viernes, 29 de julio de 2011

Movies update


Movie Reviews

A shrine listing the victims of violence in Altgeld Gardens in Chicago, seen in the documentary
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE INTERRUPTERS'

Confronting a Plague of Violence

By MANOHLA DARGIS
"The Interrupters," a documentary by Steve James, takes a look at a gutsy, activist component of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention.
Miranda July stars in her film
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE FUTURE'

Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More

By A. O. SCOTT
The fears and frustrations that shadow us on our awkward trip through the life cycle often feel enormous, and "The Future" elevates them to something metaphysical and wondrous.
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Olivia Wilde and Daniel Craig in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'COWBOYS & ALIENS'

Extraterrestrials Land at the O.K. Corral

By MANOHLA DARGIS
In "Cowboys & Aliens," Daniel Craig rides into the New Mexico Territory and wrangles extraterrestrials that look like cousins of the monsters from the "Alien" films.
Don Cheadle, left, portrays an F.B.I. agent and Brendan Gleeson a small-town cop in John Michael McDonagh's
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE GUARD'

Mismatched Partners in a Crime Comedy

By MANOHLA DARGIS
In "The Guard" Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are reluctant crime-fighting buddies.
Steve Carell as a suburban everyman who discovers that his wife is cheating on him, in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE'

What's a Guy to Do if His Wife Cheats on Him? Head to the Mall

By A. O. SCOTT
"Crazy, Stupid, Love," packed with appealing stars, is essentially a study in the varieties of masculine sexual confusion.
Dominic Cooper in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE'

Straight From Uday Hussein's Inner Circle

By A. O. SCOTT
"The Devil's Double," a slick, English-language excursion into Saddam Hussein's Iraq, might seem either timely or insensitive, given the uprisings in the Middle East.
Mark Duplass in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'TRUE ADOLESCENTS'

Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Mark Duplass stars in Craig Johnson's film "True Adolescents," which explores the sexual discomfort of boys and men not entirely secure in their masculinity.
Gilles Lellouche in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'POINT BLANK'

It's Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police

By STEPHEN HOLDEN
"Point Blank" is a French thriller involving cops, gangsters, a kidnapping and a breakneck chase.
John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and Luke Treadaway battle angry aliens in
MOVIE REVIEW | 'ATTACK THE BLOCK'

Inner City vs. Outer Space

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Joe Cornish's comedic "Attack the Block" considers the chance of an alien invasion in South London.

News & Features

ARTS & LEISURE

Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today

By TERRENCE RAFFERTY
Pierre Boulle's idea of peculiarly advanced simians has evolved from his 1963 novel "Planet of the Apes" to Rupert Wyatt's new film, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," the seventh film based on the book.
From left: Zach Galifianakis (the Big Baby), Chris Evans (the Hero) and Ryan Reynolds (the Bachelor).
ARTS & LEISURE

Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men

By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS
The male archetypes populating contemporary Hollywood offer clues about what the men of our dreams look like, or at least what moviemakers are trying to sell us.
Harmony Santana a transgender actress with a role in a new movie. While actors have long appeared on screen in drag, transgender performers have been less visible.
ARTS & LEISURE

When They Play Women, It's Not Just an Act

By ERIK PIEPENBURG
Harmony Santana is among a small group of openly transgender actors who are increasingly recognizable and finding a place on screen.

DVD

In Otto Preminger's 1968 comedy

Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God

By DAVE KEHR
"Skiddoo," Otto Preminger's 1968 psychedelic comedy starring, among others, Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Mickey Rooney and Grouch Marx, is a finely controlled mess.
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Photos & Video

VIDEO: Critics' Picks: 'Back to the Future'
A. O. Scott explores the existential predicaments that arise in Robert Zemeckis's 1985 time-travel adventure.
VIDEO: Anatomy of a Scene: 'The Future'
Miranda July, the director of "The Future," narrates a look at the film.
VIDEO: Gender Roles
The new movie "Gun Hill Road" distinguishes itself from transgender films of the recent past by relying on an actress, Harmony Santana, who is herself transgender.

Showtimes & Tickets

  

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Books update


On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'This Beautiful Life'

By HELEN SCHULMAN
Reviewed by MARIA RUSSO
In this timely novel, a family's Manhattan life comes crashing down when their 15-year-old forwards a sexually explicit video made for him, unsolicited, by a girl two years younger.

Also in the Book Review

THE MECHANIC MUSE

The Jargon of the Novel, Computed

By BEN ZIMMER
We like to think modern fiction is free from the artificial stylistic pretensions of the past. But computer analysis reveals that linguistic tics unique to fiction writing endure.

'Age of Greed'

By JEFF MADRICK
Reviewed by SEBASTIAN MALLABY
Jeff Madrick traces the regulatory and cultural changes that led to the country's current financial trouble.

'Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants'

By RICHARD MABEY
Reviewed by ELIZABETH ROYTE
A British nature writer is impressed by the ubiquitous resiliency of what we call weeds.
Sapphire

'The Kid'

By SAPPHIRE
Reviewed by DANIELLE EVANS
In this sequel to "Push," Precious has died, and her son finds himself in a world of brutality.

'Jamrach's Menagerie'

By CAROL BIRCH
Reviewed by BENJAMIN HALE
In Carol Birch's historical novel, a young boy is lured on a sea voyage to hunt for a Komodo dragon in the East Indies.
Stephen Colbert at the

'Are You Serious?'

