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The Refined Mind: About Me
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Hello dear science/medicine/neuroscience/other-awesome-things enthusiasts! Thank you for visiting my blog! I started this blog because I wanted to write and comment on the articles I randomly find online. Hopefully my education has provided me with enough knowledge that my insight into the topics is interesting and engaging for you. I am a Bio-Medical Sciences student with a minor in Neuroscience. Anyways, I post here whenever I have time, so there are some time gaps in between posts (serious ones! Siste...
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Can Caffeine Improve Performance? | Run and Tell That!
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Run and Tell That! My journey to 5K. Skip to primary content. Can Caffeine Improve Performance? November 12, 2011. It’s getting closer and closer to the Santa Race on December 10. And I am getting so excited! And nervous. I didn’t miss any running nights this week (yay! But it was a challenge! We cut back on the amount of walking we do in between running intervals all the way down to just 30 seconds of walking between four 8 minute intervals. That’s right, 30 SECONDS! I’m about to go for a run! He then w...
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The Refined Mind: Reading the Minds of 'Unconscious', Vegetative Patients
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Saturday, July 14, 2012. Reading the Minds of 'Unconscious', Vegetative Patients. A not-so-new development is finally getting some spotlight in a June article, Neuroscience: The mind reader. In the scientific journal, Nature. The idea behind this method is actually quite simple (and that's what makes it brilliant). The method makes itself viable based on the fact that thinking about activities activates regions implicated in actually doing those activities. There are other methods that use the same appro...
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The Refined Mind: Antioxidants
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012. I've wanted to write a brief piece on the use of antioxidants for a while now, and it seems like with the articles I've been stumbling on, I should have written one a while ago. It's usually the media behind this fabrication, but some of the researchers are to blame as well). Before I get into this, Dr. Steven Novella wrote a great piece on this that you might find interesting. Apologies if the following information is a bit repetitive). Antioxidants provide a band aid to this p...
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The Refined Mind: DNA Hard Drive
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Monday, June 4, 2012. So, imagine this conversation far in the future:. Brother: Where did you put the photos from mom's birthday? Sister: Oh, they are on the jeans in the living room. Brother: I don't see any jeans there! Sister: No, they are on the GENES! Well, a ridiculous conversation like this could take place if research keeps advancing with its DNA Hard Drive idea. More precisely, as Megan Scudellari. Does it have more disadvantages than advantages? Although this could be a great step in the right...
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The Refined Mind: MIT Develops a Method to Stop Bleeding in Seconds
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012. MIT Develops a Method to Stop Bleeding in Seconds. Researchers from Hong Kong University and MIT have come up with a new way to stop bleeding in a matter of seconds using a peptide liquid. This nanobiological advance makes a significant contribution to future emergency medicine and surgery, potentially reducing blood loss and cutting surgery time in half. Function of the Peptide Liquid. Current, and comparatively primitive, techniques, such as clamping, applying pressure and caute...
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The Refined Mind: Geo-Medicine New Frontier In Medical Informatics
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012. Geo-Medicine New Frontier In Medical Informatics. Geo-medicine. There's a term I haven't heard being thrown around very much. At all actually. This epidemiological approach to collecting patient data can show new trends in disease and symptom records. I think it's important to give new technology a chance to prove its effectiveness by sponsoring it for health professionals around the world who are curious to use it. After all, what is there to lose? Technology deserves a fair chan...
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The Refined Mind: Educational Links
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I spend hours every day looking up interesting articles and tutorials, however I feel like that time would be somewhat wasted if I didn't share my findings with you. I'll update this page as much as I can! Human Anatomy Lab Tutorial with pictures. Clinical Care Medicine Tutorials. Top 30 YouTube channels for medical education. Emergency Medicine Education with Clinical Cases. Links to this post. If you have a serious cond. Geo-Medicine New Frontier In Medical Informatics. Sister: Oh, th.
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The Refined Mind: Medical Tattoos
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Saturday, July 21, 2012. As opposed to wearing Medical ID Alert Jewellery, some choose to turn to more permanent options. And why not? If you have a serious condition, such as diabetes or epilepsy, this allows for an identification tool, when unconscious, so that appropriate treatment and diagnosis can be made on the spot. Check out some of the tattoos that people came up with. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR Request). Posted by Oleksiy Zaika. If you have a serious cond. So, imagine this conversation far in the ...
