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Risk of memory loss
How to cut your risk of memory loss By *David S. Martin*, CNN November 9, 2011 -- Updated 1635 GMT (0035 HKT) *STORY HIGHLIGHTS* - Doctors who specialize in the aging brain say that dementia is not inevitable - Making positive lifestyle changes earlier in life can lessen your chances, they say - Alzheimer's is perhaps the best known and most feared form of dementia - Even moderate exercise can actually increase the size of the brain's hippocampus *(CNN)* -- When Darla Arni's mother began showing the first signs of dementia 16 years ago, Arni worried she was doome... mais »
Animusic
Animusic – Computer Animated Music March 4th, 2011Fernando Animusic, LLC is a computer animation company with the singular focus of animating music. We are based in Ithaca, NY., with LLC members also residing in Austin, TX and San Diego, CA. Our content is primarily released as “video album” DVDs. But we’ve also produced animations for corporate clients such as HP, Disney, and Texas Instruments. Both music and visuals are entirely digitally synthesized. We ‘invent’ imaginary Virtual Instruments by building computer graphics models of objects that appear to create the sound of the cor... mais »
Art Project: Google
*ART PROJECT* Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces. Learn More - The State Tretyakov GalleryMoscow - Van Gogh MuseumAmsterdam - MoMA, The Museum of Modern ArtNew York City - Museo Reina SofiaMadrid - The Metropolitan Museum of ArtNew York City - Museum KampaPrague - National GalleryLondon - RijksmuseumAmsterdam - The Frick CollectionNew York City - Palace of VersaillesVersailles - Tate BritainLondon - Freer Gallery of Art, ... mais »
About Teen Sex: USA x Netherlands
Mind Reading: What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex *There's also a cultural piece. Coming out of the sexual revolution, the Dutch really decoupled sex from marriage, but they didn't decouple sex from love.* [image: notundermyroof] *(Updated)* Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater than that of the Dutch. What are they doing right that we're not? For starters, two-thirds of Dutch parents report allowing their teenage children to have sleepovers with their boyfriend o... mais »
ARPANET
First Permanent ARPANET Link Is Established (1969)Funded by the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), ARPANET was the first digital network that utilized packet switching, a method of data transmission. A revolutionary technology, it ultimately led to the creation of the modern Internet. The network's first permanent connection was made between computers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Stanford Research Institute. By 1983, more than 300 computers were connected. What was the first message sent through ARPANET? More...
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Bradicinina
Fazedor de neurônios Composto que controla a pressão arterial direciona o desenvolvimento das células cerebrais Ricardo Zorzetto, colaborou Carlos Fioravanti Edição Impressa 189 - Novembro 2011 © CLEBER A. TRUJILLO E ALEXANDER HENNING ULRICH / IQ-USPComo uma explosão: formação de neurônios, em vermelho A mesma molécula que 53 anos atrás pesquisadores brasileiros apresentaram ao mundo como um potente regulador da pressão arterial – ela originou toda uma classe de medicamentos anti-hipertensivos – volta a surpreender por sua versatilidade. Passadas mais de cinco décadas de sua identific... mais »
Human memory
Human memory: Performance linked to changes in brain structure and function* * November 16, 2011 by Editor At Neuroscience 2011, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Charité University Medicine Berlinprovided insight into one of neuroscience‘s most intriguing mysteries: how the human brain learns and remembers. These studies — involving topics as diverse as musical memory, “change blindness,” and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — illustrate the profound influence that specific changes in either the brain‘s structure, function, or both, can have ... mais »
Agita Mundo e Saúde da Família
Economista do Banco Mundial debate sistema de saúde público-privadoPor Ricardo Balego André Medici é especialista em políticas de saúde e estará no primeiro dia do 16º Congresso Latino-Americano de Serviços de Saúde Convidado do primeiro dia do 16º Congresso Latino-Americano de Serviços de Saúde, o economista sênior do Banco Mundial, André Medici, é especializado em políticas de saúde. Autor de livros, foi professor e pesquisador da Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (RJ) e participou do movimento que resultou, em 1988, na construção do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no Brasil. Os cong... mais »
