In this special festive episode, Helen MacDonald, Juan Franco, and guest Tim Feeney discuss three intriguing themes from BMJ's 2024 Christmas edition: cognitive dysfunction in careers that require spatial cognition, and in large language models; the effectiveness of heated mittens on osteoarthritis hand symptoms; and a trial exploring just-in-time training for doctors. 00:40 Cognitive dysfunction and hippocampus stimulating jobs07:00 Cognitive testing of large language models10:30 Warming mittens for osteoarthritis17:11 Coaching clinicians for high-stakes procedures
Reading listAlzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance driversAge against the machine—susceptibility of large language models to cognitive impairmentEffect of heated mittens on physical hand function in people with hand osteoarthritisCoaching inexperienced clinicians before a high stakes medical procedure