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 'corpus'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:59 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953025&cid=t_155957_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.drmalpani.com%2F2011%2F06%2Fwhat-is-luteal-phase-defect.html Luteal phase defect ( LPD) used to be a very popular diagnosis many years ago. While most doctors today do not believe that this entity even exists, unfortunately, it’s still “diagnosed” commonly – and causes a lot of overtesting and overtreatment ! Let’s see why.The luteal phase is the second half of the menstrual cycle during which the corpus luteum produces progesterone to maintain the endometrial lining of the uterus so that an embryo can implant in it . At the time of ovulation, the mature follicle releases the egg . It then gets converted into a yellow body called the corpus luteum, under the influence of the luteinizing hormone ( LH) produced by the pituitary. ( Remember that it's this LH surge which is responsible for the ovulation !) If the embryo implants successfully, ... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953025 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:34:00 +0100 4953025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775373&cid=t_155957_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIn343nt1Z4k%2F By George Scoville Habeas corpus applies to anyone, citizen or not, in custody under American law, no matter what President Bush and President Obama decree. House Republicans’ cuts to the Department of Education, which will spend over $70 billion next year, didn’t even amount to $1 billion. “Regardless of whether Pakistan gets its way, its impudence in pushing Afghanistan to abandon America exposes the real balance of power in the region.” “It doesn’t make a lot of sense to refer to a government whose intelligence service assists military efforts by al Qaeda and the Taliban against U.S. troops in Afghanistan as an ‘ally.’” Here are five ways to cut military spending today without changing our strategic focus: Monday Links is a post f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775373 Mon, 02 May 2011 14:29:08 +0100 4775373 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3987115&cid=t_155957_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fwhat-every-infertile-woman-needs-to.html Missing a period can be very difficult for infertile women ! Every time you miss a period, you hope ( against hope) that maybe you are finally pregnant ! However , you are worried about getting your hopes up too high, because you are scared that they will come dashing down again – and you remember all the false alarms you have had in the past !There are many reasons for missing a period, including stress ; side effects of medications you are taking; and a systemic illness. The first step, of course, is to rule out a pregnancy. You can do this by checking with a urine pregnancy test kit. The new ones are very reliable, and a negative test result usually means that you are not pregnant. If you are unsure, you can repeat the test in 2 days. A better option is to do a blood test to check you... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3987115 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:03:00 +0100 3987115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3862012&cid=t_155957_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmuseum-is-a-giant-model-of-the-human-body%2F2010.08.12 The Dutch Corpus Museum takes you into the human body and shows how our organs work. A fascinating idea and a great visualization. An excerpt from Amusing Planet: The Corpus Museum takes you on a fantastic journey through a giant model of the human body during which you can see, feel and hear how the human body works and what roles healthy food, healthy life and plenty of exercise plays. The tour through the museum starts with an escalator ride into an open sore on your giant victim’s leg and ends among the pulsing neurons in his brain. Between those two points, you will watch cheese being digested in the intestines and explore the ventricles of the heart. Kids can bounce up and down on the rubber tongue (with burping noises in the background) while you take in various scents wafting thr... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3862012 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:00:37 +0100 3862012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629621&cid=t_155957_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAxsKHLf1jHc%2F By Tim LynchDana Milbank has an article about an Ashcroft address at Heritage yesterday.  Here’s an excerpt: Ashcroft, in his own conciliatory gesture, implicitly acknowledged that he was on the wrong side in the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld detention case, in which the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration. “The Hamdi case was a bit of an anomaly because Hamdi was an American citizen, and it’s been considered settled law for a long time that American citizens always have the right in American courts to petition the court for habeas corpus,” Ashcroft allowed. Well, yes, it was settled law right up until Bush’s lawyers launched their attack on the writ of habeas corpus.  