60, A Neuroscience Blog Carnival ..read more »

This is my 5th time to host (Thanks, Nick!) and I have not stopped enjoying the privilege of hosting this wonderful weekly anthology of the best posts of the medical blogosphere. Since FIVE is the lucky number for me today, I am opening this round with five of the best posts submitted to me this week...A lot of excellents posts from the medblog sphere, go read them on Parallel UniversesRelated posts: The Second Dutch Grand Round is Up Dutch Grand Round 1.3 Dutch Grand Round is up: Grote Visite ..read more »

Welcome to the 32nd edition of Gene Genie, a blog carnival devoted to genes and genetic conditions. This edition includes some excellent articles on genes and gene-related diseases, genetics, genomics and personalized genetics.Dr Shock is in this excellent grand round with genes and gene related diseases. Go read these excellent articles about the newest research on genes: the 32nd edition of Gene GenieRelated posts: MedLib’s Round First Edition Dutch Grand Round Number 8 is Up. Grand Round is Up at Doc Gurley ..read more »

The next three weeks Dr Shock is on vacation. This blog has been updated daily for more then a year. Since blogging is fun I will probably keep on blogging during these three weeks but maybe not daily and the long posts your used to. No cold turkey to prevent withdrawal symptoms from blog addiction or is it Internet addiction? Won't need shocktherapy for this I hope. But blogging is good for your health, at Living the Scientific LifeBy the way there another stupid thing people believe you can get addicted to. Here is a good one: internet dating. Thanks .....read more »

Apart from a transient mild decline in manual motor speed, there seems to be noadverse cognitive effects associated with chronic Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in Cg25 for Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD) in this sample of 6 patients with a follow-up of 12 months.Another important conclusion from this research:Several areas of cognition that were below average or impaired at baseline improved over follow-up, and these changes were not correlated with improvements in mood.Broadman Area 25 as target for deep brain stimulation in treatment resistant depression. This area in the brain is from the most important publication about DBS and depression in .....read more »

Other blog such as clinical cases and Medgadget also discovered the news around Google Health. For some screen shots see Dr Shock. Eye on FDA also reviews Google Health:It is a pretty neat concept and, as a big fan of Google myself, I can say that it maintains Google standards for easy maneuverability and is extremely friendly for the user. If you use a Google Reader as an aggregator - this is far easier to negotiate. You put in a few details about yourself, including your medications and already can gain access to a good deal of interesting .....read more »

Peer review means reviewing the research of other scientists in your field for publication in a scientific journal. This procedure is confidential. Reviewers should abstain from peer review if there is a conflict of interest not only financial but also scientifically.Pfizer subpoenaed the New England Journal demanding that the Journal produce peer-review and other editorial documents on all manuscripts concerning Pfizer's cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors, valdecoxib (Bextra) and celecoxib (Celebrex) specific articles that they had published and any others that we had rejected for publication. Pfizer wanted the peer-review documents, including the critiques prepared by reviewers for the authors, to help .....read more »

Screening for depression through the Internet is feasible and is acceptable to large groups of adolescents. Furthermore, the Major Depression Inventory (MDI) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale for Children (pdf, small) (CES-D) are reliable and valid instruments that can be used for this screening.By the age of 18 about one in every four adolescents has had at least onedepressive episode, and most adults with recurrent depression have their initial depressive episodes as teenagersTeen depression or depression during adolescence can be hard to discover. There is even a website about depression for children and parents: KidsHealth. It is a .....read more »

The New Grand Round of this week is up on Musing of a Dinosaur. Grand Rounds has become the contemporary weekly portrait of medicine through the eyes of the medical bloggers.Related posts: The New Grand Round is Up at Dr. Deb Made It Into A Grand Round: Smack Down Dutch Grand Round 1.5, Grote Visite ..read more »

| View | Upload your ownDr Shock is a fan of Life hacks. He even reviewed some books about it on this blog: Getting Things Done, and Upgrade Your Life.But now he discovered a slide show with Life Hacks for Doctors. There is even a blog dedicated to efficiency for doctors: The Efficient MD and a WIKI.The Efficient MD Wiki is designed to help healthcare professionals and medical students discover clinical pearls, useful resources, life hacks, and strategies to improve the practice of medicine. Thanks clinical cases and images, who is also a collaborator on this new project, The .....read more »