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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.
September 28, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
The new drug is called iloperidone; the brand name in the USA will be Fanapt. It is yet another antipsychotic that blocks D2 and 5HT2 receptors. Although there is no universally accepted way of classifying drugs into families, it will...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:51 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 25, 2009
Category: Medicine
Practitioners are warned that it is astonishingly easy to make dosing errors with the oral suspension of Tamiflu (oseltamivir). This is a product that is mostly given to kids, although it could be used for adults who have difficulty swallowing,...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 3:26 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
A recent report refers to the increasing number of Alzheimer patient an "emergency." Yet, despite an enormous amount of research, and a handful of drugs, we are not particularly close to having a robust intervention for this condition. Perhaps the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 21, 2009
Category: Social Issues
This is kind of strange: a post about an insurance company, that has nothing to do with health care. Guideone Mutual Insurance Company recently settled a lawsuit in which religious discrimination was alleged. This had to do with a "product"...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:49 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 17, 2009
Category: Humor
The people of Obama are selling jellyfish candy. Really. The photo shows a diver next to a specimen of Nomura's jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai. These creatures occasionally swarm off the coast of Japan, where they are a nuisance. Some creative souls...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:51 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 15, 2009
Category: Politics
There is an interesting parallel between the fight over rural electrification, in 1935, and the current health insurance debate. (HT dangerousmeta) How FDR Enacted his "Public Option" By Bob Simmons, Crosscut.com, Guest Writer, 9-13-09...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:57 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 14, 2009
Category: Medicine
The SEIU website makes an astonishing claim: But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that "domestic violence victim"...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:18 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2009
Category: Politics
I understand as well as anyone, that the health care finance reform process has been dispiriting so far. Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina has brought the process to a new low. So low, in fact, that his website is...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 1:37 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 8, 2009
Category: Psychiatry
Poets on Prozac is the short title of a book by psychiatrist-poet Richard M. Berlin, MD. The full title is: Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process. Berlin was an associate professor of psychiatry at the University...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:44 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 3, 2009
Category: Armchair Musings
The odd thing about the Pfizer story is that it is old news. Fierce Pharma wrote about it on 26 January 2009, and Neuron Culture posted about it, on 27 January 2009. Yet it just appeared in the New York...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