Nowadays those lawyers play down the dangerous legal positions they advanced during th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629621 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:37:53 +0100 3629621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585595&cid=t_155957_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FD5TjCpBSZ9Y%2F By David RittgersFirst, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia. Next, they will come for suspected terrorists. As Dahlia Lithwick (who I rarely agree with – here is her commentary on the Heller case) points out, the Supreme Court’s decision in Comstock may have some frightening implications for domestic preventive detention of terrorism suspects in lieu of criminal prosecution. I saw this firsthand last summer when I attended a scholars meeting with the Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force (the same one that... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585595 Thu, 20 May 2010 19:30:26 +0100 3585595 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2876109&cid=t_155957_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F10%2F09%2Fa-situationist-view-of-habeas-corpus%2F Eve Brensike Primus posted her recent, interesting article, “A Structural Vision of Habeas Corpus” (98 California Law Review (2009-2010)) on SSRN.   Here’s the abstract. * * * For decades, scholars and judges have assumed that federal habeas corpus review of state court criminal convictions should focus on the individual rights of habeas petitioners and that the federal courts should ask whether a state prisoner is being unlawfully detained because the state violated his individual federal rights. This individualized approach to federal habeas review is expensive, time-consuming, and woefully ineffective in stopping states from violating defendants’ federal rights. Indeed, many states systematically violate criminal defendants’ federal rights with impunity.... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2876109 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:38 +0100 2876109 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469438&cid=t_155957_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8gKcnamfb3M%2F Vice-president Joe Biden says we should rally behind the Supreme Court nomination of Sotomayor because she will “have the back” of the police.  Biden is a lawyer, a senator, and former chairman of the Senate’s Judiciary Committee, so he should know better than to pull a political stunt like that to curry favor with law enforcement groups.  The Constitution places limits on the power of the police to search, detain, wiretap, imprison, and interrogate.   The separation of powers principle means that judges must maintain their impartiality and “check” the police whenever they overstep their authority.  To abdicate that responsibility and to “go along with the police” is to do away with our system of checks and balances. As it happens, The New Yo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469438 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:38:26 +0100 2469438 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2074313&cid=t_155957_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FL_tKrzJRdGM%2F 9-year-old Nicholas Benavides died Monday morning in a fire at his house in Corpus Christi, Texas, today’s Caller Times reports. Nicholas was autistic and, according to his grandmother, Maria Benavides, was “’shy, but also friendly and always smiling.’” On Monday, Nicholas’ siblings, ages 11 and 4, were at their maternal grandparents’ home and Nicholas’ mother was at work. Benavides said her son, the boy’s father, told her he was doing laundry in a room at the rear of the house. Fire Chief Richard Hooks said it hasn’t been determined if the boy was alone in the house. Fire officials were interviewing the boy’s father late Monday. When Corpus Christi firefighters arrived at 10:37 a.m., about five minutes after the initial cal... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2074313 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:13:02 +0100 2074313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1932989&cid=t_155957_115_f&fid=34670&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsumerdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fcorpus-callosum-agenesis-mri.html These are the MRI images of a child with corpus calllosum agenesis, note that the proximal part of the corpus callosum inculding the genu and proximal body are seen, distal part is not seen. Also note the interhemispheric cyst.Dr.Sumer K Sethi, MDSr Consultant Radiologist ,VIMHANS and CEO-Teleradiology ProvidersEditor-in-chief, The Internet Journal of Radiology Director, DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) From Sumer's Radiology Site http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com -The Top Radiology Magazine. Teleradiology Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at teleradproviders@gmail.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site) Sumer's Radiology Site blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1932989 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:31:00 +0100 1932989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1734347&cid=t_155957_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F26%2Fthe-split-brain-and-the-interior-situation-of-theories-of-the-self%2F The following (5 minute) video demonstrates the effects of split brain surgery where the corpus collusum is severed. The effects are explained by Dr. Michael Gazzaniga. From Youtube: “To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway. Here’s what happens as a result.” * * * To watch a (3.5 minute) clip from Situationist contributor Phil Zimbardo’s program, Discovering Psychology, in whcih Michael Gazzaniga discusses the essential role of the “interpreter” in creating in each of us a unique sense of self. * * * Below you can watch an vintage (11 minute) video in which a very young Dr. G... