This week we talked about how the "scientific journal" medium is expanding to include more atypical means of communication.

We chatted with the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that promotes evidence-based medicine via peer review; the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first peer-reviewed journal to publish studies using a combination of text, images, and video, and David Dobbs, the author of a Wired magazine article about open source science.

Peer Review Radio is recorded live every Tuesday from 1-2 P.M. on CHUO 89.1 FM in Ottawa.


The Future of Scientific Journals, Part I - Jan 17 2012

This week we talked about how the "scientific journal" medium is expanding to include more atypical means of communication.

We chatted with the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that promotes evidence-based medicine via peer review; the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the first peer-reviewed journal to publish studies using a combination of text, images, and video, and David Dobbs, the author of a Wired magazine article about open source science.

Peer Review Radio is recorded live every Tuesday from 1-2 P.M. on CHUO 89.1 FM in Ottawa.

The Future of Scientific Journals, Part II - Jan 17 2012

Invisible Illnesses

Bipolar disorder. Discussion on mania, hypomania, depression, dysthymia, euthymia, mixed states, and untangling the complexity of a multifaceted disorder with great variance between sufferers. Blowing misconceptions out of the water about what is in fact mostly a biologically rooted disorder, talk about the genetics of alterations in neural transmission via ion channels seen in bipolar patients.

Also, fighting stigma and differentiating the disease from borderline personality disorder, from which most of the misconceptions and stereotypes stem.