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I've noticed some things running slower too, but I wasn't sure if my computer was getting older. As for the interface/asthetic, it's pretty terrible in every regard.

The figures in the nature article are worth it. Even my non-nerdy wife thought it was kind of interesting.

It's just very conversational. If you are comfortable with stats and just need a reference it can be obnoxious. I think I went through the first edition in my PhD and it was better…

As an MD/PhD I wish all MD researchers read this book. Heck, I wish all neuro researchers read it. If you are already established in in stats and math and your interest is just ano…

Usually we test against best current treatment and not just always against placebo. If something clearly improves outcomes for a patient, it's unethical to not give them a treatmen…

Stress increases cortisol and cortisol for a long time wrecks the immune system. There are a lot of other things that effect cortisol levels, but it's at least on very plausible pa…

It's already an uphill battle to fix misinformation concerning vaccines without calling it political.

Article says this has been done other places already. Has this specifically been campaign ads or does it also involve things that are considered politically motivated messaging? Fo…

There are all kinds of presentations for seizures. Ones in the frontal lobe are particularly hard to catch based on external presentation. If one is suspected of having seizures th…

Two things: 1. Blood brain barrier and CSF should be separate for all but tiny molecules. It's why CT angiograms are able to visualize distinct vessels. So it is pretty hard to dir…

I wish I could, but in addition to this happening over a decade ago, he changed his lab's focus afterwards. He went into neurotransmitter research in skin since it has some overlap…

I had a neuroscience professor in undergrad who did a bunch of experiments where the only variables were things like the material of the cage, bedding, feeder, etc. He systematical…

As in it has a higher inter rater reliability. The statistical term of reliability that is used when describing the likelihood to reproduce a measure under similar conditions.

Asperger's was not reliably diagnosable between healthcare workers trained to diagnose it. In other words, a diagnosis of Asperger's in someone's medical chart was not a reliable w…

It's the latter plus typing on my phone while riding the bus.

It can be helpful to get a diagnosis of autism for kids in public school. Kids end up needing additional one on one time and resources are limited. Those with the biggest problems …

Autism can be reliably diagnosed at 2.5 years of age, so we probably aren't looking at a strong cultural bias in in how kids are presenting with autism. These models using data fro…

I'm not convinced the result is as important here as the methods. Separating language from complex cognition when evaluating individuals is difficult. But many of the people I've m…

It's important to note that models that use genome wide association analysis have demonstrated extremely high predictive value across large cohorts sharing geography but are very p…

The problem was that a diagnosis of Asperger's was unreliable and therefore useless. We definitely need to identify individuals within the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder tha…

Even TND appears to be very regionally specific and may have important differences across development in autism. The most exciting thing are differential findings of density of den…

I'm the lead author on the paper here. Let me know if you have any questions.

Working in a psych unit trying to improve this process is really eye opening. Some key doctors have put in the effort to turn the inpatient floor from weeks of being trapped to ide…

As far as psychiatric health goes, its highly variable. I have a friend that I talked to last night that is working with Medicaid to revamp how they bill this kind of stuff because…