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    Brain Blogger reviews the latest news and stories related to neuroscience, psychiatry, and neurology. It will serve as a focal point for attracting new minds beyound the science of the mind-and-brain and into the biopsychosocial model.
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Brain Blogging, Fourth Edition
2007-03-02 10:04:34
Welcome to the fourth edition of Brain Blogging - a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” This carnival is part of the Blog Carnival network. Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission form. We will do our best to review and include your entry! Enjoy your readings… Memory & Cognition Joseph presents Mind Mapping by Stephen Pierce posted at Help with Everything. Joseph James presents Enjuvio: Why Glucose Levels Determine How Well Your Brain Works posted at Joseph James. RachelAPP presents Kick start your brain in the morning posted at Food for your mind, saying, “This is an article about finding my own way to engage my brain in the morning, with techniques & suggestions that can hopefully inspire other people.” Personal Stories m presents strip down posted at my life with depression.com
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Anna Nicole and Sandeep Kapoor, MD – A Doctor-Patient Relationship Gone Foul?
2007-03-01 13:48:38
The doctor-patient relationship is sacrosanct in modern medicine and forms the foundation of contemporary medical ethics. Universities teach medical students from the beginning, even before they set foot in hospitals, to maintain a professional rapport with patients, uphold patients’ dignity, and respect their privacy. This ideology stems from trying to maintain the most objective outlook by both parties – patient and clinician – in formulating and exercising optimal treatment plans. In fact, many health care professionals and patients claim that this trust and relationship are therapeutic in their own right. Unfortunately, we are increasingly seeing these boundaries crossed, which can compromise patient care and potentially lead to fatal consequences. Take for instance, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor . He is the Los Angeles physician who reportedly prescribed eight-months-pregnant Anna Nicole Smith methadone under an alias used by Smith. It remains uncertain if this prescription le
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Roundtable: Call for Answers from Scientologists
2007-02-28 15:25:15
Our last roundtable incited much commentary on the anti-psychiatry movement, especially from Scientology perspectives. I find that the movement is gaining popularity (at least, online) from circles even beyond followers of the Church. The topic should be intensively discussed to understand all sides of the issue and the GNIF Brain Blogger will harbor an open forum. First, as neither a member nor scholar of this religion/organization, I turn to you for information by addressing a few questions: What is the Church’s stance on modern medicine, psychiatry, and biomedical research? To what do you attribute physical and mental ailments? What drugs, medications, and other medical treatments are prohibited and why? How should followers manage mental health issues? Please post your reactions at our new forum. Please register to secure a user name, select an avatar, and create new topics. However, guests can post replies. Share This ---Related Articles at GNIF Brain Blogger:Roundtabl
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Brain Implants: Become a Borg or Get Healthy?
