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 'brilliance'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:31:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200484&cid=t_222919_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F22%2F10-good-things-about-depression%2F A radio talk host recently asked me this question: “If you could have had your way and never deal with a mood disorder in your life, would you do that. Or has the depression, somehow, enhanced your life?” Thankfully he asked that question on a fairly stable day, when I wasn’t counting up the years until I could become a member of AARP and be closer to the finish line. Had he asked me during my two suicidal years, I think I would have shot back, “Go to hell, dude. Why not ask a 10 year old dying with Leukemia to give you a list of goodies that illness has bestowed?” I immediately thought of Peter Kramer’s eloquent 2005 article in the New York Times Magazine titled “There’s Nothing Deep About Depression.” Kramer explained that he penned h... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200484 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:00:09 +0100 3200484 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2122292&cid=t_222919_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F518745212%2F In 1993, Paramount Pictures released Searching for Bobby Fischer, which depicts Joshua Waitzkin's early chess success as he embarks on a journey to win his first National chess championship. This movie had the effect of weakening his love for the game as well as the learning process. His passion for learning was rejuvenated, however, after years of meditation, and reading philosophy and psychology. With this rekindling of the learning process, Waitzkin took up the martial art Tai Chi Chuan at the age of 21 and made rapid progress, winning the 2004 push hands world championship at the age of 27. After reading Joshua's most recent book The Art of Learning, I thought of a million topics I wanted to discuss with him--topics such as being labelled a "child prodigy", blooming, creativi... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2122292 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:35:39 +0100 2122292 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1034910&cid=t_222919_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F186719052%2Fcats_cows_and_creature_curiosi.html Watch the black cat sit for hours on the tiny bridge outside my den, and you’ll see him guard my creek … much like a sentient guards royals. Have you ever wondered what keeps cats curious? If curiosity comes with cows, though, it’s far less clear. How do I know? A respected business leader friend of mine announced to a group of us over dinner one night. “I’ve always wanted to see what makes cows tick … so I’m hanging out with a herd of 'em for one day … to see how they think. After permission from a farmer friend, city slicker Len spent his first and only day-long-bovine-encounter.A week later he replied to our follow-up question … concerning what cows think about.... In Len’s words … “Not much.” Hm... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1034910 Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:36:57 +0100 1034910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=793085&cid=t_222919_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F142801643%2Famerican_learners_and_leaders.html If you still see a glimmer of hope for American progress ... check out this jolting video. How we teach one another – how we learn pretty much anything ... at any age – and how assess what we do well ... could  move Americans into a front row seat of creativity and innovation. So why are we slipping behind? Instead of innovation for a new world - we pour our last dollars into war – and rob from research on learning and creating – while several other countries are running with the brain in mind. We’ll be giving several brain summits in the next few months and will be discussing the implications of this YouTube reminder of how we are being left behind. It just came to me from a friend and colleague Minda Hager – and the video shows several k... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=793085 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:27:06 +0100 793085