{"id":34282,"date":"2013-03-15T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=34282"},"modified":"2013-03-15T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T21:56:22","slug":"march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/15\/march-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"march madness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/about\/director\/2013\/brain-awareness.shtml\">Brain Awareness<\/a><br \/> <strong><font color=\"#003399\">NIMH Director&#8217;s Blog <\/font><\/strong><br \/>  By Thomas Insel<br \/> March 11, 2013<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>This  is the time of March Madness, Daylight Savings Time, and what Emily  Dickinson famously called the &ldquo;month of expectation.&rdquo; March is also  Brain Awareness Month, an annual celebration with school visits,  community lectures, and lab tours to introduce the public to the  mind-blowing world of neuroscience. A list of Brain Awareness events can  be found at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dana.org\/brainweek\">http:\/\/www.dana.org\/brainweek<\/a> where you will also find that March 10 -16 is the peak for related public events around the world.<\/strong><\/sup><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>Since NIMH began focusing on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/tedxcaltech.caltech.edu\/content\/tom-insel\">mental disorders as brain disorders<\/a> nearly two decades ago, educating people about the brain has been a priority for us. We often say that with the powerful tools of neuroscience, we can now  use the brain to understand the mind, fulfilling the original vision  that Freud had for a scientific psychology. But we have to remain humble  about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful  tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact,  we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain  works.<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"66\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/snip.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><sup><strong>Whether March for you means basketball, changing clocks, or  expectations, I hope you will check out some of the Brain Awareness  events. Brain science has become one of the most exciting frontiers of  science. When I was a kid, the scientific frontier was &ldquo;outer space.&rdquo;  Today it seems to be &ldquo;inner space&rdquo; that fascinates the boldest and  brightest young minds [or should we say young brains]. We are still at  the beginning of what could be an era of brain exploration, with great  promise for understanding more about how each of us thinks and dreams  and loves, but perhaps even greater promise for helping people with  mental disorders.<\/strong><\/sup><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u4m65sbqbhY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Perhaps on the NIMH Campus, March turns one&#8217;s mind to <strong>Brain Week<\/strong> and basketball, but on most Medical Campuses, on this day [March 15th], what&#8217;s on a lot of people&#8217;s minds is that today is when the National Resident Matching Program [NRMP] let&#8217;s you know the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nrmp.org\/data\/advancedatatables2013.pdf\">results<\/a> of the recruitment efforts for your training program [@ 1:00PM]. <\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"316\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/residency-4.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">For reasons I don&#8217;t really understand, psychiatry is offering a lot more positions this year [1360, up from&nbsp; 1118]. In spite of that, the flat-line continues in the recruitment of graduating US Seniors [631]. One can&#8217;t predict much from that because students choosing psychiatry vary a lot from year to year. But it has been a decade of &quot;flatness.&quot; The difference is being made up by non-US Seniors, primarily FMG [foreign medical graduates].  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain Awareness NIMH Director&#8217;s Blog By Thomas Insel March 11, 2013 This is the time of March Madness, Daylight Savings Time, and what Emily Dickinson famously called the &ldquo;month of expectation.&rdquo; March is also Brain Awareness Month, an annual celebration with school visits, community lectures, and lab tours to introduce the public to the mind-blowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34282"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34295,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34282\/revisions\/34295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}