Billionaires
The Geography of the World's Billionaires citylab.com / Richard Florida New York, San Francisco, Moscow, Hong Kong, and London top the list, but some smaller cities have more billionaires than their size might suggest. Over... read more
Estudos fRMI em questão
*Recomendado pela AMICOR (e nossa filha) Ana Lúcia*Nova revisão invalida milhares de estudos sobre o cérebro Falha de informática e más práticas generalizadas põem em questão 15 anos de pesquisas Otros Guardar Enviar a notícia por email Imprimir JAVIER SALAS - Twitter 29 JUL 2016 - 19:40 BRT Imagine que o Word da Microsoft, um dos editores de texto mais populares do mundo, contivesse uma falha de programação que gerasse uma letra onde os usuários teclassem espaço. Suponha, também, que alguns digitadores estejam escrevendo às cegas, sem revisar aquilo que digitam. E que passaram 1... mais »
Lifespan
From Scientific America Live Fast, Die Young http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/live-fast-die-young/?WT.mc_id=SA_BS_20160729 Dr. Aloyzio Achutti's Customized Alert – July 29, 2016 *You are currently following:* Alzheimer Disease Articles published today from the topics and columnists you're following: News & Perspectives: Improving Prospective Memory in Very Mild Alzheimer Disease Progression of Cognitive Impairments in iRBD Tau Inhibitor Study Gets Mixed Reviews Annual Wellness Visit a Missed Chance to Spot Cognitive Woes Advance Directives in Dementia: When to Discuss? New ... mais »
Over the Rainbow
*OVER THE RAINBOW TOM CULTURAL JULHO E AGOSTO DE 2016* [image: image][image: Foto do perfil de anne schneider]
Pedro Hallal : The Lancet
Pedro Hallal: putting physical activity at the heart of better health Richard Lane Published Online: 27 July 2016 *Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* [image: Article has an altmetric score of 1] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)31148-5 - [image: Thumbnail image of Figure. Opens large image] Photo Charles Guerra View Large Image The city of Pelotas in southern Brazil could be doing better in providing opportunities for its inhabitants to take part in physical activity, according to Pedro Hallal, Associate Professor in Public Health at the Federal Uni... mais »
Living in a microbial world
SHARE - BOOKS ET AL.MICROBIOME Living in a microbial world 1. Susan Perkins *I Contain Multitudes The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life* *Ed Yong* HarperCollins, 2016. 363 pp. + Author Affiliations 1. Email: perkins@amnh.org Science 29 Jul 2016: Vol. 353, Issue 6298, pp. 450 DOI: 10.1126/science.aag1515 - Article - Figures & Data - Info & Metrics - eLetters - PDF Although they evolved independently, ant-eating mammals—including the pangolin (shown), armadillos, and aardvarks—all possess similar gut microbes. PHOTO: © EPA EUROPEAN PRESSPHOT... mais »
Hepatitis Day
400 Million P Live with Hepatitis But They Do Not Know Baher Kamal With some 400 million people around the world infected with hepatitis B or C, mostly without being aware, the United Nations top health agency encourages countries to boost testing and access to services and medicines for people in need to combat the 'ignored perils' of this disease. A ... *MORE > >* ++++++++++++++++++ *From The Lancet* World Hepatitis Day 2016 *July 28, 2016* Today marks World Hepatitis Day, which aims to raise awareness about how to prevent viral hepatitis. How we work to control and prevent hepati... mais »
Addiction
Neurobiology of addiction: a neurocircuitry analysis Dr George F Koob, PhD[image: correspondence]Press enter key for correspondence information[image: email]Press enter key to Email the author , Nora D Volkow, MD - Full Text - Tables and Figures - References Summary Drug addiction represents a dramatic dysregulation of motivational circuits that is caused by a combination of exaggerated incentive salience and habit formation, reward deficits and stress surfeits, and compromised executive function in three stages. The rewarding effects of drugs of abuse, development of incen... mais »Retinal Thickness
Aloyzio AchuttiemAMICOR - Há 2 diasRetinal Thickness May Mark Cognitive DeclineThinner retinal nerve fiber layer tied to worse cognitive function - SAVESAVED - - - - - - Activate MedPage Today's CME feature and receive free CME credit on Medical stories like this one. ACTIVATE CME - [image: author name] - by Kristina Fiore *Associate Editor, MedPage Today* Action Points - - - TORONTO -- A thinning retina may be a sign of declining cognitive function, researchers reported here. In an analysis of data from the U.K. Biobank, a thinner retinal nerve fiber lay... mais »
Saccades
The Eyes Are the Window to the Brain NEUROSCIENCE NEWSJULY 27, 2016 *Summary: A new study reveals how purkinjie cells in the cerebellum are correlated with saccadic eye movements.* *Source: OIST.* *Our eyes are constantly moving, whether we notice or not. They jump from one focus point to another and even when we seem to be focused on one point, the eyes continue to reflexively move. These types of eye movements are called saccades. During saccades, even if we are not actively thinking about moving our eyes, our brain is still quickly working to land our focus precisely on spots that... mais »
Imaging the Brain Structure
Imaging the Brain Structure That Allows Neurons to Communicate NEUROSCIENCE NEWSJULY 27, 2016 *Summary: Researchers use a new technique to image the process of neurotransmission.* *Source: University of Maryland School of Medicine.* *Study uses cutting-edge technique to image the process of neuronal transmission.* For more than a century, neuroscientists have known that nerve cells talk to one another across the small gaps between them, a process known as synaptic transmission (synapses are the connections between neurons). Information is carried from one cell to the other by neurotra... mais »
MBI Checklist
- Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2016 Medscape Medical News > Conference News *New Checklist Tests Behavior Change as First Sign of Dementia* Megan Brooks July 26, 2016 TORONTO ― Mild behavioral impairment (MBI), not memory woes, may be the first sign of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia, researchers from Canada propose. MBI is defined as a syndrome of neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) that start later in life and are sustained for at least 6 months. "Not a blip in behavior or reacting to a loss, but a real, meaningful change in behavior," lead... mais »
World Population Day
[image: PRB World Population Day 2016] (July 2016) The world population on July 11, 2016—World Population Day—was 7.419 billion. Of that total, 60 percent lived in Asia, 16 percent in Africa, 13 percent in the Americas, 10 percent in Europe, and 0.5 percent in Oceania. The theme of this year’s World Population Day, as designated by the United Nations, is "investing in teenage girls"—a theme that runs through much of the work done by PRB. We collaborate with a variety of partners in the United States and globally to communicate data and evidence to show that empowered and educated gir...mais »
Let's Talk About Driving:
Program Helps Families 'Talk About Driving' With Seniors By Randi Belisomo July 25, 2016 (Reuters Health) - When Elizabeth Kennedy's 84-year-old father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease two years ago, she removed the car keys from his Johnstown, Pennsylvania home and his Volkswagen Passat from the driveway. Despite warnings from his four children and his doctor, any opportunity to get behind the wheel would have proven too tempting for Kennedy's newly widowed dad. "He was convinced he was a perfectly good driver, and he took it like he was being attacked," she said. "My father d... mais »
PPP: Profit, People and Planet
Economizing on Economics Ilan Kelman | July 26, 2016 | 2 CommentsDownload as PDF Currencies by 16:9clue | Flickr | CC BY 2.0 Where does economics sit within sustainability? In many instances, it appears as a separate entity. The standard ‘triple bottom line’ comprises economics, society, and the environment, sometimes expressed as profit, people, and planet. The sustainable development triangle is portrayed with three sides of social (or societal), environmental (or ecological), and economic. [image: Economizing on Economics | Ilan Kelman]Does money make society and the environment go ... mais »
quantum hologram
Physicists just did the "impossible" and created a quantum hologram Holy crap. ALI SUNDERMIER, BUSINESS INSIDER 20 JUL 2016 Until recently, scientists didn’t think it could be done. They thought the fundamental laws of physics would forbid it. But a persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw have now accomplished the impossible: They created a hologram of a solitary particle of light./.../
Rho Ophiuchi
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. 2016 July 5 [image: See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.]*The Colorful Clouds of Rho Ophiuchi * *Image Credit & Copyright: *Tom Masterson, ESO's DSS*Explanation: *The many spectacular colors of the Rho Ophiuchi (oh'-fee-yu-kee) clouds highlight the many processes that occur there. The blue regions shine primarily by reflected lig... mais »
gamma ray bursts
Five billion light years across: The largest feature in the universeDate:August 4, 2015Source:Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)Summary:Astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts -- and hence galaxies - 5 billion light years across. ------------------------------ An image of the distribution of GRBs on the sky at a distance of 7 billion light years, centred on the newly discovered ring. The positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots and the Milky Way is indicated for reference, running from left to right ... mais »
blackbody force
Scientists Just Discovered a New Force That's Stronger Than Gravity Adam Clark Estes 7/25/13 11:56am Filed to: PHYSICS Scientists have long known that blackbodies produce radiation and that radiation creates a repulsive effect. However, according to a new studythere's another force at play, one that acts a bit like gravity and attracts objects to the blackbody. They're calling it "blackbody force." Blackbodies, celestial objects that are perfectly non-reflective, shift the atomic energy of molecules around them in what's known as the Stark effect. This occurs when the electric field cr... mais »
Last Universal Common Ancestor
Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things By NICHOLAS WADEJULY 25, 2016 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page - Share - Tweet - Email - More - Save PhotoWilliam F. Martin says that the Last Universal Common Ancestor can be traced back to deep sea vents like this one off the Galápagos. CreditUniversal History Archive/UIG, via Getty Images A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light on the mystery of how life first emerged on Earth. This ve... mais »
tetrachromats
Scientists have found a woman whose eyes have a whole new type of colour receptor She sees 99 *million* colours more than the rest of us. FIONA MACDONALD 25 JUL 2016 After more than 25 years of searching, neuroscientists in the UK recently announced that they've discovered a woman who has an extra type of cone cell - the receptor cells that detect colour - in her eyes. According to estimates, that means she can see an incredible 99 million more colours than the rest of us, and the scientists think she's just one of a number of people with super-vision, which they call "tetrachromats", ... mais »
Butterfly Nebula
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. 2016 July 24 [image: See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available.]*M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula * *Image Credit: *Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - *Processing: *Judy Schmidt*Explanation: *Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? Actually, stars usually create their most artistic displays *as* they die. In the cas... mais »
Mosquitoes attraction
How to Keep Bug Bites at Bay CDC offers advice on thwarting disease-carrying insects By Mary Elizabeth Dallas Saturday, July 23, 2016 [image: HealthDay news image] SATURDAY, July 23, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Bug bites can make you more than itchy. Ticks, mosquitoes and certain flies are known to spread some nasty diseases. But U.S. health experts say there are ways to keep pesky insects in their place. One of the best ways to prevent bug bites is to use an insect repellent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency recommends insect repellents th... mais »
Dip brain stimulation
DBS May Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's DiseaseIn a phase 2 study in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease, deep brain stimulation of the fornix increased the brain's ability to metabolize glucose and, in some cases, may slow cognitive decline. News, July 2016 A multicenter phase 2 study showed that some patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) who received deep brain stimulation of the fornix (DBS-f) experienced an increase in cerebral glucose metabolism, and some patients experienced a slowing of cognitive decline. These positive effects were seen only in patients aged 65 ... mais »