By LEE SIEGEL
Reviewed by DONNA RIFKIND
Lee Siegel explains how seriousness has evolved in Western society, from the age of Socrates to that of contemporary TV hosts.
Deborah Kay Davies

'True Things About Me'

By DEBORAH KAY DAVIES
Reviewed by REBECCA BARRY
A sexual obsession pulls this novel's heroine into her darkest self.

'The Astral'

By KATE CHRISTENSEN
Reviewed by DANIEL HANDLER
The hero of this novel, a Brooklyn poet, is thrown out by his wife for adultery he didn't commit.

'A Billion Wicked Thoughts'

By OGI OGAS and SAI GADDAM
Reviewed by WESLEY YANG
Two computational neuroscientists analyze Web searches to identify sexual desires and preferences.

'Perplexities of Consciousness'

By ERIC SCHWITZGEBEL
Reviewed by NICHOLAS HUMPHREY
A philosopher argues that we have a poor understanding of our conscious experience.
Thomas B. Reed

'Mr. Speaker!'

By JAMES GRANT
Reviewed by NORMAN ORNSTEIN
A life of Thomas Reed, the Gilded Age Congressional leader.
Nuremberg, summer 1945.

'Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany'

By FREDERICK TAYLOR
Reviewed by MARK MAZOWER
A history of the occupation of Germany after 1945, where there was little resistance to the Allies even as Hitler's influence lingered.
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Back Page

SKETCHBOOK | WENDY MACNAUGHTON
INTERACTIVE FEATURE:Snacks of the Great Scribblers
Walt Whitman began the day with oysters and meat. The novelist Vendela Vida swears by pistachios. Lord Byron sipped vinegar to keep his weight down.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Helen Schulman on her new novel, "The Beautiful Life"; and the linguist Ben Zimmer on what computer analysis reveals about the jargon of fiction.
ArtsBeat

Cancer de colon


Eficacia del levetiracetam en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático.


Eficacia del levetiracetam en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático.
Del Pozo E, Pereira-Pérez E, González-Contreras LG.
Rev Neurol 2011; 53: 65-72.
Introducción. El tratamiento farmacológico es la primera opción que se debe considerar en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático, en el que los antiepilépticos ocupan un lugar destacado. El levetiracetam es un antiepiléptico de última generación que ha mostrado actividad antinociceptiva en modelos experimentales de dolor y eficacia clínica analgésica en series de pacientes con dolor neuropático. Objetivo. Analizar la eficacia analgésica del levetiracetam en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático mediante una revisión sistemática de la bibliografía.
Pacientes y métodos. Se ha utilizado la base de datos Medline/PubMed. Los criterios de búsqueda reunieron tres elementos fundamentales: levetiracetam, dolor neuropático y pacientes. Se han identificado los estudios hasta el 31 de enero de 2011. Los estudios seleccionados se sometieron a un análisis de calidad según la escala Physiotherapy Evidence Database (0-10). Resultados. Se seleccionaron tres series de casos, dos estudios pilotos abiertos y no controlados y cuatro ensayos clínicos aleatorizados (ECA). Sólo los ECA reunieron criterios de calidad aceptables. La etiología del dolor neuropático era diferente en los distintos ECA analizados. El levetiracetam mostró eficacia en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático en los estudios con calidad metodológica baja (series de casos y estudios pilotos) y en un ECA dirigido a pacientes con dolor neuropático central debido a esclerosis múltiple. Conclusiones. Hay escasos ensayos clínicos de calidad metodológica alta que evalúen la eficacia del levetiracetam en el tratamiento del dolor neuropático y la mayoría de ellos no demuestra beneficio en relación con el placebo.
Palabras clave. Antiepilépticos. Dolor neuropático. Ensayo clínico aleatorizado. Levetiracetam. Neuropatías dolorosas. Revisión sistemática.

http://www.neurologia.com/pdf/Web/5302/bg020065.pdf  
Atentamente
Anestesiología y Medicina del Dolor

MODY review




MODY
History, genetics, pathophysiology, and clinical decision making





Studies conducted at the University
of Michigan for 60 years and at the
University of Chicago for approximately
25 years form the basis of this
review. As no field of study can develop
or progress in isolation, we have included
selected investigations performed in other
centers.
EARLY HISTORY—In the academic
year 1949–1950, one of us (S.S.F.), while
a first-year Fellow in Endocrinology and
Metabolism at the University of Michigan
(Jerome W. Conn, Division Chief), initiated
a prospective, long-term study on the
diagnosis, natural history, and clinical
genetics of diabetes. Starting with known
diabetic patients from the Diabetes Clinic,.......





NuevasTecnologías y redes sociales en Hoy por Hoy

Buenos días,otra jornada más, comenzando el fin de semana, le dejo los nuevos enlaces de el Caparazón,quiero que los visitantes ha este blog pudieran dejar algún comentario de los diversos trabajos que se van
publicando, en especial de la iniciativa anti tabaco, no pagues por suicidarte, en la que estoy convencido que hay que cambiar de estrategia y cuidarnos los no fumadores en todo momento no solo en las áreas libres de humo, bueno agradeceré también cualquier colaboración en este tema, gracias.



El caparazón: Programa del lunes 25/7, NuevasTecnologías y redes sociales en Hoy por Hoy

Link to El caparazon


Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:20 AM PDT
Preparando ya el programa del primero de Agosto, quería dejaros la grabación de la sección de Nuevas Tecnologías en Hoy por Hoy de la SER el pasado lunes.
Entrevistamos en esta ocasión a Paco Prieto, de CTIC.



Y como siempre, ya que hablamos de ello, dejo algún enlace a artículos pasados y vídeos sobre los temas que tocábamos: