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Via Mind Hacks Psychiatrist Victor Aziz has suggested that some iPod users are experiencing musical hallucinations owing to the constant repetition of favourite songs. Dr Aziz was recently featured in a New York Times article discussing musical hallucinations . This story was touted as 'brain becomes an iPod' because musical hallucinations can take the form of complete songs or melodies. In an interesting twist, however, Aziz suggests the use of personal music players may lead to musical hallucinations in some people. This is not as far fetched as it sounds. A recent...

Via Psychnology Workshop on Personalisation for e-Health to be held in conjunction with UM 2005 Edinburgh, UK, July 2005 The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of investment in the e-Health sector, both in terms of research effort, and in terms of funding, as well as a great public interest. e-Health can be broadly defined as the application of IT (especially Internet...

Via CHI 2005 web site Computer Human Interaction 2005 Student Design Competition challenged students to design a tool, application or service for elder companionship. The winning team was...

Via Near Near Future Ambient Experience for Healthcare is a program designed to lessen patient anxiety and claustrophobic effects of an MRI scan through the use of a multimedia environment....

Via VRPsych list Faculty Psychologist - Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences announces a full time assistant professor position. Job duties...