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World's Largest Online Drug Database
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World's Largest Online Drug Database
Searching for credible information on various drugs can be a daunting task both for professionals and consumers. Web searches often bring up a confusing assortment of information generally inundated with sites that want to sell you something. Just released this month is DrugBank -
Direct-to-Consumer Antidepressant Ads
30 Dec 2005 at 1:36 pm
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) presents an interesting article this month on the marketing of antidepressants to consumers. It is a curious view of the science, influence and shortcomings of the FDA in these highly successful direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) campaigns.
According to the authors, research has demonstrated that class-wide SSRI advertising has expanded the size of the a
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Remember The Kids When Parents Are Ill
16 Dec 2005 at 11:03 am
This is a time of year when holidays can bring out an increased concern for others and a generous spirit in many people. Organizations often collect toys and other gifts and give them to needy children or to underpriviledged families. There is an interesting commentary in this month's Current Psychiatry by William Campbell entitled "Remember the kids when parents are ill." He reminds us that in fa
Laughter: The Cure and the Disease
23 Nov 2005 at 10:59 am
An upcoming study in the Quarterly Review of Biology, describes the evolutionary origins of two distinct types of laughter. Biologists from Binghamton University delineate laughter which is stimulus-driven and laughter which is self-generated and strategic.
Laughter that occurs during everyday social interaction in response to banal comments and humorless conversation is now being studie
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The Complexities and Eccentricities of Our Sensory System
7 Nov 2005 at 10:05 am
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
C.S. Lewis
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The current issue of Neuron, features a special review of the