This new book on presentations takes a step by step approach and promises to make a presentation that will change your audience in the way they think and act. This "work book" is divided in 5 parts: metrics, logic, rhetoric and graphics. Each part has two chapters which together form the 10 steps in making a presentation: the 10-step extreme presentation method. It appealed to me since one of the premises is that you tend to build the presentation in a way that suits yourself best. We all have different learning styles. There are about 4 to 6 different learning styles .....read more »

The next days I will be in Barcelona, Spain, attending a conference: ECNP. A lot of scheduled meetings, hope to attend the European Forum for ECT on Wednesday. Also hope to blog some news but all depends on the availability of a computer and a good working Internet connection. ..read more »

Presentations these days have outgrown the bullet points presentation we're used to with powerpoint. Using presentations with only bullet points is out. There is even a new phrase for these presentations: Death by Powerpoint meaning killing your audience with boring PowerPoint presentations. Flickr has a group with pictures of lethal powerpoint slides. This book itself is well designed, it looks beautiful. Moreover it has a lot of examples for good use of effective visual expression. It clearly describes the design part of making slides. It starts of with knowing your audience and creating ideas, using for instance post it notes .....read more »

As a blogger but also as a psychiatrist I collect a lot of pdf files. Mostly articles retrieved via PubMed. We are still working on new guidelines for ECT which increases the amount of pdf's on my Mac enormously. Besides reading these pdf and evaluating them some of them are used in publications. So besides storing them in a way that I can can find them again I also use a reference program. Until now I used endnote as a program to insert references in a text. Endnote has a Mac version and I use it since version 3, it is .....read more »

Scientists have developed a robot that appears to react emotionally to the way it is treated, relaxing when it is shown kindness and flinching at anger. These robots start with face recognition software.Special robots were developed to make you feel better, they are called emotibots. Eventually they might help taking care of children and the elderly. You can see them live in the Science Museum, London. See some examples in the video above, amazing, I definitely want one, what about you? Wouldn't you like one for companion? To pour you a red wine and bring you some dark chocolate? Let me know in the .....read more »

A clear and concise desription about ECT ..read more »

According to this study and article Yoga may help treat depression and anxiety. Even some data on brain scans and evidence for changes in neurotransmittors after Yoga ..read more »

I am writing a systematic review about antidepressants. For this I need a "forest plot". Found a nice and comprehensive article in the BMJ.In short this what a "forest plot" is: Forest plots show the information from the individual studies that went into the meta-analysis at a glance They show the amount of variation between the studies and an estimate of the overall result.And here is link with a spreadsheet to make a forest plot in excel:www.evidencias.com/forest01.xls ..read more »