This is what happened when psychologists gave toddlers a version of the classic Marshmallow Test
By Christian Jarrett The US psychologist Walter Mischel famously tested children’s ability – aged four to six – to delay immediate gratification with his “Marshmallow Experiment”. It’s become a classic, not least because the children who were better at resisting one marshmallow now, for the promise of two if they waited, went on to enjoy more success in adult life. Mischel also showed that children with stronger willpower used better distraction strategies, such as looking away or covering their eyes. Now a group of Polish psychologists have extended this line of inquiry to toddlers. The findin...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Source Type: blogs

Defining Death: Beyond Biology (free symposium issue)
As I prepare for three days of discussing ethical, clinical, and legal issues surrounding brain death; I was delighted to see a 100-page special issue of this Polish philosophy journal devoted to "Defining Death: Beyond Biology."  Defining D... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 4, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Extension
By Tim Lahey Every March I run the last required course at our medical school. It’s a three-week-long, 47-hour sprint – a sort of boot camp for professional formation. We polish clinical skills, revisit foundational sciences, let students pick from a menu of interesting tutorials, and discuss professional formation. Students grapple with hypothetical gastrointestinal crises […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: reflectivemeded Tags: Health Care identity formation medical education medical professionalism mentoring syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Match Day: the perfect ending to the medical school experience
The first week of medical school you became a new person.  Assigned a cadaver and some partners in your first anatomy lab, the gravity of the endeavor struck you to your core as you slowly unzipped the cadaver bag for the first time and met “Ernie” (as you later named him) and wondered how he died.  You looked to the table beside you where blue nail polish could still be seen on the toes of the preserved woman in the next group over.   This was your first experience with learning to detach so that you could do the job at hand.  You delved excitedly into understanding the complexities of the human body. You would d...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/valerie-a-jones" rel="tag" > Valerie A. Jones, MD < /a > Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs

Government Immigrant Assimilation Programs Can Backfire: The Case of German Americans
The assimilation of immigrants and their descendants is important to their long-run success and to maximize the benefits from immigration.  Current research indicates that today’s immigrants are assimilating well.  A massive 520-page literature survey by theNational Academy of Sciences found that assimilation is proceeding apace in the United States although some of those gains are masked by a phenomenon called “ethnic attrition” whereby the most successful and integrated descendants of immigrants cease to self-identify as members of their ancestor’s ethnic groups. Numerous OECDreports find greater economic inte...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 6, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs

From “Grazers” to “Continual Bathers”—Practical Approaches to Meet Hygiene Needs of People With Late Stage Dementia
In a previous post, I outlined the concept behind my Grazers Program for clients with dementia. Grazers sets the framework for a collaborative facility approach to managing deficits in attention and wandering behavior common for people with late-stage dementia. These behaviors can lead to unintentional weight loss and compromised nutritional status, so I came up with Grazers to meet those patients where they are with healthy snacks. If speech-language pathologists can teach caregivers ways to successfully engage people with late-stage dementia and increase their nutritional opportunities throughout the day, why can’t we ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Robert Maxwell Tags: Speech-Language Pathology dementia Health Care skilled nursing facility Source Type: blogs

U.S. to Get Its Own Supply of Radioisotopes Thanks to Approval of RadioGenix System
A good deal of advanced medical imaging to spot cancer tumors, and help to diagnose coronary artery disease and other conditions, relies on injecting radioisotopes into the body whose location can be tracked. The most common is technetium-99m (Tc-99m), but it has been in short supply because there are only a few nuclear power stations around the world making it as a byproduct of highly-enriched uranium, but new technologies are maturing that can help avoid many of the radioisotope sourcing issues that exist to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation and guarantee safety. The FDA and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of ...
Source: Medgadget - February 8, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Nuclear Medicine Oncology Radiation Oncology Source Type: blogs

New Device Combines Different Ophthalmology Equipment Into Single Instrument
Patients receiving comprehensive eye exams have to go from one imaging device to another in order to properly assess their vision. In addition to the hassle, there are costs associated with maintaining and housing multiple pieces of equipment of which only one is usually used at any one time in a typical ophthalmology office. Now researchers at Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland and Universidad de Murcia, Spain have developed a device that can provide different views of the eye, and with an image quality even better than using multiple instruments. Current technology images the eye to about 3 millimeters in depth and c...
Source: Medgadget - January 18, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs

Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
Jump to follow-up On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student.  He said “Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”. He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investigative journalism.  On the same ...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics Uncategorized Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young UCL Source Type: blogs

Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
Jump to follow-up On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student.  He said “Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”. He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investigative journalism.  On the same ...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics UCL Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young Source Type: blogs

Eugenics, UCL and freedom of speech
Jump to follow-up See also The history of eugenics at UCL: the inquiry report. On Monday evening (8th January 2018), I got an email from Ben van der Merwe, a UCL student who works as a reporter for the student newspaper, London Student.  He said “Our investigation has found a ring of academic psychologists associated with Richard Lynn’s journal Mankind Quarterly to be holding annual conferences at UCL. This includes the UCL psychologist professor James Thompson”. He asked me for comment about the “London Conference on Intelligence”. His piece came out on Wednesday 10th January. It was a superb piece of investi...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 14, 2018 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: ethics eugenics genetics Uncategorized Universities University College London Adam Rutherford Francis Galton James Thompson Karl Pearson Steve Jones Toby Young UCL Source Type: blogs

Setting New Year ’s Goals? Even Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference
Whether you think the past year flew by too fast or look to the New Year as a chance to make some positive changes in your life, the change of the calendar can bring some new feelings to the forefront. As audiologists and speech-language pathologists, we look to improve outcomes for our clients, students and patients. Many of us feel overworked and under pressure to help make changes in the lives of the people we serve. Now’s a time to take stock of how to improve our own lives, so we can better prepare to help others. Here are some tips that I used in the past few months to help me clear my mind and be the best clinicia...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 8, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Dan Fitch Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs

Matthew Holt ’ s EOY 2017 letter (charities/issues/gossip)
Right at the end of every year I write a letter summarizing my issues and charities. And as I own the joint here, I post it on THCB! Please take a look–Matthew Holt Well 2017 has been quite a year, and last year 2016 I failed to get my end-of-year letter out at all. This I would like to think was due to extreme business but it probably came down to me being totally lazy. On the other hand like many of you I may have just been depressed about the election–2016 was summed up by our cat vomiting on our bed at 11.55 on New Years Eve. Having said that even though most of you will never comment on this letter and I ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Matthew Holt Charity Patient Activism Source Type: blogs

Antibacterial Nanoscale Etching of Stainless Steel Surfaces
At Georgia Tech, researchers have developed a way of etching stainless steel surfaces so finely that bacteria that come in contact with them end up being pierced and killed. Interestingly, because of the physiological differences between cell types, mammalian cells don’t seem to be significantly impacted by these surfaces. This may point to interesting applications for the technology beyond just treating commonly used surfaces in hospitals and clinics, such as medical implants that resist the formation of bacterial biofilms. Scanning electron microscope images showing the difference in adhesion of E. coli bacteria. T...
Source: Medgadget - December 14, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Public Health Source Type: blogs