2007-02-27 20:18:09
Brain implants, or neural implants, have been around since the 1940’s. They can allow people who are paralyzed, deaf or blind to function again. Such an implant is a type of biomedical prosthesis that circumvents areas in the brain which are dysfunctional, perhaps as a result of a stroke or head injuries. Brain implants create a bridge between neural systems and computer chips. Other medical research involves drug delivery via neural implants. Brain implants also have the capacity to be used in more sinister ways. Why is that? Neural implants are used to remotely control the brain, and at least theoretically, they could be implanted without someone’s knowledge. Of course that is a remote possibility in countries that have tight controls on operations; I would not be too surprised, however, if it turned out that neural implants are being experimented with in countries that are much looser about patients’ rights. The New Scientist reports that brain implants have been
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Roundtable: The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
2007-02-24 16:57:34
The psychiatric profession is under attack by the Church of Scientology. The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Scientology advocacy group, released an intense “documentary” called “Psychiatry : An Industry of Death” in 2006. Recently, I stumbled upon a video clip of this pointed film. Interestingly, many videos under the general theme of anti-psychiatry have emerged since Tom Cruise’s outburst on Oprah. After viewing this clip, I would like to know your reactions. Specifically, in this roundtable, let’s aim to establish fruitful discussion on how modern psychiatric practices have benefited or harmed our society, or both. Are people merely misinformed? Can proper nutrition and excerise solve all the disorders of the mind? Are psychotropics more harmful than good? Below, I have outlined a few controversial claims made by the CCHR: Psychiatrists follow a long-standing “master plan” for world domination. Psychiatry is responsible
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Brain Blogging, Third Edition
2007-02-18 17:54:33
Welcome to the third edition of Brain Blogging - a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” This carnival is part of the Blog Carnival network. Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission form. We will do our best to review and include your entry! Enjoy your readings… Memory & Cognition Joseph presents Mind Mapping by Stephen Pierce posted at Help with Everything. Joseph James presents Why Cardio Exercise Makes You Smarter: Part 2 posted at Joseph James, saying, “Real science from a Berkeley scientist.” Alvaro Fernandez presents Cognitive Reserve and Lifestyle posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution, saying, “Brief review of key papers on the Cognitive Reserve for healthy aging.” Personal Stories Causalien presents Ultracrepidate - Triphasic Sleep poste
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Shazeda Khan Appointed New Editor of Brain Blogger
2007-02-18 17:05:36
To our readers: As your new Editor -In-Chief and as an activist for public awareness, I shall be promoting knowledge in this field to its fullest extent for all to enjoy. Currently, I am studying psychology at Baruch College in New York City. Psychology has long been an area of passionate intrigue for me; with its palette of varying concepts it piqued my curiosity last year. As a result it sparked an unquenchable desire to learn more about this area and the developing field of neuroscience, weighing with particular emphasis on the latter. In addition, I shall be reviewing blogger contributions dealing in the areas of neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology from a biological, psychological and sociological perspective. As well as generating thought on the latest news within psychology that has been brought to light. I look forward to our discussions and the eminent success of this blog. Sincerely, Shazeda Khan Editor-In-Chief, GNIF Brain Blogger Share This ---Related Articles at GNIF Bra


Brain Blogging, Second Edition
2007-02-06 00:15:38
Welcome to the second edition of Brain Blogging - a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” This carnival is part of the Blog Carnival network. Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission form. We will do our best to review and include your entry! Enjoy your readings… Self Awareness John Hill presents Do You Believe In Magic? posted at Universe Of Success, which shares his amazing power to solve problems. Providing a simple guideline, he walks you through a few steps to formulate your question, come up with simple solutions, and make the proper selection. It’s all magic! Erek Ostrowski presents Being Effective With People: Part 1 (Listening) posted at Verve Coaching. Therapy Linda Freedman presents Empathy, Boundaries, and Getting Dirty posted at Everyone needs therapy? Lessons from a family therapis
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Mental Illness - It's Not Talked About
2007-01-22 22:28:10
Are you reading this at work during your lunch break? Has anyone come into the lunchroom to tell you about the cold they had lately, or their children’s chicken pox, or their aging father’s hip replacement? I bet this happens quite a bit. Just about everyone talks about these maladies, small and large, fleeting or chronic. When’s the last time you tossed a “How ya doin’?” at a co-worker, and instead of talking about that flu that just doesn’t seem to go away, she mentioned casually, “Ah, well, I’m going through another depression, don’t you just hate that?” Now I bet that this has just about never happened to you. And if it did, chances are you’d be startled and wouldn’t know what to say. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, in Canada, one in five of us will experience a mental health problem during our lifetime. One in eight will be hospitalized due to a mental illness. A University of Toronto st


Brain Blogging, First Edition
2007-01-05 17:39:52
Welcome to the first edition of Brain Blogging (brought to you by the GNIF Brain Blogger)! This new blog carnival aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” Being a part of Blog Carnival network, we were thrilled to receive many pertinent and interesting entries. In this edition, we have divided the posts into Mastering Cognition and Knowing One’s Self, and Social Support. Enjoy your readings! Mastering Cognition - the new craze Caroline Latham of SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution presents three blog posts. First , in Is brain fitness scientifically proven to improve cognitive skills?, Latham discusses the talk about brain fitness with scientific studies published in JAMA and consults non-scholarly discussions. By uncovering the myths in brain development and plasticity, the author claims that one can train “mental muscles” f
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Roundtable: Psychiatry - label-based quackery or research-based science?
2007-03-04 15:53:41
After reviewing your comments and based on the video discussed in the last article, I’ve decided to review some of the general themes often cited by opponents of psychiatry.  Here is the first anti-psychiatry argument. Psychiatry applies subjective labels to patients. Do we do more harm than good when we define patients’ conditions based on commonly accepted labeling guidelines?  How valid are the guidelines?  Presumably, using established rating scales, the clinician can more objectively formulate a diagnosis. Or can they? In the field of medicine, the patient’s account is termed “subjective” and the physician’s “objective.”  The physician is charged with processing the patient’s statements under an objective lens by utilizing various medical tools.  Psychiatry, as a medical discipline, functions in the same manner; however, at the moment it does not benefit extensively from the “scientific” biochemical tests and
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Following the Tech Link Train
2007-03-07 18:31:08
We at the GNIF Brain Blogger have been officially tagged! Our volunteer technical consultant, Everton Blair of Connected Internet, listed our site on a new tag game. It focuses on technology, science, and consumer electronics sites. Everyone anticipates that the list will grow a “mile long.” Apparently, this list is a rebirth of the infamous Z-List. Hopefully, this strategy will drive more attention to matters related to the brain and mental health (i.e. to this blog). Enjoy! <!— Start Copying From Here –> 1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content string. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra linkback. 2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it
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Magnetoencephalography: A Breakthrough Imaging Technique for Pediatrics
2008-03-10 11:08:42
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is an imaging technique that is currently being used before resective surgery in pediatric epilepsy patients to determine whether or not surgery is necessary and if the surgery will be successful. Before this technique was implemented, doctors had to rely on symptoms caused by seizures and traditional techniques that did not provide sufficient [...]
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Sentinel Events - When Doctors Make Mistakes
2008-03-09 15:00:53
In the medical world, certain events that happen in the care of a patient are called sentinel events. These are unexpected events that cause serious physical or psychological injury or harm to a patient. These are usually procedure-based events such as operating on the wrong extremity or inadvertently puncturing an organ when doing a procedure. [...]
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Follow the Leader - Insight into Human Decision Making
2008-03-08 07:31:09
Scientists at Leeds University, England believe that they have found the answer to how a lot of our unconscious actions are generated — by simply following our herd of brethren! A new study demonstrates that it only takes about 5% of people to have a decisive influence on the direction that a crowd of people would [...]
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Make Money for Charity Debating Fundamentalists, Part I: The Games
2008-03-07 08:52:01
Allow me to offer two suggestions that will keep you from wasting time on the people who will not engage you in a sincere way, and that might even win over some folks to your way of thinking.
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Drugs and Pharmacology, Fifth Edition
2008-03-07 08:14:46
Welcome to the fifth edition of Drugs and Pharmacology — a monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to drugs — medicinal, recreational, interactional, personal, professional, or any other aspects.” Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission form. We will do our best to review and include your entry! Enjoy [...]
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Is it the Brain or the Game? Gender Differences in Gaming
2008-03-06 12:06:20
New research findings from the Stanford University proves that men find playing video games more rewarding. This wouldn’t appear surprising to the millions of console and PC gaming widows worldwide, but this gives us an opportunity to have a look at the good old chicken-and-egg conundrum in the context of arriving at sweeping generalizations on [...]
