This is a movie used for the presentation of symptoms of Schizophrenia in some medical schools. I also use a lot of fragments from Hollywood movies to teach psychiatric symptoms and diseases to medical students. Since recent there's Symptom Media. It's a non-profit organization created in the spring of 2009 for the creation and distribution of specialized video content. The videos are all about psychiatric and psychological phenomena. The clips were made by a film producer Matt Rubin and Dr. Donald Fidler, a psychiatrist and professor of West Virginia University. They already produced about 25 small segment films found streaming .....read more »

A mashup of babies dancing to Beyoncé's hit song "All The Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" from YouTube. And the other one: Robots dancing synchronized to Christmas music. EMBED-Synchronized Robot Christmas Dance - Watch more free videos Thanks Geekology Related posts: Amazing Videos About Robots The Best Robots of 2008 International Space Archives Pictures and Videos ..read more »

BioMedSearch.com wants to provide free access to documents relating to the biomedical field. They want to make these important works available to the community in a way that is fast and easy, while still offering the advanced features demanded by power users such as portfolios, collaboration features, bibliographical citation export, alerts, and more. After all the buzz around the redesign of PubMed, a good alternative? Will try this one, what do you think? BioMedSearch is an enhanced version of the NIH PubMed search that combines MedLine/PubMed data with data from other sources to make the most comprehensive biomedical literature search available. BioMedSearch .....read more »

The development of the brain from sensory perception into a cognitive world or plasticity and it's advantagesRelated posts: Cognitive Safety of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression Brain Blogging, The Fourty-Fifth Edition Brain Training Software ..read more »

This is a video about using twitter during lectures. It's mostly about the professor trying to get motivated by something different than useful for the students. See this video about the pro and cons of using twitter during lectures and ways to use it. Read the full story on The Chronicle of Higher Education: Teaching With Twitter: Not for the Faint of HeartRelated posts: Twitter during Lectures part 2 Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities Twitter during Lectures ..read more »

Depressed patients often do not respond to there first antidepressant or have to quit the antidepressant due to side effects. Switching to another antidepressant is often a solution. Nevertheless switching from one to the other depressant can be difficult. How do you switch, which taper scheme and which built up scheme do you use. How is this influenced by the cytochrome P450 system? Since recent there's a table on a website with most, if not all possible switches from one to the other antidepressant: www.switchingantidepressants.eu. It's a Wiki made by Drs. Walter Broekema, a pharmacist in a large psychiatric hospital in .....read more »

In a recent previous post the topic was the neuroanatomy of depression, or which sites of the brain can play a role in depression. Which parts of the brain show the dysfunction underlying depression. MRI scans can link neurobiology of depression with clinical findings through brain imaging studies that examine regional structure, regional function or connectivity. This can aid the diagnosis of depression. But can structural and functional MRI predict response to an antidepressant or psychotherapy? From a recent review including studies examining the relations between imaging and clinical outcome in patients with depression: In general, patients who remit have larger pretreatment .....read more »

Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented ìblog rally to promote Engage With Grace a movement aimed at having all of us understand and communicate our end-of-life wishes. It was a great success, with over 100 bloggers in the healthcare space and beyond participating and spreading the word. Plus, it was timed to coincide with a weekend when most of us are with the very people with whom we should be having these tough conversations our closest friends and family. Our original mission to get more and more people talking about their end of life wishes has .....read more »

O’Reilly has posted the video of my 15-minute keynote speech at Web 2.0 Expo this week, entitled “Making Sense of Google Wave.” I wanted to communicate my enthusiasm about Wave but also get across that it’s an power tool for power users, with a learning curve. Still trying to grasp Google Wave, does this help? More on SmarterwareRelated posts: Google Wave and Twitter The Year 2009 in a Google Wave Way Rivalry for Google Wave: PBWorks ..read more »

Avatar Machine [LONDON] 2008 from MARC OWENS on Vimeo. Marc Owens's augmented reality project "Avatar Machine" puts its users in VR helmets that display the world around them as though they were playing a third-person game, so that their own body is seen from behind. Owens theorizes that "The system potentially allows for a diminished sense of social responsibility, and could lead the user to demonstrate behaviors normally reserved for the gaming environment." Research subject? New trial, who? Thanks Boing BoingRelated posts: Augmented Reality Maps The Machine and The Music: This Too Shall Pass Augmented reality made easy ..read more »