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Bruce G Charlton

Newcastle University, England; University of Buckingham, England
Verified email at ncl.ac.uk
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The elite brain drain

RS Hunter, AJ Oswald, BG Charlton - The Economic Journal, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable:
nearly half of the world’s most‐cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We …

Lectures are such an effective teaching method because they exploit evolved human psychology to improve learning

BG Charlton - Medical Hypotheses, 2006 - Elsevier
Lectures are probably the best teaching method for many students in many circumstances;
especially for communicating conceptual knowledge, and where there is a significant …

[PDF][PDF] The rise and fall of EBM.

BG Charlton, A Miles - QJM: monthly journal of the Association of …, 1998 - researchgate.net
The rise of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) has been were never properly addressed—nonetheless
CE was widely regarded as a refreshing approach that blew one of the more …

The inequity of inequality: Egalitarian instincts and evolutionary psychology

BG Charlton - Journal of Health Psychology, 1997 - journals.sagepub.com
bruce g. charlton md is a trained psychiatrist who has lectured in physiology, anatomy,
epidemiology and public health, and currently in psychology. His main interests include clinical …

“Theory of mind”, persecutory delusions and the somatic marker mechanism

…, RC Blennerhassett, BG Charlton - Cognitive …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction. Pure cases of persecutory delusions can be interpreted as “theory of mind
delusions”; using a model that equates the theory of mind mechanism with the “somatic marker …

The malaise theory of depression: major depressive disorder is sickness behavior and antidepressants are analgesic

BG Charlton - Medical hypotheses, 2000 - Elsevier
The malaise theory of depression constitutes a re-conceptualization and re-definition of major
depressive disorder (MDD). It is proposed that the state or emotion of malaise should be …

Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity

BG Charlton - Medical Hypotheses, 2009 - Elsevier
Question: why are so many leading modern scientists so dull and lacking in scientific
ambition? Answer: because the science selection process ruthlessly weeds-out interesting and …

A critique of Geoffrey Rose's 'population strategy'for preventive medicine

BG Charlton - Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
This' population strategy'has already had a substantial impact. The general idea was floated
in'Sick individuals and sick populations' published in the International Journal of …

[HTML][HTML] Audit, accountability, quality and all that: The growth of managerial technologies in UK Universities

BG Charlton - Education, 2002 - hedweb.com
Bruce G Charlton Bruce G Charlton MD … Agency for Higher Education) in terms of
documented compliance with an approved Quality Assurance system (Charlton, 1999a; 2000a). …

What is management and what do managers do? A systems theory account

BG Charlton, P Andras - Philosophy of management, 2003 - Springer
Abstract Systems Theory analyses the world in terms of communications and divides the
natural world into environment and systems. Systems are characterised by their high density of …