MetaCarnival: A Carnival of Blog Carnivals

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 23, 2008 |

If you are a blog­ger or read blogs often, you know that there are a good num­ber of excel­lent blog car­ni­vals focused on spe­cif­ic themes. If you are inter­est­ed in med­i­cine, you know what car­ni­val to vis­it. Edu­ca­tion, the same. Biol­o­gy, neu­ro­science, nurs­ing, birds, aging, philosophy…a vari­ety of top­ics are very well cov­ered in the…

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Brain Blogs and Michael Merzenich

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 13, 2008

Two quick notes: — Encephalon #56 edi­tion: the lat­est edi­tion of this neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog car­ni­val is ready for your read­ing plea­sure. — Michael Merzenich Elect­ed to Insti­tute of Med­i­cine: Con­grat­u­la­tions! “The Insti­tute of Medicine’s total active mem­ber­ship is now 1,576 and the num­ber of for­eign asso­ciates is 89. With anoth­er 71 mem­bers hold­ing emeritus…

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Update: Brain Health Promotion Event and Predictions

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 31, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. News and Events Brain Health Pro­mo­tion by the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging: You may be inter­est­ed in the excel­lent agen­da the…

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Encephalon #50 Edition: Brain & Mind Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | July 21, 2008 |

Wel­come to Encephalon 50th edi­tion, where you will find anoth­er superb col­lec­tion of blog posts on all things Brain and Mind. Enjoy these con­tri­bu­tions: Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy Mind Hacks reports that Face­book ate my psy­chi­a­trist. We can learn about the ben­e­fits of social net­work­ing sites like Face­book, bring­ing great per­spec­tive to recent and mis­guid­ed media speculation…

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Grand Rounds and Encephalon Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 27, 2008

Quck heads up: Two excel­lent edi­tions of these ongo­ing blog car­ni­vals. — Encephalon 46th Edi­tion: selec­tion of neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog. posts — Grand Rounds 36th Edi­tion: all things med­ical and healthy.

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Human Resources, Brain Science, Health Blogs

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 16, 2008

Some great new edi­tions of our favorite blog car­ni­vals: — Encephalon, For­thy-Third Edi­tion: the best of recent neu­ro­science and psy­chol­o­gy blog posts. — Grand Rounds Vol­ume 4, Num­ber 30: superb overview of the health & med­i­cine blo­gos­phere. — Car­ni­val of HR #31: great resources for Human Resources professionals.

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