In previous posts we made the distinction between ballroom and conference room presentations. The requirements for persuading smaller audiences (details, interaction, no distractions) call for a Conference Room style presentation. Conference Room style presentations tend to contain lots of details on each slide, the slides are printed, not projected, and every slide must pass the squint test. The squint test is ensuring that your slide or hand out reinforces its main message. This can result in overcrowded but useful slides. Ballroom presentations are typically for a large audience with hardly any bullet points and slick graphic design as well as a .....read more »

According to this short questionnaire on Blogthings.com: What kind of Art are You I am Graffiti. You are a very expressive person. You couldn't keep your opinions to yourself, even if you tried. You have a unique take on life. You question authority figures and the status quo. You believe that art should be everywhere and that everyone is an artist. The best art is the stuff you run across in everyday life... not in a museum. Do I recognize myself in this? Absolutely not. But it was fun thanks to Dr Deb, she is a paintingRelated posts: The Story of Stuff Kees van Dongen on .....read more »

The next grand round is up at Health Blogs Observatory. This grand round is dedicated to Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born on this day, May 12, 189 years ago. As you probably know, she is famous for being the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ who devoted her life to nursing and campaigning for better health care and sanitation for all. Her greatest achievement was to make nursing a respectable profession. Florence’s writings on hospital planning and organization had a profound effect in England and across the world, publishing over 200 books, reports and pamphlets. She died at the age of .....read more »

Dr. George Vaillant shares insights from his decades of following the Grant Study men. Happiness isn't About "Me", it is more about being there for others. This video is full of examples from this research, following men since the 1930's. Some wise lessons in this video. You can read the article here: The Atlantic: What makes us happy Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and .....read more »

The benefits of exercise In children, college students and young adults, exercise or physical activity improves learning and intelligence scores Moreover, exercise in childhood increases the resilience of the brain in later life resulting in a cognitive reserve The decline of memory, cortex and hippocampus atrophy in aging humans can be attenuated by exercise Physical activity improves memory and cognition Exercise protects against brain damage caused by stroke Exercise promotes recovery after brain injury Exercise can be an antidepressant The brain needs certain ingredients to flourish or to life up to the expectations of every day problems. The brain has priority when it comes to certain ingredients. A .....read more »

Depression as a serious debilitating illness and not a weakness. Many patients don't get adequate treatment for depression. What to do about this? “the Internet affords the opportunity to make psychosocial interventions available to large segments of the public. Interventions can be delivered programmatically and reliably, greatly extending the numbers and types of people who can be reached with services”. In recent years, Web-based approaches have been increasingly used and it has been repeatedly shown that Internet-delivered treatments may be an effective and inexpensive alternative to traditional treatments. Most of the existing Internet-based depression treatments are based on cognitive-behavioral principles, although .....read more »

On Webcinia a comprehensive an extensive resource for cancer patients and their healthcare providers is published with all the web 2.0 tools that provide support or reliable health information about cancer management Cancer 2.0 Cancer is a class of diseases resulting from uncontrolled growth of any groups of our cells. It is the 4th cause of death globally as more than 8 million people die from cancer year by year. Be sure to check this out at Webcinia.comRelated posts: Cancer Research Blog Carnival #21 – National Cancer Research Month Genetics of Cancer Resistance Genes and Brain Cancer ..read more »

Alleviating Parkinsons through deep brain stimulation from Science News on Vimeo. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is mostly used for Parkinson's Disease. DBS for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Depression is just starting to be used. It is unclear how DBS works for Parkinson's Disease. With DBS an electrical probe is inserted into the brain and it stimulates an area known as the subthalamic nucleus. This can help people with Parkinson’s disease overcome the disorder’s neurological block on movement. But how does this stimulation work. Some researchers think the technique stimulates neurons that initiate movement. Others say it blocks inhibitory neurons, allowing brain signals .....read more »

Have a look at this video, it introduces a new important ratio, the News/Death ratio. It also puts the swine flu of Mexican flu in perspective. Thanks to ICTConsequences does flu 2.0 matter? Not at all. You can alos follow the author of this excellent blog on twitter @flupianezRelated posts: Swine Flu Information H1N1 or Mexican Flu Rap Students use of social media ..read more »

Pictures of this anatomy atlas are online in two picasa webalbums. Here is the first and second. Or buy your own anatomical model at anatomy tools.com Thanks Goomedic Related posts on this blog Links to the Best Human Anatomy aids on the Internet and Anatomy Arcade 2 Fun Sites for Brain and Human Anatomy Imaging of the Human Brain The Ultimate Brainmap site Brain MapsRelated posts: Links to the Best Human Anatomy aids on the Internet and Anatomy Arcade 2 Fun Sites for Brain and Human Anatomy Using Google Body to teach undergraduate anatomy ..read more »