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...Enter Dr. Margaret S. Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, whose research focuses on human visual perception. Livingstone realized that while contemporary art historians like Ernst Gombrich are not wrong in their analysis of “Mona Lisa,” there’s a science to da Vinci’s masterpiece that had yet to be fully explained. Analyzing the work in terms of its spatial frequencies, Livingstone revealed that the lower spatial frequencies, best seen by the peripheral vision, make the figure appear to smile, while at higher frequencies the smile almost vanishes...
...bunk. But as people take more control of their health care - joining an empowerment movement many are calling Patient 2.0 - plenty of doctors are worried about the quality of the information that is being assessed as well as patients' ability to understand it. Or as Duke neurology professor Dr. Richard Bedlack puts it, "Just because you have the tools to work on your sports car doesn't mean you're ready to do it." (See how to prevent illness...
Sharing data - as well as giving people full access to their digitized health records - is being championed by deBronkart, now an online activist known as "e-patient Dave." He has teamed up with Dr. Daniel Sands, the physician who helped him kick his cancer into remission in 2007, to co-chair the newly created Society for Participatory Medicine, which encourages patients to learn as much as they can about their health and also helps doctors support patients on this data-intensive quest. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Patients expect me to have seen every possible thing about melanoma out there, but if I did, I wouldn't possibly have time to take care of patients," says Duke oncologist Dr. Amy Abernethy, who spoke at the IOM conference about what rapid learning might look like when applied to real patients...
...endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...