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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.
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Category: Science in the Media
The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued a press release: UCS Gives Obama High Marks on Scientific Integrity for First 100 Days. Granted, after suffering through eight years of the Bush II Administation, they'd probably give high marks to Pee...
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Category: Science in the Media
When I was at work today, I saw a headline that irritated me. I decided I would blog about it when I got home. But now the headline has been changed. I will still blog about it, though. The original...
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Category: Psychiatry
I chose three articles from this month's edition of Archives of General Psychiatry, upon which to comment. For those not familiar with it, Arch Gen Psychiatry is an AMA journal, like JAMA, but for psychiatrists. It's an influential journal....
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Category: Science in the Media
Welcome to the Lake Wobegon Scientific Society Journal, where all research studies are "authoritative", all scientists "experts", all findings "breakthroughs". Not to mention "above average". That happens to be almost a direct quote from a recent article in the the...
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Category: Medicine
When generic drugs started to become popular, many people were skeptical. Many people got switched from brand name to generic products, and complained that the generic did not work as well. These complaints often were treated with skepticism. After all,...
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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: 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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Category: Psychiatry
Usually I cringe when I see yet another newspaper article about suicide. But I always read them. This time, I did cringe, but needlessly. The article turned out to be OK. F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials By GARDINER...
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Category: Medicine
Any time something related to a medical use for cannabis is found, it makes headlines. Mostly, the interest is generated by the relationship to an illegal drug. Sometimes, though, the media do a decent job of reporting the real issue....
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Category: Photos of Interest
Tilly is an eagle that has been trained to fly with a pair of video cameras. The cameras weigh less than 30 grams and can transmit video signals more than a mile. I gather this was shown on Aminal...
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