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Xenophon Papademetris
My co-authors and I were having our first meeting with Sara Epperson, Yale’s Director of Digital Education, to discuss our proposal to record a Coursera online class based on our then-upcoming textbook “Introduction to Medical Software: Foundations for Digital Health, Devices, and Diagnostics.” Her opening question to us was “why do you want to record […]
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Munier Hossain
In his 1597 play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare narrates the tragic story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The two young persons are in love, but their families are engaged in a blood feud. The consequences were tragic. The imposition of statistics in medicine evokes similarly strong emotions. The animosity may not be as […]
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Neville M. Jadeja
“Do epileptologists just make things up?” remarked one of my trainees after seeing me read an EEG, obviously completely exasperated looking at a screen full of squiggly lines! EEGs are indeed daunting to look at, but easy to read once you understand the “the method to my madness”. At least, that’s what I would like […]
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Christopher Travers, Samantha Perera, Dan Cleall
This month, our book “The Maudsley Trainee Guide to the CASC: Preparing for the MRCPsych CASC Examination” will be published after years of tireless labour. We were driven to create this preparatory guide by a lack of suitable existent materials, and a desire to address what we perceived as disparities in exam outcomes – for […]
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Ian Brockington
‘Puerperal psychosis’ Psychosis after childbirth was first mentioned by Hippocrates, who reported delirium complicating puerperal sepsis in 8/17 case histories in women (covering the whole of medicine) – a prominence puerperal psychosis has never regained. These psychoses complicate about 1/1,000 births, so that there are about 125,000 cases worldwide each year. They are severe […]
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Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi
Complexity of cancer stem cells evolution and precision medicine Understanding how tumours grow and develop is a key objective in cancer research. It is, however, an extremely complex problem that needs an interdisciplinary approach where biomedical researchers work side by side with scientists from hard disciplines such as physics (see our latest book: The Physics […]
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Xenophon Papademetris
My co-authors and I were having our first meeting with Sara Epperson, Yale’s Director of Digital Education, to discuss our proposal to record a Coursera online class based on our then-upcoming textbook “Introduction to Medical Software: Foundations for Digital Health, Devices, and Diagnostics.” Her opening question to us was “why do you want to record […]
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Munier Hossain
In his 1597 play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare narrates the tragic story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The two young persons are in love, but their families are engaged in a blood feud. The consequences were tragic. The imposition of statistics in medicine evokes similarly strong emotions. The animosity may not be as […]
Read More
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Neville M. Jadeja
“Do epileptologists just make things up?” remarked one of my trainees after seeing me read an EEG, obviously completely exasperated looking at a screen full of squiggly lines! EEGs are indeed daunting to look at, but easy to read once you understand the “the method to my madness”. At least, that’s what I would like […]
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Christopher Travers, Samantha Perera, Dan Cleall
This month, our book “The Maudsley Trainee Guide to the CASC: Preparing for the MRCPsych CASC Examination” will be published after years of tireless labour. We were driven to create this preparatory guide by a lack of suitable existent materials, and a desire to address what we perceived as disparities in exam outcomes – for […]
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Ian Brockington
‘Puerperal psychosis’ Psychosis after childbirth was first mentioned by Hippocrates, who reported delirium complicating puerperal sepsis in 8/17 case histories in women (covering the whole of medicine) – a prominence puerperal psychosis has never regained. These psychoses complicate about 1/1,000 births, so that there are about 125,000 cases worldwide each year. They are severe […]
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Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi
Complexity of cancer stem cells evolution and precision medicine Understanding how tumours grow and develop is a key objective in cancer research. It is, however, an extremely complex problem that needs an interdisciplinary approach where biomedical researchers work side by side with scientists from hard disciplines such as physics (see our latest book: The Physics […]
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