Interesting interview here on anesthesia with Dr. Emery Neal Brown, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a practicing physician. He heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works.
Archive of posts tagged medicine
Article: Poetry, Painting to Earn an M.D.
Medical schools are placing a growing emphasis on the humanities, including courses in writing, art and literature. The programs aim to teach students “right-brain” insights and skills they won’t learn dissecting cadavers or studying pathology slides. Full article
Ann: Turning the Pages: Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
The National Library of Medicine is proud to announce its next online Turning the Pages project featuring the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, the oldest surviving surgical text: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html . The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative [...]
Ann: Catalogue of Scientia Canadensis
The complete catalogue of Scientia Canadensis, the Canadian Journal of theHistory of Science, Technology and Medicine is now available on line athttp://www.erudit.org/revue/scientia/index.html initially published asnewsletter between 1976 and 1980, Scientia Canadensis became a peer-reviewedjournal in 1981.
Article: Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop
In these unpredictable times, I found the New York Times article examining how chronic stress changes the brain and relaxation can change it back fascinating.
