Jun 4, Samuel Fernberger: Today in the History of Psychology (4th June 1887)
Samuel Fernberger was born. An eminent psychophysicist, Fernberger published many important papers on a range of topics within the field e.g. the introspective properties of psychophysical judgments and the effects of physical and mental work. Fernberger also made telling contributions within other areas of psychological research, including the facial expression of emotion, memory-span and aphasia.
An active promoter of psychology throughout his career, Fernberger was the editor of the Psychological Bulletin from 1918 to 1930, editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology from 1930 to 1946, and cooperating editor of Th...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - June 4, 2016 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
5 Treatment Tips for Selective Mutism
As speech-language pathologists we wear many hats. By the time we finish grad school, we have training in articulation, language, fluency, AAC, pragmatics, voice, aphasia, apraxia, swallowing and more. But sometimes the terrain becomes more psychological in nature, as I discovered on day one of my clinical fellowship, when I met a student with selective mutism (SM), in which children speak in some situations, but not others.
Here’s what I learned from treating my first student with SM. First and foremost, creating a treatment plan must begin with a thorough, team-based assessment. Then, I found the following steps prod...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 2, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Claudia Doan Tags: Speech-Language Pathology selective mutism Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
June is Aphasia Awareness Month
. For the past twenty years or so, this month in North America has been dedicated to promoting a greater knowledge base among the general public as well as the non-CNS professional community about what aphasia is and about the different medical conditions that might result in aphasia. If you are a clinician or researcher engaged in aphasia-related work of one type or another, this might be a good month to consider a public community talk, an in-service presentation, or a media piece about aphasia. Here is a media piece I wrote back in 2003 during Aphasia Awareness Month: http://www.tmc.edu/tmcnews/06_01_03/page_24.html. (Source: BrainBlog)
Source: BrainBlog - June 1, 2016 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
Compulsive Foreign Language Syndrome: Man Becomes Obsessed With Speaking Fake French
You may have seen headlines such as: Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Or: Englishman wakes up speaking Welsh after stroke (“Rare brain disorder left English-speaking Alun Morgan only able to communicate in Welsh”). The first case was likely due to a fugue state, a type of dissociative disorder involving loss of personal identity and aimless wandering (Stengel, 1941). The second seems like an unusual example of bilingual aphasia involving loss of the ability to speak one's native language (rather than the more commonly affected second language). Perhaps you've even seen paranormal claims like:...
Source: The Neurocritic - May 29, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 136
Welcome to the 136th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.
This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Justin Morgenstern, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 26, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Education Emergency Medicine Intensive Care Pre-hospital / Retrieval Renal Resuscitation R&R in the FASTLANE recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
May 15, Carl Wernicke: Today in the History of Psychology (15th May 1848)
Carl Wernicke was born. A prodigious talent in the field of neurology, Wernicke published his groundbreaking book 'The Aphasia Symptom Complex' in 1874 at the age of just 26. His revolutionary work on localized brain damage was so influential that the region of the brain associated with neurological connections to language acquisition is known as 'Wernicke's area.'
One of the most outstanding neuroscientists of his time, Wernicke's life was tragically cut short at the age of 56 following a biking accident in June 1905. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - May 16, 2016 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Aphasia during a Transatlantic Flight via Now@NEJM
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Source: Kidney Notes - April 27, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Post-Doctoral Position at Georgetown University Medical Center
The Cognitive Recovery Lab, directed by Dr. Peter Turkeltaub, invites applications for a two-year NIH-funded post-doctoral position to start in July 2016 in collaboration with Dr. Catherine Stoodley at American University. The post-doc will be responsible for collecting and analyzing behavioral and multimodal MRI data (fMRI, DTI, functional connectivity, VBM, lesion-symptom mapping) for an investigation of the use of cerebellar tDCS in post-stroke aphasia. The post-doc will also design additional imaging studies on normal subjects and individuals with aphasia due to stroke or traumatic brain injury.The successful applicant...
Source: Talking Brains - April 14, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Mock Test 19
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Source: Cardiophile MD - February 25, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: Cardiology MCQ DM / DNB Cardiology Entrance Source Type: blogs
What ’s the right hemisphere doing? [Guest Post by William Matchin]
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Source: Talking Brains - February 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What’s the right hemisphere doing? [Guest Post by William Matchin]
Guest post by William Matchin:What's the right hemisphere doing?This is a question that has been bothering me for about two years, emerging from the results of an fMRI experiment that I performed in the twilight of graduate school, and recently butting into my consciousness again after Greg and I finally published the paper. The paper is called “‘Syntactic perturbation’ activates the right IFG, but not Broca’s area or the ATL”, recently published in Frontiers in Psychology as part of a special topic on “Components of the Language-Ready Brain” edited by Cedric Boeckx and Antonio Benítez-Burraco. The title is ...
Source: Talking Brains - February 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Proposing a Microbial Cause of Alzheimer's Disease, Again
The biochemistry of the brain is enormously complex and still poorly understood at the detail level. This is also true of the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease. Treating Alzheimer's is, more or less, the unified banner under which the research community raises funds to map and catalog the brain. It is why so much funding pours into the study of this one condition in comparison to others. In the research mainstream it is expected that only with much greater understanding of neurobiology will effective therapies emerge. Since the molecular biology involved is so very complicated, there are many gaps into which new theories o...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 11, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Kerry deS. Hamsher, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Kerry Hamsher died on 23rd October, 2015. Dr. Hamsher's commitment to neuropsychology as a science and as a profession was an ever-present one. His was an encyclopedic and sharp mind that could wrap itself around any clinical topic related to the central nervous system and behavior. He was indefatiguable in his pursuit of best practices for the education and post-graduate training of neuropsychologists. He was an essential participant in the work of the Houston Conference and within the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN). His two-year fellowship program at the Neurology Department of the University of Wi...
Source: BrainBlog - October 27, 2015 Category: Neurology Source Type: blogs
There May Not Be a Single Language Comprehension Center in the Brain
A recent paper in the journal Brain, a journal of neurology, challenges the long-held notion that the sensory speech area of the left temporal lobe of the cerebrum—often called the Wernicke area—acts as the center of language comprehension.Wernicke areaThe report describes research that leads one to the conclusion that although the Wernicke area (pictured) apparently has a role in understanding individual words, the task of sentence comprehension is accomplished by a complex network of diverse areas of the cerebrum. These include, "temporoparietal components of Wernicke’s area, Broca’s area, and [the] dorsal premot...
Source: The A and P Professor - June 26, 2015 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
About Gordie Howe’s “miraculous recovery” after stem cell treatment in Mexico
Seven years ago I returned to Michigan, where I was born and spent the first quarter century of my life, after an absence of more than 20 years. In the interim, I had done my surgical residency and earned my PhD in Cleveland, a surgical oncology fellowship in Chicago, and worked in New Jersey at… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - January 2, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Biology Clinical trials Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Sports aphasia Clinica Santa Clarita ClinicalTrials.gov COFEPRIS Dave McGuigan Gordie Howe hockey Maynard Howe mesenchymal stem cells Mr. Hockey Murray H Source Type: blogs
