Originally established to list my teaching resources for
Neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, this site provides numerous links to neurology, neuroscience,
and other medically related topics. Recently I have added more content in the form of news feeds and a Blog.
Let me also make the disclaimer that these are just references to information. Do not rely on what you
find here to treat yourself or anyone else. Physicians and other health care providers must use their
own judgement and multiple inputs from many sources to reach decisions. Information found here is not diagnostic
or treatment advice from me or from this web site. If you have any suggestions or comments, you may leave them in the
Guestbook.----Thank you.
It has videos on the neurological exam as well as additional
pages containing other neurological information. I have added it to the "Blog Roll" (I guess it's not technically
a blog, but who knows the boundaries of what you can call a blog). I am also going to add it to the general neurology section.
I had long hoped that there might be some good news about getting older. A
study described in Medicne World at http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/1-2010/older-brains-make-good-use-of-useless-information.html shows that what might be thought of as a defect in the functioning of older brains, loss of the ability
to filter out seemingly irrelevant information, appears to have an upside. The older learners bond items that younger
brains do not and this may give them additional ability in making decisions. Perhaps this is one of the sources of wisdom,
an attribute traditionally associated with age and experience. But, in a sense, this is like what is sometimes said of software,
i.e. "it's not a bug, it's a feature." At least on the surface, this idea seems to make sense.
