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The Corpus Callosum is an occasional journal of armchair musings, by a suburban, reality-based, slightly-left-of-center guy, who reserves the right to be highly irregular at times. Topics: social commentary, neuroscience, politics, science news. Mission: to develop connections between hard science and social science, using linear thinking and intuition; and to explore the relative merits of spontaneity vs. strategy.
Corpus Callosum is written by a psychiatrist at a small community hospital somewhere in the USA. Email to cc.scienceblogger at gmail dot com.
June 30, 2006
Category: Medicine
There's a brief article on Medpage Today, about a small study that suggests that improving sleep can improve the course of a particular type of headache. (A nicety to the article is that it provides 0.25 CME's.) They write specifically...
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Category: Social Issues
This is a response to this week's Ask-A-ScienceBlogger question. I must say, it took a while to come up with a reasonable answer. I finally settled on environmental policy. The Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970, mostly in response...
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June 29, 2006
Category: Medicine
I'm getting ready for work, so I won't take the time to write about this at length. It is just one of those things that is a bit startling and I often like to post such things. This is from...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:57 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 27, 2006
Category: Medicine
Sarah Berga, et. al. presented a paper at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Prague, about the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy for treatment of infertility. It this post, I elaborate on some of the details...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 5:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
Fresh from a bout with the Press regarding disclosures of spying on financial institutions, Vice-president Cheney has taken up a new cause. The Reuters news agency has revealed operational details of yet another spy plot: Scientists seek to spy on...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2006
Category: Politics
I used to blog about this kind of thing fairly often. I do it less, now, partly because so many other people are ding a fine job themselves. This time, I am not writing in order to make a significant...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:12 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
Project Mohole got underway in 1961, with undersea drilling off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The idea was to get geological core samples from a bore hole, to learn about the nature of the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (the boundary between the earth's...
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June 25, 2006
Category: Psychiatry
I got an email that I almost deleted without reading, thinking for a moment that it would be spam. It turned out not to be. Since the author appears to be well-intentioned, I'll go ahead and post it here. He...
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June 23, 2006
Category: Psychiatry
The Washington Post has a mildly interesting article
about Douglas M. Duncan, who just dropped out of the gubernatorial race
in Maryland. Reportedly, he was diagnosed as having depression earlier
in the week, then decided to withdraw...
I am somewhat hopeful that high-profile disclosures such as Duncan's
will help in this regard.
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:46 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
On tonight's edition of the PBS show, On Faith & Reason, Bill Moyers said: Religion is the continuation of politics by other means." This was in the course of a discussion with Salman Rushdie Of course, he was not referring...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
