Are powerful people insensitive, narrow-minded, narcissistic, selfish? Do they fail to pick up on emotions and perspectives of others? Are they self-oriented to an extreme? Check out this research study...
Work on the Semantic Web is all to often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realis
From legacy relational databases to the semantic web, the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CATCM), where over 70 legacy relational databases are semantically interconnected by an ontology with over 70 classes and 800 properties, providing in
J Clin Psychiatry 2000 May;61(5):378-81 Modafinil augmentation of antidepressant treatment in depression. Menza MA, Kaufman KR, Castellanos A Department of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical Sch
Rapidly restores vigilance and alertness in older people and the physically and mentally tired. Has a powerful antidepressant action far superior to that of fluoxetine (Prozac) and clomipramine (Anafranil) and is without any serious side effects. Adrafin
The effect of Adrafinil, unlike conventional stimulants, builds subtly over a period of days to months. This appears to be based on its ability to selectively stimulate adrenergic receptors in the brain. These receptors normally respond to norepinephrine
Despite 15 years as a cancer doctor and researcher, I struggle several times each week to endure the hardest part of my job – walking into a patient's room to helplessly watch as cancer steals away their life and torments them and their loved ones...we
November 20, 2006. The gabapentinoid anticonvulsant pregabalin (Lyrica®) may offer extended pain relief to fibromyalgia patients, according to new data presented at the 70th annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in Washington, DC.
One in 100 Americans are sociopathic. How do you spot the psychopath among your work colleagues? Professor Robert Hare, of the University of British Columbia, is a world expert on the "snakes in suits" who scale corporate ladders with consummate ease. He
One of the characteristic manifestations of prolonged stress is decreased performance in tasks that require attention, including the ability to shift focus as well as to learn and unlearn information. Anxiety and depression can make a person feel as if he
I tried using Zotero on scientific journal sites such as PLOS, Nature,Science, Elsevier’s Science Direct and it works perfectly. I have tried all their claimed features and they work seamlessly. When compared to commercial equivalents like Endnote and R
Pro-inflammatory eicosanoids and cytokines are produced from arachidonic acid, and omega-3s have been shown to inhibit arachidonic acid metabolism, hence less pro-inflammatory synthesis. Understand how to use fish oils to prevent chronic disease.
The conventional concept of tumor-host interactions is rooted in the realm of parasitology. A tumor invades an unsuspecting host, and in response to this assault, the host attempts to resist the advances of the tumor by calling on the armamentarium of the
...a newly published study from the University of California at Berkeley focuses on girls with the condition, showing many of the same unfortunate results. Visible symptoms of hyperactivity and restlessness largely recede during adolescence, but the girls
Modafinil has made it possible to have 48 hours of continuous wakefulness with few, if any, ill effects. New classes of sleeping pills are on the horizon that promise to deliver sleep that is deeper and more refreshing than the real thing. Further down th
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Keeping current with the latest medical news, practice guidelines, and scientific findings is essential to the practice of medicine, but doing so can be a daunting task given the amount of information that’s becoming available every day. The tools and t
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The International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) is launching a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, the International Journal of the Commons. It's now accepting submissions and the first issue will appear in 2007.
CiteSpace analyzes relationships among authors, publications, and citations. Using a "social networking analysis" sort of approach, visual mapping is provided to enable researchers to find relevant pubs, and to enable pharmaceutical and biotech firms to
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wOW! Search on 'metabolic AND syndrome' came up at zero, but shifting to 'metabolic,' I got SKILLIONS of articles related to "metabolic syndrome." GOOD ones!
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