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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.
November 30, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
A great deal of evidence has accumulated that there is a problem with regulation of cortisol levels in persons with posttraumatic stress disorder. Several years ago, it was demonstrated that adult offspring of persons with PTSD had lower circulating cortisol...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:08 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
Category: Science News
For years, universities have struggled to find ways to move esoteric technologies from the lab to the commercial sector. Now, scientists at UC Merced have begun to grapple with another problem: how to move technology from the toy shop into...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:36 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 27, 2007
Category: Armchair Musings
1. Good music can neither be created, nor destroyed. All the good music already exists. It does not matter how many hours you spend at the keyboard trying to come up with something new. All of your efforts are in...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:44 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 26, 2007
Category: Social Commentary
I've rarely linked to Kos before; this is probably the second time (I'm a liberal, just not that kind of liberal). However, the recent post on the reality of the Iraq war demands some commentary. Plus, there is no point...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Using my new Firefox search box to search ScienceBlogs, I learned that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) retards neural growth, screws up the circadian clock, is the subject of moralistic cartoons, and that it cannot be cured. True enough, it...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 25, 2007
Category: Photos of Interest
Bosque del Apache is a somewhat famous site for people to go to see migratory birds as they (birds) fly south. I believe these are snow geese (Chen caerulescens), but I am not sure. Flickr has a lot of...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 11:01 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Agomelatine is a new chemical entity that is nearing approval for treatment of depression. It was developed by Servier Laboratories; they have entered into an agreement with Novartis for commercialization of the product (Valdoxan®). This represents a new approach to...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:28 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 24, 2007
Category: Humor
The treehuggers at TreeHugger saw right through this one. Safeway is now selling "organic water." I find the last point especially amusing: "No Genetic Modification." Greenwashing to the extreme. HT: J-Walk Blog Beta...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Social Commentary
On 24 November, 1859, Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, was published. Things haven't been the same, ever since. For example, the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:12 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 23, 2007
Category: Energy
Apparently, it is not only possible to run a household with a battery, but to run 25,000 with a battery: a battery that uses uranium hydride. The device is being developed from technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory, by a...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:29 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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