Nice video from New Scientist about the pro's and cons of using facebook After a failed relationship that left him heartbroken, visual effects artist Maxime Luère was inspired to create this time-lapse movie. The film charts a life on Facebook: from setting up the account, to falling in love, being unfaithful, breaking up and finally settling down. Related posts: Time Lapse Photography Time-Lapse Video of the Milky Way over Hawaii Beauty in Time Lapse Photography ..read more »

Humorist talk about an important topic which is in short: why did we loose contact between reason and emotion? Emotions are the foundation of reason, one of the many recognizable points taken in this excellent talk. Take some time to watch this. apping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences -- insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humor, he shows how you can't hope to understand humans as separate individuals making choices based .....read more »

A hospital is always a dangerous place to be. Mostly because you came because something is wrong with you. In the discussions I have with my mother about working in a hospital I always warn her to stay out as long as possible. In The Netherlands with a good functioning primary care help and social security this is a lot easier than in other countries. Another topic of debate is who to ask for taking care of you in a University Hospital. I always let her promise not to ask for the professor. Ask for the resident instead, I'll tell .....read more »

Learned a new word today: sexting. You probably know what it means but I didn't have a clue. Sexting is: sending and receiving sexually suggestive images, videos, or texts on cell phones. Smartphones, computers and other toys with internet access also creep into our relationships. For example visiting dating sites, long distance interactions with webcam, even relationship termination can be done online: idump4u.com. A recent study looked at attachment styles and the use of sexting. Attachment theory has proposed that the attachment one forms in infancy to a caregiver may form a basis for the attachment one forms later with .....read more »

This brand new Grand Round is up at Better Health When I host Grand Rounds I like to organize the posts into emotion categories – kind of the way that movies are categorized into “drama, action, comedy, etc.” This achieves two goals: first, readers have the option of starting with their favorite emotion – maybe you need a “pick me up” or maybe you’re looking for something to get your blood pumping? Second, I get a general feeling for how my fellow bloggers are feeling these days. Judging from the volume of posts in each category, it seems that the majority .....read more »

These ten tips are from an article for surgeons but the ten tips are also applicable for all forms of adult education. Especially in training residents the hidden curriculum and ad hoc events occurring in a convenient pause in the hectic daily activity are important educational encounters. In this day and age medical training should be as efficient and effective as possible. For me the insight that training residents is making use of adult education was an eye opener. In adult education it is important what the trainee does instead of attending passive transfer of information. This article not .....read more »

On Highlight Health an interesting post discovered after I've been on vacation for a week. It's about the Brain Awareness Week. ....an annual celebration dedicated to raising public awareness of brain research. Coordinated by the European Dana Alliance for the Brain, and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives in the US,.... It also has a video, by Dr. Jordan Grafman, chief of the Cognitive Neuroscience Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). This 29-minute video uses footage of neuroscience experts from live Staying Sharp forums to address topics such as changes in the aging brain, memory, and the science .....read more »

Based on recent literature and a lecture it appeared to me that not everyone is talking about the same phenomenon when it comes to empathy. In much animal research resonance is mostly the adequate description of what is being studied. Resonance is the phenomenon of one person unconsciously mirroring the motor actions as basis of emotional expressions of another person. In animal models resonance is mostly the representation of motor action of the other animal without making the moves but showing activity in motor regions of the brain. Empathy is more than resonance. It is usually divided in cognitive .....read more »

Amazing Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. Related posts: Bionics: A prosthetic arm that “feels” Is the dutch kidney reality show a hoax? Understanding Depression in Kidney Disease ..read more »

Nancy Duarte's talk at TEDx East from Duarte Design on Vimeo. Have a look at this presentation by Nancy Duarte from Duarte Design. The design and lay out of the slides, the story told and the story structure. It's mostly about how to tell a story in your presentation. This talk reveals the hidden structure that the greatest communicators and persuaders have used over thousands of years. Insights from literature and cinema helped reveal why the greatest communicators are riveting. Related posts: When to start Power Point for a presentation? Presentation Update 2 What will happen after Resonate in presentations? ..read more »