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Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Dittrich, Luke
Citation (APA): Dittrich, L. (2016). Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets [Kindle iOS version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
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April 6, 2018iPhone Notebook export for Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
March 31, 2018Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Thaler, Richard H.; Sunstein, Cass R.
Citation (APA): Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R. (2009). Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Opinion | Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature
March 25, 2018Stephen Hawking, Force of Nature
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/03/14/opinion/stephen-hawking-death-.html Interesting obit, for a most noteable passing on #piday2018. How to learn from conversing with someone at 6 words per min.
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“Stephen could compose his sentences at a rate of only about six words a minute. At first I would sit impatiently, daydreaming on and off as I waited for him to finish his composition. But then one day I was looking over his shoulder at his computer screen, where the sentence he was constructing was visible, and I started thinking about his evolving reply. By the time he had completed it, I had had several minutes to ponder the ideas he was expressing.
This was a great help. It allowed me to more profoundly consider his remarks, and it enabled my own ideas, and my reactions to his, to percolate as they never could have in an ordinary conversation.” “}}
Opinion | The Latest Data Privacy Debacle
March 25, 2018Latest Data Privacy Debacle, by @Zeynep
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.html Explains how #privacy is not solely an individual decision. Even well-informed consent is not sufficient protection. Great example of how aggregating @Strava use inadvertently compromised military base locations
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“If so, you probably checked a box to accept the app’s privacy policy. For most apps, the default setting is to share data with at least the company; for many apps the default is to share data with the public. But you probably didn’t even notice or care. After all, what do you have to hide?
For users of the exercise app Strava, the answer turns out to be a lot more than they realized. Since November, Strava has featured a global “heat map” showing where its users jogged or walked or otherwise traveled while the app was on. The map includes some three trillion GPS data points, covering more than 5 percent of the earth. Over the weekend, a number of security analysts showed that because many American military service members are Strava users, the map
inadvertently reveals the locations of military bases and the movements of their personnel.”
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Opinion | The Latest Data Privacy Debacle
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/opinion/strava-privacy.html
Peter Breggin – Wikipedia
March 10, 2018https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Breggin
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Peter Roger Breggin (born May 11, 1936)[1] is an American psychiatrist and critic of shock treatment and psychiatric medication. In his books, he advocates replacing psychiatry’s use of drugs and
electroconvulsive therapy with psychotherapy, education, empathy, love, and broader human services.[2]
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New GWAS SCZ loci (nature genetics 2018)
March 5, 2018Common #schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes & in regions under strong background selection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0059-2 50 novel SCZ loci & 145 loci in total, from #GWAS – associated w/ 33 candidate causal genes
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We report a new genome-wide association study of schizophrenia (11,260 cases and 24,542 controls), and through meta-analysis with existing data we identify 50 novel associated loci and 145 loci in total. Through integrating genomic fine-mapping with brain expression and chromosome conformation data, we identify candidate causal genes within 33 loci.
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Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection
Nature Genetics (2018)
doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0059-2
Suzanne Corkin, who studied the mind of a man with no memory, dies at 79 – The Washington Post
February 25, 2018https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/suzanne-corkin-who-studied-the-mind-of-a-man-with-no-memory-dies-at-79/2016/06/04/010b267a-29ab-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html?utm_term=.4a05f1294a73
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In fact, they grew up a few miles apart, and Dr. Corkin lived on the same street as Scoville, the doctor who performed the operation on H.M. in 1953. Scoville later renounced experimental brain surgery and suggested H.M. as a possible research subject to Brenda Milner, a neuroscientist who became Dr. Corkin’s mentor at McGill.
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Temporal lobe – Wikipedia
February 24, 2018https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_lobe
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The medial temporal lobe consists of structures that are vital for declarative or long-term memory. Declarative (denotative) or explicitmemory is conscious memory divided into semantic memory (facts) and episodic memory (events).[4]:194 Medial temporal lobe structures that are critical for long-term memory include the hippocampus, along with the surrounding hippocampal region consisting of the perirhinal, parahippocampal, and entorhinal neocortical regions.[4]:196 The hippocampus is critical for memory formation, and the surrounding medial temporal cortex is currently theorized to be critical for memory storage.[4]:21 The prefrontal and visual cortices are also involved in explicit memory.[4]:21
Research has shown that lesions in the hippocampus of monkeys results in limited impairment of function, whereas extensive lesions that include the hippocampus and the medial temporal cortex result in severe impairment.[5]
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George Church: Cryptocurrency Will Boost Genome Sequencing | Front Line Genomics
February 24, 2018Cryptocurrency Will Boost Genome Sequencing
http://www.FrontLineGenomics.com/news/19260/george-church-cryptocurrency-blockchain @NebulaGenomics, a new startup that uses #blockchain to give people control of their own data
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“A genomics startup co-founded by genetics pioneer George Church said yesterday that it seeks to lead the genomic data market by utilizing blockchain, the technology that underlies transactions of
cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
In other words, Nebula Genomics will give you cryptocurrency in exchange for your genetic data.
The company will do so by significantly reducing the costs of personal genome sequencing, give you insights about it, secure it using blockchain, and allow you to do whatever you want with the data.” “}}
Opinion | A Very Conflicted Football Fan’s Notes
February 16, 2018,A Very Conflicted Football Fan’s Notes
https://www.NYTimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/super-bowl-football-fans.html Explains, in a fashion, why we still cling to the sport despite the violence & head injuries
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“It was the begin of a lifetime of competing emotions related to football. With mental-health, safety and social issues mixed with national anthem protests, you’d have to be insane to not be someway conflicted while watching professional football these days.
However, this Sunday I’ll ignore all of these pressing concerns because the team I love more than most things could win the Super Bowl for the first time. I’ll be at my favorite bar, wearing my lucky shirt, with my dad. Unless we’re losing. Then I’ll switch my shirt, my bar and my dad. Nothing’s more important than this game.
Admittedly, this is wrong. I’m now well informed on how repetitive head trauma can lead to a degenerative disease in the brain known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E. That will not affect me Sunday. For the well-paid warriors battling on the field in
Minneapolis, this game will be a continuation of a system that places money and tradition above their health and lives. For me? It’ll be pure bliss.”
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