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There is a very good site called Radiopaedia which is provided for educational use by medical professionals. In the tradition of ‘Open Science’ the Wikipedia reference on Radiopaedia describes it as a ‘non-profit-making wiki-based international collaborative radiology educational web resource containing reference articles, radiology images, and patient cases‘ while the home page of Radiopaedia describes [...]
Here is what I am reading today: my parasite made me do it! “Feeling sociable or reckless? You might have toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by the microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which the CDC estimates has infected about 22.5 percent of Americans older than 12 years old. Researchers tested participants for T. gondii infection and had [...]
Here is what I am reading today: sex matters “…”These results aren’t definitive, but they are consistent with the following story,” said Gauthier. “Everyone is born with a general ability to recognize objects and the capability to get really good at it. Nearly everyone becomes expert at recognizing faces, because of their importance for social [...]
Diagram from Almeida OP, Yeap BB, Alfonso H, Hankey GJ, Flicker L, et al. (2012) Older Men Who Use Computers Have Lower Risk of Dementia. PLoS ONE 7(8): e44239. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044239 (Creative Commons Attribution License) An interesting Australian study published in PLOS One recently by Almeida and colleagues suggests that computer use is associated with a [...]
Here is what I am reading today: neural implant and decisions “By placing a neural device onto the front part of the monkeys’ brains, the researchers, from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre, University of Kentucky and University of Southern California, were able to recover, and even improve, the monkeys’ ability to make decisions when their [...]
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one third of marriages end in divorce. Parents often wonder what impact their divorce or separation will have on their children. What does the research say? Several common themes have emerged in the divorce/separation literature: The immediate aftermath of parental divorce is often a period of emotional distress for both parents and children ...
Parents sometimes ask me about the cost difference between our child assessment services and other providers. (Our rates are not the highest in Melbourne but we are closer to the premium end than the bottom end of the market.) In effect, what they are asking is this: Does it really matter who provides the service? The simple answer is YES! It ...
This Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons image is from the user Chris 73 and is freely available here under the creative commons CC-by-SA 3.0 license. The paper reviewed here is ‘Predictors of Driving Safety in Early Alzheimer’s Disease’ by Dawson and colleagues and freely available here. The researchers investigated driving safety in people with early Alzheimer’s [...]
Here is what I am reading today: when rats dream “Cognitive scientists working at MIT have devised a means for not only altering the dreams of rats, but of demonstrating a way of testing what they’ve achieved, offering evidence that it can be done, and in so doing have offered a glimpse into what may [...]
Here is what I am reading today: men really do SEE things differently “The way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are [...]
Beginning a few years ago, students in my Biological Psychology class began to tell me in class that “we all know that the brain differences between men and women are small and behaviorally insignificant.” The wording of this comment was always the same, so I became curious as to its source. The students were [...]
Here is what I am reading today: what fair play says about us “People will reject an offer of water, even when they are severely thirsty, if they perceive the offer to be unfair, according to a new study funded by the Wellcome Trust. The findings have important implications for understanding how humans make decisions [...]
Here is what I am reading today: can we make bird safe windows? “A glass inspired by spider’s webs is being used to keep birds from smacking into windows. Birds can’t see glass well, and so many of them die when they hit picture windows. Humans can’t see glass well either, which might explain why [...]