Education round up October 2017
The BMJ publishes a variety of education articles, to help doctors improve their practice. Often authors join us in our podcast to give tips on putting their recommendations into practice.
In this new monthly audio round-up The BMJ’s clinical editors discuss what they have learned, and how they may alter their practice.
In this edition, GP Cat Chatfield, psychiatric trainee Kate Addlington and Gastrology trainee Robin Baddeley discuss the articles;
Diagnosis and management of postpartum haemorrhage
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3875
Indications for anticoagulant and antiplatelet combined therapy
http://www.bmj....
Source: The BMJ Podcast - October 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
John Medina on Aging Well (BS 138)
Dr. John Medina has spent his career in bio-engineering, but he also has a deep interest in how the brain works. In his latest bookBrain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp, he presents our knowledge brain aging in an engaging manner that can be enjoyed by readers of all backgrounds.In this month's episode of Brain Science (BS 138) we discuss some of the most important principles for nourishing brains as we age. He describes what he calls the "dopamine lollipop," which is the surge of dopamine created by activities such as teaching and physical activities like dancing. Some of his ideas ...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - October 23, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Aging and the Brain Books Brain Plasticity Dementia dopamine Exercise and Play Interviews Meditation and the Brain Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
TWiV Special: Tear it up with David Tuller
David Tuller returns to discuss his efforts to expose the methodological and ethical problems with the PACE trial for ME/CFS. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello Guest: David Tuller Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode All of David's ME/CFS articles at virology blog David Tuller on Twitter Through the Shadowlands by Julie Rehmeyer Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees. Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv (Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition)
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 14, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Pre-operative fasting in children
In the first of two October 2017 BJA Education podcasts, Dr Mark Thomas from Great Ormand Street Hospital in London discusses his paper on pre-operative fasting in children. The discussion explores the evidence base for fluid fasting in paediatrics, and strategies to minimise the duration of fluid fasting whilst maintaining patient safety. There is a blog associated with this paper on OUP blogs. (Source: CEACCP Podcasts)
Source: CEACCP Podcasts - October 2, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Oxford University Press Source Type: podcasts
Seth Grant's latest Research (BS 137)
Seth Grant has made a career by combining his skills in molecular biology, medicine and neuroscience. Brain Science listeners may remember him best for his explorations of the evolution of the synapse (BSP 51) and in BSP 101 he told us about how small genetic changes related to synapse proteins can influence learning, but this month he shares a new paper, which describes what he calls the "genetic lifespan calendar.” The key idea is that the genes in both the mouse and human brain appear to follow a predictable schedule. Grant’s team also found that they could predict the age of a brain by looking at its transcrip...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - September 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Evolution Brain Plasticity Brain Research Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Synapses Source Type: podcasts
HIV in pregnancy - "without the big picture, people aren't going to be able to take the medication"
A new Rapid Recommendation from The BMJ suggests that for pregnant women, they may wish to avoid certain antiviral treatments for HIV.
This recommendation differs from the WHO's, and to discuss why that is, and what makes that difference important, we're joined by Reed Siemieniuk, a physician and methodologist from McMaster University, and Alice Welbourn, campaigner for gender and sexual and reproductive health rights, in the con text of HIV and violence against women.
Read the full rapid recommendation:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3961
And Alice Welborn's opinion article:http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/09/11/ali...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 15, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
HIV in pregnancy - ”without the big picture, people aren’t going to be able to take the medication”
A new Rapid Recommendation from The BMJ suggests that for pregnant women, they may wish to avoid certain antiviral treatments for HIV.
This recommendation differs from the WHO's, and to discuss why that is, and what makes that difference important, we're joined by Reed Siemieniuk, a physician and methodologist from McMaster University, and Alice Welbourn, campaigner for gender and sexual and reproductive health rights, in the context of HIV and violence against women.
Read the full rapid recommendation:
http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3961
And Alice Welborn's opinion article:
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/09/11/ali...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 15, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Why Reading Science Matters (BS 136)
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The latest episode of Brain Science (BS 136) is discussion of Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg . Unfortunately I was unable to reach the author, so this is a return the show's early days when it was not dominated by interviews. This book contains information that is important to anyone who cares about how children learn to read. One key theme is that there is a large gap between current reading science and educational practice.In this podcast we explore the relati...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - August 28, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Cognitive Science Computation Development Language learning Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Reading and the Brain Source Type: podcasts
Behind the Scenes of a First Presentation at a Major Meeting
With video blogs and photos we follow Sheila Sahni as she prepares to give her first major presentation at a medical meeting. Would she do it again? (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - August 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Lisa Barrett on How Emotions are Made (BS 135)
Lisa Felman Barrett (click to play interview)
In How Emotions are Made, neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges a key long-standing assumption about emotions. She argues persuasively that the evidence does not support the idea that emotions are universal and hardwired. She calls this the classical theory because versions of this idea have been around at least since the ancient Greeks, but the idea was also one that Darwin embraced. It is also embedded in several past episodes of this podcast, including the popular interviews with Jaak Panksepp.In the Brain Science 135 I spoke with D...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Limbic System Books Brain Evolution Emotion Interviews learning Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
4 Answers to the Purpose of Life
People sometimes ask what is the purpose of life? Why should we exist or chose to continue existing? To them I typically pose a counter question, what purpose would *you* like to have for life and can you live your life ‘as if’ that is the purpose of life? See an example answer I provide here about the meaning/ purpose of life.
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However, this post is not about such philosophical questions. Instead it builds on my previous posts about 4 major goals in life worth striving for. To recap the four major goals are 1) Happiness 2) Success 3) Morality 4) Meaning.
Sometimes you co...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness moral sense meaning Morality Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 451: Expectorate the unexpected
The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.Hosts: Vincent Racaniello,Alan Dove,Rich Condit, andKathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV!Links for this episodeDriving past a milestone (TWiP 100)Debug Fresno (Verily blog)What could possibly go wrong? (TWiV 388)Chestnut blight (ProMedMail)Hypovirusmolecular biology (Adv Virus Res)Mosquitoes transmitunique WNV populations (Cell Rep)Teaching science using pseudoscienceImage creditLetters read on TWiV 451Weekly Science PicksKathy -Approaching Jupiter andMic...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 23, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
