December 2020 Links
AI Cancer treatment (from 2018): https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-went-wrong-with-ibm-s-watson?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Journal Article Reporting Standards: https://apastyle.apa.org/jars
Center for open science TOP (transparency and openness promotion) guidelines: https://www.cos.io/about/news/apa-joins-as-new-signatory-to-top-guidelines
Efforts to enforce reporting of clinical trials are failing: https://sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.367.6475.240
On meta analysis - a quick introduction (3 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i675gZNe3MY
Biostatistics and vaccines: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030?src=mkm_covid_update_201116_MSCPEDIT&uac=315526ER&impID=2679610&faf=1
Covid and mental health: https://medium.com/beingwell/debunking-1-in-5-covid-19-patients-develop-mental-illness-63ef1a3c7abb
The world’s largest multidisciplinary survey on research integrity is in danger of falling short of its goals after two-thirds of invited institutions declined to collaborate, citing the sensitivity of the subject and fearing negative publicity. That left researchers leading the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity on their own to scrape many email addresses and solicit responses. The survey will close on 7 December, but the team has gathered responses from less than 15% of 40,000 targeted participants - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/largest-ever-research-integrity-survey-flounders-universities-refuse-cooperate?fbclid=IwAR386hsUxOD5nzM9zvIA2AZThN4lT71LaGkGkiYgDXyikv-6m0Q4_4o1KzE
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/absolutely-remarkable-no-one-who-got-modernas-vaccine-trial-developed-severe-covid-19?utm_medium=10today.media.20201130.436.1&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling
Just for fun. How to get smarter every day: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/how-to-get-smarter-every-day-according-to-neuroscience.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Another Coyne article: https://medium.com/beingwell/powerful-placebo-in-a-psilocybin-for-depression-study-daa1c80c8730
https://medium.com/beingwell/psilocybin-as-an-antidepressant-for-cancer-patients-who-are-not-depressed-ca5a5f9d8d06
Inverted Game Controllers?: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2020/dec/02/scientists-studying-why-gamers-invert-their-controls?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Turning away from brain scans? : https://apnews.com/article/why-some-scientists-turn-away-brain-scan-b778a88a0b7c781e75e2f8c7c49e9421?fbclid=IwAR2WWov8FIPd_JiyxfKCkqryjGmWucxvAF85pOopqTRflEeT2s0KmnQpHms
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation from Radio Shack: https://www.radioshack.com/products/liftid-neurostimulation?_pos=1&_sid=5e43dd8dc&_ss=r&fbclid=IwAR1iaHIlh7y1JCOUFRPPYbwlUdUxF3SWfQL6dzWE3bTeRErwzKgdCzeJf2w
Review article on tDCS (paywall, but references are included): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-019-0499-9
