Encefalus

The grandma has freaked out!
The greek newspaper To Vima publishes once a week, a magazine along with the newspaper called Vimagazino. I was reading the other day and I found a very funny article which shows how utterly stupid sometimes psychiatrists can be.
This article was published in an one page column where the readers submit [...]

The blog canrival Encephalon 53 is out! Grab it at
Encephalon #53: Out of Africa

Encefalitis is a blogzine, that is, a magazine composed of blog posts.
I first thought about piecing together my posts together into a pdf file, so as to be able to classify them and find them easier. But later I discovered that this could make an excellent magazine, that anyone can get and print and read [...]

Grab the psychology blog carnival enchephalon 52 at Encephalon 52 !!!

I found this report the other day on Eurekalert. The article reports:
"Rice University’s Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country’s most-attended transfer-level community college courses — elementary statistics. The book, "Collaborative Statistics," has been used [...]

Neurophilosophy has an interview with Heather Perry: Lunch with Heather Perry. In case you don’t know her, she is an individual who decided to trepan herself. Trepanation is a procedure in which you open a hole in the skull. It was mainly used in ancient times to release the bad spirits, but it is [...]

Providentia just released part 3 of A Shocking Discovery series describing the use of ECT throughout the history of psychiatry. It also includes a few remarks about antipsychiatry and closes with a very reasonable debate concerning the use of shock therapy as a treatment.
A Shocking Discovery (Part Three)
A Shocking Discovery (Part Two)
A Shocking Discovery (Part [...]

Providentia just released the second post in the series about ECT and psychiatry at A Shocking Discovery (Part Two). Readers of Encefalus will remember that the first in the series sparked the article Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck? This time, we will not comment on the new article, but read it, since [...]

The blog carnival Encephalon is out for once again. Get it at:
Ode to the Brain: Encephalon 51st edition now out!

The first post in this blog was posted at July 23rd, 2008. Earlier than two weeks later, at August 4th, 2008, this site reached a 1000 visitors! This far surpassed my expectations. I want to thank all of those who have sent me e-mail with comments and support. I hope this site fullfils its purpose [...]

 
I had the luck to watch the Dark Knight in the world premiere. This movie just stuck in my head and I couldn’t get it out. I believe that it has steered many issues and there are a lot of things to say about it, so I decided to write a post and publish some [...]

en·ceph·a·lon

(n-sf-ln)
n. pl. en·ceph·a·la (-l)
The brain of a vertebrate.

[Greek enkephalon, from neuter of enkephalos, in the head; see encephalo-.]
 

Encephalon comes the greek enkephalos which means "that which is inside the head". That is of course of the brain. Encephalous means that which possesses a head. The name Encefalus signifies three things: 
1)It’s a direct mention to [...]