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Azrael Long

The Beatles' Surprising Contribution To Brain Science : Shots - Health News : NPR - 0 views

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beatles contribution brain science

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  • evidence that the motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes.
    • Azrael Long
      Azrael Long on 19 Nov 12
       
      Motor system can step in to help retrieve a chunk of forgotten musical notes? Would this go as deep as knowing a musical scale with a missing note, and being able to figure out what that missing note is say by singing it? Gotta look more into this.
    • Azrael Long
      Azrael Long on 04 Dec 12
       
      Found a study on the pentatonic scale that proves this.
Natalie Mitten

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 0 views

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      Natalie Mitten on 06 Nov 12
       
      Says "articles" but doesn't note any articles. hmm. Credible statement?
  • The Thief of Time,” edited by Chrisoula Andreou and Mark D. White (Oxford; $65)
  • anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era
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  • Piers Steel, a business professor at the University of Calgary, the percentage of people who admitted to difficulties with procrastination quadrupled between 1978 and 2002
  • Americans waste hundreds of millions of dollars because they don’t file their taxes on time
  • Harvard economist David Laibson has shown
  • that American workers have forgone huge amounts of money in matching 401(k) contributions because they never got around to signing up for a retirement plan.
  • Seventy per cent of patients suffering from glaucoma risk blindness because they don’t use their eyedrops regularly
  • delaying tough decisions
  • Piers Steel defines procrastination as willingly deferring something even though you expect the delay to make you worse off.
  • sixty-five per cent of students surveyed before they started working on a term paper said they would like to avoid procrastinating: they knew both that they wouldn’t do the work on time and that the delay would make them unhappy.
Anna Wermuth

How do happiness and sadness circuits contribute to bipolar disorder? - 0 views

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bipolar disorder scijourn

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Autumn Martin

Sleep lessens the effect genes have on weight - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • "The less sleep you get, the more your genes contribute to how much you weigh. The more sleep you get, the less your genes determine how much you weigh,"
    • Autumn Martin
      Autumn Martin on 27 Feb 13
       
      More ways to change your genes! (:
  • •Those who slept longer at night had lower body mass index (BMI), based on weight and height, than those sleeping less.
    • Autumn Martin
      Autumn Martin on 27 Feb 13
       
      So youre telling me the exact opposite of what I've been taught. That sleeping actually helps LOWER the chance of obesity?
  • •For twins averaging more than nine hours of sleep, genetic factors accounted for about 32% of weight variations; for those sleeping less than seven hours, genetic factors accounted for 70% of weight variations. For those sleeping seven to nine hours, 60% of the variation was due to genetic factors. Other factors that affect BMI include environmental ones.
    • Autumn Martin
      Autumn Martin on 27 Feb 13
       
      Okay, that is a hugeeee percentage difference.
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  • "If you're trying to lose weight, getting enough sleep gives you a fighting chance."
Katie Raborn

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Overview and Current Research - Student Pulse - 0 views

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  • In one study involving 425 doctoral-level clinicians, nearly one-third believed that a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder was more appropriate than DID.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Apr 13
       
      They did a study on DID to see how its diagnosis.
  • DID requires the presence of at least two personalities, with a personality being identified as a entity having a unique pattern of perception
  • These personalities must also display a pattern of exerting control on the individual’s behavior
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  • Extensive and unusual loss of memory pertaining to personal information another feature of DID
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Apr 13
       
      When you have DID you can loose your memory
  • Differential diagnosis generally involves ruling out the effects of chemical substances and medical (as opposed to psychological) conditions. When evaluating children, it is also important to ensure that symptoms are distinguishable from imaginary play (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
  • In clinical populations, the estimated prevalence of DID ranges from 0.5 to 1.0% (Maldonado, Butler, & Spiegel, 2002). In the general population, estimates of prevalence are somewhat higher, ranging from 1-5% (Rubin & Zorumski, 2005). Females are more likely to receive a diagnosis of DID, at a ratio of 9:1 (Lewis-Hall, 2002
  • High percentages of individuals with DID have comorbid diagnoses of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorde
  • DID commonly have a previous diagnosis of Schizophrenia. However, this most likely represents a misdiagnosis rather than comorbidity, du
  • Other possible comorbid disorders involve substance abuse, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, problems of anxiety and mood, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, and organic mental disorders (ISSD, 2005), OCD, or some combination of conversion and somatoform disorder
  • Other factors influencing a poor prognosis include remaining in abusive situations, involvement with criminal activity, substance abuse, eating disorders, or antisocial personality features
  • the average age of diagnosis is thirt
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Apr 13
       
      The average person who gets diagnosed with the disorder is at thirty. What happens to when people are younger and not diagnosed
  • One study found that the risk of developing a dissociative disorder (DD) increased seven times with a child’s exposure to trauma.
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder is linked to childhood abuse in 95-98% of the cases
  • Studies on genetic factors contributing to DID present mixed findings. However, one study involving dyzogotic and monozygotic twins found that considerable variance in experiences of pathological dissociation could be attributed to both shared and non-shared environmental experiences, but heritability appeared to have no effect (Waller & Ross, 1997).
  • Treatment most commonly follows a framework of “1) safety, stabilization and symptom reduction, 2) working directly and in depth with traumatic memories, and 3) identity integration and rehabilitation” (p. 89).
  • A study involving 280 outpatient participants (98% DID diagnosis) from five different races (Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, Asian, and Other) demonstrated the effectiveness of a similar five-phase model in reducing symptoms of dissociation.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Apr 13
       
      They did a study on how effect the treatments are.
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