Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 173

The Left

The phenomenon, which is called left-side bias or left-cradling bias, encourages the right side of the brain to process emotions and ability to monitor the baby. It occurs 70-85% of the time in humans.

However, humans are not unique other mammals do the same including feral horses, Pacific walrus, Siberian tundra reindeer, saiga antelope, muskox, eastern grey kangaroo and red kangaroo.

• Karenina K et al. Lateralization of mother–infant interactions in a diverse range of mammal species. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2017; 1: 0030

Shaken bear syndrome / OCD / ADHD

See the table below for a full list from these Canadian Authors and click on the reference for the full witty journal

• Shea SE et al. Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne. CMAJ. 2000; 163 (12): 1557-1559

White lines of discolouration across the nails

Mees lines (aka Aldrich-Mees lines; Reynolds lines; leukonychia striata) are white lines of discoloration across the nails of the fingers and toes

First described by Dr RA Mees a Dutch physician in 1919 (although noted in previous years by Ernest Septimus Reynolds in 1901 and Aldrich in 1904).

They can appear after an episode of poisoning with arsenic, thallium or other heavy metals. They also occur in patient with renal failure and patients on chemotherapy

• Reynolds ES. An Account of the Epidemic Outbreak of Arsenical Poisoning occurring in Beer Drinkers in the North of England and the Midland Counties in 1900. Lancet. 1901; 15(4038): 166-170.
• Aldrich CJ. Leuconychia striata arsenicalis transversus, with report of three cases. American Journal of the Medical Sciences 1904; 127 (4): 702–709
• Mees RA. Een verschijnsel bij polyneuritis arsenicosa. Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde. 1919; 1: 391–396.

No it’s not a prejudice against someones phone, it’s an auditory sensation produced by a stimulus of another sense e.g. taste, smell.

As treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.

The actor Warner, was getting elderly and looking increasingly implausible in uniform. He had increasing difficulty moving about, which was helped slightly by a treatment involving bee stings