Apr 30, 2011
Thinking Outside the Column: New Insights Into Brain Structure Reveal New Facets of Information Processing in Nervous System
From ScienceDaily: “For more than 50 years, a dominating assumption in brain research was that nerve cells in the cortex of the brain are organised in the form of microscopically small columns. Subsequently, it became a textbook standard that connections are created predominantly between nerve cells within these columns. In a review article for the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, Clemens... read more
Apr 29, 2011
The structure of musical preferences: A five-factor model
From the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Music is a cross-cultural universal, a ubiquitous activity found in every known human culture. Individuals demonstrate manifestly different preferences in music, and yet relatively little is known about the underlying structure of those preferences. Here, we introduce a model of musical preferences based on listeners’ affective reactions... read more
Apr 29, 2011
Biomedical technology and the clinic of the future
From nature.com: “To date, large-scale ‘omics data sets and systems approaches in biology have had a relatively minor impact on the practice of medicine. As new technology brings individual genome sequencing closer to reality and large-scale biology continues to progress, opportunities are likely to open up in disease prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Here the views of two... read more
Apr 29, 2011
Health Weaver Mobile: Designing a Mobile Tool for Managing Personal Health Information during Cancer Care
From PubMed: “Cancer patients manage a great deal of information to coordinate their care. Critical aspects of this work take place while patients are away from home or have diminished attention due to symptoms or side effects. We describe the design of HealthWeaver Mobile, a mobile phone application we developed to help patients manage care-related information in such situations. We discuss... read more
