Neocortical Impulses!

came across this interesting article here today about memory, how it works, its storage and retention. havent read all of it yet, looks pretty fascinating.it tells about a spacing effect, how people can recall well if they are reminded of or themselves remind/look up things they have learnt, at the right time, just when they are going to forget it.... have bookmarked it and will definitely read it fully....it also tells about a software called super memo developed by Wozniak....this software is supposed to analyze when people will forget things and remind them of it. hmm....

a movie i saw yesterday, with parents and sister. *ing golden star Ganesh, AnantNag and Roma. was quite good actually, except for the ending.... the story is nothing extraordinary, but the way it is shown in the movie is simple and succinct.veteran actor anant nag has once again come up with a sterling performance, his acting feels so natural.... well, people who dont mind tragic endings will love the whole movie. it is quite emotional too,sentimental women may be seen shedding a tear or two....

i was just browsing through videos in youtube, came across some good wildlife videos.... i had also uploaded my own video shot with a digital camera in bannerghatta.... the video wasn`t this dark before i uploaded it to youtube...hmm... another good video which became quite famous as the battle at kruger: amazing video shot by an amateur, simply incredible!

a couple of days ago, we came across a case of congenital shortening of middle phalanges of the medial 4 fingers and the lateral 4 toes(the great toe`s and thumb`s proximal phalanges were shortened). it was one of the rarest cases according to our professor- he had never seen such a case and it has not even been mentioned in our books. it was a 6 year old girl who presented with deformed fingers and toes with difficulty in moving them. she could not write properly, but could walk alright. on x-ray, the shortened phalanges were detected. the deformity of the index finger did look like the one in the above x-ray, but i am not sure whether the above x-ray shows any shortening of phalanges.... our professor told her parents that nothing could be done right now, but maybe after the epiphyses have fused, prostheses may be tried....

The last 3 days were religious,spiritual,awe-inspiring,fun filled and a little tiring(the journey). my orthopaedics internals had got over on thursday, it had gone okay.... my parents,sister,myself,3 members of a neighborhood family and a friend of father left for om shakthi in tamil nadu, in a toyota qualis, on thursday night. we reached the place on friday morning and visited the temple. had breakfast at a nearby restaurant... went to pondicherry then, lazed around a bit on the beach. left for chidambaram next,was quite a nice place. next stop- karaikal . we lodged there for the night and visited the temple there the next morning,the temple of shri shaneswara the Saturn God. visited the beach there too-this was the fun filled part of the journey, the beach was almost devoid of people(it was almost noon). collected some shells-this is the first time i did this... a bit of splashing in the water and it was time to go again... off to kumbukonam- place of 7 temples -alas all were clo...

it has been 1 week now since orthopaedics postings started and we have only presented 2(almost 2 , only 1 properly) cases. the proper case was a case of secondary osteomyelitis, secondary to an infected implant. the other half presented case was a case of avascular necrosis of the femoral head, we couldn`t diagnose this clinically, it was an x-ray diagnosis. today was another holiday, the birthday of our constitution maker, a great person he was. also, another festival for us -Ram Navami. with internals in orthopaedics coming up in 3 days, i havent studied enough, starting to get a little anxious. i am off to a small nap now!!!

almost forgot, its also the world health day today. i think this year`s theme is quite appropriate in these days- climate change and its effect on health its high time people started taking notice about the effects climate has on health and climate which is in turn being affected by our activities. i, myself , live in quite a populated and polluted city, the effects of pollution have already occurred in Bangalore. it was once called a naturally air conditioned city, anyone who comes to this city now will say its anything but air conditioned. unseasonal rains, unnatural temperatures,....its all happening. the effects are also being felt on the health of the people, don't think we have a very healthy population here....don`t know the exact statistics....

got up quite late today also, even though its the beginning of our Hindu new year. hope i don't keep doing the same thing. tried to read something in orthopedics(postings start from tomorrow), got bugged and closed the book within 10 minutes. just lazing around now, don`t know what to do. watched the golden compass yesterday, pretty good animation!

well, its the end of our first postings in final year. OBG was quite good, though the internals on Friday did not go too well. on the whole it was a good 6 weeks postings, i think we learnt a lot more than we had till now. we have 2 continuous holidays now, a little free, as one posting has just got over and the next one begins from tuesday. i think i`ll go watch a movie now.