07 Feb 10 Learning to Do Psychotherapy With Psychotic Patients

Dr Elvin Semrad was a much-loved psychiatrist and psychotherapy supervisor who had a profound influence on hundreds of psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the Boston area. One of his unique qualities was his ability to connect empathically with even the most psychotic patients. (Source: Psychiatric Times)

07 Feb 10 Methodology to Analyze Adaptation in Driving Simulators. - Sahami S, Jenkins J, Sayed T.

Adaptation to a driving simulator is one of the necessary conditions for the validity of almost all driving simulator studies. Learning how to control a simulated vehicle requires practice, which will put some mental load on drivers and can distract them f... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

07 Feb 10 Are You Searching for Love in All the Wrong Places?

 We believe that many folks are afraid of marriage because they read the dire predictions about marriage in the news, they watch way too much television where the focus is, more often than not, on glorifying sex and multiple relationships, and because they hear too many people belittling the value and sanctity of marriage. It’s a shame really because it causes people desperate for love to look for love in all the wrong places.There is science involved in understanding why so many marriages beyond the first one fail.  People desperate for love go to singles bars, nightclubs, parties, use dating services, try on-line dating, etc.  Now ask yourself this very honest and forthright question – do you really expect that your best chance to find Mr. or Ms. Right is through one o...

06 Feb 10 How useful is rectal endosonography in the staging of rectal cancer?

Authors: Kav T, Bayraktar Y It is essential in treating rectal cancer to have adequate preoperative imaging, as accurate staging can influence the management strategy, type of resection, and candidacy for neoadjuvant therapy. In the last twenty years, endorectal ultrasound (ERUS) has become the primary method for locoregional staging of rectal cancer. ERUS is the most accurate modality for assessing local depth of invasion of rectal carcinoma into the rectal wall layers (T stage). Lower accuracy for T2 tumors is commonly reported, which could lead to sonographic overstaging of T3 tumors following preoperative therapy. Unfortunately, ERUS is not as good for predicting nodal metastases as it is for tumor depth, which could be related to the unclear definition of nodal metastases. The use...

06 Feb 10 Will we ever hear from aliens?

It will soon be half a century since the American astronomer Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at the star Tau Ceti in the hope of picking up an extraterrestrial broadcast, and we still haven't heard anything. So is there anyone out there?Fifty years ago Frank Drake – then a young astronomer from Cornell University – began an experiment that would have profound implications for humanity's understanding of its place in the cosmos. He turned the newly constructed Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia towards Tau Ceti, a nearby star that is similar to our own Sun.His purpose was simple: he wanted to pick up transmissions from any alien civilisations that might be flourishing on planets in orbit round Tau Ceti.Drake and other scientists had realised that for the previous 40...

06 Feb 10 Boundaries and Benefits of Psychotherapy

In this essay I give my views on the boundaries of individual psychotherapy—their necessity and the process of learning them, accepting them, then gaining from and leaving the therapy process. For me, the learning process was long, and I realize now how I had to internalize a number of new concepts for the therapy to succeed. After much thought and work, therapy was beneficial and rewarding for me. I now know that because I took the process of psychotherapy seriously, it made my life more fulfilling and my relationships more meaningful. For me, psychotherapy was especially helpful in reinforcing my ability to deal with a chronic, debilitating, and life-threatening illness. It helped me make each day a gift, accept my imperfections, and live with uncertainty, frustration, and anger with m...

06 Feb 10 ChIPs and regulatory bits

Authors: Xin He & Saurabh Sinha Machine learning reveals combinatorial patterns of transcription factor binding that drive gene expression. (Source: Nature Biotechnology)

06 Feb 10 Length of time in institutional care may influence children’s learning

A new study shows that children adopted early from foster care didn't differ from children who were raised in their birth families but that children adopted from institutional care performed worse than those raised in families on tests measuring visual memory and attention, learning visual information, and impulse control. Findings suggest that children make tremendous advances in cognitive functioning once they reach their adoptive families but the impact of early deprivation is difficult to reverse completely. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

06 Feb 10 Street Smarts: The BioBus Brings a Rolling Science Lab to Resource-Strapped High Schools

It's halfway through first period, and 10th-grade students at Frances Perkins Academy in Brooklyn are in science class--not in school, but on a specially outfitted bus parked outside. [More] (Source: Scientific American - Official RSS Feed)

06 Feb 10 Raising the Bar for Nursing Education

Feb. 5, 2010 - With patients more acutely ill and nurses shouldering greater responsibilities, controversies about educational standards for entry to practice as a registered nurse and an advanced practice nurse are again at the forefront of many nursing leaders' minds. (Source: NurseZone.com Featured Stories)