The Ultimate Version of Ill-Informed Health Care Leadership: Dumb, Incoherent, Confused, Perhaps Psychotic Things President Trump Says and Does About Health Care Policy
DiscussionWe have discussed the doctrine ofmanagerialism promoted in business schools that people trained in management should lead every type of human organization and endeavor. Management by people from the disciplines most relevant to the mission and nature of particular organizations should be eschewed. So managers, not physicians or other health care professionals, should lead health care organizations. Following that theme, managers, or those like them, rather than health care professionals and health policy experts should lead health policy. However, managers who run health care organizations,...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 29, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Donald Trump health care reform ill-informed management Obamacare ppaca Source Type: blogs
More support for P-FIT model of intelligence
AbstractThe authors describe the brain regions involved in the process of intelligence using as a basis, the models of the theory of frontoparietal integration (P-FIT Model). They also correlate the model described with functional areas of Brodmann, integrating them into the tertiary brain areas and address the subcortical structures involved in cognitive processes, including the memory. The studies performed by functional magnetic resonance, also unmask various regions related with intelligence, neither previously described by Brodmann nor even in conventional models of learning. The anterior insular cortex presents itsel...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - October 26, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Tags: brain networks neuro g P-FIT Source Type: blogs
Motive
People, including the Las Vegas sheriff and reporters are all obsessing over discovering Stephen Paddock ' s motive for mass murder. That ' s actually a very easy question.He was f.ing nuts.In case you don ' t want to take my word for ithere ' s neurobiologist David Eagleman explaining the possibilities. Just to summarize, Paddock wasn ' t schizophrenic -- that has onset typically before age 25, and he clearly was fully functional his whole life. And while it ' s conceivable he had some psychopathic tendencies, there isn ' t really any evidence of that. He wasn ' t the most sociable guy but he seemed generally well behaved...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 5, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Guest blog post from Dial & Martin on Dual Stream models -- More discussion
[Note: for backstory on this discussion, seehere]To indicate which comment each response corresponds to, we have copied the first line of the comment.In response to “I agree but we were vague on purpose 17 years ago because we simply didn’t know what the relation was between brain areas and acoustic/linguistic levels of representation” and “These are good points and I both appreciate DM’s frustration with our lack of clarity regarding the level of pro cessing we are talking about and laud their interest in being more precise”:We appreciate the clarification of your stance regarding speech-specificity (or lingui...
Source: Talking Brains - August 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD Scholarship/Stipend Opportunities in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language (QUT, Australia)
Applications are invited for PhD scholarship/stipend opportunities for projects with the Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory (http://www.langcogbrain.net) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.Research in the lab makes use of a range of methodologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrophysiology (intracranial and scalp-recorded EEG), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and behavioural paradigms, in both healthy and neurologically disordered populations. Current projects are funded by both the Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Heal...
Source: Talking Brains - August 2, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Early thoughts on the Hickok & Poeppel dual stream model
I came across this email I sent to David Poeppel in July 1998 that sketches some of the basic ideas that congealed into our dual stream model. You can see the starting point was David's prior work on word deafness and my thinking about how conduction aphasia fits in. It's also clear that Nina Dronker's work on the insula was prominent at the time and in fact I had been corresponding with Nina about some of those details. The comment at the end "Nina says grammar is in the anterior STS" was a reference to a presentation she gave on lesion correlates of sentence comprehension deficits that implicated the ATL.&...
Source: Talking Brains - August 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 198
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 198.
Question 1
The BBC ran an article on sexist adverts. Drug companies were not immune to providing sexist ads as well. What was the substance advertised below with the title “You can’t set her free. But you can help her feel less anxious.”?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 21, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five abbott's tube dario maestrini Frank Starling Curve legge del cuore Marchiafava-bignami syndrome mercury poisoning miller-abbott tube oxazepam sexist ads steinstrasse stone street Source Type: blogs
Eight important neuropsychological syndromes you ’ve probably never heard of
By Christian Jarrett
Studying people who have brain damage or illness has been hugely important to progress in psychology. The approach is akin to reverse engineering: study how things go wrong when particular regions of the brain are compromised and it provides useful clues as to how those regions usually contribute to healthy mental function.
