"Know then thyself".

Know thyself.

This article is part of a For-Discussion-Section of Methods of Information in Medicine on "Biomedical Informatics: We Are What We Publish" written by Peter L. Elkin, Steven H. Brown, and Graham Wright. It is introduced by this editorial and followed by a commentary paper with invited comments. In their paper, P. Elkin et al. attempt to define the fields of Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics...

Know Thyself.

Self-knowledge has never been a central topic; in empirical psychology. There are pockets of research on self-knowledge in different subdisciplines of the field, but until now there has been little communication between them. I believe that these areas will converge in the next few years into a cohesive study of how people form judgments about their past, current, and future selves and about th...

Physician, know thyself.

Teacher, Know Thyself

Being relatively new to the profession of college teaching, I regularly seek out and devour handbooks on teaching with the hope of making my learning curve a little bit steeper and a lot less painful. So it was with great pleasure and anticipation that I agreed to review The Joy of Teaching by Peter Filene. Surely, a seasoned history professor with six teaching awards and 75 semesters in the cl...

Brain, Know Thy Transcriptome, Know Thyself

In this issue of Neuron, Konopka et al. (2012) describe their comparison of transcriptomes from frontal pole, caudate nucleus, and hippocampus of multiple adult humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys. The data provide an initial opportunity for linking genomic and brain differences among these primate species.