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Sunday, March 31, 2013

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Serotonin Receptors

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 15 horas
Serotonin receptors offer clues to new antidepressants Shapes of binding sites could help drug discovery and the study of consciousness. - Arran Frood 21 March 2013 Expand Two studies have decoded the structure of two of the brain's serotonin receptors. Here shown is a receptor known as 1B with the migraine drug ergotamine (pink) locked into one of its binding pockets. CHONG WANG & HUIXIAN WU Article tool - Researchers have deciphered the molecular structures of two of the brain's crucial lock-and-key mechanisms. The two molecules are receptors for the natural neurotr... mais »

Life expectancy

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 16 horas
Who lives longest?March 26, 2013 *[+]* (Credit: World Life Expectancy) Life expectancy is an average, and it fluctuates with age as the risks we face change throughout our lifetimes. Both those facts make it a frequently misunderstood statistic, *The New York Times* reports. High infant-mortality rates depress the figure substantially. This can lead contemporary observers to the false conclusion that most humans died quite young, even in the not-so-distant past. Before the Upper Paleolithic, early humans really did die young, most before their 30th birthdays. Then, during the late Sto... mais »

Longevity

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 17 horas
Who Lives Longest? Illustration by Brecht Vandenbroucke By MAGGIE KOERTH-BAKERPublished: March 19, A Swedish baby born in 1800 had a life expectancy of just 32 years. We know this because Sweden was one of the first countries to keep extensive records of births and deaths and, by 1800, had a reliable national system that allowed this morbid statistic to be calculated. That baby’s life may sound nasty, brutish and short, especially for a nation advanced enough to keep such detailed records, but before you imagine 19th-century Swedish teenagers suffering the regret and ennui of midlif... mais »

Under the Mask

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 21 horas
Gotham psychologistby vaughanbell Andrea Letamendi is a clinical psychologist who specialises in the treatment and research of traumatic stress disorders but also has a passionate interest in how psychological issues are depicted in comics. She puts her thoughts online in her blog *Under the Mask* which also discuss social issues in fandom and geek culture. Recently, she was paid a wonderful compliment when she appeared in *Batgirl #16* asBarbara Gordon's psychologist./.../

Faster than light

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 21 horas
The Scharnhorst Effect claims we've got the speed of light wrong SEXPAND There is no such thing as emptiness. There is only quantum foam. According to some scientists, there is no such thing as empty space. What we have instead is… Read… Faster than light travel might be possible – but only over very small distances. And only because the light speed that we think of as absolute is actually already being slowed down. Here's why you’re not getting the light speed you’re entitled to. We think of light speed as the upper speed limit on objects in the universe. What we often forget is tha... mais »

Music and mental capacity

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 22 horas
[image: Uplifting music can boost mental capacity] *Uplifting music can boost mental capacity,* research finds March 19, 2013 in Psychology & Psychiatry (Medical Xpress)—Uplifting concertos from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons can boost mental alertness, according to research from Northumbria University. Ads by Google Exercise Your Brain - Games You Didn't Know Existed to Fight Brain Decline and Aging. - www.lumosity.com The findings, which are published in this month's Experimental Psychology, show that the uplifting first movement, in particular, is capable of enhancing attention and ... mais »

State of the World 2013

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia
*State of the World 2013 Book Launch & Symposium*[image: SOW13 Cover HiRes] *Click here to preorder your copy today!* *Tuesday, April 16th, 2013* *1:30pm - 5:00pm* *1st Floor Conference Room* *1400 16th st. NW * *Washington, DC 20036* *Click here to RSVP* *Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and colleagues!* Dear Aloyzio, On *Tuesday, April 16*, the Worldwatch Institute will release the latest edition of its annual flagship publication, * State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, * in Washington, D.C. The event will feature some of the book's ke... mais »

