Presentations these days have outgrown the bullet points presentation we're used to with powerpoint. Using presentations with only bullet points is out. There is even a new phrase for these presentations: Death by Powerpoint meaning killing your audience with boring PowerPoint presentations. Flickr has a group with pictures of lethal powerpoint slides. This book itself is well designed, it looks beautiful. Moreover it has a lot of examples for good use of effective visual expression. It clearly describes the design part of making slides. It starts of with knowing your audience and creating ideas, using for instance post it notes .....read more »

This famous painting by Piet Mondriaan has been analysed the past 2 years with X-ray, infrared and microscope. Without touching the painting they unraffeld the history of it's origins. Mondriaan changed the painting frequently even short before he died in February 1944, he used tape and paint to adapt the picture. Even the lines from which he started the painting have been changed frequently. Some colors were changed 2 to 7 times. They recently also discovered a short video fragment with Piet Mondriaan on it. I am a great fan of this painter, the Victory Boogie Woogie is called the Nachtwacht .....read more »

Long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy is superior in the long term to short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Short-term produces benefits more quickly than long-term therapies. After 3 years of follow-up, however, the situation was reversed with a stronger treatment effect in the long-term psychodynamic treatment group both for patients with depressive and anxiety symptoms. If a patient is capable and will benefit from psychodynamic psychotherapy which should be assessed by professionals before hand, than this kind of treatment to my opinion can be of great help to them not only for their complaints but also on the longer term. Long-term Psychodynamic psychotherapy was out of .....read more »

Drugs and Pharmacology, Tenth Edition on Brain Blogger. Welcome to the tenth edition of Drugs and Pharmacology. Today, we discuss a variety of topics from novel biological approaches to battling memory impairment to the bloody side effects of taking SSRIs and NSAIDs together. Related posts: Grand Round is Up at Doc Gurley Sackeims letter to the editor about memory loss due to electroshock Dutch Grand Round Number 1 ..read more »

I guess not. Although African American males were the least intense users of computers and the Internet, length of time using computers and the Internet was a positive predictor of academic performance. So he probably didn't waist his time with videogames because the amount of time spent playing videogames was a negative predictor. For your information Barack Obama's education: B.A. in international relations, 1983, Columbia University. J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was Editor of the Harvard Law Review. So is Dr Shock going into politics? Never. But he sure follows the news and the democratic convention. What about African .....read more »

This time a Shakespearean Grand Rounds The Seven Ages of Man speech is delivered by Jacques in As You Like It. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. The medblog posts are categorized each within the stage most suited for the post's topic. I am in the sixth age with exceptional longevity does not result in excessive levels of disability. The age of wisdom. Go read them allRelated posts: Grand Rounds at Gruntdoc Grand Rounds 5:1 – In Your Own Words MedBlogs .....read more »

This is the first Dutch Grand Round and I have the honor to present them to you. A lot of my readers are from the US and Uk but don't despair, two of the entries are in Englis as well as in Dutch. Welcome to the August 26, 2008 edition of grote visite (=Grand Round). Jan Martens presents Dutch health insurance company ONVZ supports medical search engine MediGO (in English) posted at MedBlog.nl. This search engine helps Dutch consumers finding reliable health information. All sites included are evaluated by medical .....read more »

Dr Shock is not very impressed with these new antipsychotics. Most research is done with comparison to high dose haloperidol, not very honest. Anyway the most dreaded side-effect of these new antipsychotics is weight gain. And I mean really weight gain, not just a few kilo's. Clozapine and olanzapine produce the most weight gain followed by quetiapine and risperidone. Ziprasidone and aripiprazole produce the least weight gain. The trouble is that those antipsychotics are mostly used in patients with schizophrenia and they usually have to use it for the rest of their lives. Moreover, these patients can have other risk factors .....read more »

Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted and handy. Whether it's a client's name, a password or combination you want stored only in your head, or answers for an upcoming test, there are plenty of techniques and tools to help you lock in important stuff and pull it out when needed. Nap to improve memory. Researchers in Israel report a daytime nap may help memory -- especially for those learning more than .....read more »

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' Isaac AsimovRelated posts: Time-Lapse Video of the Milky Way over Hawaii Where good ideas come from Wassup 2008 ..read more »