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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.
May 28, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Just as we learn of favorable studies about rTMS (see yesterday's post on this blog), studies that suggest that ECT could be surpassed, the ECT camp fires again. A new study by Sackeim indicates that a new form of ECT...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:12 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Jonah posted an interesting video of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) on The Frontal Cortex. That got me to wondering if there was anything new. In January 2007, the US FDA concluded that rTMS was safe, but they were unconvinced of...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:49 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2008
Category: Environment
I'm harping on the same string. A month ago, I noted how it was not necessary for terrorists to figure out how to poison us. Our own companies are doing it for them. Now, our government is doing a heck...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2008
Category: Photos of Interest
I am not sure that it would make sense to grow artichokes, if the garden were serving to supply food in a crisis. But we are not having a crisis yet, so we can have fun. Artichokes are good,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 6:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Energy
Despite a chorus among citizenry and punditry to end oil company subsidies, it turns out that yet another has been foisted upon us. What is worse, it was created under the guise of a populist program: Households will spend about...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 4:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 24, 2008
Category: Medicine
Sleepdoctor (Michael Rack) alerts us to a new pharmaceutical product in development: BGC20-0166. He doesn't say a lot, except to dismiss it out of hand. That is appropriate, but I thought I'd add a bit of explanation. His post:...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
I have to admit, I retain some skepticism about the concept of Seasonal Affective Disorder. Research such as the topic of this post helps, though, to lend some credibility to the concept. It is true that exposure to bright...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 21, 2008
Category: Social Commentary
Politics: ON NPR today, they were talking about the "mistakes" of the Clinton campaign. I was annoyed by that. Framing the issue in that way implies that a) the race was hers to lose, and b) the outcome is not...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 10:43 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 14, 2008
Category: Academia
I realize that in the spectrum of boneheaded moves by the Administration, this one is not the most extreme. Still, it was a pretty dumb thing to do. Blunt Federal Letters Tell Students They're Security Threats By SCOTT SHANE Published:...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:36 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 12, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
A while back, Gred Laden and Dr. Shock independently linked to a remarkable video. In it, a famous author-surgeon-professor reveals that he had had an episode of severe depression. Moreover, he underwent treatment with electroconvulsive therapy. It worked, he got...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:23 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
