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Cells That Respond to Sound

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Researchers Identify First Brain Cells That Respond to Soundby Neuroscience News Researchers have identified a mechanism that may explain what is commonly known as the Mozart Effect, where sound input is linked to developing cognitive function. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 9, 2017 at 6:25 am | Tags: audiotry cortex, auditory preocessing | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bQF Comment See all comments

Gut-brain connection

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A scientist explores the mysteries of the gut-brain connectionThe brain in your head and the one in your gut are always exchanging info. But how do they do it? Neuroscientist Diego Bohórquez is trying to find out the answers. *Read more »*

Healthcare Summit

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[image: AI in Healthcare Summit] *https://www.insightxnetwork.com/ai-healthcare-summit.html*

Future of Surgery

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How augmented reality could change the future of surgery 11:04 minutes · TEDWomen 2017 If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are. Surgeon and entrepreneur Nadine Hachach-Haram is developing a new system that helps surgeons operate together and train one another on new techniques -- from remote locations using low-cost augmented reality tools. Watch the system in action as she joins a surgeon in Minnesota performing a knee surgery, live on her laptop from the TED stage in New Orleans. As Hachach-Haram says: "T... mais »

Excitonium, Bóson

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*Pesquisadores descobrem nova forma de matéria* Por Jéssica Maes Uma equipe internacional de cientistas acabou de comprovar a existência de uma nova forma de matéria, teorizada há quase 50 anos. O Excitonium, que intriga os pesquisadores desde que foi pensado pela primeira vez, foi encontrado em uma contribuição entre as Universidades de Illinois e da Califórnia, nos EUA, e da Universidade de Amsterdã, na Holanda./.../ +++++++++++++++++++ A pesquisa é fundamental para desbloquear outros mistérios da mecânica quântica, uma vez que o estudo dos fenômenos quânticos macroscópicos ajud... mais »

CFM 60 anos: comendas

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CFM homenageia médicos que ajudaram a fazer história em diferentes áreas de atuação [image: Imprimir] [image: E-mail] Sex, 08 de Dezembro de 2017 15:27 A comemoração dos 60 anos dos Conselhos de Medicina será também palco para homenagem a médicos que se destacaram por suas trajetórias pessoais e profissionais. Eles foram indicados pelos Conselhos Regionais de Medicina (CRMs) dos estados onde mantiveram forte atuação, mas o reconhecimento é nacional dada à projeção do trabalho executado. A entrega das honrarias acontece na terça-feira (12), em solenidade na sede do Conselho Federal ... mais »

Freud

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Essay / Neuroscience Freud in the scanner A revival of interest in the power of introspection and thought has brought Freud’s ideas back into the scientific fold M M Owen

Estetoscópio (+) ?...

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*Recomendado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque de Brasília*Destino do estetoscópio causa polêmica na comunidade médica 6 de fevereiro de 2017 O estetoscópio está realmente condenado à morte? *O estetoscópio está realmente condenado à morte?* Para os entusiastas do ecocardioscópico, a contagem regressiva já começou. Hoje, por exemplo, eles sustentam que assim como os LPs foram substituídos por fitas cassete e essas por CDs e arquivos de mp3, o estetoscópio vai ceder seu lugar ao ultrassom. "O cenário está pronto para a disrupção", vaticinaram.[24] Mas muitos médicos estão re... mais »

Pymetrics

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[image: Frida polli] *Join Frida Polli and other thought leaders and compelling speakers to explore The Future of Work at Stanford on August 30.* Whatever you do, don’t call Frida Polli a cute science girl. Sure, she’s a slim blonde with baby blue eyes, but this New York–based neuroscientist’s been up since 5:30 a.m., tasked with running Pymetrics, the startup she co-founded that blends artificial intelligence with neuroscience to reframe the hiring process. Instead of recruiters battling their unconscious biases when sorting résumés, applicants are directed to complete a series of c... mais »

AD Population 2060

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Population of Americans with Alzheimer’s Will More Than Double by 2060by Neuroscience News Researchers predict by 2060 around 15 million Americans will be living with MCI or Alzheimer's disease. Currently, 6.08 million people are living with dementia. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 8, 2017 at 7:05 am | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bPV Comment See all comments

NASA - Fotos

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[image: Slide 2 de 17: No, this isn't a scene from a sci-fi movie — this spacesuit is empty. Dubbed SuitSat-1, this unneeded Russian space suit was filled with old clothes and launched to orbit the Earth in 2006.] 1/17 SLIDES © NASA Embora a Nasa seja conhecida principalmente por estudar os limites de nosso sistema solar, a organização tem inúmeros satélites ao redor da Terra, fornecendo aos cientistas dados abundantes sobre o nosso planeta em constante mudança. Às vezes, ciência e arte não são tão diferentes. Em novembro, o Grupo Global Climate Change da Nasa *lançou as fotos mais ... mais »

