Memo To White Nationalists From A Geneticist: Why White Purity Is A Terrible Idea
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August 14th, UCLA researchers Aaron Panofsky and Joan Donovan presented
findings of their study, “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic
Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists,” at a sociology
conference in Montreal. They’d analyzed 3,070 comments organized into 70
threads publicly posted to the (sometimes difficult to access) “social movement
online community” Stormfront.Former
KKK Grand Wizard Don Black launched Stormfront on March 27, 1995. Posts exceed
12 million, ramping up since the 2016 election season. Panofsky and Donovan’s
report has ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 29, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Genetics Health Care Ethics and Hate syndicated Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: August 26, 2017
Happy Saturday, sweet readers!
Can you believe it’s the last weekend of August? I know summer doesn’t technically end as soon as August is over, but…where did the summer go?!
Well, before you head out to enjoy the weekend, take some time to catch up on the science of spirituality, why having a best friend as a teenager helps develop a sense of self later in life, how winning the lottery will contribute little to your level of happiness, and more.
The Science of Spirituality: A Psychologist and a Neuroscientist Explain Being ‘In The Flow’: Although spirituality is making a big mainstream comeb...
Source: World of Psychology - August 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Alzheimer's Anxiety and Panic Autism Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Depression Friends Happiness Health-related Memory and Perception Money and Financial OCD Psychology Psychology Around the Net Research Spirituality Source Type: blogs
EU Gives First Approval for Ultra-High-Field MRI Scanner, The Siemens Magnetom Terra
Siemens Healthineers just won the first European regulatory approval for an ultra-high-field MRI scanner to be used in clinical practice. The Magnetom Terra sports a magnetic field strength of 7 Tesla, which is considerably more powerful than 3 Tesla, the current high-end standard. MRIs of such strength have been used in research hospitals for years, so it’s a welcome sign that they’re going to be used in more routine applications. Additionally, the new scanner can be easily switched from clinical protocols to those used in research and back, as needed, providing the greatest applicability to hospitals that wou...
Source: Medgadget - August 25, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Critical Care Emergency Medicine ENT Neurology Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
How To Prevent Burnout: A Case in Point. Frederick This One.
By MARTIN A. SAMUELS
I posted an essay on The Health Care Blog (entitled The Prevention of Physician Burnout: A Nine Step Program. Here is an example of how this works. Recall the wonderful children’s book by Leo Lionni, Frederick. Let me remind you of it.
A family of mice begins to store away food and supplies for the long winter ahead. Most are practical and gather corn, grains, and straw. One of the mice, Frederick, instead collects rays of sun, colors of the rainbow, and words to remember. When winter arrives the family begins to use up their practical supplies. They become irritable and angry and don’t ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
How To Prevent Burnout. Frederick This One.
By MARTIN A. SAMUELS
I posted an essay on The Health Care Blog entitled The Prevention of Physician Burnout: A Nine Step Program. Here is an example of how this works. Recall the wonderful children’s book by Leo Lionni, Frederick. Let me remind you of it.
A family of mice begins to store away food and supplies for the long winter ahead. Most are practical and gather corn, grains, and straw. One of the mice, Frederick, instead collects rays of sun, colors of the rainbow, and words to remember. When winter arrives the family begins to use up their practical supplies. They become irritable and angry and don’t h...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Burnout Frederick Martin Samuels Source Type: blogs
Stimulating the Brain with Magnetic Fields Can Control Movement
Section of a mouse brain with injected magnetic nanoparticles (colored red) covering targeted cells in the striatum.
Scientists have developed a method to stimulate small clusters of brain cells using magnetic fields. Using this technique, they were able to control movement in mice.
Understanding how the brain works is an ongoing effort, with a huge number of research teams working intensively to unlock its secrets. As part of this effort, an international group of scientists has developed a new method called magneto-thermal stimulation to activate very small areas of the brain. They hope that the technique could lead to a...
Source: Medgadget - August 17, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
What do primary care doctors need? More time.
While in training, we were told that we were not efficient if we couldn’t see 20 or more patients and complete our notes for billing. We were told that primary care offices were asking our residency program for our efficacy data before consideration of hire. This was the line drawn in the sand by our new health care system. We would either rise to the occasion or be harassed by the administration and coding department because we were not producing. These efforts were done in the name of efficiency for us to be “better doctors.” Unfortunately, this blind faith in productivity was squeezing every ounce of humanity out ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cole-zanetti" rel="tag" > Cole Zanetti < /a > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Executive Functions in Health and Disease: New book to help integrate Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
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Neuroscience used to be the monopoly of a few elite universities located in a handful of countries. Neuropsychology used to be a quaint niche discipline relatively unconnected to the larger world of neuroscience and content in its methods with paper-and-pencil tests. Neuroscience itself was relatively unconcerned with higher-order cognition, and the very term “cognitive neuroscience” was often met with rolled eyes by scientists working in more established areas of brain research (a personal observation made in the 1980s and even 1990s on more than one occasion). And the interest...
