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Alzheimer’s Study Focused on Cognitively Superior Brains
Sometimes it not only just feels good to focus on the positive - it can be good science. Emily Rogalski, an assistant professor in cognitive neurology at Northwestern University Chicago
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 3, 2012 Category: Caregivers Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Piecing Together Performance - Association for Psychological Science
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2012/september-12/piecing-together-performance.html
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 2, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

TWiV 198: Pox has got a squeeze-box, seals are gonna sneeze all night
On episode #198 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy review fatal avian influenza virus in harbor seals, and poxvirus deployment of genomic accordions to counter antiviral defenses. There once was a virus named pox Whose genome contained a squeeze-box When placed under pressure It expanded its measure Overcoming the new cellular blocks You can find TWiV #198 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - September 2, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology avian influenza evolution genomic accordion H3N8 harbor seal innate immunity pandemic poxvirus red queen hypothesis vaccinia virus viral Source Type: blogs

Beauty Science News – September 2
Spice up your Labor Day weekend with these beauty sciences news stories… Beauty science breakthrough: is rosacea caused by bacteria?? New face paint could protect soldiers from explosion burns. Colgate toothpaste banned from using claim “Same Whitening Ingredient as Strips.” Should we be worried about cosmetic ingredients in our waterways?
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 2, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

Materialism, Consumerism, and Happiness
From APS: Money doesn’t buy happiness. Neither does materialism: Research shows that people who place a high value on wealth, status, and stuff are more depressed and anxious and less sociable than those who do not. Now new research shows that materialism is not just a personal problem. It’s also environmental. “We found that irrespective of personality, in situations that activate a consumer mindset, people show the same sorts of problematic patterns in wellbeing, including negative affect and social disengagement,” says Northwestern University psychologist Galen V. Bodenhausen. The study, conducted with colleague...
Source: The Situationist - September 2, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Marketing Positive Psychology Social Psychology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 3rd 2012
Discussion - Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! - SIRT6 Overexpression Reverses DNA Repair Decline in Aging Mice - A Good Lifestyle Makes a Difference Even Late in Life - Impact of Mid-Life Fitness on Later Risk of Age-Related Disease - No Extension of Average Lifespan in Primate Study of Calorie Restriction - A View of Diet and Aging - Work on Blocking Damage in Brain Injury - More on DNA Methylation and Human Longevity - Cytomegalov...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 2, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Helpful Hints from joeeze: Reading with red headlamp puts insomniacs to sleep
Source: bookofjoe - September 2, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Accessories Computers Education Electronics Gadgets Health Insomnia iPad iPhone Oddities Science Sleep Source Type: blogs

The dangerous confusion of medication branding.
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down. -Justin Davidson Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. -Erik Adigard Medical packaging. It drives me nuts. Medications with totally different indications and similar packaging, same colours, similar sounding brand names, boxes crammed with tiny bits of information, poor instructions written in 0.002 pt fonts on gossamer thing product inserts that unfold to football-field proportions. Yes,it is important to include...
Source: impactEDnurse - September 1, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics Source Type: blogs

“Psychology Works” Facts Sheet: Chronic Pain - Canadian Psychological Association
What is chronic pain?Chronic pain is pain that does not go away. When pain lasts longer than 3 or 6 months, or beyond the usual time for recovery, it is said to be chronic. There are different types of chronic pain, many of which are not clearly understood. Chronic pain may be associated with an illness or disability, such as cancer, arthritis, or a phantom limb. Some types of pain start after an injury or accident and become chronic over time.Others may begin gradually, as is sometimes the case with low back pain. In some types of chronic pain, like migraine headaches, the pain is recurrent, rather than constant. There ar...
Source: Psychology of Pain - September 1, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs

Teenage Kids
A bit of parental-adolescent psychology for today’s Sciencebase blog post, encapsulated in a song. You’ll remember The Undertones’ classic – Teenage Kicks – a song of nostalgia, of lost youth, of unrequited love, of the pleasure, the pain, the angst of teenage years. Well, I re-hashed Sharkey’s words to adopt the perspective of a parent watching from the sidelines… Teenage Kids (to the tune of Teenage Kicks, obviously) Well, teenage kids so hard to beat They’re so much bigger with the stuff they eat And, then there’s Red Bull and those energy drinks Gives them a power t...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 1, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science kids teenage Source Type: blogs

