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June 22, 2006
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) currently is being
investigated as a treatment for major depression. (See
href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar06/3050">Psychiatry's
Shocking New Tools in IEEE Spectrum.)
Now, there is a report that it also may be useful for
migraine headache…
June 21, 2006
The title of this post is taken from the title of a USC
href="http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/7800.html">press
release, about a topic in neuroscience. A guy at
USC named
href="http://geon.usc.edu/%7Ebiederman/" rel="tag">Irving
Biederman is studying the role of opioid (
title="…
June 20, 2006
I'm sitting here, wondering why in the world I wrote so much about a
topic that is of no more than passing interest to me. Perhaps
if I keep writing, I will figure it out.
Note: this will not make much sense unless you've already read Janet's
more recent post on the topic of breastfeeding, here…
June 20, 2006
Sometimes, when I write about new psychotropic medication coming to
market, I include a comment on the abuse potential. For
example, I've commented before on the relative lack of abuse potential
for
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozerem" rel="tag">ramelteon
(
href="http://www.rozerem.…
June 18, 2006
Back in 2004 I
href="http://trots.blogspot.com/2004/05/functional-neuroimagingintroduction.html">blogged
about a study of functional neuroimaging. That was one view:
the technical/scientific side of things.
Today, I got another view. On the blog Brian Kerr,
Brian wrote
about a project he…
June 18, 2006
Moose, Isle Royale National ParkNational Park Service Photo,
presumed to be in public domain
Sometimes I am talking to people about how they feel about taking
psychiatric medication. Commonly, they say something like
this: "I would rather be able to do it myself," or, "I don't like being…
June 17, 2006
The Sunday Times in the UK is reporting on efforts to being criminal
charges against a doctor who claimed that the MMR vaccine caused
autism. Millions of children went unvaccinated, and now the
UK has an outbreak of measles.
Continue below the fold...
href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/…
June 17, 2006
Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day.
Teach a fish to write, and humans will eat forever.
This tuna is said to have a verse from the Koran on its side: "Wallahu
khayru razikiyna" (God is the greatest of all providers).
HT:
href="http://www.whatwouldjesussee.com/2006/05/how-do-you-tuna-…
June 16, 2006
This is pretty sickening:
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1799772,00.html">Drugs
firm blocks cheap blindness cureCompany will only seek licence for medicine that costs
100
times moreSarah Boseley, health editorSaturday June 17, 2006
A major drug company is blocking access to…
June 16, 2006
What Ever Happened to Psychotherapy?
Or rather, what is happening to psychotherapy?
Here, I am picking up on a comment thread at Mad
Melancholic Feminista, under
href="http://melancholicfeminista.blogspot.com/2006/06/prozac-doesnt-get-anorexics-eating.html">the
post that Aspazia did about…
June 16, 2006
ScienceBlogs visitors prefer
href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/" rel="tag">Firefox.
If you lump together all the open-source browsers, they
account for over 50% of the page views here.
Highly-educated users use Firefox.
June 15, 2006
The mission of ScienceBlogs is to have the
href="http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:u_aOpFk1_6IJ:www.seedmediagroup.com/press/releases/SMG_01.25.06.pdf+web+largest+conversation+about+science&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox-a">Web's
largest conversation about…
June 15, 2006
This week's question:
How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.),
various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their
primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically?
There are a few things to say about this. It helps to be
proficient with the technology involved, so…
June 15, 2006
President Bush got a lot of credit for designating the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands a national monument. The
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/science/earth/15hawaii.html?ex=1308024000&en=ce5a20136199dc60&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">description
in the New York…
June 15, 2006
While doing background research for my next post, I learned that this
is National
Men's Health Week.
href="http://www.menshealthweek.org/">
The National Men's Health Week is an official government activity in
accordance with Senate
Joint Resolution 179 of 1994, introduced by
Senator Bob…
June 14, 2006
I used to work in an eating disorders treatment program. From
time to time, I give talks on the subject. When I get to the
part about the use of psychiatric medication, I always start with
something like this: "frankly, the role of medication in the treatment
of eating disorders is extremely…
June 13, 2006
I've been working on a longish post that I am not yet happy with.
In the meantime, I am going to post this, just to call
attention to somebody else's work. I guess it also adds a
little local flavor to this blog.
href="http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2006/06/interview_bob_o.html">Interview:…
June 12, 2006
This post is not interesting to specialists, but
may be of some use to
others. I'm writing it mostly because the matter has been
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061200722.html">reported
in the mainstream press, and I think some clarification is in…
June 11, 2006
In 2004, a company called
rel="tag">Allerca started taking $250 deposits for
cats
that it intended to produce. It said that the cats would not
provoke allergies in humans. In a CNN
href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/10/27/biotechnology.cats/">article:
Cat allergies are caused by a…
June 11, 2006
UCSF has issued a
href="http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/200606091/">press
release describing their trial of a vaccine,
href="http://www.nabi.com/pipeline/pipeline.php?id=3" rel="tag">NicVAX®
(Nicotine Conjugate Vaccine) , for treatment of nicotine addiction.
The product is made…
June 10, 2006
No, it's not a new concept car from Detroit. It is a website
that is designed to collect suggestions for the next edition of the
Diagnostical and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). It occurred to me to mention it
here, after reading a recent article in Seed
magazine.
href="http://www.seedmagazine.com/…
June 10, 2006
Memoirs are a big thing in the popular-book publishing arena these
days. It is a fad that is sure to pass. I intend to
hasten its passing with a micro-memoir of my own.
I am in Chicago. I have come to Chicago to visit the
University of Chicago, and to collect 23 of my chromosomes.
(They…
June 9, 2006
The ask-a-scienceblogger question for this week was submitted by a
reader, Jake Bryan, who comments on Science Blogs as "chezjake."
"Assuming that time and money were not obstacles,
what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would
you most like to explore? Why?
It did not…
June 8, 2006
A news item that was displayed prominently on Google News
for a couple of days, which was picked up by hundreds of news outlets,
was an item about
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_Explosive_Disorder"
rel="tag">Intermittent Explosive Disorder.
One
example is
href="http://www.…