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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.
February 28, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
Judith Warner has some insightful essays in the NYT column, pertaining to the long-raging question about whether psychiatric patients are overmedicated or undermedicated. One of the essays addresses the question directly: Overselling Overmedication Judith Warner February 14, 2008 ...In the...
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Category: Photos of Interest
I noticed this photo on Flickr... A smile is always worth something....
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February 25, 2008
Category: Bioethics
A fellow blogger, Logtar, tipped me off to a controversy, and asked if I had anything to say about it. The controversy has come about over an exhibit: Bodies Revealed. It's a traveling exhibit that displays plastinated human cadavers. The...
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February 23, 2008
Category: Humor
Sigmund Freud was right about a lot of things, but he also was wrong about a lot of things. For example, he thought that there were only two fundamental motivations: sex and aggression. Bloggers know better, as this xkcd panel...
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February 19, 2008
Category: Medicine
The FDA has been making a strenuous effort to combat the problem of look-alike, sound-alike drug names. The reason is simple: there have been tens of thousands of documented medication errors, in which the wrong drug is substituted for a...
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February 18, 2008
Category: Science News
Do cell phones decrease male fertility? Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic think so. According to Ashok Agarwal, et. al., greater use of cell phones is associated with decreased sprem count. Other factors, such as sperm motility, are diminished as well....
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February 17, 2008
Category: Medicine
The US Food and Drug Administration is a weird chimera: it contains some elements of rule-bound regulatory hell, and some elements of laissez-faire libertarianism. On the libertarian side, they allow physicians to prescribe any drug that they have approved, even...
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February 11, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
I noticed while writing this, that the word numb, if modified by adding the suffix -er, becomes an entirely different word. Number does not convey the meaning of more numb. According to Answers.com, number is a adjective, with the root...
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February 10, 2008
Category: Humor
...You are trying to run a country. What would you like to do? This must be old, before Powell joined the torrent of acceptably competent persons leaving the Administration, and before MS Office 2007. It is still funny. HT: Dark...
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February 7, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
Zyprexa Adhera is a new formulation of Eli LIlly's antipsychotic medication, olanzapine. It contains the same active ingredient as the pills, but it is a long-acting injection. It is supposed to last two to four weeks. There is not a...
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