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Book review: A Lethal Inheritance
Rethink Mental Illness (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today, i.e. 15th may 2013 is being celebrated as a mental health blog day by APA and in the spirit of the day I am posting a review of ‘A Lethal Inheritance’ by Victoria Costello. It is a book chronicling how ‘ a mother uncovers the science behind three generations of mental illness‘ and is an apt topic for the day highlighting the importance of public education and discourse about the topic of mental health. this blog pots and book review is a homage to all the people who silently suffer from mental illness, most of the time undiagnosed, o...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review #mhblogday environment genes Health Mental disorder Mental health Suicide Source Type: podcasts

Geomapping reveals environmental influence on behaviors and cancer risk
In her research, Lorraine Reitzel, Ph.D., uses geographic information systems technology, with the help of Seann Regan, to obtain information about a geographic area. This allows her to better underst... Author: mdanderson Added: 02/06/2013 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - February 6, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

Occupation and environmental respiratory presentations
Dr Ryan Hoy discusses the range of causes and presentations of respiratory presentations related to occupation and environmental exposures. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - October 31, 2012 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts

Labels, Mental Health and my Split Blog Disorder
LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 08: Nobel Prize winner Sir John Gurdon talks to reporters on October 8, 2012 in London, England. Sir John and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan have both been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their work as pioneers of stem cell research. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) I have a post over at Psychology Today about Labeling and its deleterious effects. That did lead to some heated discussions on Facebook, so be sure to add your voice to the discussion by commenting on the post. The way I have framed the above issues, I’m sure you know by now, which way my symp...
Source: The Mouse Trap - October 22, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: blogs India John Gurdon Mental health Nobel Prize Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Psychology Today The Times of India Source Type: podcasts

Which dressing should I use? - It all depends on the 'TIMEING'.
The choice of dressings when managing skin ulcers is important, but not more so than making a proper assessment of the patient, their ulcer and the environment in which they exist. Associate Professor Keryln Carville discusses the use of the T.I.M.E. acronym to help choose the right approach. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - October 13, 2012 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts

Helping practices improve their environment
Don Henry, ACF Executive Director, talks about the importance of projects such as the GreenClinic project (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - October 13, 2012 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts

Aggressive behaviour - Prevention and management in the general practice environment
Associate Professor Moira Sim, head of the school of medical sciences, director of the systems and intervention research centre for health at Edith Cowan University, clinical associate professor at the university of western Australia and a practising GP talks about the prevention and management of aggressive behaviour in general practice. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - October 13, 2012 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 195: They did it in the hot tub
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Ken Stedman The complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus. Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Novel virus from an extreme environment (Biol Direct, virology blog) Lassen Volcanic National Park Tombusviridae, Circoviridae (ViralZone) TWiV on Facebook Le...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 12, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

CME/CNE/CPE Information - Maximizing ACS Outcomes in 2012: Best Practices in a Complex Treatment Environment
Please view this PDF file for full CME/CNE/CPE information. You will need Adobe Acrobat software to access this file. (Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Cardiology)
Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Cardiology - May 29, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH - Maximizing ACS Outcomes in 2012: Best Practices in a Complex Treatment Environment
Please be sure to view the accompanying (PDF) file for full CME/CNE/CPE information. (Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Cardiology)
Source: PeerView CME/CE Audio Podcast - Cardiology - May 29, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Survival of CMV on Environmental Surfaces and Risk to Pregnant Women
Dr. William Jarvis reveals how long CMV in saliva can survive and pose a transmission risk to pregnant women, and provides clinical advice to share with patients. (Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast)
Source: Medscape ObGyn Podcast - March 29, 2012 Category: OBGYN Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Psychosis and the City
Image via Wikipedia This post originally appeared on my Psychology Today blog “The Fundamental Four” on 15th Dec. 2011. This is cross-posted from there. Abundant evidence exists that psychosis is more prevalent in urban areas as compared to rural areas. The fact that living in the city makes one vulnerable to psychosis is not up for debate – but healthy debate ensues about the mediating mechanisms. Last year, Zammit et al claimed that the high incidence of psychosis in urban settings is a result of greater social fragmentation in urban areas. Today I came across a study [pdf] that had nothing to do wi...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 15, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: psychosis autism Badcock Crespi Ebbinghaus illusion schizophrenia Urban area Source Type: podcasts

Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD: Institute of Medicine Report (IOM) - Breast Cancer & the Environment
Dr. Robert A. Hiatt discusses the Institute of Medicine Report on Breast Cancer and the Environment: A Life-Course Approach, presented at the 34th Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.... Author: vitaloptions Added: 01/12/2012 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - January 12, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

Interview: Aggressive behaviour - Prevention and management in the general practice environment
Associate Professor Moira Sim, head of the school of medical sciences, director of the systems and intervention research centre for health at Edith Cowan University, clinical associate professor at the university of western Australia and a practising GP talks about the prevention and management of aggressive behaviour in general practice. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - November 16, 2011 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: podcasts

Article: Aggressive behaviour - Prevention and management in the general practice environment
Aggressive behaviour is commonly encountered in the general practice setting and can often be de-escalated using good communication skills. (Source: Australian Family Physician audio)
Source: Australian Family Physician audio - November 16, 2011 Category: Primary Care Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Source Type: podcasts

The Four Fundamental Causes
Image via Wikipedia This post is an ambitious attempt to link the four causes delineated by Aristotle, to the four questions asked by Tinbergen to the four types of explanations that can be made for any human/animal ability. First a bit of a background. Aristotle had listed four causes – Material, Efficient, Formal and Final causes. From the Wikipedia: Aristotle held that there were four kinds of causes: A thing’s material cause is the material of which it consists. (For a table, that might be wood; for a statue, that might be bronze or marble.) A thing’s formal cause is its form, i.e. the arrangement...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 18, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: stages Aristotle cuases ethology evolution Source Type: podcasts

Basic Emotions
Image via Wikipedia This post is an attempt to get to the basic emotions. Regular readers of this blog will readily appreciate when I claim that there are eight basic emotions and that they follow a developmental/evolutionary time-course and follow a particular order. First let us review the attempts made till now to classify and identify the basic emotions- foremost amongst them is the tradition of Tomkins and Ekman that looked at basic and universal emotional facial expressions to come up with their list of basic emotions. Tomkins listed the following as basic emotions: Anger, interest, contempt, disgust...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 31, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion basic meotions eights tsages emotions Jaak Panksepp Theodore Millon Source Type: podcasts

AUTHOR DR. SANDRA STEINGRABER: DOES EVERYTHING CAUSE CANCER? - Jul 26,2011
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT AIMEE KNAUFF, ND 3x Young Adult Survivor, Brain Cancer Naturopathic Doctor Sojourns Community Health Clinic SANDRA STEINGRABER, PH.D. Acclaimed Ecologist Author, Raising Elijah Author, Living Downstream Ithaca College Scholar in Residence Department of Environmental Studies and SciencesSandra Steingraber | Living Downstream | Raising Elijah | Cancer And Environment | young adult cancer (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - July 26, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts

TWiV #142 - Viral oinkotherapy
Vincent, Rich, and Alan discuss a method for identifying viruses of individual environmental bacteria, and the using a picornavirus for oncotherapy. (Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition)
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 17, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Genius are born or made? become or manifest?
Image via Wikipedia There is long-standing debate in psychology regrading whether ability is inborn or a result of environmental interactions? Whether it is fixed and constant over time or malleable and subject to interventions. We have also looked at research by Dweck et al that say that no matter whether ability be actually fixed or malleable, the belief that it is fixed and malleable has important consequences. We are better off believing that ability is malleable as that enables us to be more persistent in face of obstacle , more creative and engaged while solving problems and enables us to to tackle hard problem as...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 9, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: creativity Carol Dweck Genius Intelligence Intelligence quotient mindset Source Type: podcasts

