Just a quick post, almost a Tweet (but I'm not into "Twittering" at the moment) to mention that I am off to the American Academy of Neurology Meetings. They are in Seattle this year. Though I have been doing some research on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) I did not write up an abstract this year. There is a good chance that I will have something instead for the Neuroscience meeting which is usually in November. If nothing else, I should come back with many things to add to "Updates in Neurology."

I am reactivating this blog to coincide with the rejuvenation of my "flagship" webpage, http://www.neurospotlight.com/. Though initially I had hoped to produce a constant flow of in depth analysis of neuroscience research, I did not have the time to make frequent detailed posts. In reactivating this blog, I am going to emphasize medical and scientific information gathering as well as whatever new and interesting things pique my interest in science, medicine, or even subjects further afield. Every now and then I will try to produce an in depth summary of current research as I did in my initial post in 2003. I think that was a pretty good post back then, though it is now quite out of date. I also will be adding some more links to other blogs. I just added four of them. They are the blogs of Joseph Kim MD MPH. They are

http://www.ultramobilehealth.com/
http://www.medicineandtechnology.com/
http://www.nonclinicaljobs.com/
http://www.medicalsmartphones.com/

The names are self explanatory, except perhaps for the third one, which is about non clinical jobs for physicians. The average person might say "How many physicians are interested in a job outside of clinical medicine?" The answer, apparently, is loads of them. Of course it depends on exactly what one considers nonclinical. Is teaching at a medical school nonclinical? Is public health nonclinical? Many doctors in those jobs would say "definitely not." But probably pure research, writing and journalism (even on medical related subjects), or development of software (even medical software) would be considered nonclinical. And, believe me, there are a lot of doctors going into those areas and many more considering it. In a future posting I may write a bit about what, I think, are the reasons.