Aging

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
[image: SlideShare]*SlideShare* ‏@SlideShare10h 'SXSW2013: Design for Aging, Your Future-Self' is featured on our homepage. http://slidesha.re/ZVRnFV ** Hide media - Reply - Retweet - Favorite - ** More SXSW2013: Design for Aging, Your Future-Self The stereotypical product image for seniors entails bigger buttons, bigger text, and bigger screens. When it comes to designing for the elderly, it is not neces

Elderly Care

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR EXTENSION - Há 4 dias
Capítulo Assinado por mim e pela Dra. Valderês e publicado em livro editado por Ken Tout em Londres em 1993 (há 20 anos portanto...) Acrescente dentro do propósito de expor aos poucos nossas experiências e por ter havido interesse da Psicóloga Daniella Turkienicz em conhecer o texto. *Bridging the patient practitioner gulf* Interdisciplinary training in relationships in Porto Alegre, Brazil *Aloyzio and Valderês Robinson Achutti * As in many countries, there is evidence of a difference of attitude and comprehension between medical practitioners and elderly patients i... mais »

Norovirus

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Norovirus Is Leading Cause of Intestinal Disorders In American Kids By Alexandra SifferlinMarch 22, 2013Add a Comment [image: Norovirus] KALLISTA IMAGES / GETTY IMAGES According to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control, norovirus sent nearly 1 million children under age five in the U.S. to the doctor or hospital in 2009 and 2010. And treating those youngsters cost an estimated $273 million a year.The symptoms of gastroenteritis aren’t pretty, but at least doctors know what’s behind the wave of cases in recent years. Norovirus is often called the “stomach flu” or “f... mais »

PKR

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
Beyond Amyloid Beta: A New Alzheimer Disease Biomarker?An AAN Poster Brief Bret Stetka, MD, Jacques Hugon, MD, PhD DisclosuresMar 25, 2013 "Alzheimer's Disease" is already on your Topic Alert list. - [image: Personal Alert] Add Other Topics Drug & Reference Information - Alzheimer Disease Imaging - Alzheimer Disease - EEG in Dementia and Encephalopathy *Editor's Note: * *This year's American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting featured an Integrative Neuroscience Session looking at advances in, and the potential role of, biomarkers in Alzheimer disease (AD). Follo... mais »

Orion Nebula

Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
Astronomy Picture of the DayDiscover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2013 March 20 [image: See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.]*M42: Inside the Orion Nebula * *Image Credit & Copyright: *Reinhold Wittich*Explanation: *The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of a... mais »

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Serotonin Receptors


Serotonin receptors offer clues to new antidepressants

Shapes of binding sites could help drug discovery and the study of consciousness.
Two studies have decoded the structure of two of the brain's serotonin receptors. Here shown is a receptor known as 1B with the migraine drug ergotamine (pink) locked into one of its binding pockets.
CHONG WANG & HUIXIAN WU
Researchers have deciphered the molecular structures of two of the brain's crucial lock-and-key mechanisms. The two molecules are receptors for the natural neurotransmitter serotonin — which regulates activities such as sleep, appetite and mood — and could provide targets for future drugs to combat depression, migraines or obesity. 

Life expectancy


Who lives longest?

March 26, 2013
[+]
(Credit: World Life Expectancy)
Life expectancy is an average, and it fluctuates with age as the risks we face change throughout our lifetimes. Both those facts make it a frequently misunderstood statistic, The New York Times reports.
High infant-mortality rates depress the figure substantially. This can lead contemporary observers to the false conclusion that most humans died quite young, even in the not-so-distant past.
Before the Upper Paleolithic, early humans really did die young, most before their 30th birthdays. Then, during the late Stone Age, there was a significant increase in the number of people living into older adulthood./.../

Longevity


Who Lives Longest?