An Environment of Learning
Stephen Tomasovic, Ph.D., senior vice president for academic affairs at MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses how the institution's faculty, staff and students are constantly learning in an effort to i... Author: mdanderson Added: 06/20/2011 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - June 20, 2011 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

2 factor theories of personality
Image via Wikipedia While most people are generally aware of the five factor model of personality (that is the FFM or OCEAN model that is revealed by factor analysis), the two factor models of personality may not be that readily apparent, though most readers will be familiar with some form or the other of the 2 factor models of personalities like the four humors/temperaments of the Greeks or the enneagrams or the temperaments used in Kiersey personality sorter. In brief, two factor models of personality posit that individuals differ on two bipolar dimensions and that one’s personality type or temperament can be dete...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 11, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality stages 16 Personality Factors ABCD Big Five personality traits Five-Factor Model Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Tests Source Type: podcasts

Dichotomies; or Psychology in a nutshell
Image via Wikipedia The field of psychology abounds with dichotomies- some of which are patently false/outdated, as per the grapevine. The familiar ones include Nature-nurture and mind-brain; in the former it is assumed that now everything is a mixture of both nature and nurture while in the latter both mind and brain have been conflated to be the same. However as separate disciplines of neurology and psychology attest , and the naive disorder classification system scientists themselves use, which squarely puts one disorder as psychological while other as more neurological attests, there is some merit in considering thing...
Source: The Mouse Trap - April 25, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: neuroscience stages ABCD Behavior Determinism Dichotomy Free will Gene Nature versus nurture Personality psychology Source Type: podcasts

I could have avoided writing this blogpost, but I was fated to be a blogger!
Image via Wikipedia What can you say about an academic paper that starts with references to Milan Kundera and ends with a quote from Shakespeare. Well you gotta love it and blog about it; but I might have easily passed over that paper for something more interesting ; also how much is it to luck that I found that paper (I discovered it via twitter via the tweets of @TheSocialBrain) and blogged about it; was my being on twitter, following @thescoialbrain and reading his tweet a lucky thing or a matter of my daily routine of sifiting through tweets for interesting stuff and thus a result of personal choice/effort? There ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - January 6, 2011 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: social psychology attribution costrual couter-factuals fate locus of control Source Type: podcasts

Docs Can't Bargain Collectively: How About Negotiating?
Robert Morrow, MD, claims that given the current healthcare environment, physicians should have a way to bargain (or negotiate) collectively with health plan carriers. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - December 3, 2010 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Personality and Motivation
Image via Wikipedia I have blogged extensively about personality and how it may be related to emotions. A common theme underlying my discussion of personality and emotion has been these traits/states arising as a result of adaptation to basic evolutionary tasks or problems that each living organism/species has to solve. Where there are problems to be solved or tasks to be accomplished or goals to be achieved, there is also going to be motivations and drive to achieve them and underlying needs that drive that pursuit. Thus motivation and Personality/ emotion are also intricately linked and associated when one uses the ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - November 25, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality Big Five personality traits Conscientiousness Extraversion and introversion Motivation Neuroticism Openness to experience Trait theory Source Type: podcasts

