Happy and healthy 2012 Video linkNo related posts. ..read more »

Read a review on the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS). Wrote a lot of posts about this new treatment on this blog, mostly for treatment resistant depression. As with most new treatment options the new treatment is tried with other severe diseases. You can probably find some on this blog or down this post in the related posts section. The use of DBS in Alzheimer's disease drew my attention. Stimulating certain brain regions in a disease with a neurodegenerative character seems almost impossible. This review was written by members of the Canadian group who also published about the use .....read more »

Multimodality or using a combination of visual, auditory, haptic,and other sensory modalities in the presentation of knowledge in serious gaming improves learning outcome. Interactivity or the communication between player and the digital gaming system in serious gaming also improves learning outcome. But these are two design elements and not psychological attributes of users of serious gaming that may effect learning outcome. One theory about psychological attributes is the theory of mindset, a theory how people's belief about ability and intelligence influence response to failure, behavior and learning outcomes. In short two types of mindsets are distinguished: People with fixed mindset (or .....read more »

A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way. The answer......have a look, but it;s exercise=walking for just 30 minutes a dayNo related posts. ..read more »

We have been trying to use twitter during lectures, especially since the group is so large about 100 to 200 can only follow the lecture from another lecture room on a monitor. It wasn't a success, the question time during and after the lecture was hardly used. Only 8-10 questions were proposed via twitter. The interaction did increase but only with those present in the same lecture room. These were bachelor med students. Next we tried facebook during a week with master med students. The number using the group was more than 100, which is probably around half of the .....read more »

Just in one word: beautiful Nature’s beauty can be easily missed -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day. Related posts: Time Lapse Photography Time-Lapse Video of the Milky Way over Hawaii A Life on Facebook, Time Lapse Video ..read more »

Excellent talk about oxytocin, also described in some posts on this blog about empathy. Found this video at Basal Science Clarified . Accompanied by excellent explanation about oxytocin and it's relation to empathy. Related posts: Is oxytocin truly a universal social panacea? Oxytocin in Schizophrenia and Autism Medical Progress and Empathy ..read more »

Nice talk with creative research explaining how we know that babies start learning before they were born. Pop quiz: When does learning begin? Answer: Before we are born. Science writer Annie Murphy Paul talks through new research that shows how much we learn in the womb -- from the lilt of our native language to our soon-to-be-favorite foods. Related posts: Bring On The Learning Revolution Learning from Errors Discover your learning style ..read more »