Hospital Histories

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Hospital histories Margaret McCartney x Margaret McCartney Search for articles by this author [image: link] Published: 09 December 2017Published: 09 December 2017 [image: Large image of Figure.] We never quite know what goes on behind closed doors. Hospitals are incubators for the most vital and vivid of human interactions. Much of these are secret and enclosed, sealed against the outside world. We are stripped down, as patients, wheeled on a trolley for surgery, our flawed and faulty bodies all we are left with. We become reliant on others to fulfil our basic bodily functions. Often... mais »

2017 Books - The Economist

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Books of the year Our selection of the best books of 2017 includes titles on music, nicotine and the Japanese tsunami READ MORE >

NG 2017 Best Photos

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[image: National Geographic] [image: TRAVEL] Meet one of the last Bedouins living in Petra’s ancient stone city, discover the least visited country in Europe, go inside the largest wine cellar in the world, and take a snowy escape. | PHOTOGRAPHY | The Most Beautiful Travel Photos of 2017 Our photo editors chose the most the striking travel photos from the past year. Board the longest train ride in India, sail on the world’s largest cruise ship, and venture to the Nevada desert for Burning Man. SEE THEM NOW SHARE

Opioids

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News What hospitals can do to help keep excess opioids out of communities Dec 06, 2017 04:12 PM Guidelines for prescribing opioids following a routine surgery prevented thousands of unnecessary pills from leaving the hospital, a new study finds. Read More

FDA's Tobacco Strategy

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December 6, 2017 Will the FDA’s New Tobacco Strategy Be a Game Changer? Rita Rubin, MA Article Information JAMA. Published online December 6, 2017. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.16396 *editorial comment icon* Editorial Comment *related articles icon* Related Articles *author interview icon* Interviews *multimedia icon* Multimedia It might be hard to imagine, but in 1965, 42.4% of US adults smoked. Those were the days when cigarette smoke wafted around offices, restaurants, bars, and retail establishments—smokers could light up pretty much any place they pleased. A half-century later, in... mais »

AD and Healthy mitochondria

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Healthy Mitochondria Could Stop Alzheimer’s by Neuroscience News [image: Image shows a brain scan.]<img class="wp-image-45479" https://i1.wp.com/neurosciencenews.com/files/2017/12/mitochondria-health-alzheimers-neurosciencenews.jpg?resize=220%2C300 220w, https://i1.wp.com/neu... mais »

Do Fish Suffer?

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Do Fish Suffer? Speakers at a meeting on animal consciousness dive into a deep ethical debate - By John Horgan on November 21, 2017 - 7 [image: Do Fish Suffer?] *Credit: Jorge Gonzalez Unsplash* Years ago I was surfcasting on an ocean beach and caught a big, beautiful striped bass. My daughter and son, who were 8 and 10, respectively, were nearby. I held the fish up and yelled, Look kids, I caught dinner! Skye, my daughter, burst into tears and pleaded with me to let the fish go. I tried to josh her out of her mood, in vain. I assured her that I’d been catching fish like this s... mais »

The "Average Patient"

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How computing is changing medicine and helping map the human genome What if we could look at a patient’s entire medical history, plus the data from their smartwatch, plus the records of 100 people most like them in the world to drive insights and predictions about their health? This idea of prescribing for one—known as Precision Medicine—would provide hindsight analysis, insight into existing conditions and predictive analysis on future conditions based on a patient’s current lifestyle. Precision medicine would allow doctors and medical staff to determine the best course of action an... mais »

The Kardashian Index

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Scientific Credibility and The Kardashian Indexby tomstafford The Kardashian index is a semi-humorous metric invented to the reveal how much trust you should put in a scientist with a public image. In 'The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists', the author writes: I am concerned that phenomena similar to that of Kim Kardashian may also exist in the scientific community. I think it is possible that there are individuals who are famous for being famous and a high K-index is a warning to the community that researcher X may have built their publ... mais »

Average Patient

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- The adoption of precision medicine will allow doctors and medical staff to determine the best course of action, helping them predict how to help patients down the road or steer them away from potentially hazardous paths - Othman Laraki, CEO & Co-Founder of Color Genomics, shares his perspective on how data can help healthcare professionals make better diagnoses and predict health problems - How computing is changing medicine and helping map the human genome What if we could look at a patient’s entire medical history, plus the data from their smartw... mais »

P value

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Understanding common misconceptions about p-values A *p*-value is the probability of the observed, or more extreme, data, under the assumption that the null-hypothesis is true. The goal of this blog post is to understand what this means, and perhaps more importantly, what this doesn’t mean. People often misunderstand *p*-values, but with a little help and some dedicated effort, we should be able explain these misconceptions. Below is my attempt, but if you prefer a more verbal explanation, I can recommend Greenland et al. (2016). First, we need to know what ‘the assumption that the... mais »

El$evier

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[image: Person strides across an inlaid crest on the floor] The Free University of Berlin is part of a consortium that is negotiating with Elsevier. (Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS) Germans to lose Elsevier journals within weeks Around 200 German universities will lose access to papers published by Elsevier, the world’s biggest publisher of scientific journals, within weeks. Negotiations have failed to end a long-term dispute over the cost of online access and the rights of authors to freely share their papers. Nature | 4 min read

Drugs Policy

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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime. By Susana Ferreira/.../

AD and O2

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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy May Alleviate Alzheimer’s Symptomsby Neuroscience News Researchers report hyperbaric oxygen therapy could prove to be beneficial in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. According to a new study, HBOT may improve Alzheimer's pathology and reduce some of the behavioral symptoms associated with the disease. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 5, 2017 at 10:52 am | Tags: hyerbaric oxygen therapy | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-bOZ Comment See all comments

Pathé Baby 9.5mm

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*Procura-se um rolinho de filme* feito pelo meu pai Bôrtolo Achutti em fins de 1934 ou início de 1935 registrando meus primeiros passos agarrado na guarda da cama de casal. Este carretel de filme foi entregue inadvertidamente por ele, junto com outros filmes industriais, quando trocou o equipamento original Pathé Baby, por outro mais moderno, aí pela década de 50. De vez em quando meu pai reunia a família, estendia um lençol branco na parede e fazia uma projeção do acervo, entre os quais estava o meu. Eram filmes de entorno de um minuto cada um, mas que assistiamos com muito praze... mais »

The flu vaccine

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*Enviado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque* The History of the Flu Vaccine By Robyn Correll, MPH | Reviewed by a board-certified physician Updated December 02, 2017 Parte inferior do formulário [image: Men receiving flu vaccine in 1968] Harry Todd/Getty Images [image: An Overview of the Common Cold & Flu] More in Cold and Flu Vaccines have come a long way since Edward Jenner's famous 18th century experiment. Our great grandparents might have only received a single shot when they were children, but kids today are now protected against 16 different diseasesand seven types of can... mais »

Psychology Books

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*11 Psychology Books That Will Improve Your Work and Life * The positive psychology movement is known for helping people improve their happiness, well-being, and productivity. This remarkable and practical book list will help you do just that. *by* - Marcel Schwantes

5 Books more...

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5 Books Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read Right Now "Reading is my favorite way to indulge my curiosity," Gates writes for TIME. "... I still think books are the best way to explore new topics that interest you"

dire warning to humanity

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*16,000 scientists sign dire warning to humanity* *Recomendado pelo AMICOR Loreno Brentano* Story highlights - Scientists send warning to the public to fix environmental problems now - The letter has been so popular, hundreds more have signed it since it came out Monday (CNN)More than 16,000 scientists from 184 countries have published a second warning to humanity advising that we need to change our wicked ways to help the planet. In 1992, 1,700 independent scientists signed the "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity." The letter warned that "human beings and the natural... mais »

Music and Speech

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Why Musical Training is Beneficial in Processing Speech by Neuroscience News [image: brain scans]*(A-I) Brain regions showing significant classification of phoneme-elicited neural responses at each SNR in musicians (left panels) and non-musicians (right panels). (J) Speech-relevant anatomical regions used in multivoxel pattern analysis. NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to DU Yi.* Musical training may enhance the ability to process speech in noisy settings, a new study reveals. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | December 4, 2017 at 12:16 pm | Tags: ... mais »

Old Drugs

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Encouraging New Uses for Old Drugs Rachel E. Sachs, JD, MPH1; Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD2,3; Dana P. Goldman, PhD4 Author Affiliations Article Information - 1Washington University in St Louis School of Law, St Louis, Missouri - 2Leonard D. Schaeffer Health Policy Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC - 3Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles - 4Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles JAMA. Published online December 4, 2017. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.17535 ... mais »

Science Changing

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These 12 People Are Changing Science

Conselho Federal de Medicina

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[image: Logo do CFM] - Sobre o CFM - Conselheiros - Transparência - Normas CFM - Legislação/Processo - Serviços - Cidadão - Educação - Comunicação - Fale Conosco - A instituição - Missão, Visão e Valores do CFM - Diretoria - Conselheiros efetivos - Conselheiros suplentes - Gestões anteriores - 2009 - 2014 - 2004 - 2009 - 1999 - 2004 - 1994 - 1999 - 1989 - 1994 - 1984 - 1989 - 1979 - 1984 - 1974 - 1979 - 1969 - 1974 - 1959 - 1964 - 1957 - 1959 - Organograma - Contatos Ins... mais »

Apps 2017

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The Top 10 Apps of 2017 Some of our favorite choices of 2017 - a combination of news apps and those that added features in the past 12 months

Equity

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Progressing from a ‘seat at the table to a share of the table’ is self determination & reconciliation in action - the next quantum step toward equalising the relationship between first & new Australian’s. @MichaelMarmot Jason Mifsud added, *Reconciliation Aus*Verified account @*RecAustralia* A recent OmniPoll showed that 61% of people support an Indigenous voice to advise the Parliament on Indigenous Affairs, as outlined in the Uluru Statement From the Heart. Reconciliation Australia has signed the # *SupportFirstNations* petition – will…

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