By most metrics, those of us at Terra Sig World Headquarters are liberals. Nevertheless, we often enjoy reading conservative writer, attorney, and American Enterprise Institute fellow, David Frum. Perhaps I have a soft spot for him because he’s Canadian and he also writes for my favorite print newsmagazine, The Week.
Well, Frum chose this week [...]

It’s the ultimate branding strategy. Just slap “neuro” before a word and the goofiest speculation becomes respectable science.” Here:
Unfortunately, neurotrash may not always be harmless nonsense in marketing departments about what color of car people choose. Increasingly, in the form of neurolaw, it is catching on in the legal profession, in the same way that [...]

On November 10, I reported on a press release issued by Mississippi State University which claimed that a new study demonstrated that a local smoking ban in Starkville resulted in a 27% decline in heart attacks.
According to the press release: “A Mississippi State study released Monday [Nov. 9] shows a 27 percent decrease in heart [...]

Remember how I nominated a truly execrable local news report about Desiree Jennings as a serious contender for the worst reporting of the year, perhaps even of the decade? It had everything, and I seriously doubted that anything would challenge it for credulous supremacy any time soon.
How wrong I was. Check out this video:

Then read [...]

Yesterday, I reported that Tim Filler, who is a steering committee member of Smoke Free Indy, sent a communication to the national smoke-free advocate list-serve maintained by Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR) in which he insinuated that Michael McFadden – an opponent of smoking bans – may be taking money from tobacco companies. The intent [...]

Focal cortical dysplasia is a common cause of intractable epilepsy in children and is a frequent cause of epilepsy in adults. All forms of focal cortical dysplasia lead to disorganization of the normal structure of the cerebral cortex. This is a 9year old girl presented with refractory complex partial seizures.

From Sumer’s Radiology Site http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com [...]

In medical news which won’t be surprising to anyone, Ethnic Variation in Fat and Lean Body Mass and the Association with Insulin Resistance:
Objective: Our objective was to compare total body fat to lean mass ratio (F:LM) in Aboriginal, Chinese, European, and South Asian individuals with differences in insulin resistance.
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Results: After adjustment for confounders and at [...]

Source: University of GothenburgDate: November 23, 2009
Summary:
The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells’ maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through the brain tissue, reveals new research from the Sahlgrenska Academy [...]

At the Mail Online, Allan Hall reports (November 23, 2009) on the case of a man who was conscious for 23 years, but no one knew because he was paralyzed.
A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was [...]

In a communication sent out to many smoke-free advocates on a national tobacco control list-serve, Smoke Free Indy (the coalition that is pushing for a workplace smoking ban in Indianapolis) insinuates that Michael McFadden (an activist with the Pennsylvania Smokers Action Network and regular commenter at The Rest of the Story) has [...]