Illustration by Brecht Vandenbroucke
A Swedish baby born in 1800 had a life expectancy of just 32 years. We know this because Sweden was one of the first countries to keep extensive records of births and deaths and, by 1800, had a reliable national system that allowed this morbid statistic to be calculated. That baby’s life may sound nasty, brutish and short, especially for a nation advanced enough to keep such detailed records, but before you imagine 19th-century Swedish teenagers suffering the regret and ennui of midlife crises, consider this: that same year, a 20-year-old Swede could reasonably expect to live another 37 years/.../

Under the Mask

Gotham psychologist

by vaughanbell

Andrea Letamendi is a clinical psychologist who specialises in the treatment and research of traumatic stress disorders but also has a passionate interest in how psychological issues are depicted in comics.
She puts her thoughts online in her blog Under the Mask which also discuss social issues in fandom and geek culture.
Recently, she was paid a wonderful compliment when she appeared in Batgirl #16 asBarbara Gordon's psychologist./.../
 

Faster than light



SEXPAND
Faster than light travel might be possible – but only over very small distances. And only because the light speed that we think of as absolute is actually already being slowed down. Here's why you’re not getting the light speed you’re entitled to.
We think of light speed as the upper speed limit on objects in the universe. What we often forget is that it’s perfectly acceptable to go below the speed limit. Whenever light hits a transparent material it slows down – whether that material is air or water or diamond. Generally speaking, the denser the material, the more light slows down. This slowing is a technicality; the photons don’t actually drop below what we consider light speed, they just interact with a lot of objects on the way. The massive amount of detours and interactions between one end of, say, a thick prism of glass, and the other end of it causes the light that travels through it to be measured as going at slightly less than what physics books list as the constant “c.” The only place that light is completely free to move at speed c is the vacuum./.../

Music and mental capacity


Uplifting music can boost mental capacity

Uplifting music can boost mental capacity, research finds March 19, 2013 in Psychology & Psychiatry (Medical Xpress)—Uplifting concertos from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons can boost mental alertness, according to research from Northumbria University. Ads by Google Exercise Your Brain - Games You Didn't Know Existed to Fight Brain Decline and Aging. - www.lumosity.com The findings, which are published in this month's Experimental Psychology, show that the uplifting first movement, in particular, is capable of enhancing attention and memory. In the experiment a group of 14 young adults were given a mental concentration task to perform. They were asked to press the space bar on a keyboard when a green square appeared on screen and ignore different coloured circles and squares that appeared intermittently. The participants carried out this task both in silence and while listening to each of the four concertos while their brain activity was measured using EEG brain imaging/.../
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Friday, March 29, 2013

State of the World 2013

State of the World 2013 Book Launch & Symposium
SOW13 Cover HiRes
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
1:30pm - 5:00pm
1st Floor Conference Room
1400 16th st. NW 
Washington, DC 20036
Please feel free to share this invitation with friends and colleagues!
Dear Aloyzio,  

On Tuesday, April 16, the Worldwatch Institute will release the latest edition of its annual flagship publication,  
State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?,
in 
 
Washington, D.C.

The event will feature some of the book's key contributors, who will share their expertise and ideas on the three main themes of the book, discussing how the term "sustainability" should be measured, how we can attain it, and how we can prepare if we fall short. Click here to RSVP today.


Speakers will include:
  • Worldwatch President Robert Engelman and Project Co-directorsErik Assadourian and Tom Prugh 
  • Contributing authors Jennie Mooreof the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Pat Murphy of the Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions, and science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson
The symposium will take place from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. on April 16 at 1400 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. A reception with food and refreshments will follow the event. Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP. You can also pre-order a copy of the book here. 

For those of you who are unable to make it in person for the launch, we invite you to participate via livestream on the Worldwatch website on the day of the symposium. You can RSVP for the livestream here.

We hope you can join us on April 16. Please email Grant Potter atgpotter@worldwatch.org if you have any questions.