Can Danzón Reduce Alzheimer's Anxiety?
These dance classes helped calm agitation and improved mood and quality of life for people with dementia. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room This might seem a bit on the wild side to many, but what if Danzón eliminated or reduced challenging behavior. I have no doubt I would have tried this with Dotty. Watching the video made me feel happy and calm “I found that these dance classes helped calm agitation and improved mood and quality of life for people with dementia. There are also obvious advantages in terms of physical fitness. “I witnessed the joy people got from taking part in the dancin...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 1, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

A great doctor’s visit
Nat had an appointment with his psychopharmocologist, Dr. M, this afternoon. I met Nat there with John, our beloved House Manager. I wanted Dr. M and John to meet, both so that John could add his observations to the conversation, and also because he needs to be familiar with all of Nat’s professionals. For this particular visit, I wanted the discussion to be whether we should begin decreasing Nat’s Risperadone even further. He has always been on a very low dosage, and even lower since the winter, and he is doing spectacularly well since he moved into his adulthood situations. (Knock wood.) Since graduating, Nat...
Source: Susan's Blog - August 31, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Chaihu 柴胡 and the value of moving pictures
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - August 31, 2012 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs

Continuing Dissection of the Infamous Study 329
On the 1BoringOldMan blog, semi-anonymous blogger Mickey has been dissecting in detail the infamous Study 329 that GlaxoSmithKline used to promote Paxil (Seroxat, paroxetine) as safe and effective for children and adolescents, when the study data, rigorously analyzed, showed that was not the case. Study 329 was an important part of the US Department of Justice case against GSK that resulted in a record $3 billion settlement (see this post). The posts so far are:A Pretty Rotten Era A MovementTo Make Distortion PossibleThe Lesson of Study 329: the BasicsThe Lesson of Study 329: Efficacy Drifts to Tren...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 31, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Study 329 manipulating clinical research legal settlements Paxil GlaxoSmithKline Martin Keller Brown University Source Type: blogs

Is the scientific enterprise too big?
Today, I came across two very different but equally interesting and telling things to read. One was a letter from our funding agency (DFG) explaining why our main grant wasn't renewed and one was this article on the evaluation of science. The reasons for the grant rejection were quite easy: both reviewers complained that the results from the one project in the grant which we didn't want to renew was not described in the renewal application. Wouldn't have occurred to me that this should be in there. The other reason both reviewers raised was that we hadn't presented sufficient publications or publication-ready data, despite...
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - August 31, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: science politics Source Type: blogs

Update: Is Having a Brain a Medical Condition?
Time for SharpBrains’ August 2012 eNewsletter, featuring in this occasion multiple insightful perspectives on how emerging brain and cognitive science can be applied to improve education, clinical practice, productivity and daily living. Featured Perspectives: Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? (or, Is Having a Brain a Medical Condition?), by Dr. Philip Toman New Study shows Teens with ADHD helped by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, by Dr. David Rabiner In the Age of Google, Should Schools Teach Memorization Skills?, by Dr. Bill Klemm Navigating The Many Dangers of Experience and Think Fresh: When Is...
Source: SharpBrains - August 31, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness brain Brain-Fitness Brain-Training cognitive-behavioral-therapy lumos-labs medicalization memorization mental game Stress Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer’s Study Focused on Cognitively Superior Brains
Sometimes it not only just feels good to focus on the positive - it can be good science. Emily Rogalski, an assistant professor in cognitive neurology at Northwestern University Chicago, led a study about cognitively remarkable elders that researchers call SuperAgers. The focus of the study was to find out why some elders at 80 have brains as sharp as people decades younger. In reference to the lifestyle similarities of people eligible...
Source: Carol Bradley Bursack's SharePosts - August 31, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)
Last Edition's Most Popular Article: My Brain Made Me Do It: Psychopaths and Free Will, Time Healthland In The Popular Press How to learn in your sleep, Nature Chimps Have Geniuses, Too, Wired Science Inside "Ouch", Radiolab Sleepless Nights May...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - August 31, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Adam Kolber Source Type: blogs

EHR Consultant to Med School-thoughts?
by cavecanem10 (Posted Fri Aug 31, 2012 12:13 am)Hi everyone,I'm writing here to get some ideas as a potential nontraditional student. I've been working at an electronic medical record company for over two years now and am realizing that I'd like to do medicine long term. My job has allowed me to work very closely with both clinicians and hospital administrators in the unique area of healthcare IT. I travel a lot for my job and have seen over 50 different hospitals and worked with them in some fashion or another. As well, I've gained well over 1250 hours of shadowing. I really like systems and how they work, so I think tha...
Source: Med Student Guide - August 31, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

