Yearly Archive for 2007
Do You Really Need Surgery?
One of the inherent problems with the field of Surgery is that aside from emergency surgery, surgical indications can be somewhat nebulous.If you are a victim of trauma and in a life and death situation, a surgeon can do surgery on you in order to save your life if you are not able to make medical decisions. Physicians in general walk a fine line between "doing what is necessary" and "doing what is necessary and defensible in a court of law."
A Compelling Reason to Finish High School?
A new Finnish study published in Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology, concludes that not finishing high school is an independent risk factor for developing dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD) later on in life, compared to those who entered higher education. The study carried out on 1,388 participants, followed them up for an average of 21 years through middle-life and beyond. Participants were categorized according to whether they finished elementary school, middle school or high school, and it was found that compared to those with elementary education only, middle school leavers had a 40 percent lower risk of developing dementia. For those with high school education and beyond, the comparative reduction of risk was 80 percent.
Your Sixth Sense, or Eighth, Needs Menudo
In grammar school, they told us that thought was the sixth sense. But you hear all kinds of crazy things in grammar school. The picnic benches had bolts that, should their paint chip off, would release kooties, but I live to tell you about it.Thinking is largely about processing existing sensory data, so I suppose that's why you don't hear that it's the sixth sense. Intuition is a candidate for "sensiness," because of the roundabout way that most people become conscious of intuition, but it's still a form of thought. Well, unless you believe that your intuition is psychic. Now that would be sensing transpersonal or otherwise cosmic information with a yet undiscovered sense organ. Hold that thought.
Brain Blogging, Nineteenth Edition
Welcome to the nineteenth edition of Brain Blogging -- a semi-monthly blog carnival that aims to review posts "related to the brain and mind that go beyond the basic sciences into a more human and multidimensional perspective."
Popular Posts
- Mind Games - Science's Attempts at Thought Control
- The Science of Stuttering
- Risks of Personalized Medicine
- Intelligence - Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
- Is Grief a Mental Illness?
- The Brain's Buying Power
- The Cost of a Good Night's Sleep
- Inside Your Brain on Holiday
- Risk Factors for Recurrence of Depression
- Salvia Divinorum - DEA Control over Magic in the Mint
Future Posts
Latest Posts
- Intelligence – Do You Need it to be Successful?
- A Trip for Terminal Patients
- Memory Ain’t What It Used to Be – And That’s Good for Psychotherapy
- The Science of Stuttering
- Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
- Beer – The Smarter Drink
- Macroeconomics and Suicide
- From Nymphomania to Hypersexuality
- Commitment – It’s the new Love
- Religion and Depression – Cause or Effect?
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