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Grand Rounds: Best of Health and Medical Blogging

Wel­come to a new edi­tion of Grand Rounds blog car­ni­val, the weekly edi­tion of what’s best in the health and med­ical blo­gos­phere. This week, twenty four blog­gers share data, insights, ques­tions, reflec­tions and more. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

MetaCarnival #2 is up

If you want to read a wide cross-section of some of the best blog arti­cles pub­lished in MetaCarnivalNovem­ber, you may enjoy the mas­ter­ful edi­tion of MetaCar­ni­val just pub­lished by Kim, includ­ing clas­sic sci­ence papers, aspects of the med­ical and sci­en­tific life, neu­ro­science, anthro­pol­ogy, and more. Enjoy!:

MetaCar­ni­val: Vol­ume One, Num­ber 2

The next edi­tion will be hosted by Berta­lan at Sci­enceRoll on Decem­ber 29th.

Encephalon, MetaCarnival

Mike hosts a great new edi­tion of Encephalon neu­ro­science & psy­chol­ogy blog car­ni­val, avail­able here: #59 edi­tion.

Fyi, Kim at Change of Shift will pub­lish the next edi­tion of MetaCar­ni­val next Mon­day, Decem­ber 1st.

Education and health blog carnivals

Here you have the lat­est edi­tions of two excel­lent blog car­ni­vals. Pay a visit if you are inter­ested in meet­ing some great edu­ca­tion and health bloggers.

- Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion #190, by Steve Spangler.

- Grand Rounds: this time, hosted by Kev­inMD and Kim on behalf of Dr. Val.

Enjoy!

Information on the Brain: Encephalon #54

Mo, the founder of Encephalon blog car­ni­val, has hosted its most recent edition:

- Encephalon 54, with “every­thing from the per­cep­tion of colour and shapes to behav­ioural eco­nom­ics, the neu­ro­science of sports and squab­bling psychologists.”

If you are look­ing for some good arti­cles on recent neu­ro­science and psy­chol­ogy news and devel­op­ment, this twice-a-month car­ni­val is a great place to start.

Neuroscience and Psychology Blogs

If you want to dis­cover some great neu­ro­science and psy­chol­ogy blogs, check out Encephalon blog carnival’s 53rd edi­tion, this time hosted in Africa for the first time!

Education, Biogerontology, HR carnivals

We are host­ing here at Sharp­Brains the next edi­tions of sev­eral great blog car­ni­vals. If you blog about these top­ics, please sub­mit your best recent posts using our Con­tact Us form:

- August 27th: Car­ni­val of Education.

- Sep­tem­ber 9th: Car­ni­val of Biogerontology.

- Sep­tem­ber 17th: Car­ni­val of HR.

Enjoy the  weekend!

Encephalon: superb new edition, archives

Iron­i­cally, Marc at the blog titled Neu­ro­sci­en­tif­i­cally Chal­lenged has just released one of the best edi­tions of Encephalon blog car­ni­val. Pay a visit only when you have some time to spare with a col­lec­tion of excel­lent and very well pre­sented neu­ro­science, med­i­cine and psy­chol­ogy blog posts, on top­ics rang­ing from fMRI to gene ther­apy and neuroplasticity.

Visit #49 Encephalon edi­tion at Neu­ro­sci­en­tif­i­cally Challenged.

Also, you may enjoy tak­ing a look at past edi­tions and cal­en­dar for future ones at Encephalon home page: Encephalon Archives & Cal­en­dar.

Human Resources, Brain Science, Health Blogs

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.

Health, Education, Neuroscience Blogs

Some great blog car­ni­vals this week; visit them if you want to read good blog posts on the fol­low­ing topics:

- Update 1: great edi­tion of the Philoso­phers’ Car­ni­val.

- Update 2: Encephalon #40: all top­ics neu­ro­science and psychology.

- Grand Rounds last week and this week: on health and medicine.

- Car­ni­val of Edu­ca­tion #160: on edu­ca­tional issues.

- Car­ni­val of Math­e­mat­ics #27.: great col­lec­tion of math-related resources.

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  18. Improve Mem­ory with Sleep, Prac­tice, and Test­ing, by Bill Klemm
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