What's Really Delaying the Defeat of Aging?
By way of following on from yesterday's thoughts on progress in longevity science, I'll point out that the August 2012 issue of Rejuvenation Research is available online. The leading editorial by Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Foundation covers much the same set of topics and is presently open access - so head on over and read it while that lasts. What's Really Delaying the Defeat of Aging? In the mid-1990s, when I decided to switch from computer science to gerontology, I recognized that the creation of a credible assault on aging would require solving three basic problems: (1) Creating a credible plan; (2) getting the peopl...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 31, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Layers at the base of Mount Sharp on Mars
Source: bookofjoe - August 31, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Current Affairs Science Space Web/Tech Source Type: blogs

Why are some doctors so emotionally distant? Maybe it's the economy. - Boing Boing
Why are some doctors so emotionally distant? Maybe it's the economy. By Maggie Koerth-Baker at 9:54 am Wednesday, Aug 29 I've got a good doctor, and one of the reasons I like him as much as I do is his "bedside manner"—the shorthand we all use for describing whether or not medical professionals are able to connect with their patients emotionally. But pulling off a good bedside manner isn't just about being kind and empathetic, it's also about time. Part of why I think he had good bedside manner is that he spends time talking to me when I go in for an appointment. He answers questions. He asks abo...
Source: PharmaGossip - August 31, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs

Link feast
Tuck into 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access - get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via the Issuu web platform. The Association for Psychological Science has posted a video of the opening address at their Chicago convention this year - titled Psychological Science is Important. If you're about to start studying psychology, this talk by Alan Kraut will have you raring to go. The Moral Worldview of Babies - Sam McNerney looks at a recent challenge to the idea...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 31, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

NYT OpEd on Immune disorder causes of autism: extremely suspect
The NYT has published an opinion piece by Moises Velasquez-Manoff claiming that at least 1/3 of autism is fundamentally an intrauterine inflammatory disorder associated with a widespread increase in immune disorders arising from our parasite-deficient modern lifestyle.The extended essay includes this key phrase: "Generally, the scientists working on autism and inflammation aren’t aware of this — or if they are, they don’t let on."That's a telling phrase. What we have here is an expansive theory outside the established research community claiming a dramatic breakthrough.Well, those things do happen - particularly in ...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - August 30, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: etiology autism Source Type: blogs

Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? Insights @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
Discussion returned several times to the issue of the extent to which applied neuroscience should, or should not be, tied to the traditional disciplines and delivery models of healthcare. One aspect of this question is the increasing rejection of the often arbitrary categorical distinction between illness and wellness, a product of medicine’s historic focus on categorical diagnosis. This issue is playing out in many different ways, for both scientific and practical reasons. Within the scientific community it’s increasingly agreed that although diagnostic categories can be a useful tool, they can also distort our unders...
Source: SharpBrains - August 30, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Philip Toman Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology big data brain brain health monitoring Brain-Fitness Brain-health Brain-Training Cognitive-functions dementia EEG healthcare medicalization mental-illness neuroplasticity Source Type: blogs

Does Brain Fitness Require Medicalization? Reflections @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit
Discussion returned several times to the issue of the extent to which applied neuroscience should, or should not be, tied to the traditional disciplines and delivery models of healthcare. One aspect of this question is the increasing rejection of the often arbitrary categorical distinction between illness and wellness, a product of medicine’s historic focus on categorical diagnosis. This issue is playing out in many different ways, for both scientific and practical reasons. Within the scientific community it’s increasingly agreed that although diagnostic categories can be a useful tool, they can also distort our unders...
Source: SharpBrains - August 30, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Philip Toman Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology big data brain brain health monitoring Brain-Fitness Brain-health Brain-Training Cognitive-functions dementia EEG healthcare medicalization mental-illness neuroplasticity Source Type: blogs

A Tacit Admission That National Health IT is a Gargantuan Experiment
In my post yesterday "The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2" I wrote:There's no truly robust evidence of generalizable benefit, no randomized trials, there's significant evidence to the contrary, there's risk to safety that this disruptive technology causes in its present state (but the magnitude is unknown, see quotes from 2012 IOM study here) that MU and "certification" do not address, there's a plethora of hair-raising defect reports from the only seller that reports such things, but CMS justifies the program [starting at p. 18 in the Final Rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 at this link - ed.] with the l...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 30, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: meaningful use final rule Healthcare IT experiment meaningful use stage 2 informed consent Source Type: blogs