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1734347 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:01:16 +0100 1734347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1383716&cid=t_155957_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F18%2Fpsychotherapy-for-the-dying%2F Joseph of the Corpus Callosum blog wrote a great post about a study on psychotherapy for terminally ill cancer patients with depression. Though you might assume anyone who is terminally ill would become depressed, only about 25% develop serious symptoms of depression. A meta-analysis finds that they do respond to therapy with significant improvements. The argumentative comments on his post are telling; a minority of people (including some doctors) assume that depression is inevitable with a terminal diagnosis and treatment is pointless. Joseph responds: If I even show up in an emergency department with a gunshot wound in my abdomen, I sure hope the doc doesn’t refuse to treat it, saying “of course he’s bleeding to death, he’s been shot in the spleen.” Peopl... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1383716 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:35:39 +0100 1383716 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1220147&cid=t_155957_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F232227369%2F This article was written by Pascale Michelon, Ph. D., for SharpBrains.com. Dr. Michelon has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and has worked as a Research Scientist at Washington University in Saint Louis, in the Psychology Department. She conducted several research projects to understand how the brain makes use of visual information and memorizes facts. She is now an Adjunct Faculty at Washington University, and teaches Memory Workshops in numerous retirement communities in the St Louis area.     Solutions 1. LOCK – PIANO > KEY 2. SHIP – CARD > Deck 3. TREE – CAR > Trunk 4. SCHOOL – EYE > Pupil (Exam and Private are also possible) 5. PILLOW – COURT > Case 6. RIVER – MONEY > Bank (Flow is also possible) 7. BED – PAPER > Sheet 8. ARMY – WATER > Tank 9. TENNIS – NOISE... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1220147 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:14:07 +0100 1220147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1027111&cid=t_155957_129_f&fid=34862&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alifelessconvenient.com%2F2007%2F11%2F14%2Flove-letters%2F Publisher Jay Sennett wrote about the posting of one of my letters here. Shannon’s love letter project is an interesting one, and it makes me questions again and again the meaning of the term “queer.” It’s a word I adore, though I realize that for some, the offensive connotation persists. Perhaps I adore it because the term will never be straightforward in meaning, in effect or in light of its history. “Queer” has an eventful past, and it’s not for everyone. Of course I like the term. Throughout the Letters, there’s not any physical description in the writing that would allow you to conclude anything about the sex or gender of anyone but me. My personal identification - independent of writing, independent of the narrator - has consistently be... A Life Less Convenient blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1027111 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:20:29 +0100 1027111 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1018383&cid=t_155957_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F182625884%2F A daily constitutional can be better for your brain’s health than a software program? Charlie being a big-time bike rider and at home swimming in the ocean—-and continuing to benefit from daily adapted P.E. at 11.30am at school—I was glad to read a November 8th New York Times op-ed, Exercise on the Brain by Sandra Aamodt, the Editor in Chief of Nature Neuroscience, and Sam Wang, associate professor of molecular biology and neuroscience at Princeton University. Computer programs to improve brain performance are a booming business. In the United States, consumers are expected to spend $80 million this year on brain exercise products, up from $2 million in 2005. Advertising for these products often emphasizes the claim that they are designed by scientists or based on scienti... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1018383 Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:18:30 +0100 1018383 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=873925&cid=t_155957_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F156844691%2Fanother_look_inside_your_brain.html Check inside the main parts of your mind and see mental resources that can make or break your career – at  MSNBC’s Interactive Mind Map. 1. Notice how the corpus callosum links your two brain hemispheres. There are huge differences in men’s and women’s corpus callosum – which is why we think and lead differently. 2. See the ofactory bulb where smell originates in your brain, and it’s location will likely explain how aromas at times affect memory and moods. 3. Check out the anterior cingulated gyrus … your attention manager to see where your brain helps you focus and stay on track until a work is completed.4. Locate the thalamus, deep in the central area of the brain, where your sensory switchboard operates. 5. Notice the hypothalamus, where y... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=873925 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:10:30 +0100 873925