Monday, March 25, 2013

Norovirus

Norovirus Is Leading Cause of Intestinal Disorders In American Kids


Norovirus
KALLISTA IMAGES / GETTY IMAGES

According to a new
 study released by the Centers for Disease Control, norovirus sent nearly 1 million children under age five in the U.S. to the doctor or hospital  in 2009 and 2010. And treating those youngsters cost an estimated $273 million a year.The symptoms of gastroenteritis aren’t pretty, but at least doctors know what’s behind the wave of cases in recent years.
Norovirus is often called the “stomach flu” or “food poisoning” since its symptoms include severe vomiting and diarrhea. According to the CDC, the virus, which inflames the lining of the stomach and intestines, causes 21 million cases of illness, 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths in the U.S. annually. A little more than half of the cases are passed from person to person, and 20% are caused by contaminated food./.../

PKR

Beyond Amyloid Beta: A New Alzheimer Disease Biomarker?

An AAN Poster Brief

Bret Stetka, MD, Jacques Hugon, MD, PhD
DisclosuresMar 25, 2013
 

    "Alzheimer's Disease" is already on your Topic Alert list.
    Editor's Note: 

    This year's American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting featured an Integrative Neuroscience Session looking at advances in, and the potential role of, biomarkers in Alzheimer disease (AD). Following the session, Medscape spoke with Jacques Hugon, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology at Saint-Louis Lariboisière Fernand-Widal Hospital in Paris, France, about a biomarker with the potential to aid in AD diagnosis. It's not amyloid beta or tau.
    Medscape: Dr. Hugon, what can you tell us about PKR?

    Sunday, March 24, 2013

    Orion Nebula

    Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
    2013 March 20
    See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download 
the highest resolution version available.
    M42: Inside the Orion Nebula 
    Image Credit & Copyright: Reinhold Wittich
    Explanation: The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the above deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in oxygen and hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun.

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    Centro de Estudos sobre Tabaco e Saúde

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um minuto
    A Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) no Rio de Janeiro inaugura no dia 25 de março, segunda-feira, às 10:00hs, no Salão Internacional, o CETAB Centro de Estudos sobre Tabaco e Saúde. Este centro será voltado inicialmente para o tema tabaco, mas tem a perspectiva de atuar em atividades de pesquisa, ensino, cooperação técnica e assistência junto a outros fatores de risco das Doenças Crônicas Não-Transmissíveis - DCNTs, especialmente no sedentarismo, alimentação inadequada e uso prejudicial do álcool. A perspectiva da cooperação técnica do CETAB ... mais »

    Brain Treatments

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia
    Head Lines | Mind & Brain [image: Cover Image: March 2013 Scientific American Magazine]See Inside Old Drugs Find New Life as Brain Treatments By Daisy Yuhas | March 21, 2013 | 1 - Share - Email Developing new drugs is no easy feat. As much as 95 percent of new compounds fail along the path to becoming clinically available. Attrition is especially high for drugs treating the central nervous system. The ones that do succeed rack up an average cost of $1.8 billion. So researchers are increasingly turning to the bottles already on the shelf. Proved safe for human consumption an... mais »

    Earth Worst Days

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia
    *Earth Worst Days* Por Cesar Grossmann em 20.03.2013 as 14:16 O planeta Terra tem cerca de 4,5 bilhões de anos, e nestes anos já viu muitos dias ruins (realmente ruins, com colisões planetárias, chuvas de fogo, gelo de polo a polo, nuvens tóxicas e tudo o mais). Confira sete dos piores dias que o globo já passou: [image: 7] http://hypescience.com/os-7-piores-dias-do-planeta-terra/

    Higgs Boson

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia
    Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Date: 14 March 2013 Time: 08:01 AM ET Confirmed! Newfound Particle Is a Higgs Boson [image: proton-proton collisions showing what may be the Higgs boson particle] Digsby IM, Email, and Social Networks in one easy to use application! http://digsby.com The mass of the Higgs boson particle, possibly uncovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, may mean doom for our universe. Here, proton-proton collisions at the LHC showing events consistent with the Higgs. CREDIT: CERN/CMS/Taylor, L; McCauley, T View full size image A newfound partic... mais »

    Water Day

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há um dia
    *World Water Day* [image: Kids at the water tank]Currently, more than one in six people-894 million-lack a source of safe drinking water. Two and a half billion people, including almostone billion children, live without even basic sanitation. The combined effects of a lack of clean water and basic sanitation are approximately 1.6 million preventable deaths each year. On World Water Day, to celebrate freshwater and the sustainable management of freshwater resources, we are featuring a guest post by Ashley Grimes, a Project Officer at Kopernik. Grimes describes the imperative for improv... mais »

    Brain Activity

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
    Full-brain waves challenge area-specific view of brain activityMarch 21, 2013 *[+]* A still-shot of a wave of brain activity measured by electrical signals in the outside (left view) and inside (right view) surface of the brain. The color scale shows the peak of the wave as hot colors and the trough as dark colors. (Credit: David Alexander/KU Leuven) Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas — when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. New research by an international team of psychologistsshows that this view may be wrong. The entire...mais »

    Cosmology

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 dias
    New cosmic background radiation map challenges some foundations of cosmologyMarch 22, 2013 [image: Planck_CMB_large] Cosmic microwave background seen by Planck space telescope, (credit: ESA) The most detailed map ever created of the cosmic microwave background — the relic radiation from the Big Bang — acquired by ESA’s Planck space telescope, has been released, revealing features that challenge the foundations of our current understanding of the Universe and may require new physics. - The fluctuations in the CMB temperatures at large angular scales do not match those predicte... mais »

    Cutting DNA

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 3 dias
    SCIENCE MAR 20, 2013 9:15 AM14,803 56 *The Super Protein That Can Cut DNA and Revolutionize Genetic Engineering* *Jamie Condliffe* When scientists Phillipe Horvath and Rodolphe Barrangou set out to find a better way to make yogurt, they didn't expect to stumble across one of the future's most promising discoveries: a super protein that can accurately cut DNA—and could perhaps revolutionize genetic engineering. The protein, called Cas9, can be exploited to snip strands of DNA in exactly the place researchers want. It doesn't make genetic engineering easy, but does make it much, much ... mais »

    Dementia

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR EXTENSION - Há 4 dias
    One Third of Seniors Die With Dementia By AP / Lauran NeergaardMarch 19, 20131 Comment [image: 80639185] COKE WHITWORTH / GETTY IMAGES/AURORA CREATIVE RELATED - Loneliness, Not Living Alone, Linked to Dementia - Even Brief Exercise Can Improve Memory In Older Adults - How Cannabinoids May Slow Brain Aging A staggering 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia, says a new report that highlights the impact the mind-destroying disease is having on the rapidly aging population. Dying with Alzheimer’s is not the same as dying from it. But ... mais »

    NCD

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
    [image: NaliniSaligram_photo] March 18, 2013 NCDs: A 47 Trillion dollar Problem We Cant Ignore By Nalini Saligram, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Arogya World As Indian Americans, we have a lot to be proud of in our communities and in the changes underway in India. Today, to protect our families and this remarkable progress, we must address one of the greatest health and development challenges of the century, the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and chronic lung diseases, have thus far escaped our attention and collective action. ... mais »

    Oligomers and Alzheimer

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
    Correlation of Specific Amyloid-β Oligomers With Tau in Cerebrospinal Fluid From Cognitively Normal Older Adults ONLINE FIRST Maureen Handoko, PhD; Marianne Grant, BA; Michael Kuskowski, PhD; Kathleen R. Zahs, PhD; Anders Wallin, MD, PhD; Kaj Blennow, MD, PhD; Karen H. Ashe, MD, PhD *JAMA Neurol. *2013;():1-6. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.48. Text Size: A A A Published online March 11, 2013 Article Figures Tables References Comments ABSTRACT ABSTRACT | METHODS | RESULTS | COMMENT | AUTHOR INFORMATION | REFERENCES *Importance* To improve the ability to develop treatments that prevent inc... mais »

    Sugary Drinks

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
    Sugary drinks may explain 180 000 deaths worldwide each yearMARCH 19, 2013 Marlene Busko large amounts of sugary beverages was associated with an increased body-mass index (BMI), which in turn was linked with BMI-related deaths from diabetes, CVD, and cancer [*1*]. Specifically, the researchers found that in 2010, 132 000 deaths from diabetes, 44 000 deaths from CVD, and 6000 deaths from cancer in the world could be attributed to drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks, fruit juice, or sports beverages. The study by* Dr Gitanjali Singh* (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA) and... mais »

    Kidney injury and Statin

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 4 dias
    "High-potency" statins linked to acute kidney injury in analysis MARCH 19, 2013 Steve Stiles *Montreal, QC* - Taking statins at "high-potency" dosages, with levels depending on the agent, appears to raise the adjusted risk of acute kidney injury by 34% over the first four months of treatment, compared with taking lower-dose statins, suggests an analysis [1]. In the study, from *Dr Colin R Dormuth* (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) and colleagues and based on data from observational cohorts predominantly in Canada but also the UK and US, the high-potency statins were*r**osuv... mais »

    Harvard OnLine

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 5 dias
    Harvard Online: A Worldwide Hit By Kathleen Struck, Senior Editor, MedPage Today Published: March 18, 2013 When the Harvard School of Public Health opened its virtual doors last fall to a worldwide student body online, the first course they offered was neither broad nor lofty. But 55,000 students signed up for "Health in Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Clinical and Public Health Research." In other words, biostatistics and epidemiology, together in one offering (PH207x for those looking in the online course catalog). The free course taught students basic lessons in how to handle varia... mais »

    Women In Health

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
    *50 Of The Most Influential Women In Health* If you've received a blood transfusion, had lifesaving radiation therapy, experienced a natural birth or even lost weight by counting calories, you have used one of the many health innovations given to us by women in medicine. The history of women in medical professions is a long, not always happy one. In honor of Women's History Month, the Healthy Living staff has been thinking about the accomplishments of women in science. As health journalists, we believe that *all* doctors and researchers deserve more recognition for their contributio... mais »

    Invasão do Iraq: 10 anos...

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
    [image: Richard N. Haass] Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations The Iraq Invasion 10 Years Later: A Wrong War "show the folly of overlooking local realities, be they political, cultural, or historic, and trying to impose our views on these societies and trying to remake these societies using large amounts of American military might."/.../

    Química da Felicidade

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
    *In the meantime, it’s clear that the chemistry of happiness — and anger, sleep and addictions — just got more complicated.* Are You Happy? You Might Have Hypocretin to Thank By Maia SzalavitzMarch 18, 201313 Comments In the mea [image: 6458-000137a] MAURO SPEZIALE / GETTY IMAGES As prolific as the recent research on dopamine has been, neuroscientists have long recognized that all of the subtle varieties of human happiness couldn’t possibly be embodied in a single brain chemical, especially one that is also released under severe stress.Move over dopamine, there’s a new “pleasure”... mais »

    Social Psychology

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 6 dias
    Why people act out of line with their beliefs Tom Stafford - [image: Why people act out of line with their beliefs] (Copyright: Thinkstock) Ever been forced to defend a particular position and ended up believing it? You’ve succumbed to one of the most famous theories in social psychology. Related Why your brain loves feedback Psychology has some answers. If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards. And if you find yourself acting out of line with your beliefs, change them. This sounds like motivational advice from one of the more cynical self-help books, or perh... mais »

    Links - Referências

    Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR EXTENSION - Há uma semana
    Pretendo colocar progressivamente nesta página os endereços de links que mais tenho utilizados e que me parecem portanto mais úteis. Começo pelo nosso: http://amicor.blogspot.com http://amicorextension.blogspot.com http://emedicine.medscape.com http://www.nature.com http://www.youtube.com http://us2.campaign-archive1.com http://edition.cnn.com http://hdr.undp.org/ http://www.nejm.org http://www.reachmd.com/ http://www.arogyaworld.org/