This is the to the first edition of MedLib’s Round, a blog carnival of the “best blog posts in the field of medical librarianship”. It's on Laika's MedLibLog The MedLib’s Round is about medical librarian stuff. This field is much broader than searching PubMed or interlibrary loaning; it is related to all stages in the publication and medical information cycles (searching, citing, managing, writing, publishing, social networking). This grand round is about searching the web, searching PubMed, managing the information found, publishing the information and about social media, in short of major interest to librarians as well as physicians. A very interesting .....read more »

DSM IV criteria for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Any depressive disorder, be it recurrent depressive episode, major depressive episodes in bipolar I disorder, bipolar II disorder can have a seasonal pattern in which case the specification seasonal pattern can be applied if the following criteria apply. a. There has been a regular temporal relationship between the onset of major depressive episodes and a particular time of year (e.g. regular appearance of the major depressive episode in autumn or winter) b. Full remissions (or a change from depression to mania or hypomania) also occur at a characteristic time of year (e.g. depression disappears in .....read more »

A mutual help group is defined as a group of people sharing a similar problem, who meet regularly to exchange information and to give and receive psychological support, like Alcohol Anonymous. Traditionally, groups meet face to face, but internetbased groups have expanded rapidly in recent years. In a recently published review of 12 studies meeting strict inclusion criteria mutual help groups provide limited but promising evidence that mutual help groups benefit people with three types of problems: chronic mental illness, depression/anxiety, and bereavement. Seven of the 12 studies reported some positive changes in mental health for group members. The strongest findings come .....read more »

The essence of this book comes down to the four uses of twitter: Listening. You can get a twitter account and just follow others and listen and watch, you don't have to tweet a thing. You can search for your interests or products with several search engines for twitter such as Twitter Search and Tweet Scan. From the book just one example: dell once overlooked a top blogger's complaints about its laptop and soon was associated with the buzzphrase Dell Hell. The problem with listening is who to listen to? How to filter all the information form your followers and who .....read more »

There are patients with congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) this is a rare condition. They don't feel pain, cognition and sensation is otherwise normal; for instance they can still feel discriminative touch (though not always temperature), and there is no detectable physical abnormality. They offer a unique opportunity to test the model of empathy. Does the lack of self-pain representation influence the perception of others’ pain. CIP patients globally underestimate the pain of others when emotional cues were lacking, and that their pain judgments, in contrast with those of control subjects, are strongly related to interindividual differences in empathy trait. .....read more »

Undergraduate general psychology students listening to podcasts from a lecture of their professor who took notes while listening to the podcast scored significantly higher than the students attending the in-class lecture condition on the exam on lecture content. Ten years ago I would have given about 7 days of lectures to hordes of medical students, 2 to 3 hundred in each lecture each 3 months. Interaction hardly possible. Nowadays these lectures are mostly presentations of patient problems and life patients demonstrations. In a whole year the number of lectures for medical students can be counted on the fingers of two hands. The .....read more »

Their exists a large amount of online libraries. Their articles identified by URIs and DOIs DOIs are a specific type of URI and similar to the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN), allowing persistent and unique identification of a publication (or indeed part of a publication), independently of its location. DOIs can be used to retrieve metadata for a given publication using a DOI resolver such as CrossRef The biggest problems with these online libraries are that personalization and socialization are not both implemented, another important problem is that they also differ considerably in the nature and power of their indexing by which .....read more »

140 Health Care Uses For TwitterView more presentations from philbaumann. (tags: microsharing care) Thanks @Laikas This ebook is from Phil Baumann active on his blog and Twitter. He is a Registered Nurse with a background in critical care, drug safety, accountancy, finance, treasury operations, and recruiting. His mission: I am going to discover how to improve the health of every child, woman and man on the planet. You can read more about him hereRelated posts: Gel Health, Conference About The Patient Experience in Health Care Video Games in Health Care Twitter Lists of Health and Science ..read more »

Europeana is an Internet Library for paintings, photos, documents and books. There is a whole list of the organisations that their content comes from. They include the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris. Their database now consists of 3 million objects and is still growing. The idea for Europeana came from a letter to the Presidency of Council and to the Commission on 28 April 2005. Six Heads of State and Government suggested the creation of a virtual European library, aiming to make Europe's cultural and scientific resources accessible for all. The European .....read more »

Video: One instrument, with multiple sounds A new guitar will allow wannabe rockstars to take on the sound of almost any guitar, without a collection of many instruments. Swapping part of the soundboard changes the acoustics, while a computer inside the instrument tunes the sound. This completes the audio transformation and allows the guitar to mimic the sound of a completely different instrument. Dr Shock is a musical omnivore, he especially loves the sound of a guitar, from Jimi Hendrix to Spanish Classical Guitars. Thanks Gear Live and NewScientistRelated posts: Bill Evans the most influential pianists in modern jazz Turn of our Mobiles? ..read more »