This time a weekly round up on Neuroanthropology with an enormous amount of links, I thought that's were the #100 came from. I especialy liked: Power corrupts, but it corrupts only those who think they deserve it. Do you recognize this: REPORTS of politicians who have extramarital affairs while complaining about the death of family values, or who use public funding for private gain despite condemning government waste, have become so common in recent years that they hardly seem surprising anymore. Well that's were this posts is about, enjoy. Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers. Did a recent post on why women .....read more »

I can still remember his book The Catcher in the Rye. The English was hard to read at that age nevertheless I was instantly deeply moved by the book without knowing why it did, I was still fairly young (high school). After this successful book he has hardly written anything else. In his whole life he wrote one novel, three volumes of stories. The success of the book is explained as; For decades that book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. The hero Holden Caulfield was the original angry but also sensitive young man .....read more »

Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine." Related posts: Managing the demands of professional life Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds Charles Darwin And The Tree Of Life ..read more »

The attachment theory from the sixties of the previous century is still used e.g. in psychotherapy but also in research such as shown in a recent post on:How do social relationships function online. Is attachment theory also useful in medical education, does it explain the poor performance by some doctors? After all doctors are required to engage attachment relationships with their patients. It's part of their job. In professional health care the relationship as caregiver is part of the working relationship. This interesting question whether attachment theory is useful in medical education and poor performing doctors when under stress is discussed .....read more »

Laika's MedLibLog was nominated for the medical weblog award 2009. She didn't make it to the final although I think her blog is an excellent mixture of librarian ship and web 2.0 with a lot of medical information well written and better to read than what I usually write. Thanks for her mentioning that I'm in the finals otherwise I wouldn't have known. Been nominated several times but never made it this far which probably explains my ambivalence towards these competitions.Related posts: The 2007 Medical Weblog Awards Medical Weblog Awards 2007 At last some good news about rTMS? ..read more »

If you have to present a conference room presentation but people expect a slideshow or you just don't want to loose the beamer and the feel of presenting, you can use Prezi. Conference room presentation is a presentation for small groups like presenting a study design, case presentation, results from a study but also if you want to persuade, sell to, or change behavior of a smaller group you will need a conference room style presentation. Usually in a conference room presentation printed slides with lots of .....read more »

Improvisation is the main feature of Jazz that distinguishes it from other forms of music making. Improvisation is the spontaneous musical performance within a relevant musical context. It consists of novel melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical elements. This unique feature of jazz offers the opportunity for neurobiological research or even creativity. What they did was do a functional MRI brain scan on 6 highly skilled professional jazz musicians. These jazz musicians had to play a simple musical tune and an improvisation on this tune with the restriction to the use of C major scale quarter notes within the same octave of .....read more »

Showing X-Ray images of large objects which you don't get to see that often. Here in this video X-Ray not used for health care, or checking for contraband but for creation of beautiful images. Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see. Related posts: Grand Rounds Blog Carnival – Vol 5.47 Invisible Illness Official White House Photostream on Flickr Where? What? When? .....read more »

Tumbled upon a new term of which I had never heard before. It's web mashup. It's the newest most recent Web technology and is growing fast. a mashup is a web page or application that combines data or functionality from two or more external sources to create a new service. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently using open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating .....read more »

In this second post about jazz and health we focus on the literature regarding somatic illness instead of mental illness. In the previous post we already mentioned drug use as one of the major hazards for jazz musicians. Drug use by jazz musicians can have all sorts of reasons such as the enhancement of creativity, boredom and isolation especially during long road trips or being on tour. According to a recent article in the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology: The lost years: the impact of cirrhosis on the history of jazz, this drug and alcohol abuse is probably the reason why the .....read more »