A course in Public Health Science Communication is born…
… or at least it’s in labour… and hopefully ready to be live and kicking on Wednesday 5 September when the first lessons will be start. When I earlier this summer asked for inputs to public health science communication literature lots of people were so kind to respond to me. Thanks to their suggestions and my colleagues at Medical Museion‘s excellent help and suggestions a reading list has now taken shape. Its been really difficult to select the literature and the final list could have taken many forms. This is a first go at it. As there to my knowledge to date only exist very little literature f...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 30, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication literature master course science communication @en syllabus University of Copenhagen Source Type: blogs

Barriers to evidence based nursing care.
A new survey conducted by Ohio State University has explored nurses views around the implementation of evidence based patient care… with some unexpected results. 20,000 members of the American Nurses Association were selected at random and emailed a survey. Of those, 1,015 nurses completed and returned it (that sounds about right). Just over half the respondents reported that evidence-based practice was consistently used in their organisation One third said that their colleagues consistently used these practices. Fewer than a third of respondents reported that mentors were available to teach and support them with these p...
Source: impactEDnurse - August 30, 2012 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: reflective practice. Source Type: blogs

4 Reasons You Avoid Self-Improvement
This article covers some of the biggest hurdles that may block us. 1. You have too much pride One of the most common things that hinders our self-improvement is that we have too much pride and arrogance. This is because the word “self-improvement” often implies that there are areas of our life where we aren’t fully satisfied or happy with (or, at the very least, where we think we can do better). So, to some extent, “self improvement” means that we have to admit that we can do better than our current situation – even if this temporarily hurts our egos. You can overcome this by recognizin...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 30, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Steven Handel Tags: self improvement courage pickthebrain pride relationships strength success Source Type: blogs

On Steve Eblin In The Randolph Guide
I had my knee surgery on August 20th (NOT at Randolph Hospital). The damage was extensive. All you can do is trust your surgeon do what he has to do, and cross your fingers/hope for the best. So far, so good. The temporary loss of independence has been a very humbling experience (compared to prior surgeries), and I am still in recovery mode/on crutches . . . albeit back at work and on-call after just a week off. My "Mommy" came down East to help, and this week we've enjoyed watching the Republican National Convention together . . . the teacher and her doctor-daughter talking politics. We're Romney-R...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - August 30, 2012 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs

Coagulation App from CDC
There has to be an app for that! Actually there is one now from informatics folks at the Centers for Diease Control (CDC). Downloaded this yesterday and everything a (medical) app should be -- Low cost (free), intuitive, easy to use, practical, educational and informative. Not hard to use, navigate or get infrormation from. iTunes preview CDC's PTT Advisor offers clinicians a tool to quickly select the appropriate follow-up tests to evaluate patients with a prolonged partial thromboplastin time (PTT) laboratory result and a normal prothrombin time (PT) laboratory result. PTT Advisor will run on your iPhone, iPod ...
Source: Digital Pathology Blog - August 30, 2012 Category: Pathologists Authors: Kaps Source Type: blogs

An Outline of Progress in Longevity Science
Here is a short email that I received yesterday: I have been reading about [longevity research] for a week now and I was just wondering if you were making progress on this? I read some people think aging can be cured in 2029 could that actually happen? So today, I'll scribe a brief perspective on recent progress in longevity science. I should preface this by noting that it is probably best to think of the life science and medical research community as an array of largely independent groups and factions, some large, some small. While there is a lot of cross-pollination in their work, they move at different rates towards d...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 30, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Introduction to Medical Writing (NYC)
The New York Academy of Sciences is hosting a course in Sept for those interested in medical writing: Introduction to Medical Writing Monday, September 24, 2012 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM The New York Academy of Sciences 7 World Trade Center 250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor New York, NY 10007-2157 Presented by Science Alliance If you are considering a nonacademic career and have an interest in utilizing your critical thinking and science communication skills to create meaningful and captivating scientific content, then you might be interested in a career in medical education / medical communications. As part of the talk, we wi...
Source: Non-Clinical Physician Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities - August 30, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Source Type: blogs

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Long time no posting. Sorry. I've been working on our new CIHR grant proposal, but for unknown reasons not doing this on the blog. But I have a point I need to make in the proposal, and to a colleague who's just generously critiqued a draft for us. I'm having a hard time finding a way to explain what I mean, so, of course, I'll try doing it here. As you can see from the Specific Aims above, our goal isn't just to investigate the factors affecting transformation, but to incorporate these factors into a predictive model (initially two separate sub-models), and to test this model's predictions against th...
Source: RRResearch - August 30, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Rosie Redfield Source Type: blogs

BehindTheMedspeak: Why your doctor's ability to depersonalize is a good thing
Source: bookofjoe - August 30, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Health Medicine Philosophy Science Source Type: blogs

