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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 21, 2010
Category: Armchair Musings
James Gunn, the director for the movie Slither, seems to be enthralled by creepy crawly things. He also has a blog-like website, on which he posted Evolution Fucked Your Shit Up: The World's 50 Freakiest Animals. (HT: Interesting Pile.) The...
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February 14, 2010
Category: Armchair Musings
Sometimes I see sad-looking plants on clearance, buy them, and try to heal them. This activity provides me with a gratification that is similar to that which comes from healing sad-looking people, but without the tribulations that occur if it...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:54 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 10, 2010
Category: Psychiatry
The American Psychiatric Association has gone public with the details of their proposed revisions to their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. As expected, most of this is bland and not worthy of attention from the general public. Unfortunately, as Benedict Carey...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 7:46 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 1, 2010
Category: Neuroscience
Objective diagnosis is in some ways the holy grail of medicine. It has been maddeningly elusive in psychiatry. Now comes a paper in which the authors suggest that they may have found this treasure. The paper details a method of...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:08 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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