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In 1996, Alan Sokal got a bogus paper published in the journal Social Text . It was a parody full of meaningless statements in the jargon of postmodern philosophy and cultural studies. The editors couldn’t tell the difference between Sokal’s nonsense and the usual articles they publish. Now a British professor of medical education, Dr. John McLachlan, has perpetrated a similar hoax on supporters of so-called “integrative” medicine. He reports his prank in an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) .
SCIENCE BASED MEDICINE
Maps can tell surprising stories. About a year ago, Northwestern University psychologist Joan Chiao pondered a set of global maps that confounded conventional notions of what depression is, why we get it, and how genes — the so-called “depression gene” in particular — interact with environment and culture. Chiao had run across data suggesting that many East Asians seemed to carry the “depression gene” — shorter variants, that is, of a mood-regulating gene known as the serotonin transporter gene , or SERT — at unusually high rates. Yet though dozens of studies over the prior 15 years had shown these short SERT genes made people more prone to react to trouble by becoming depressed or anxious,* it was not Chiao’s impression that this association held for most Asians . Then again, no one had gathered the data.
The depression map: genes, culture, serotonin, and a side of pathogens | Wired Science
General Effects of Alcohol on the Brain Alcohol can affect several parts of the brain, but in general, alcohol contracts brain tissue and depresses the central nervous system. Also, alcohol destroys brain cells and unlike many other types of cells in the body, brain cells do not regenerate.
How Alcohol Affects the Brain
Visible Human Project
Overview The Visible Human Project ® is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies.Anatomy and Physiology
Teen Choking Game: Web Videos Alarm Parents and Doctors
When Françoise Cochet saw the cord around her son's neck, she knew that he was dead. Fully clothed and still wearing his sneakers, 14-year-old Nicolas had strangled himself sometime after dinner in their apartment in Nice, France. His mother found him the next morning. "I shut the door so my other two children couldn't see, and I didn't touch the body," she says. "I thought that I couldn't live anymore. I thought I needed to die too."
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DRAGON
At Nuance Healthcare, our mission is to help healthcare providers transform patient stories into high-value information. Our speech-driven clinical understanding solutions and medical voice recognition software, including Dragon Medical 360, increase the quality of documentation, improve efficiency and drive better care – all while putting less burden on clinicians. Nuance Healthcare Overview Brochure Capture Anywhere Nuance Healthcare solutions allow you to capture the patient story in YOUR clinical workflow, systems, and processes.
DASSA & ASSIST
Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia (DASSA) is a Statewide Health Service and is responsible to the Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and is governed by the Department for Health and Ageing, which addresses alcohol, tobacco, pharmaceutical and illicit drug issues across the state. DASSA's strategic intention is the prevention and management of drug problems across South Australia. To learn more about our mission, role, strategic objectives and services, visit About Us .
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