Welcome to Grand Rounds, a weekly round-up of the best of the medical blogosphere. We here at Pallimed (Drew, Lyle, Amy, Amber and myself) are honored to be hosting Grand Rounds for the 3rd time.....The theme this week is "The Art of Medicine and Nursing" in honor of our sister blog Pallimed: Arts and Humanities. A variety of the best from the medblogs all over the world, read it at Pallimed Related posts: Palliative Care Grand Rounds 1.10 Grand Round at Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog Grand Rounds: Diversity ..read more »

Why blog? Certainly a small part of the fun is hoping for admiration and affirmation. I check my blog stats and google analytics regularly and a peak in readers certainly is another boost for writing more posts. Eventually you get to "know" your colleague bloggers, and human contact grows. The most important reason for me to blog is to keep up with developments in my field and make ideas and these developments known and published. A growing number of professionals have started weblogging to share their personal knowledge. What factors influence this knowledge sharing with bloggers? A recent study published the results .....read more »

PubMed has redesigned their interface. The changes to PubMed are outlined in the NLM Technical Bulletin. Medical Librarian's reviewed the redesign, most of them not very pleased. Laikas has the most detailed review of them all. Her main points of critique are: Wasted screen real estate on the front page History is gone from the front page. You could see your search history in a tab of it's own on the front page, very useful to combine prior searches or to see the number of results from prior searches The detail tab has also gone from the front page. This means you can't see .....read more »

Very nice talk. You might think it's complicated at first but she shows you the simple tests live with kids, very well done. She shows the brain region for thinking about other people thoughts and it's development. How does this brain region develop during childhood to adulthood? Is this the cognitive side of empathy? The researchers also tried to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to influence this specific brain region, can it change peoples moral judgment? She already had telephone calls from the CIA but luckily she doesn't answer them. Be sure to see the interview at the end of the video. Sensing .....read more »

Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter [recreading]Related posts: Recommended Reading This Week Recommended Reading from This Week Recommended Reading This Week ..read more »

Told you earlier this year about an excellent blog of someone undergoing Maintenance ECT at the moment: Jumpstarting a life with a little sparkle to the head. After the fourth lesson there is now a fifth ECT lesson: After ECT treatment continues: I know that by the time we’re considering ECT, we are barely able to make it through the day, but I think it’s better to ask and know upfront what turns your life could take post-ECT rather than be surprised by something that’s already been documented that it might happen. And even a sixth ECT lesson: Communication is key If you .....read more »

The organizers of REshape 2009, the second Health 2.0 conference and the first international E-Mental Health summit have set up an interesting contest, called the Dutch Open Health 2.0 Challenge, that will run during that week, from Oct. 12 to 15, with winners announced Oct. 16. Lee Aase, living in Austin, Minnesota who works for Mayo Clinic as manager for Syndications and Social Media will be presenting on both conferences and participating in this challenge with a Mayo team.Related posts: E-Mental Health Summit in Amsterdam Gel Health, Conference About The Patient Experience in Health Care Mental Health Unit for Personality Disorders Closed in UK ..read more »

Those video game players with more autonomy, competence and relatedness, thus who feel free to be themselves, and usually feel capable and have closeness and intimacy with others, often play video games because they like to. Those low on these traits often become obsessive game players, they have to play a video game. Moreover the first group enjoy their game play and feel energetic afterwards, while those in the latter group often feel more tension after game play and they usually play more hours. In the end you have those video game players that want to play and those that .....read more »