Think Anatomy is an enormous database with links to all kinds of human anatomy sites, videos, dissection manuals, they even have games for human anatomy. We know you don't have precious study time to waste searching for good anatomy resources online. That's why we're collecting links to some of the best anatomy resources on the Internet for you. Start by choosing a category below or browse through some of the recent additions to get started. Another great anatomy site is Anatomy Arcade I did some posts on human anatomy before but that's not necessary anymore, they're all on these site Think Anatomy and Anatomy .....read more »

From Medical Education Blog It's a rich source of ideas, links and questions all in a brief list of messages that can be rapidly scanned. Watch the presentation by VizEdu about how doctors, patients and hospitals could be using this tool. I found out about this vignette on Twitter. Related posts: Twitter, Doctors, Hospitals and Medical Education Twitter during Lectures Twitter means business ..read more »

Online sources may provide a starting point to navigate friendships. Initiating an online friendship might seem less risky and easier to initiate. Attachment style impacts friendship differently when individuals relate to online or offline contexts. Attachment theory: Early interactions between child and primary caregiver allow the child to maintain close proximity to the primary caregiver, and to seek food and warmth from their caregiver.These early interactions of the child and caregiver allow the child to develop an internal working model of the world. In turn, these internal working models guide the child’s thoughts, behaviours, and affect, and permit the infant to .....read more »

Medication Treatment Failure And EctView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ect medication) Yesterday I had a presentation for anesthesiology nurses and nurse practitioners, not this one here above. It was about ECT, what else. It was in a beautiful theater and the audience was large, at least 600 people. Luckily I had prepared a "ballroom presentation". This is a presentation for a large audience with hardly any bullet points and slick graphic design as well as a good structure of the presentation. In the past I have read and reviewed several books about presentations. Presentation Zen and Slide:ology are perfect .....read more »

A number of studies have shown cardiovascular benefits of eating flavanol rich cocoa. Cocoa is the important substance of chocolate. Especially dark chocolate can contain high levels of flavanols. The possible underlying mechanisms of these cardioprotective properties of chocolate can be several. One of the possible mechanism mentioned before is the potential anti-inflammatory activities that are relevant to cardiovascular health. With inflammation, substances are formed which can produce adverse cardiovascular effects. In a recent publication the relation between anti-inflammatory effects of chocolate and protection against adverse cardiovascular effects was further elucidated. A J-shaped relationship between dark chocolate consumption and .....read more »

There is a humor–health hypothesis. This hypothesis claims that there is a link between humor and health. It is perceived that there is a positive link between humor and health. Humor should improve your health. There are many suggestions as how humor can improve health or not. Humor, in terms of laughter, creates accompanying physiological changes in the body which are positive and conducive to health Humor and/or laughter may create a positive emotional state which improves health. Humor and/or laughter may assist in moderating adverse effects of stress, it may enhance the coping and negating the known negative physical effects of stress. Humor .....read more »

Depression is recognized as a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease in healthy patients, for recurrent events in patients with established cardiovascular disease, and for adverse outcomes after coronary bypass graft surgery. Physical inactivity largely explains the association between depressive symptoms and adverse cardiovascular events such as heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, transient ischemic attack, or death. Other possible explanatory factors for the association of depression with cardiovascular disease are: smoking lack of exercise medication non adherence worse underlying cardiac disease severity lower heart rate variability antidepressant toxicity enhanced activity of the hypothalamic pituitary axis greater catecholamine levels dietary factors,low omega-3fatty acid levels increased serotonin and platelet .....read more »

Yes I won a prize, chocolate. I participated in the Menu for Hope. What is menu for hope? Menu for Hope is an annual fund raising campaign hosted by a revolving group of food bloggers around the world. In 2007, Menu for Hope raised nearly $100K to help the UN World Food Programme feed the hungry. Each December, food bloggers from all over the world join the campaign by offering a delectable array of food-related prizes for the Menu for Hope raffle. Anyone – and that means you too - can buy raffle tickets to bid on these prizes. For every .....read more »

You can now enjoy live concerts from the Berliner Philharmoniker a famous orchestra residing in a remarkable concert hall in Berlin but with exceptional good acoustics. I have visited the concert hall while being in Berlin several times, amazing good performance. But now you can log in after registration and enjoy a live concert behind your PC or Mac. You can also hook up your PC to your TV and audio system to enjoy the live concert. After login your able to buy tickets for the concert or upcoming concerts. No need to say that this excellent orchestra and concert .....read more »

Britain from above, a BBC documentary, GPS traces from airline flights scurried to locations and visualized in this video. This was number one in the 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of 2008. Data visualization continues to grow online and in the real world. It exists as masterful art pieces and amazingly useful analysis tools. In both cases though it brings data -- which is oftentimes cryptic -- to the masses and shows that data is more than a bucket of numbers. Here is another more appropriate on the Internet about Internet traffic. Related posts: Visualizing the medical data explosion Data Visualization the new Art for .....read more »