The Obama administration has another technological first. All those photos you have been inundated from the “first 100 days” have been posted into the Official White House Photostream on Flickr. Pete Souza, the official White House photographer who shoots with a Canon 5D Mark II, has uploaded over 300 images on the site. Visit the photo stream at flickr Thanks Gear Live Related posts: Flickr adepts are not amused Spell With Flickr Shrink Rap: L.A. E.R. Tragedy . . . Emergency Mental Health Care ..read more »

Now what is this? It's certainly amazing. At the end of the video as short explanation by the free runner, don't miss it. Check out this demo reel of Levi Meeuwenberg doing some jaw-dropping "free running". Free running is very similar to Parkour in the athleticism required and specific techniques and movements used, but while Parkour is about getting from one place to another in as efficient a manner as possible, free running is less directed and more creative in nature. Want to know more, visit Popsci.com: The Physics of Free Running Related posts: What do drug addiction and running have in common? Free Medical .....read more »

Got some reactions and comments on my posts about the neuroscience of arithmetic. This drew my attention to dyscalculia. It seems that 4-6% of the World population suffers from dyscalculia. It has been WHO approved and is also mentioned in the DSM. There is also a Dyscalcula forum and they are present on Twitter: @dyscalculic What is Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability in mathematics. Dyscalculia is a word you use to describe when people have significant problems with numbers - but still have a normal or above normal IQ. It seems that no dyscalculic has problems with math alone, but .....read more »

The art of Pimping: pimping occurs when an attending physician (the Pimper) poses a series of difficult questions to a resident or medical student (the Pimpee). Pimping usually occurs in settings such as “morning report” or “attending rounds,” in which trainees at various levels convene with a faculty member to review patients currently under their care. So what is the cure? Avoidance, Do not have visual contact with the teacher The Muffin, the pimpee holds a large muffin in the dominant hand with the elbow flexed, and slowly makes motions with the elbow that move the muffin toward and away from the mouth, somewhat .....read more »

Maybe I have told you in the a previous post that I tried to do some programming in Python. It was nice but extremely difficult. This old brain wasn't quick enough to pick up the routine. Enjoyed it while it lasted but took a lot of time and effort without much progress. As you will probably know the human brain is capable of adaptation, not only in childhood but also in adulthood. Experience and learning can alter the brain, genetic predisposition also plays a role. Maybe learning to program needs to much adaption beyond my genetic predisposition. During my medical education .....read more »

On Highlight Health the cancer research blog carnival, it discusses the news from cancer research, check it out. The posts discovers basic, clinical, epidemiological and behavioral research essential to identifying causes and developing strategies for cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cures. Welcome to the 21st edition of the Cancer Research Blog Carnival, the monthly blog carnival that discusses what’s new in cancer research and includes posts covering cancer biology, cancer genetics, cancer diagnostics and cancer therapeutics. Concomitant with this edition is the start of National Cancer Research Month. Related posts: Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #37 Scientia Pro Publica Blog Carnival #Seven Praxis Blog Carnival .....read more »

The American Journal of Psychiatry has three articles on borderline personality disorder by some of the leading experts. Mostly about the development of the concept which is sumarized by Otto F. Kernberg and Robert Michels as: ...we have made tremendous strides in only a few decades, beginning with a theoretical concept in psychoanalysis that was ridiculed by most other psychiatrists, and progressing to a widely recognized clinical entity; from a pejorative label for disliked patients to a carefully defined diagnostic category; from the subject of almost no systematic study to one of the most intensively researched personality disorders—in terms of diagnosis, .....read more »

Conflict of interest, Dr Shock is one of the editors of this website; psychiatrynet.eu. It started of with a Dutch version of the website: psychiatrienet. Psychiatrynet.eu is an open and free site. It is the property of The Journal of Psychiatry Foundation, an independent organization which generates revenues from subscribers to the journal of the same name. It also receives annual contributions from several Dutch national mental health care facilities, in exchange for which they may place help wanted notices on its website. The principal editors, consultants, and advisers participate on a personal (and voluntary) basis. Every topic describes in its .....read more »

A post on Mind Hacks again pointed me to this website of the Wellcome Collection museum with Art and Mental Illness. The museum has two fantastic free exhibitions on the art and history of mental illness: Madness and Modernity: This multidisciplinary exhibition presents the range of ways madness and art interacted in Vienna, from designs for utopian psychiatric spaces to the drawings of patients confined in them. It explores the influence of psychiatry on early modernism and encourages us to reflect on how we deal with mental illness 100 years on. The other exhibition is: Bobby Baker's Diary Drawings: Mental illness and .....read more »

Dr Shock loves taking pictures, he also loves to [play around with them. There are a lot of online resources available where you can change, enhance and make funny photo editing without knowing and program like Photoshop. You can make your own magazine cover, create your own dollar with your picture on it the possibilities are endless. 28 Online Photo editing Websites, the best free photo editing services, will keep you from working for a while. Related posts on this blog: More Photo Fun 1 Photo FunRelated posts: More Photo Fun Photo Fun The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners ..read more »