Posts for February, 2010
Dr Shock MD PhD
Healthtalkonline is a website with a lot of information from the point of view of the patient on a lot of diseases. Both mental and physical health. I tried their information on depression. They interviewed 38 people about their experiences of this condition. This resulted in a whole list of topics. Stories [...]
Scienceroll
I’ve been constantly updating a huge list of biomedical community sites for years and now the list contains 44 sites, but here are two new ones.
VIVO: The national network of scientists will facilitate the discovery of researchers and collaborators across the country. Institutions will participate in the network by installing VIVO, or by [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Her mind works like Google for pictures. Nice introduction to autism in it’s different forms, the autism spectrum disorder, does DSM V already have this one?
Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Seen in one small convenience store by the roadside in Shanhua: rice and peanut milk, soy and mung bean drink, and almond and fish snack. All mainstream products in fancy packaging. Maybe it’s just that these are unfamiliar combinations, but it seems to me that we’re not nearly as good in the West [...]
Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Rhubarb safe at long last. Rejoice!
Biodiversidad Mexicana website lists plants with centres of origin/diversity in that country, with references.
Sometimes agrobiodiversity is downright bad for you.
And here’s today’s story on the “organic” urban vegetable gardens of Havana.
But China?
Oh, and, apparently, the US midwest too. And they just had a conference there.
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The web is exceptionally rich in genetics-related content so it was time to publish the Genetics and Web 2.0 collection on Webicina.com as well as PeRSSonalized Genetics that lets you keep track of the latest news and resources in the field of genetics in a personalized way. A few of the many great examples how [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
The forty-ninth edition of Brain Blogging is up.
In this round, we try to undercover the neuroanatomy of depression, breakdown emotion into a binary process, take a history lesson on learning theories, and discuss other topics.
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Open and Shut?: Open Access linked to Alabama shooting – http://poynder.blogspot.com/2010…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Sometimes you come across a story that illustrates so many of the themes of agrobiodiversity conservation that it’s almost too good to be true. I have it on very good authority that the one I’m about to tell you is indeed true, though. The authority is the former head of the genebank at [...]
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Health 2.0 taking place in Paris (April 5-7) is going to be one of the most exciting events this year and I will present Webicina.com in action. Also I have the honour to be a regional ambassador to Hungary for Health 2.0 Europe. So Denise Silber, health 2.0 expert and co-organizer of the event, asked [...]
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Is friendfeed down for your guys too? "Internal server error"? – http://www.sciencefeed.com/brembs…
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Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
INIFAP has photos of progress in building Mexico’s new National Genetic Resources Centre. It’s about a third finished, and needs to be ready in time for this year’s celebrations of the bicentenary of Mexican independence. Total cost is about US$ 30 million, if I interpret the figure in the text correctly. I hope [...]
Dr Shock MD PhD
Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain’s visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism.
In India many young people are blind. [...]
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Microsoft looks at health potential of Xbox, apps (Cnet News): Xbox unit is cheaper than similar hospital equipment yet often just as powerful for storing electronic medical records.
Top 10 Free iPhone Medical Apps for Health care Professionals (iMedicalApps)
New search tools for science and disease information (Pharma Strategy Blog): Great new search engines found by Sally [...]
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Functional-Anatomic Fractionation of the Brain's Default Network – http://www.citeulike.org/user…
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Vol. 65, No. 4. (25 February 2010), pp. 550-562. One of the most consistent observations in human functional imaging is that a network of brain regions referred to as the default …
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