Personality and Behavioural Ecology
Image by The Happy Robot via Flickr I am an avid personality researcher and most recently have posted a series on personality and emotion. I have also talked a bit about life-history theories and thus am aware of the broad filed of behavioral ecology. A recent paper by Nettle and Penke brings the two fields of human personality psychology research (HPP) and behavioral ecology (BE) together. They argue that there is much that the HPP researchers can learn from BE researchers especially where it comes to measuring behaviors and situations. In this review they focus on 5 broad areas and approaches within the HPP and I wa...
Source: The Mouse Trap - November 22, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality beahvior ecology Big Five personality traits Trait theory Source Type: podcasts

emotion and personality: take 5
Image via Wikipedia I started the emotion and personality series with a focus on the eight stage model and how that informs us about both personality and emotions. I ended up changing tracks and pursuing Millon’s evolutionary stages and polarities and extending it to the ABCD of four broad psychological domains. Avid readers will notice that both my eight stage model and the Millon’s stages/polarities are based on evolutionary considerations and thus there should be neat synthesis involving the two. this post is an attempt to do so under the framework of the four basic domains of psychology : the ABCD model ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - November 11, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion personality Affect (psychology) cognition evolution Evolutionary Psychology Source Type: podcasts

Geriatrics: An Endangered Specialty
On December 1, 2010, Medicare payments will be slashed by more than 21%, a cut that will severely impact physicians who practice geriatric medicine. The result will be devastating to the 43 million American seniors who receive Medicare coverage, sharply limiting access to care in an environment that is already facing a deficit in geriatric [...] (Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers)
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - October 25, 2010 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: JM Levine MD Tags: Geriatric Medicine Medical Care in America Source Type: podcasts

Strategic Research Plan Update
During an October 2010 presentation before the Einstein Faculty Senate, Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean, starts by detailing a sharp increase in National Institutes of Health funding for Einstein, then describes an updated strategic research plan with new areas of focus, including platform technologies, how Einstein investigators can study the interaction of genes and the environment to cause human disease, and how to make further progress in stimulating research at the Einstein-Montefiore Medical Center interface. (Source: Einstein On...)
Source: Einstein On... - October 20, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Albert Einstein College of Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Altruism as a result of sexual selection
Image via Wikipedia There is a new article in BPS, that has found some evidence for the fact that altruism may have evolved by the process of sexual selection. There are many mechanisms that underlie exactly how and why sexual selection takes place- one is the ‘handicap’ /’costly honest signal‘ theory according to which a trait that is actually disadvantageous or a handicap for the host evolves to signal exactly that fact- that despite this handicap I am able to function well and must therefore be of better genetic quality; the most common example being the evolution of peacocks tail which is a h...
Source: The Mouse Trap - October 13, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: altruism evolution Evolutionary Psychology Handicap principle Natural selection Sexual selection Signalling theory Source Type: podcasts

Keys to Success With Accountable Care Organizations
To remain profitable as the healthcare environment changes, doctors need to consider getting involved with accountable care organizations. There are 2 key steps to success. (Source: Medscape Family Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Family Medicine Podcast - October 13, 2010 Category: Primary Care Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

BREAST CANCER & THE ENVIRONMENT - Oct 12,2010
SURVIVOR SPOTLIGHT BETH ARKY Young Adult Survivor, Breast Cancer Acclaimed journalist Blogger, Seventh Generation DEVRA L. DAVIS, PHD, MPH Founder, Environmental Health Trust University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Author, The Secret History of the War on Cancer Author, Disconnect HARVEY KARP, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics UCLA School of Medicine Producer/Editor, The Path Of Wellness And Healing DVD Author, "Happiest Baby on the Block" breast cancer | environmental action | cancer conspiracy | happiest baby on the block | Harvey Karp (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - October 11, 2010 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts

The View From the Womb
Today's podcast is a quick review of an article I found in Time Magazine- October 4, 2010. The article points out the findings of several studies that suggest the fetal environment has a strong impact on the babies health and future. Mothers get blamed again! (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - October 3, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

TWiV #101: Sizing up adenovirus
On episode #101 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, Dickson, and Hamish review the three-dimensional structure of adenovirus, and the role of adenovirus type 36 in obesity. Host links Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, and Hamish Young Links for this episode: Three-dimensional structure of adenovirus solved by x-ray crystallography and Cryo-EM Movies of adenovirus Commentary on adenovirus structure Adenovirus picture book Adenovirus type 36 and obesity in children and adolescents Press release on ade...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 3, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