What a woman’s brain looks like on sex
What a woman’s brain looks like on sexNovember 17, 2011 *DEBRA BLACK *STAFF REPORTER What does a woman’s brain look like while she’s having an orgasm? Apparently, its like a multi-layered, multicoloured abstract or neon sign that flashes on and off. Or so an animated video of a woman’s brain as she reaches orgasm using brain scan images reveals. *VIDEO:* *Watch a woman’s brain as she approaches, reaches and recovers from an orgasm.* It’s all part of research to understand how the brain and sexuality work, said Barry Komisaruk, a psychology professor at Rutgers University who presente... mais »
Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty
Malpractice Risk According to Physician Specialty Anupam B. Jena, M.D., Ph.D., Seth Seabury, Ph.D., Darius Lakdawalla, Ph.D., and Amitabh Chandra, Ph.D. N Engl J Med 2011; 365:629-636August 18, 2011 AbstractArticleReferencesCiting Articles (2)Letters BACKGROUND Data are lacking on the proportion of physicians who face malpractice claims in a year, the size of those claims, and the cumulative career malpractice risk according to specialty. Full Text of Background... METHODS We analyzed malpractice data from 1991 through 2005 for all physicians who were covered by a large professional li... mais »
US: Mental Health Drugs.
*America's State of Mind* By Maia Szalavitz Wednesday, November 16, 2011 http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/16/report-whos-taking-mental-health-drugs-in-america/slideshow/2/ [image: Getty Images]Getty Images Report: 1 in 5 American Adults Takes Mental Health Drugs - America's State of Mind - Who's Using Mental Health Drugs? - Atypical Antipsychotics Dominate - ADHD: Not Just for Kids - Antidepressant Trends in Women and Children - Vulnerability in the "Diabetes Belt" - Americans Are Anxious
Broken Hearts and Women
Why Are Women More Vulnerable to Broken Hearts? By Meredith Melnick Thursday, November 17, 2011 | [image: Corbis] CORBIS - Women are a lot more likely to suffer a broken heart than men, researchers say. The good news is that it probably won't kill you. In the first national study of its kind, researchers at the University of Arkansas looked at rates of "broken heart syndrome" — when a sudden shock or prolonged stress causes heart attack-like symptoms or heart failure — and found that it overwhelmingly affects women. Women are at least seven times more likely than men to suff... mais »
Noncommunicable Diseases
*Referência do AMICOR Reginaldo H. Albuquerque.* Facing a “Slow-Motion Disaster” — The UN Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D., and Daniela Lamas, M.D. November 16, 2011 (10.1056/NEJMp1112235) ArticleReferences You might think Linda Ezekiel would always be in a hurry. As the first nephrologist in Tanzania, she started and now runs her country's only public-sector dialysis unit. She is currently spearheading Tanzania's first renal transplantation program. And she manages the postoperative care of 80 patients who have received transplants abroad. But her manner sugges... mais »
OCCUPY
[image: Justin Lane / EPA] *Fenômeno que não pode passar em brancas nuvens, nem ser ocultado!...* OCCUPY WALL STREET | November 16, 2011 The Straw Man Comes To Zuccotti Park By NAOMI WOLF Yesterday morning when I learned that Zuccotti Park had been cleared overnight by Mayor Bloomberg — who justified his action in a statement that cited health and safety concerns — the first thing I did was call my lawyer. I wanted to go and show my support for the protesters’ First Amendment rights “to assemble [...]
Statins
Novel HDL-Booster Impressive in Early StudyORLANDO -- Evacetrapib, an investigational drug that boosts HDL while lowering LDL, appears to be safe as monotherapy or as an add-on to statin therapy, with no evidence of the off-target toxicity that sunk another CETP-inhibitor, torcetrapib. Full story Lipitor, Crestor Both Turn Back Plaque ORLANDO -- Aggressive treatment with potent statins appears to reverse the build-up of plaque in arteries, and the benefit was the same whether the statin used was rosuvastatin (Crestor) or atorvastatin (Lipitor), researchers said here. Full story
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