At last, another round up is posted on neuroanthropology. Apparently, the author is now safely esconsed in Tampa, and getting started at the University of South Florida. And now below – some favs, mind, misc, anthro, video games, and addiction. Doing some of my consistent interests this time round. Plus a new surprise at the end. Enjoy! I especially enjoyed Daphne Merkin, My Life in Therapy. In this NY Times Magazine essay, Merkin describes her encounters with therapy over 40 years of treatment, and reflects on what makes therapy tick and why she continues to go. This is a follow-up piece to .....read more »

An excellent medlib round at Highlight Health. This edition is all about how social media is being used to promote health information online. Besides links to posts on blogs about twitter, facebook, and other social media in Health and Medicine the autor also proposes to tweet and share posts using the Twitter hashtags #medinfo and #medlibs. If you like a particular post, share it with your friends and be sure to add both hashtags. Related posts: Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8 MedLibs Round 2.6 is up at Laika’s MedLibLog Social Media Use By US Hospitals ..read more »

During pregnancy sometimes cardiovascular complications specific for pregnancy may arise. I'm talking about preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. Preeclamspia is hypertension arising in pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension) in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine. Preeclampsia refers to a set of symptoms rather than any causative factor. In a recent prospective cohort study women who reported eating chocolate regularly from 1 tot 3 servings per week had a 50% or greater reduced risk of preeclampsia compared to those eating 1 or less servings/week. Moreover, The greatest rate of preeclampsia (4.5%) occurred among women who did not regularly consume chocolate in the first .....read more »

This is a very comforting book especially if your middle aged as I am. Consoling remarks such as : "Younger people also forget were they left their keys only they don't worry about it", that's what I mean. The book is full with all kinds of examples that trouble the middle aged brain. Nevertheless the emphasis of this book is on the positive sides of the middle aged brain. We might be slower in some aspects but in others we're comparable to younger brains or even better. Being better at tasks mainly due to experience, having oversight, able to tolerate .....read more »

I've been busy today preparing education for third year medical students. It's their first engagement with psychiatry. In preparing before psychiatric examination they have to watch several video's and answer questions about the psychiatric examination. These video's were made by actors and some of them are small parts of Hollywood movies. For OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder I used a fragment of The Aviator. It's the story of the life of Howard Hughes. With The Aviator, director Martin Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio breathe fresh life into this old story with a soaring and soulful portrait of the enigmatic, troubled millionaire .....read more »

Have to get this table. A new computer display brings together 3D imagery and multi-touch screens for the first time. Related posts: Mendeley Manage Share and Discover Research Papers. ..read more »

Now Dr Shock is a big fan of computer games, this game: Foldit lacks shooters and flames but it's very useful. Guessing how a protein will fold up based on its DNA sequence is often too difficult for even the most advanced computer programs. Now scientists have created Foldit, an online game that lets human players do the work. Read the original research and read more about 'citizen science' in this Nature News feature Related posts: It’s Not The Video Game It’s The Player That’s The Problem Light Affects Mood and Performance during Computer Gaming Video Games Affect The Brain, Good or Bad? ..read more »

Gabrielle Munter painted Jawlensky and his girlfriend Werefkin. Gabrielle was the girlfriend of Wassily Kandinsky. All participants of "Der Blaue Reiter". Related posts: Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter Largest Kandinsky Copy on Weilheim Square in Germany Kandinsky in the Centre Pompidou, Paris ..read more »

What is it with humans. They're brilliant compared to their evolutionary counterparts but nevertheless can make very dumb mistakes, watch this video and you'll know. Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives make decisions. A clever series of experiments in "monkeynomics" shows that some of the silly choices we make, monkeys make too. Related posts: Cognitive Dissonance or why they stay in Iraq and we in Afghanistan The Sense and Non-Sense of Vitamine D suppletion When to Buy or Sell Stocks ..read more »

This image above shows two types of humor. One based on incongruity-resolution, the cartoon on the left. The other also based on incongruity-resolution but provoked by a nonsense cartoon on the right. Humor of nonsense jokes and cartoons is a different sense of humor according to recent research. Not in the sense of the neural processing of humor in the brain or to their structural properties but they differ in content. The common element of these humorous stimuli is that in their processing the recipient first discovers an incongruity. This incongruity can be easily resolved upon reinterpretation of the information available .....read more »