Travel the World Through Chocolate from Dan Mitchell on Vimeo. Video made about Katy Klassman from Vosges. She came up with a “Travel the World Through Chocolate” workshop series that teaches kids about the world through making truffles. This fun video is about their project – of www.onceuponaschool.org, designed to help you get involved with your local public school. The site was created in response to the wish of Dave Eggers for 1000 members of the TED community to participate in a project for local kids. Have fun. Related posts:100 Best Websites for Chocolate Fanatics Chocolate Capital of the World: Amsterdam How .....read more »

Dave Munger (left) and Research Blogging advisory team member Eric Schnell (right) following a presentation of ResearchBlogging.org at the NISO Discovery Tools forum (a conference for librarians interested in Web 2.0 technologies). Readers might have noticed the references at the bottom of some of my posts. The generated references and links were done via Researchblogging.org. Want to know a secret? if you only want to read posts on peer reviewed articles you can subscribe to RSS feeds on Researchblogging.org for the subjects of your interest. With a search you can easily subscribe to a blogger, see my blogposts for RSS feed What .....read more »

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics. The former chairman of Last.fm is working with Mendeley. You have to download some small program to upload your articles (pdf's) to your library on Mendeley. There is a windows, mac and even linux version of the program. After download you can choose to have the program find the title and authors as well as journal for you. On your desktop you can change or add metadata, filter by author, make document groups .....read more »

We recently discussed the results of a study about derogatory and cynical humor used by residents and assistants towards mental health patients. These results were in line with the results of a previous published study with medical students: ingrained prejudices and misinformation is the rule. Mental health patients are trouble. Iatrogenic stigma is stigma resulting from the attitudes and behaviors of healthcareprofessionals this may limit help seeking when symptoms of a mental disorder first appear. A recent study is published about the attitudes of pharmacy students toward people with mental disorders. This study was done with a survey of third year .....read more »

To me bedside teaching is number one in teaching anything to medical students. Nevertheless most of the teaching in med school is done in tutorial groups, lectures and computer based learning. This next four weeks I am supervising a group of 12 med students in computer based learning. In this coming weeks they have to solve patient problems on the computer and once a week they have to do some tasks under supervision. The combination of computer based learning and bedside teaching is rewarding and probably efficient. That's why a recent study caught my eye. They compared Computer Based Learning .....read more »

Efficacy of rTMS for treatment resistant depression isn't impressive to say the least. The results of studies show little clinical relevance of the efficacy compared to sham rTMS, many studies have reported limited effect sizes or response rates. A recent study tried to address one of the main concerns that could be responsible for the lack of efficacy namely the way in which the rTMS treatment is targeted over the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC). The localization is done with "the 5 cm measure", this involves the localization of the motor cortical site for optimal stimulation of a hand muscle, usually the abductor .....read more »

Scales to diagnose Internet Dependence and Internet Addiction prosper. Even when this diagnosis is doubted by scientists and bloggers alike these scales get used very frequently and their publications accepted in peer reviewed journals. It is possible that this diagnosis will be included in the new DSM V. Recent research evaluated the utility of the proposed diagnostic criteria for Internet dependence as measured by Young’s Diagnostic Questionnaire. As much as the diagnosis is debatable this questionnaire shows that the proposed diagnostic criteria do not adequately discriminate individuals scoring no Internet dependence from those currently classified as Internet dependent with .....read more »

The last systematic review of this topic was in 1994. According to this recent review ECT does seem to be effective for treating mental illness during pregnancy and the risks of adverse events are low. It should be considered in pregnant women with severe mental illness such as psychotic symptoms, catatonia or strong suicidal urges. Why is this important? The most common mental illness during pregnancy is major depressive disorder. It is estimated that 9% of pregnant patients suffer from major depressive disorder Untreated depression is linked to poor maternal and neonatal outcomes including poor weight gain during pregnancy, higher risk of .....read more »

I was a great fan of Google Notebook but Google decided to drop the development of notebook. I used it mostly for blogging. It's integration with Firefox made it an easy to use tool for saving links, webpages and blogposts. I decided to give Evernote a try and I am very satisfied with this capture tool. You can sync your evernotes with all your devices, even with the iphone. It's integration with Firefox is smooth. Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable .....read more »

The manuscripts of author Franz Kafka had such a profound impact on Finnish graphic and type designer Julia Sysmäläinen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script. The philologist took on the challenge to transform in Kafka’s rather eccentric letter forms into an balanced typographic flow. This meant not only creating hundreds of ligatures – each of them consisting of two, three or even four single characters – but also integrating numerous alternate characters to avoid successions of repeating shapes, in order to lend FF Mister K Pro a more authentic .....read more »