The new grand round is up at ACP Internist. Check out the finest recent posts by medbloggers. The grand round is written as a newspaper, nice touch, Dr Shock is in the sports section. Welcome to Grand Rounds at ACP Internist, a newspaper serving internal medicine. We're paying tribute to the daily newspaper. Read on for the latest headlines, opinions, features and even the funnies.Related posts: Grand Round is Up at Doc Gurley Old Year/New Year Dutch Grand Round 10.1 is up The New Grand Round is Up at Dr. Deb ..read more »

Loneliness is a subjective experience in which the individual’s relationships are fewer or less satisfying than desired. Loneliness is divided in two forms, the chronic loneliness or trait loneliness and the mood loneliness. Chronic loneliness is when a person fails to establish satisfactory personal relationships with others for two or more consecutive years, reflecting “long-term cognitive and behavioral deficits in relating to other people.” Mood loneliness refers to "the everyday, garden variety of loneliness, the periodic passing mood that usually disappears as soon as someone comes to talk with us.” Mood loneliness typically comes from those short-term and temporary external .....read more »

An excellent talk by Dan Dennett, not just because chocolate cake and our liking of it is explained as a supranormal stimulus but also his small introduction about why humor is important to the human brain. Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things. For a topping, try his new theory on why jokes are funny. Related posts: Funny Moments for Doctors Making A Brain Cake Those Sweet Twenties ..read more »

For depression several self help treatment options are available. In short mutual self help groups, cognitive behavioral therapy and problem solving therapy are the most important 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. Cognitive behavioral therapy is very efficient as self help treatment, its structured format makes it very suitable for self-help purposes and it can be very efficacious for the treatment of depression. Problem solving therapy (PST) is another option for self help in depression. Recently, a new, generic, PST-based intervention for multiple .....read more »

On WriteOnIt you can easily create your fake pictures, captions and fake magazines and other funny jokes for you and your friends. The fake magazine covers were already posted on this blog. This website ads pictures on which you can type in your own captions (see the picture below.. You can also upload your photo and make a funny montage as the one above. Related posts: More Photo Fun The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners Make Your Own Obama Election Poster ..read more »

The chocolate pi has arrived, enjoying it on Pi day, 3/14/09, or the 14th of March 2009. It didn't last long. They're also ice cubes in the shape of the pi symbol. I am not the only shrink interested in irrational numbers, read Garth Kroeker also a shrink with interest in irrational numbers. His metaphor on irrational numbers: There is a life lesson in this, I think. Be open to possibility. That which is seemingly impossible may require an imaginative re-framing to see that it was always in front of you, available to you, part of "ordinary" daily life. And there .....read more »

The new MedLib Grand Round is up at DragonFly We at Dragonfly are pleased to host this month’s edition of the Medlib’s Round blog carnival. Our theme is “enhancing access to health information for health professionals and the public.” Most of the blog posts listed in this carnival were nominated for consideration by the bloggers themselves. I took some editorial license and included a few additional posts I thought were useful and relevant to the theme. Related posts: Medlib’s Round Call for Submissions MedLib’s Round First Edition MEDLIB’s ’spooktacular’ round 1.7 is up ..read more »

Watch If You Forget @ Yahoo! Video A young woman and her mother on this video about ECT. Very impressive story about having ECT, side-effects and how she improved on ECT. She also has a website The Amazing Rachel Star Hey, I’m Rachel Star! I am a lot of things: stunt girl, producer, visionary, rapper, writer, mastermind, a cuddly form of evil, poet, and schizophrenic. I work with different TV shows around the world and I love creating and working on all forms of entertainment. Related posts: Another Hands On Experience with ECT ECT Hands On Experience Blogging About ECT, Hands on Experience ..read more »

Normally I am used to put the slides of my lectures online on BlackBoard before the actual lecture. In this way the hand outs can be used to understand the material better, at least that is what I hope for. Others never give their slides to students because they're afraid the students will not attend the lectures when in possession of the slides. Still others put them online just after the lecture. Now which is best? Providing the slides before the lecture has advantages according to recent published research: Most students reported using the slides as a guide for note-taking while students .....read more »

This weeks Grand Round at Doc Gurley has a more traditional written version and a LIVE Edition. Dr. Jan Gurley, a board-certified internist physician and a distinguished medblogger. It is a great grand round with a lot of information on the medblogospere. Be sure to have a look and make your pick of some of the finest posts from MedblogsRelated posts: Made It Into A Grand Round: Smack Down The New Grand Round is Up at Dr. Deb Grand Round is up at ACP Internist ..read more »