ADHD and CNVs
Image via Wikipedia I have written previously about CNV’s and how de novo CNV’s have been recently shown to correlate with disorders like autism and schizophrenia. I have also been militantly proposing that autism and psychosis are diametrically opposed disorders and have been gladdened to find that recent CNV data support that hypothesis. I reported how 16p11.2 duplications were associated with schizophrenia while micro-deletions at same site associated with autism. I also reported how a larger study which looked at multiple CNVs found the same reciprocal effects on CNV sites for autism and schizophreni...
Source: The Mouse Trap - October 1, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: ADHD Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder autism Chromosome Copy number variation Neurodevelopmental disorder schizophrenia Source Type: podcasts

Maslow’s motivational hierarchy revisited
Image via Wikipedia I’ve written previously about Maslow’s motivational hierarchy and how that relates to the eight stage evo-devo model. Most people are familiar with the 5 motivational basic needs/motives theory of Maslow, but are not aware that he had later revised it to include eight basic needs/ motives. A recent paper by Krenrick et al also discusses the more popular 5 motivational scheme of Maslow and revamps the model by dropping self-actualization at the top and making room for 3 reproduction related motives -mate attraction, mate retention and parenting. Regular readers will note that this is inl...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 5, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: stages Douglas T. Kenrick Evolutionary Psychology Mark Schaller Maslow Maslow's hierarchy of needs Motivation Self-actualization Source Type: podcasts

Life History theory and eight stage evo-devo model
Image via Wikipedia I’ve touched upon life history theory earlier, in an oblique fashion, while discussing evolutionary perspectives on personality. Life History theory posits that an individual’s life efforts can be subsumed under two headings- somatic life efforts and reproductive life efforts. The latter relates to selection due to being able to successfully replicate one-self; the former relates to the ability of an organism to survive and thus act as a vehicle for genes that can be replicated at a later date. To elaborate more on the life history theory I quote: Life History Theory is a mid-level the...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 23, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: stages evolution Life history theory Mortality rate Parental investment Reproduction Source Type: podcasts

RefWorks Video Tutorials #5: Downloading and Installing Write-N-Cite
Today I am going to show you how to download and install the RefWorks plug-in for your word processor (known as "Write-N-Cite") in both Windows and Mac environments.View Tutorial Full Size (4 min 01 sec)Download tutorial (M4V file, 14.8MB) (Source: Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library)
Source: Tutorials from the Yale Medical Library - August 13, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Cushing / Whitney Medical Library Tags: RefWorks Video Tutorials Source Type: podcasts

Neurodiversity:an interview with Dr. Thomas Armstrong
Image via Wikipedia I recently read ‘Neurodiversity: discovering the extraordinary gifts of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and other brain differences‘ (you can read a mini review here) by Dr. Thomas Armstrong and came away impressed. In the book Dr Armstrong makes a strong case for viewing the traditional disabilities from a differences perspective and to focus on the different strengths and abilities of the neurodiverse people. A recurring theme of this blog has been that autism and schizophrenia/psychosis are opposites on a continuum model as proposed amongst others by Christopher Badcock and Beranard Crespi. D...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 31, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: autism Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Autism spectrum Disorders Mental health Source Type: podcasts

Cognitive control: when less is more!
Yesterday I wrote a post about ADHD and creativity and how the frontal lobes hypo-function and dopamine may be the mediating factors involved. Today I serendipitously came across this article by Thomson-Schill et al in which they posit that frontal cortex hypofunction during childhood is beneficial, on average, as it enables convention learning and thus linguistic acquisition. What they basically mean is that frontal cortex has been found to be involved in cognitive control i.e. in higher cognitive functions like planning, flexible thinking etc ; and the frontal cortex does this by biasing the competitive responses elici...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 20, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: ADHD creativity psychosis ADD and ADHD Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Executive functions Frontal lobe Neurodevelopmental Source Type: podcasts

