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But if there's no quality control, it will just be self-publishing, which we can all do already, and just load our new articles up on RG or whatever. What researchers want from a journal these days is mainly reputational clout, the quality stamp, and the visibility that comes from being in a...

I know I should stop talking now, but I'm not sure I agree with this. There are just such vast quantities of stuff out there now, and I just get so tired of having to wade through the sheer volume of it. If its bad, and its not published, then at least it doesn't have influence, and I don't have...

I suppose the open access model that's been developed in places like PLOSone and BMC means you have to make the reviewers' identities public. And all their comments. So if it looks bad for the editor, that might prevent it.

Its all very interesting. But I am worried about COIs. Universities have interests in their own researchers getting published. @Jonathan Edwards, you're right that if the admin was fully delegated, that could work. But its still a bit like an independent survey of toothpaste preferences being...

Yes, I'm a bit worried about any government's motives for poking around in people's private lives with the aims of reducing healthcare costs. It so often ends up in intrusive constraints and edicts. I think I can imagine a great episode of Black Mirror, where fat people are required to wear...

@jeckylberry, did you know there's a bird lovers' thread at S4ME? Its under "Off topic Chit-Chat" in the community lounge section. I've never ventured on there, you bird lovers can be a fruity lot.

That must be a total bummer, @Peter Trewhitt. Especially given your profession. Its very sad to read some of the things people are saying. The navigation problems @Peter Trewhitt, @Wonko @Invisible Woman and others talk about sound really "hippocampal" to me. About retrieving familiar...

Yes, the brain and cardiovascular (CV) system are really closely intertwined. In healthy people, CV efficiency - as indicated by low resting heart rate and high heart rate variability - is associated with good performance on effortful control tasks. You've probably seen all that recent research...

Yes, that sort of makes sense. The DSM diagnosis of Alzheimer's requires you to have memory problems plus one of the following: language difficulties, visuospatial difficulties or problems with higher motor control. So technically you need one of these too for the diagnosis. But you're right. A...

Yes, that's true, but there are some tasks that are effortful for everyone. No matter how good you are at them, you can only do them for a short time. Intense focussed attention, etc. That's the sort I'm interested in.

That's very interesting, @Inara, and very much sits with the ideas I'm mulling over right now. So its this: fMRI studies suggest that in order to do well on certain kinds of "effortful" mental tasks, we need to first increase blood supply to key parts of the brain that are needed for the task...

It depends on how much work I'm able to do in the future, but I'm a cognitive neuropsychologist by training, and I'm interested! @Alvin, it makes total sense that the dementia test didn't fit your problems, they're mainly designed to test memory, which is the primary, and often first appearing...

Oh, who, out of those who've posted, gets adequate sleep? Or for those that get adequate sleep only sometimes, how are your cognitive problems on days following the good sleeps? It just occurred to be that I get 9 hours sleep a night, every night without fail, whatever the cost, even if it...

Thanks everyone, really interesting and useful. Spatial problems are clearly much more common than I realised. Is it true to say that they mainly occur in situations where you're directly interacting with the environment? Like sort of visuo-motor coordination stuff rather than abstract spatial...

@petrichor, it takes a while to work out how to get the core of a study, how to tease apart what the intervention is actually designed to do from what the authors "go on about". And its easy to be misled when the study text is a little loose and free. I think this is sometimes done to make the...

Yes, it was. Sorry, I thought it was huge news in the UK, that people would know I was referring to truly nasty stuff. There was an article - in the Guardian I think - about some of the topics, which were utterly chilling. The issue reminds us that sometimes activism in academia is appropriate...

@petrichor, can you tell us about your experiences as a patient undergoing GET?

Yes, it is a direct contradiction. I think we are finally on the same page. There are lots of these in work of this nature.

:thumbup::thumbup::trophy@ There should be a "like with bells on" button for this!

@Valentijn, you can read it here. Its actually not a good example of "soft GET" or "GET-that's-actually-pacing". Its hard GET. The pacing was done as a precursor to the GET proper to "establish an initial achievable level of structured regular exercise (e.g. walking), in addition to activities...