The new grand rounds is up at Highlight Health by Walter Jessen. Seasons Greetings! Welcome to the Holiday Edition of Grand Rounds, featuring some of the best articles of the biomedical and healthcare blogosphere. He also made feeds for a number of credible, rotating health and medicine blog carnivals. If you would like to follow your favorite carnival, you can simply subscribe by email or RSS — each post links directly to the blog hosting the carnival. Related posts:Grand Rounds Vol 6 No 3 is up at Pallimed Grand Rounds, Old School Style Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No.2 is up at Laika’s MedLibLog ..read more »

A short but adequate summary of bipolar disorder. To the point on BBC Health. Our moods are rarely completely stable and the world would be a very boring place if they were, but in bipolar disorder, mood swings aren't like normal highs and lows, they're much more intense. Related posts:Bipolar Disorder Overview in a Slideshow Bipolar disorder and electroshock (ECT) What You Ought to Know About a Possible New Drug for Bipolar disorder ..read more »

Medical Content (Adherence, Completeness, References, Updating) Accountability of the Authors (Indication of the author’s name, author’s c.v. or position, presence of commercial sponsor, certification, nature of the organization ) Usability of the Web Site (Contacts, Aesthetics , Ease of use, Links ) The web is often used to find medical information. An increasing number of individuals, companies and other stakeholders have their own websites. The content of these websites is largely unregulated and the enquirer has no way of telling whether the information is reliable. This makes it impossible to make an informed decision. The information found can be unreliable, unbalanced, wrong and .....read more »

This is a dutch video on TMS used in a prior post on this blog: Look what TMS can do in the hand of a smart dutch psychologist. Jan Martens is the author of Medblog.nl. He is conducting a historical research about the use of electricity and magnetism in psychiatry. He is now focussing on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). He is looking for some old videos about TMS. In this recent post he collected several more recent videos on TMS. He is looking for old videos on this subject, can anyone help him out? This morning I was looking at some .....read more »

This time the Dutch Grand Rounds are hosted by Health Management Rx. Again a very nice collection from the Dutch blogosphere, go and read it here...., To health and medical bloggers (and tweets) - seasonal downtime is the perfect opportunity for us to move forward with new initiatives and reenergize each other for the cold weather left before spring. Related posts:Dutch Grand Round 1.3 The Second Dutch Grand Round is Up Dutch Grand Round Number 8 is Up. ..read more »

"Stack The Memory" is a nerdy rap song, nothing explicit, funny with some nice graphics now and then. It is all about computers, enjoy.... Thanks Geekology Related posts:A Song For Europe Birds on a Wire Made Into A Song and Video “Love Is a Loaded Pistol” ..read more »

Is a bottle of old Lafitte wine really worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? Is a small portion of Kobe beef really worth 160 dollars? Is pasta with white truffles worth a 120 dollars? Can happiness be bought? To find out, author Benjamin Wallace sampled the world's most expensive products, including a bottle of 1947 Chateau Cheval Blanc, 8 ounces of Kobe beef and the fabled (notorious) Kopi Luwak coffee. His critique may surprise you. If you know a wine is expensive you probably will taste it but also your brain on MRI signals that you experience more pleasure. Related posts:Wine is Healthy ..read more »

This book is for the absolute beginner starting a blog with a nerd friend to help with the technical details. Or if your interested in the how, why and when of the Huffington Post this is also worth the money. Other readers might enjoy the example posts on politics, media, and celebrity gossip. The main content is about The Huffington Post. Chapters I enjoyed were the chapter about the differences between the old media (newspapers, magazines) and the new media such as blog. Besides the how, why and when of Huffington Post this book also has a chapter on the .....read more »

The best database with search engine is PubMed. It is free and the keyword search with PubMed offers optimal update frequency and includes online early articles. It is also quick and easy to use. Google Scholar is also free but it offers results of inconsistent accuracy. It can help in the retrieval of even the most obscure information but its use is marred by inadequate, less often updated, citation information. It updates once a month. Much information about its content coverage remains unknown and results with Google Scholar are displayed in relation to times of visits from users, not .....read more »

I had the pleasure and honor to be interviewed by Merely Me on MyDepressionConnection.com, one of the bloggers from HealthCentral. See writes for at least three blogs that I could find. Mostly about depression and Multiple Sclerosis. She did a great job, must read a lot about ECT and relating subjects. You can read her profile here. Her blog about Multiple Sclerosis is at MultipleSclerosisCentral.com. She is on my blogroll with her personal blog because she writes personal and magnificent about difficult subjects. Check it out Related posts:Researchblogging.org, the interview Dr Shock is Back Interview with Gina Trapani on Tim Ferriss Blog ..read more »