ASH 2009- Myeloid supressor cells
Prof John Harlan talks about the latest in myeloid supressor cells and adapting immune response by targeting the tumour micro-environment. Author: ecancertv Added: 07/17/2010 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - July 17, 2010 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts

Driving and the Built Environment
This podcast examines the relationship between land development patterns and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in the United States to assess whether petroleum use, and by extension greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, could be reduced by changes in the design of development patterns. (Source: The Sounds of Science from the National Academies)
Source: The Sounds of Science from the National Academies - June 23, 2010 Category: Science Authors: The National Academies Source Type: podcasts

Neurodiversity: more than just autism!
Image via Wikipedia Today is Autistic Pride day celebrating the neurodiversity found among people. Neurodiversity , as a movement , has been traditionally associated with the autism community, but it is important to realize that when one speaks of neurodiversity one is also referring to other ‘differences’ in brain structure and organization like that seen in ADHD, dyslexia etc. This emphasis on other differences than autism and continuum from neurotypicals in a neurodiversity spectrum is aptly highlighted by a timely book: Neurodiversity by Thomas Armstrong. The subtitle of the book reads ‘discovering...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 17, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: ADHD autism Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Autism spectrum Neurodiversity Source Type: podcasts

How mothers with borderline personality disorder relate to their 12–18 month-old infants
The condition of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most distinctive psychiatric syndromes of adulthood. Environmental factors such as child sexual abuse, and other family influences such as maternal over involvement and inconsistency may have a role in its pathogenesis. Indeed, various forms of maternal psychopathology may be associated with patterns of mother–infant interaction that have an impact on infant development. In this podcast, Dr Margaret Murphy speaks with Professor Peter Hobson about his study (Hobson et al, 2009) which aimed to assess how women with BPD engage with their 12–18 month-old ...
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - June 6, 2010 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Autism, Psychosis and circadian clock
Image via Wikipedia I recently came across this post by Michelle Dawson that states the thesis that one of the abnormalities in Autism spectrum disorders is due to abnormal circadian clock functioning. More specifically, the clock is internally driven and has a greeter ‘free running’ period and does not entrain readily to environmental and social clues. Autistics whose sleep-wake cycles carry on independently from environmental and social cues are said to be “freerunning.” The usual response to freerunning in autism is to see this as an autism-related sleep disorder. There is very preliminary evi...
Source: The Mouse Trap - June 1, 2010 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: autism psychosis Autism spectrum disorder Bipolar disorder Circadian rhythm Delayed sleep phase syndrome Major depressive disorder Seasonal affective disorder Source Type: podcasts

Episode #17: Pursuing a career in global cardiovascular disease research with Drs Tom Gaziano and...
Aging populations, modified lifestyles, and changing environments in developing countries have contributed to making cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death worldwide. As 80% of cardiovascular disease occurs outside developed nations, more research in global cardiovascular disease is essential to understand and address the burden of this disease. In this episode, Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow Dr Jerry Bloomfield asks respected mentor Dr Tom Gaziano about career opportunities in global research, the importance of mentorship, current areas of opportunity, and the importance of serendipity in career...
Source: The Fellows Corner - May 31, 2010 Category: Cardiology Authors: info at theheart.org Tags: Fellows' corner Source Type: podcasts

TWiV #84 - Gators go viral
On episode #84 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Rich spoke with Dave Bloom and Grant McFadden about their work on herpesviruses and poxviruses in this episode recorded before an audience at the University of Florida, Gainesville - home of the Gators. Host links Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dave Bloom, and Grant McFadden Links for this episode: Epigenetic modulation of herpes simplex virus gene expression (thanks, Matthew!) The Red Queen and Tierra virtual environment: article one, two, three (thanks, Jesper!) Hand-held HIV detector (thanks, Jim!) ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - May 30, 2010 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts