A response to a Fox News Broadcast by someone living in Amsterdam and a little smarter. Not a cesspool of drugs, free sex and anarchy. Bill O'Reilly recently invited a couple of pert blond Republican strategists to frighten Fox viewers about Amsterdam's lax pot laws, which have made the city a "mess," and "cesspool of corruption." The video above was made by a citizen of Amsterdam who used real statistics about drug use in his city compared with drug use in the US. Thanks BoingBoing Related posts: The Truth About Amsterdam Chocolate Capital of the World: Amsterdam 9 Eating Highlights in Amsterdam ..read more »

The Stanford Radiology 3D Imaging Laboratory uses computed tomography and Magnetic Resonance imaging data to create three-dimensional images of the human body. They also have a Flickr stream with a small set of interesting images from their 3D Radiology Labsite. Interested in radiology have a look at Radiology Guidance Packages at Webicina.com. Thanks BoingBoing Related posts: Educational Radiology Site NICE information for the public about electroshock ..read more »

This week's Grand Round is up at captain Atopic. The Theme is the Tour de France, nicely done with a lot of interesting posts. I liked Doc Gurley's interviewing the British-born award-winning novelist and historian, Jacqueline Winspear, in a vid-post honouring the death of two men - the last WWI British vets, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch. Also liked the Medical marijuana post.Related posts: Shrink Rap Grand Rounds: The iPhone 3G Edition Grand Rounds 5.14 Holiday Edition Grand Rounds The Tabloid Edition is Up ..read more »

Now that's a long title. This video is very witty and discusses the development of a career crisis and also delivers a definition of a snob which is, amongst others, the opposite of your mother. Enjoy this stimulating consoling presentation especially if you ask your self: What am I worth these days? Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure -- and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. Related posts: Antidepressant Medication Treatment Failure Does .....read more »

I've told you that so now and than I am playing computer games. Not only at home but since I've installed some games on my IPhone I also play while waiting for patients, meetings etc. It relaxes me. Getting my mind of. That's why a recent study got my attention. The study investigated the recreational use of video and computer games in the workplace. This study found that games have a positive influence on the recovery process by facilitating psychological detachment and relaxation. Games have a high cognitive demand, you have to concentrate while playing a game and it distracts .....read more »

As a psychiatrist you get the opportunity to listen to your patients. Especially in psychotherapy you have the privilege of listening and understanding the patient. As a general practitioner this time is not always given. In The Netherlands most appointments with a GP lasts for 5 to 10 minutes at the most. Here is a story of a Dutch GP practicing in a rural area in the southeast of the Netherlands. It took the patient three sessions exceeding the time limit to disclose a secret from more than 42 years before. His complaints could be classified as depressive disorder. After .....read more »

Came across new spectacular search engines also of benefit to scientists, med students and physicians. The most astonishing new search engine is Glearch Global search. It's a meta search engine and as such it allows you to narrow your search by country and by language before running a metasearch that gives you results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and local news sources. You can also select different resources such as Science and Technology, Government, Culture, Business, Tourism and Travel, Geography and History. After the search you're presented the general results and you can switch to News results. Found this last tab .....read more »

Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole -- a 33-day sprint through the snow. In 2006, he ran across the Sahara to raise awareness of water shortages. (He started running 5 years ago). He also answers questions as were did you sleep, what did you eat, but what did he take from this journey? He knows he can make the impossible possible. Making the impossible possible What is the connection? They blogged daily on their trip answering questions from students.Related posts: Beyond 9/11 Marco Grob on Making Portraits of Resilience Scientific Match .....read more »

Found another excellent blog of someone undergoing ECT. Besides writing about his or her experiences with ECT there are also posts on other topics as well such as depression, mental health rsources etc. ECT lessons I've learned #4, write them down: When I went through ECT the first time around, I wrote down my passwords to the various online accounts that I have on a sheet of paper. This advice came from the book Shock by Kitty Dukakis and Larry Tye. It’s a great safeguard measure, and it was probably good to have my memory refreshed about those passwords anyway. Keep .....read more »

This weekly round up on Neuroanthropology is about synesthesia and drug categories, alongside the top selections and the anthro and neuro placeholders. This round up has a nice collection of important posts on different subjects. This time I liked the posts on synestheia. One post on Eagleman Lab is about synesthesia with an interesting video about this strange phenomenon. The one on top of this post. They are looking for the gene of synesthesia. For this they also developed a standardized battery for synesthesia at synesthete.org. This battery of questionnaires and online software is free and open to the public, and .....read more »