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Maurice Joyce

Virtual Patient App - 3 views

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games education

shared by Maurice Joyce on 21 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Maurice Joyce on 21 Feb 13
     
    Virtual Patient App that is being presented at the HGSE Social Innovation competition. It was developed at HMS and is described in the video as a "game" for patient diagnosis and treatment. I downloaded the app and am not so sure I consider it a "game" but found it to be a good tool at developing differential diagnoses and treatment strategies. It also says the app is applicable for med students, residents and attending physicians (in addition to other healthcare professionals), though I don't know if attending physicians would find it very useful.
Stephanie Fitzgerald

Cognitive Flow: The Psychology of Great Game Design - 0 views

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flow video games design psychology

shared by Stephanie Fitzgerald on 31 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 31 Mar 12
     
    Here is a succinct treatment of cognitive flow and its relevance for game design.
Chris McEnroe

A change in times: Cell phones allowed in classrooms : News : ConnectAmarillo.com - 0 views

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shared by Chris McEnroe on 03 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Chris McEnroe on 03 Mar 12
     
    This is a superficial treatment of a significant event in the life of this school. I hope teachers and admins were more thoughtful than is represented here.
Parisa Rouhani

Music Helps Stroke Victims Communicate, Study Finds - WSJ.com - 0 views

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brain stroke

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.
  • patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,
  • there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.
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  • he patients who benefit the most from the treatment are those who are able to hear the "melodic contour" of words and thus generalize their learning beyond the words taught by their therapist.
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