MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'baba'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:57 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3533973&cid=t_197931_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FEMVgEyM-q80%2F We are honored to count on such a distinguished, interdisciplinary and forward-looking Innovation Awards Judging Panel (please judge for yourself!), thanks to the participation of: Baba Shiv, Professor at Stanford Business School, conducts research on consumer decision making and decision neuroscience, with specific emphasis on the neurological underpinnings of emotion and motivation in decision making. His recent work examines the potential for nonconscious placebo effects related to pricing. He is currently the editor of the Journal of Consumer Research and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Psychology and the Journal of Marketing Research. Bill Tucker, Managing Director at Education Sector, is a social entrepreneur who has founded and led both nonprofit organizations... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3533973 Wed, 05 May 2010 04:59:21 +0100 3533973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1709429&cid=t_197931_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2008%2F08%2F15%2Flost-kitty%2F That’s my kitty, Baba.  And he’s seriously missing.  It’s been days since we’ve noticed that he’s a bit inactive and his appetite hasn’t been that much.  And for 2 days, we haven’t seen him in his usual lounging places.  He did this before, but usually would come home after a day.  Now we’re worried that he’s become sick and got stuck somewhere.  Neighbors haven’t seen him.  I miss my Baba. (Source: Prudence and Madness) Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1709429 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:42:44 +0100 1709429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1564260&cid=t_197931_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F03%2Fthe-situation-of-repackaging%2F New Story!!! Over on Scientific American, Nikhil Swaminathan has an interesting post on a new study concerning the psychology repackaging. * * * Scientists have discovered that novel objects perk up the reward system of our brains, indicating our sense of adventure—exploring or learning something new—may be just as tempting as cash and other prizes in the choices we make. Researchers say the finding may explain why marketers are able to bolster sagging sales by simply repackaging old products. Brain processes “might encourage you to sample [products previously dismissed] again—even though it doesn’t make much sense,” says Bianca Wittmann, a neuroscientist at University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and co-author of the study published to... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1564260 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:00:06 +0100 1564260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1193029&cid=t_197931_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F226932524%2F As we have been doing for the last 6 months, here you are have the Monthly Digest of our Most Popular Blog Posts. You can consider it your monthly Brain Fitness/ Training Newsletter. (Also, remember that you can subscribe to receive our blog RSS feed, or to our monthly newsletter at the top of this page if you want to receive this Monthly Digest by email).   Let me first introduce our new roster of Expert Contributors, highlighting first an article by Duke University's Dr. David Rabiner, a leading authority on attention deficits and author of the Attention Research Update newsletter, on the "promising, yet unproven" value of neurofeedback for attention deficits: How Strong is the Research Support for Neurofeedback.  Two other great articles by our Expert Contributors th... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1193029 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:17:42 +0100 1193029 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1184848&cid=t_197931_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F224906263%2F Prof. Baba Shiv, one of our advisors, just published a fascinating paper on the power of our beliefs to influence brain activation, and on how marketing can influence those beliefs: Price Tag Can Change The Way People Experience Wine, Study Shows (Science Daily) - According to researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology, if a person is told he or she is tasting two different wines—and that one costs $5 and the other $45 when they are, in fact, the same wine—the part of the brain that experiences pleasure will become more active when the drinker thinks he or she is enjoying the more expensive vintage. - "What we document is that price is not just about inferences of quality, but it can actually affect real quality," said ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1184848 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:55:59 +0100 1184848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=544262&cid=t_197931_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F109133740%2F I found out about Ali Baba via del.icio.us and a quick blog search showed that Joerg has already mentioned it before. So what is Ali Baba? According the the website “Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts.” There is a lot more detail about the kind of information available on the About page. The list of features is quite large and appears to be quite useful. For example, you can visualize the known or suspected genes associated with Parkinson’s disease using a simple query like “parkinson disease genetic cause”. The result is the following graph The appli... business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=544262 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:50:49 +0100 544262