Wired.com has a story on efforts to make an atlas of the brain. The article is interesting for its neuroanatomical insights as well as for its description of the innovative use of technology to make the atlas. The author boldly points out, “What you mostly discover is that the mind remains an immense mystery. We …
Just a short post today. It’s very annoying when my dogs relieve themselves when they are alone in the house. They’ll even do it just after being outside for an extended time and then are left alone in the house. It’s not something they do if anybody is home with them. Till today, I never …
The Boston Globe is reporting today that Dr. Joseph Biederman is “asking a judge to seal his testimony and accompanying documents in a huge multistate lawsuit, saying they “could be immensely damaging to him, both personally and professionally.” Dr. Biederman is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of Massachusetts General Hospital’s Pediatric …
Two recent articles show the influence of healthcare related industries on the provision of treatment. The first is obviously scandalous. Scientific American reports on Dr. Scott Reuben. He evidently traded his professional integrity for rewards from the big pharmaceutical companies. As Scientific American puts it: “Anesthesiologist Faked Data in 21 Studies.” The result was “the …
Three new pieces of research on the interconnection of stress and the body. The first comes to us from Journal of the American College of Cardiology. As reported by CNN, there may be “a link between mental stress and sudden cardiac arrest, which causes more than 400,000 deaths every year.” The study’s author, Dr. Rachel …