The Scientific Justification for Meaningul Use, Stage 2: The NWB Methodology
The Final Rule for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been released. It is at this link (PDF). It is a mere 672 pages in length, a quick read during one's evenings of leisure.Here is, from page 18 verbatim, the scientific justification for the program. The finest scientific methods were used to achieve these criteria in justification of spending of $15 billion of taxpayer money (probably a low estimate): 3. Summary of Costs and BenefitsThis final rule is anticipated to have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more, making it an economically significant rule under the Executive Order and a major rul...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 29, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: meaningful use final rule DHHS CMS meaningful use stage 2 Source Type: blogs

Nature: 30 August 2012
This week, horses with unusual walks, dieting monkeys, and anti-science violence in Mexico.
Source: Nature Podcast - August 29, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: blogs

The impact of the Affordable Care Act on domestic violence
This article was originally posted on Megan’s blog, The Carlson Salon.
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 29, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Reform Mental Health Women's Health ACA Affordable Care Act Domestic violence Women’s Preventative Care Amendment Source Type: blogs

Hungarian Mummies Provide Insights into 18th Century TB
I came across an interesting story that would probably appeal mainly to pathologists -- naturally preserved Hungarian mummies from 1731 to 1838 are providing insights into the human immune system and the history of tuberculosis (see: Hungary: 18th century mummies aid medical research). Below is an excerpt from the story: Resting in cardboard boxes in long rows of cabinets on the top floor of the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, the 265 mummies are helping scientists find new ways to treat tuberculosis. Buried between 1731 and 1838 in the crypt of a Dominican church in the northern Hungarian town of...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 29, 2012 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Anatomic Pathology Clinical Lab Industry News Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Medical Research Source Type: blogs

New Study shows Teens with ADHD helped by Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
In a recent issue of Attention Research Update I reviewed a study of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for adults with ADHD that yielded encouraging findings. Promising findings of this approach for adults raises the question of whether CBT could also be helpful for teens with ADHD. Developing effective nonmedical interventions for teens with ADHD is important for several reasons. First, as many as 20–30 percent of adolescents with ADHD may not benefit significantly from medication and/or continue to struggle despite the help that medication provides. Others experience adverse side effects that preclude them from stayin...
Source: SharpBrains - August 29, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. David Rabiner Tags: Attention and ADD/ADHD Cognitive Neuroscience CBT cognitive behaivoral therapy medication-treatment teens Source Type: blogs

Commentary and Responses in Addiction Consider the Potential Role of Electronic Cigarettes in Smoking Cessation and Harm Reduction
This month's issue of the journal Addiction features a detailed consideration of the potential role of electronic cigarettes in smoking cessation.In a commentary, Drs. Ted Wagener, Belinda Borrelli and I argue that in the previous literature, the potential harms of electronic cigarettes have been exaggerated or over-emphasized relative to the benefits and that these products could play a role in smoking cessation. We write: "Concerns have been raised that the advent of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) may be harmful to public health, and smokers have been advised by important agencies such as the US Food and Drug Admin...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - August 29, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

Crowdsourcing to structure biological knowledge: Slideshow
I met Andrew Su at SciFoo Camp, Googlepley in 2009 and we had great discussions about how social media could be used by science and research. Now here is an amazing slideshow from him focusing on crowdsourcing.
Source: ScienceRoll - August 29, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: science Slideshow Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs

NIH Researchers Implicate Unique Cell Type in Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found evidence that a unique type of immune cell contributes to multiple sclerosis (MS). Their discovery helps define the effects of one of the newest drugs under investigation for treating MS — daclizumab — and could lead to a new class of drugs for treating MS and other autoimmune disorders. In these disorders, the immune system turns against the body’s own tissues. Ongoing clinical trials have shown that daclizumab appears to help quiet the autoimmune response in MS patients, but its precise effects on the legions of cells that make up the immune system a...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - August 29, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: NIH Newsbot Source Type: blogs

Bias in Fortune 500 Legal Departments
From ABA: Initial findings from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession survey “Visible Invisibility: Women of Color in Fortune 500 Legal Departments” found that women of color are underpaid, underestimated and undervalued. According to an executive summary of the survey, “Sadly, female attorneys of color often are treated as second-class citizens in a profession that ironically is charged with the responsibility of ensuring justice and equality for all.” Nine years ago, the Commission on Women in the Profession created its Women of Color Research Initiative, which has produced surveys to bring attention to ...
Source: The Situationist - August 29, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Implicit Associations Law gender gender bias Source Type: blogs