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The New Science of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
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Kandel challenges psychoanalysis to show it is an empirical science and is willing to study its clinical practice.
Kandel is a friend of analysis, an honest friend who will tell us what we may not want to hear.
==Nathan M. Szajnberg, MD

Click Here to Read:   The New Science of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Eric Kandel on the Cell Press website.

This article originally appeared as Kandel, Eric (2013). The New Science of Mind and the Future of Knowledge. 546 Neuron 80:546-560 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed
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Click Here to Read:  Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed by Gina Kolata in The NewYork Times on October 17, 2013,

Click Here to Read: The Bottom Line? Often the Drug Companies’by Marcia Angell in The New York Times on October 17, 2013.

Dr. Nancy Cook and Dr. Paul M. Ridker of Harvard Medical School found that a new online calculator used to assess heart treatment options overestimated the risks that many people face.
MARK GRAHAM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

New study estimates billions of Earth-sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy
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Click Here to Read:  New study estimates billions of Earth-sized planets orbiting Sun-like stars in the Milky Way galaxy By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on November 9, 2013.

Artist’s conception of Kepler-22b, a planet 2.4 times the size of Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Whether or not the planet has an atmosphere as depicted is unknown.