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Brodmann Area 9
Derived from Gray’s Anatomy 20th Edition 1918 Lithograph Reproduction, Public Domain This is a brief overview of the literature on Brodmann Area 9 (BA9) which overlaps with the Dorsolateral Prefrontal...
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Brodmann Area 11: A Brief Review of the Literature
The following is a brief overview of the literature on BA11. Papers were retrieved from a search of Medline using the search term “Brodmann Area 11″ and relevant papers were identified for inclusion in...
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New Videos on The Eye Uploaded
I’ve just uploaded some new videos (or old depending on your perspective). They’re taken from a 1941 film by Boss Productions which is in the Public Domain and can be found at the Prelinger Archives....
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Assessing White Matter Hyperintensities in the Cholinergic Pathway in Dementia
There is a paper by Bocti and colleagues titled “A New Visual Rating Scale to Assess Strategic White Matter Hyperintensities Within Cholinergic Pathway in Dementia” which is freely available here....
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Another Paper on the Possible Dangers of Sitting
Another paper on the possible dangers of sitting this time in the BMJ – Open Access. The researchers undertook a meta-analysis. They collated and analysed data from a number of prospective cohort...
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National Fragile X Syndrome Awareness Day
Today is National Fragile X Awareness Day. Although this is an American awareness day other awareness days have crossed geographical boundaries. The European Fragile X Awareness Day is on October 12th...
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An Overview of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
There is a brief albeit comprehensive open-access review of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) by Sieben and colleagues in Act Neuropathologica. The authors have assembled findings from the...
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Doing Science Using Open Data – Part 5: Looking at Populations
In this fifth part of the series on using open data for science I’ve take a slight diversion to look at populations and the issue of sampling. This was prompted by a look at the UK Mid-2011 Census...
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Working with PubMed – Part 1: Getting Started with a Shortcut
Figure 1 – Preferences Page in NCBI This is the first in a series on using PubMed. PubMed is the gateway for several important biomedical databases including Medline. Being able to work with PubMed...
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Doing Science Using Open Data – Part 6: Modelling Populations
In this 6th part of the series on using open data for science I’ve take a slight diversion to look at populations and the issue of sampling. This was prompted by a look at the UK mid-2011 Census data...
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Brodmann Area 51 – The Prepiriform Area
Dr Korbinian Brodmann, German Neurologist, Frontpiece of ‘Localisation in the Cerebral Cortex’, 1909, Public Domain* In the nineteenth century the eminent German Neurologist Dr Korbinian Brodmann...
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The Origins of Catatonia
The German psychiatrist Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum first described Catatonia in a lecture in 1868 according to this paper. Kahlbaum later wrote up his description of Catatonia in 1874 in ‘Die Katatonie oder...
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The Epidemiology of Delirium: A Paper from 2013
There is an interesting paper on Delirium from 2013 by Davis et al titled ‘The Epidemiology of Delirium: Challenges and Opportunities for Population Studies’. In the first section of the paper the...
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Gait, Balance and Mild Cognitive Impairment
There is a freely accessible paper in the journal Gerontology by Bahureska and colleagues looking at the relationship between mild cognitive impairment, balance and gait. Strictly speaking, mild...
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Exercise and Frontal Cortex Connectivity
Raichlen and colleagues have published a freely accessible paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience titled ‘Differences in Resting State Functional Connectivity between Young Adult Endurance Athletes...
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