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Fighting Depression: 10 Step Do-It-Yourself Approach
2008-03-05 08:48:05
Few years back I realized that I was having many of the symptoms of mental illnesses: starting from anxiety, depression, to secondary delusion. They were all very much there. I had crying spells, bulimia, feeling of constant excessive worry, fear, tension and inner restlessness. There was an internal feeling of anger, which was often manifested [...]
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Are Insurance Copayments Unethical?
2008-03-04 10:11:44
Mammograms are recommended for all women over the age of 45 as a breast cancer screening tool. Some insurance and Medicare plans provide full coverage for these tests because they are deemed necessary and beneficial. Other plans apply co-pays to mammograms, and other similar medical interventions, despite the prevalent medical opinion that they are both [...]


Brain Blogging, Twenty-Eight Edition
2008-03-03 23:47:35
Welcome to the twenty-eight edition of Brain Blogging — a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts “related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective.” Please remember to submit your blog entries using the online submission form. We will do our best to review [...]
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Emotional Vitality May Protect Against Heart Disease
2008-03-03 09:36:56
While a number of studies have shown that negative social behaviors and emotional states tend to correlate with a lower overall level of physical health, few have sought to illuminate a link between emotional vitality and physical well-being. A recent study provides evidence that there may, indeed, be a connection. Six thousand twenty-five men and [...]
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Elderly Patients Face Tough Barriers When Voting
2008-03-02 09:39:58
In this election year, it is important to recognize the barriers faced by some Americans in exercising their right to vote. Recent testimony before the US Senate Special Committee on Aging highlighted the impairments many senior citizens face in making it to the polls. Many older adults live in long-term care facilities or are home bound. [...]
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Why Some Men, Like Women, Cannot Read Maps Too
2008-03-01 07:14:46
I never quite got around to write the sequel to Barbara and Allan Pease’s evocative work (1), although I had figured out a nice name for it, “Why men don’t use makeup, and women can’t Sumo wrestle.” Not to make fun of the genetic determinists who study gender differences, but to drive home the whole [...]
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The Sad Implications of Sunday Sleep Problems
2008-02-29 08:13:26
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t get good sleep. I don’t get enough sleep. In fact, I believe that, if given the chance, I could sleep for the next 48 hours. If given the choice between a new car and a few months of guaranteed good sleep, I’d probably go with the sleep. But I [...]
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Brain Damage, Part VI: Advanced Recovery, Brain Process Remediation
2008-02-28 16:08:11
As I go about my affairs, I notice that my brain is reaching for the same resources that the games have been training it on, in order to improve my scope of competence in real life.
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Stress Increases Risk of Precancerous Infection
2008-02-27 09:07:42
We all know stress can affect our health on a variety of different levels. Poor immune function is one result of chronic stress, most commonly leading to increased susceptibility or longer duration of the cold or other common, mild infections. Researchers have now shown that higher levels of chronic stress correlates with human papillomavirus (HPV) [...]


When Entertainment Encourages Epidemics
2008-03-12 09:20:59
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a press release calling for ABC to cancel its pilot episode of a new drama Eli Stone. Renee R. Jenkins, MD, President of the AAP, accused ABC of “reckless irresponsibility” in screening a television program that may give parents the false impression that vaccines cause autism. She goes on [...]
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Make Money for Charity Debating Fundamentalists, Part II: The Ten Ethical Debating Rules
2008-03-11 10:17:40
Here are my suggestions for the rules of ethical debate that you can use for awarding points. The first items have more points because they are the most important ones; focusing the strongest attention to them acts as a wedge for introducing ethical debate. The high point items do the most to destabilize a civilized discussion, so they are the first ones you'll want to get under control.
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Who’s Gonna Take Care of You When You Are Sick?
2008-03-15 10:08:45
I ask this question because as a medical professional I believe this is a significant question for all of my patients to consider. Whether you are currently healthy or sick, young or old, this is the key question. All too often, I see patients who don’t have an answer to this question. Perhaps they are healthy [...]


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