Source: SharpBrains - August 8, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Elkhonon Goldberg Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Alexander-Luria clinical psychologists cognition cognitive-psychologists disease Executive-Functions frontal-lobe medical neurologists neuropsychologists Neuropsyc Source Type: blogs
How Do US Vaccine Rates, Policies and Children ’s Health Compare to Other Countries?
Conclusion
The US has the highest vaccination rate of all industrialized countries. US children are experiencing a health epidemic with more chronic diseases than ever before in our history. The US has the highest infant mortality in a study comparing America with 29 other developed countries. Children in the US suffered with more autism than in all other countries studied.
Studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated show conclusively that unvaccinated children enjoy far superior health. Research and data demonstrate that vaccines cause neurological damage and contribute to significant health damage.
Vaccines are a major...
Source: vactruth.com - July 29, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Picks autism truth about vaccines vaccine injuries Source Type: blogs
Ketogenic diet: Is the ultimate low-carb diet good for you?
Recently, many of my patients have been asking about a ketogenic diet. Is it safe? Would you recommend it? Despite the recent hype, a ketogenic diet is not something new. In medicine, we have been using it for almost 100 years to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, especially in children. In the 1970s, Dr. Atkins popularized his very-low-carbohydrate diet for weight loss that began with a very strict two-week ketogenic phase. Over the years, other fad diets incorporated a similar approach for weight loss.
What is a ketogenic diet?
In essence, it is a diet that causes the body to release ketones into the bloodstream. Most cells ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Role of the Vestibular System in the Construction of Self
How do we construct a unified self-identity as a thinking and feeling person inhabiting a body, separate and unique from other entities? A “self” with the capacity for autobiographical memory and complex thought? Traditionally, the field of cognitive science has been concerned with explaining the mind in isolation from the body.The growing field ofembodied cognition, on the other hand, seeks to rejoin them. One major strand has focused ongrounding higher-order semantics and language understanding inperceptual and sensory-motor representations. This view is distinct from theories of knowledge based on abstract, amodal r...
Source: The Neurocritic - July 16, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
LivaNova ’s Seizure Fighting Vagus Nerve Stimulators Approved for MRI
LivaNova, a company with offices in Texas and Belgium that makes vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) systems that help to prevent the onset of epileptic seizures, received FDA approval for patients with the implants to be free to undergo MRI scans. While some precautions are still necessary, the previous MRI related approval required special equipment to be used during scans that is rarely available. The new approval essentially means that patients should be able to safely receive MRI scans at any imaging facility, greatly expanding the diagnostic options for people that have a high chance of requiring imaging in the future.
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Source: Medgadget - June 22, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Radiology Source Type: blogs
Smart brains up in Canada: 11 early-stage neurotech entrepreneurs receive award by The Ontario Brain Institute (OBI)
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A record 11 Ontario innovators awarded $50,000 to become Ontario Neurotech Entrepreneurs (press release):
“The Ontario Brain Institute [OBI] today announced the 2017 winners of its pioneering Ontario Neurotech (ONtrepreneurs) program to help early-stage entrepreneurs take their ideas “from the lab to the marketplace.”
Since 2012, the ONtrepreneurs program has awarded $50,000 to each winner and has supported 34 entrepreneurs to-date. The program flows directly from OBI’s mandate to unlock the huge commercial and medical potential from what is already one of the largest communities of brain scientists in the worl...
Source: SharpBrains - June 22, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology Awake Labs Brain-health digital health Epineuron Technologies HiNT IBM IBM Canada IBM Global Entrepreneur Program marketplace Mobio Interactive NetraMark neurological neurotech Ontario Onta Source Type: blogs
The Top 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Pharma
The drug sends a message to a caregiver after the patient swallowed it. The doctor prescribes virtual reality treatments for migraines. Do you think it is science fiction? You are mistaken. Just let me familiarize you with the top 10 trends shaping the future of pharma.
I gave a speech recently to an audience of professionals working in healthcare regulation for the invitation of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association in Washington. After the keynote, a guy raised his hand and asked me the following: how can a regulatory agency keep up with the speed of new technologies in pharma? I get a lot of questions like this o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma 3d printing artificial intelligence augmented reality digital health gc4 Innovation nanotechnology Personalized medicine pharmacies pharmacogenetics pharmacology virtual reality VR Source Type: blogs
