Elections to the European Parliament will be held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. Does this song motivate you to go and vote? Song by Roxy Music one of my favorites Lyrics: All those moments Lost in wonder That we´ll never Find again Though the world Is my oyster It´s only a shell Full of memoriesRelated posts: How to Write a Love Song A Nerdy Rap Song Direct To Consumer Advertising of prescription drugs, a threat to Europe? ..read more »

The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history. This puts our troubles, goals and deeds in perspective. Thanks Seedmagazine.comRelated posts: Rap Guide to Evolution The Rap Guide to Evolution The Evolution of Gaming ..read more »

// The major recent enhancements to ECT technique are: Right Unilateral electrode placement. The cognitive side-effects of ECT such as retrograde and anterograde amnesia are significantly less compared to Bilateral electrode placement. Brief pulse stimulus currents. The characteristics of the electrical stimulus affect the effectiveness and cognitive outcomes of the seizure. Sine wave stimuli have been replaced with rectangular pulses on modern ECT devices, leading to a substantial decrease in cognitive effects Improved an­esthesia techniques makes it possible to regulate the cardiac output during ECT when necessary The “dose titra­tion” technique to individualize treatment stimulus dosing The discovery of the dose-response relationship between electrical .....read more »

Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning. Related posts: The Morning Report My Sunday Morning Workout If I Ran The Internet? ..read more »

This is the blogosphere's neuroscience blog carnival that focuses specifically upon the brain, neuroscience, perception and behavior. Go read this grand round on Neuroanthropology. My favorites from this edition of Encephalon are: Dave Munger, Cognitive Daily: Musicians Have Better Memory – Not Just for Music, but Words and Pictures Too (Tweeted it @DrShock) SharpBrains released a new book, you can read about it and the content on: The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness: 18 Interviews with Scientists, Practical Advice, and Product Reviews, To Keep Your Brain Sharp My mind on books with the video of a interview with George Vaillant and “What makes us happy?”, .....read more »

Read the excellent introduction and quickly go and read at See First Insights into the uncertain world of healthcare If you make the rounds of the blogosphere and the traditional media these days, you find lots of talk about health care. But it’s mostly abstract, and typically fixated on the politics of this or that plan. However, there’s a whole other side to health care which isn’t seen or covered enough by traditional media or bloggers — the doctors, nurses, medical professionals and patients who actually are the health care system. Blogs make it possible for these voices to be heard, and we’re .....read more »

The relationships between doctor personalities and medical specialties continues to interest me since we regularly have to select excellent young physicians to become psychiatrists. The usual caricatures of different specialties just won't suffice as in the differences between surgeons and internists. It's fun to read so if anyone knows some about psychiatrists and others please let me know and please don't come up with psychologists. What makes physicians choose a particular specialty? In medical education assessment of Emotional Intelligence (EI) is now used as part of the selection process for some medical school applicants in an effort to consider an applicant’s .....read more »

True or false: “ Pregnant women never commit suicide, they just don’t do it because it’s against human nature” This is what experts declared to a murder trial jury in 1993 after the death of an 38 weeks pregnant woman. Because of this declaration, Eddy Gifoyle, who found his wife hanging in the garage is serving a life sentence for the murder of his pregnant wife. This guest post was written by Veerle Bergink, psychiatrist, besides patient care especially perinatal psychiatry she is also busy on her PhD research project Amazing that this actually happened in the UK, the cradle off perinatal psychiatry... Only .....read more »

Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that have the pharmacological actions of: anxiolitics, sedatives, hipnotics, muscle relaxants and anticonvulsivants. Their clinical indication cannot be generalized but specified by each agent. If you want to see an animation how these benzodiazepines work have a look at this blog Pharmamotion. It has an enormous amount of pharmacological animations, or how things work. For instance it has a video animation of HIV fusion inhibitors mechanism of action. The blog is written by Flavio Guzmán, a M.D. working as teaching assistant at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Mendoza, Argentina. The aim of this website is .....read more »

Don't worry just read the Medical Web 2.0 Guidance package at webcinia.com Step-by-step tutorials and online materials through which you can easily learn to use the tools and methods you need to create a quality medical blog It's all there Inside the medical blogosphere Step 1: How to start a new blog? Step 2: How to write a post and how to tag it? Step 3: Design, widgets, pictures and more Step 4: How to launch a blog carnival? Step 5: How to provide quality content? Step 6: The future of blogging? Wish I had this in my starting days. Related posts: Encephalon 60, A Neuroscience Blog Carnival Three .....read more »