{"id":1222,"date":"2013-03-27T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2013-03-27T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:01:35","slug":"wednesday-links-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/27\/wednesday-links-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drug Interactions in Psychiatry: A Practical Review<\/a> Useful information for understanding how certain psychiatric medications interact, and why. Supporting information – because serotonin receptors have a bigger impact on the body and brain beyond mood, understanding How Serotonin Receptors Can Shape Drug Effects<\/a> can help with targeting drug therapies and avoiding dangerous side effects.<\/p>\n

All the wonderful information we will eventually get from post-natal genome sequencing will eventually be put to use in prenatal testing. What then?<\/a><\/p>\n

A couple of thoughts about evolution and purpose. Like, evolution doesn’t have a purpose, it just happens. Pharyngula<\/a> addresses this by way of criticizing a bad paper that assumes “direction” to evolution. Sandwalk<\/a> does it by talking about random genetic drift.<\/p>\n

Honest to goodness, I read through this<\/a> and don’t understand the application because it’s beyond my frame of reference. But I can imagine that it’s a good thing for genetic research. Same thing with this one<\/a>. Just the idea that DNA can be taken apart, looked a piece by piece, put back together. . .blows my mind.<\/p>\n

Good thing I at least read them, though – maybe they’ll find a way to fix the headache I got from reading them<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No Animals this week. Unless you consider dirty girls who like Benedict Cumberbatch to be animals.<\/p>\n