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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.
July 31, 2008
Category: Social Issues
This chart shows that the economy is almost back to normal. Just a little farther to go, then the mission will have been accomplished. What is odd about this, is that it excludes income from capital gains. I suspect that...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:47 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2008
Category: Psychiatry
This is a nice little case report from the European Journal of Psychiatry. The translation is a little rough, but the information is good. Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: Possible relationship between Neuroleptic Treatment And Smoking Cessation Mª José Martín Vázquez PhD...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:55 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 28, 2008
Category: Environment
Sustainability is a modern-day buzzword. It is used so much that it is at risk of suffering from a dilution of meaning. But is still is an important concept. In August 2004, President Bush boasted that home ownership in the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:44 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 27, 2008
Category: Chatter
It is impossible to know if this is serious, or satire....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 12:20 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 23, 2008
Category: Medicine
Harvard Medical School recently completed a review of their required premedical curriculum, culminating with the development of recommended changes. The outcome of this process is reported in an article in the recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:44 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 21, 2008
Category: Armchair Musings
Many years ago, I was browsing thought the Borders bookstore, one of the earliers ones, on State Street in Ann Arbor, and encountered a book about psychotherapy. It claimed to be a sort of encyclopedia of named styles of psychotherapy....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:29 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2008
Category: Chatter
The Pew Research Center informs us that today's number is 46%. That is the percentage of independent voters who are undecided about their choice for President in the November election in the USA. This is "much higher" than the same...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:28 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 18, 2008
Category: Energy
The House is considering legislation that would do two things: force oil companies to give up unused leases, and ban the export of oil from Alaska. It's brilliant because it highlights the absurd fallacy: that opening up more land for...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:41 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2008
Category: Photos of Interest
This is a photo from a collection of images that were modified using GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program. There is a small collection of such photos at Tech Source From Bohol. This particular image is at a...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:20 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 15, 2008
Category: Medicine
Restless Legs Syndrome has been more in the public eye lately. I understand this is because of aggressive direct-to-consumer advertising. I'm not much of a consumer, so I haven't seen the ads, but people tell me about them. Whatever...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:26 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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