As a result, some neuropsychological conditions, such as Broca’s aphasia (speech deficits), prosopagnosia (a difficulty recognising faces, also known somewhat misleadingly as “face blindness”) and Alien Hand syndrome (a limb seeming to act of its own volition) have...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Source Type: blogs
What 9 SLPs Learned at ASHA ’ s Private Practice and Health Care Connect Conference
Caption: Gary Altobella, owner of The Synapse Health Group, LLC, talks to Private Practice Connect participants about aligning clinical and business approaches.
Juliane Pearson took the leap from working as a school-based speech-language pathologist to opening her own private practice a year ago. So she came to ASHA’s Private Practice Connect to get some ideas and strategies—and she was not disappointed.
“I’m lucky I’m still small,” she said after attending a presentation on the importance of tracking patient and practice-pattern data by Shannon Butkus. “I can put the tracking system in place now, and it will...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - July 10, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Practice Management private practice Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Dementia Care, Reverting Back to Childhood
I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people make a connection between childlike behavior and the behavior of older adults with dementia.“She’s reverting back to how she was when she was a child,” you will hear people say.Nobody with dementia is going back in time.Dementia is not a time machine.Yes, people with dementia do seem to gain some childish behaviors as their disease progresses.This isn't because they are“reverting” back to being children, however, it ’s because they are losing things that they've learned as adults.What is the Difference Between Alzheimer ’s and DementiaBy Rachael Wonderlin Alz...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - June 28, 2017 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's care Alzheimer's Dementia alzheimers communication care of dementia patients care of dementia patients at home childlike behavior in elderly dementia care health memory care facility Source Type: blogs
Aphasia Awareness Month: Dr. Katharine McBride
As June is Aphasia Awareness Month, I note I recently submitted a chapter about aphasia to be published next year. Aphasia is the loss of acquired language abilities due to brain damage, such as stroke. Neuropsychologists are often called upon to determine the nature and severity of these changes to language functioning. My contribution is a biography of Dr. Katharine McBride, a psychologist working with neurologist Dr. Theodore Weisenburg from 1929 through 1934. They created the first comprehensive aphasia testing battery that was based on the triad of: the use of psychometric tests, tests were standardized in format and ...
Source: BrainBlog - June 16, 2017 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
Where to Start When Treating Clients Post-Stroke
So, let’s say your receptionist tells you your new patient recently had a stroke. And you immediately think, “the last time I saw someone post-stroke was grad school!” Fret not! Instead, I hope my evidence-based insights into treating clients who experienced a stroke will help you brush up on treatment approaches.
First, see what patient information you can access before the patient even steps foot in your office; what can any previous evaluations or medical documents tell you? Do you know the location of the injury? In general, a left hemisphere injury brings about more speech and language challenges, while a right ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 16, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jordyn Sims Tags: Speech-Language Pathology acquired brain injury Aphasia Cognitive Rehabilitation Language Disorders Source Type: blogs
Neuropsychology Abstract of the Day: Semantic Aphasia
In this study, we report neuropsychological and lesion profiles of 10 new cases of semantic aphasia. Modern neuroimaging techniques provide support for the relevance of the left TPO area for semantic aphasia, but also extend Luria ' s neuroanatomical model by taking into account white matter pathways. Our findings suggest that tracts with parietal connectivity - the arcuate fasciculus (long and posterior segments), the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, the inferior longitudinal fasciculus, the superior longitudinal fasciculus II and III, and the corpus callosum - are implicated in the linguistic and non-linguistic defi...
Source: BrainBlog - March 29, 2017 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
