Executive function in children: Why it matters and how to help
Executive function refers to skills that help us focus, plan, prioritize, work toward goals, self-regulate behaviors and emotions, adapt to new and unexpected situations, and ultimately engage in abstract thinking and planning. Just as a principal conductor would do for an orchestra, executive functions supervise and coordinate a multitude of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional tasks.
Executive functions in childhood are, by default, challenging. That’s because, although our executive function skills begin to develop in the first year of life, they are not fully developed until early adulthood.
Executive function in chi...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Johanna Calderon, PhD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Children's Health Parenting Source Type: blogs
Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World With Increased Recognition and Reliance Among Regulators: A National Academies Report
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Alastair J. Wood (Vanderbilt University), Patricia A. Cuff, Regulating Medicines in a Globalized World With Increased Recognition and Reliance Among Regulators: A National Academies Report, 324(2) JAMA 145 (2020): Research and development of pharmaceuticals are... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 16, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Get Further, Faster in your Career: 4 Steps to Finding a Mentor
Behind every successful person is at least one mentor — who believed in and supported them from the very beginning.
A mentor is the cheerleader who encourages your dreams and the advisor who helps you find your way. When things aren’t going well, your mentor provides you with a safe and supportive environment. You can confide in them with your challenges and frustrations, and trust them to provide honest, supportive feedback.
Your mentor is your champion — filling three crucial roles:
Sounding board: A champion provides wisdom and adviceand challenges you in ways that refine your perspectives and ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 9, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: career featured motivation self-improvement success mentor pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
This is Your Brain on Microwaves
By KIM BELLARD
Those of us of a certain age well remember the 1987 ad campaign from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. It equated frying an egg to what drugs did to our brains. The ad certainly impacted awareness, but it is less clear that it impacted drug use or, for that matter, that it actually was like what drugs did to our brains.
Well, it turns out that there is something that can scramble our brains, but it’s microwaves, and it appears that “malevolent actors” are using them to do just that. We’re now in the age of “directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy.”
There were reports coming o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Indian teacher Ranjitsinh Disale wins annual $1M Global Teacher Prize; shares half with 9 finalists
Top teacher wins $1m and gives half away (BBC News):
Mr Disale, who teaches in the Zilla Parishad Primary School, in the drought-prone village of Paritewadi, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, was named the world’s most exceptional teacher, ahead of 12,000 other nominations … He also provides online science lessons for pupils in 83 countries and runs an international project building connections between young people in conflict zones.
“The Covid pandemic has dealt a severe blow to education systems around the world… but it is the contribution of teachers during these difficult times that is making t...
Source: SharpBrains - December 3, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning Global Teacher Prize Ranjitsinh Disale Source Type: blogs
Moody quaranteen? What parents should watch for and do
To keep us safe from COVID-19, health experts tell us that we need to stay home and away from other people. This is particularly hard for teens, because their stage of life is all about their peers and becoming independent from their family.
So it’s not surprising that the pandemic has been hard on the mental health of teens.
Harder on some teens, easier on others
It hasn’t been hard on all of them. Some of my teen patients who get stressed by social situations have been relieved to be home, for example, and teens who get along with their parents and siblings enjoy being with them more. And it certainly helps that many...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Improving flow along care pathways: learning from the Flow Coaching Academy programme
The Health Foundation -The Flow Coaching Academy (FCA) programme is based on a co-coaching model combined with elements of improvement science. It aims to support establishing multiple FCAs across the UK, to scale up the approach and to build a community of practice to share learning. The training focuses on both the technical and relationship skills required to deliver continuous and sustainable improvement. This learning report is based on the formative FCA evaluation completed in 2019 by RAND Europe and interviews with FCA programme leads during the Covid-19 pandemic.ReportThe Health Foundation - publications (Source: H...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 26, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
How To Make Almost Anything – Exclusive Interview with Dr. Neil Gershenfeld, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
Dassault Systèmes’ annual Science in The Age of Experience Conference has become one of my favorite conferences. It is a platform for thoughtful and innovative discussion centered around how science affects so many aspects of our lives, as well as an intermingling of distinguished scientists, engineers, and other professionals from all walks of life and disciplines. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic this year the conference could only take place virtually. However, I was very fortunate to have had the opportunity to grab some time with one of the main keynote speakers thanks to the Dassault team who have partn...
Source: Medgadget - November 24, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Diet is Science: Three Steps to Establish Healthy Eating Habits That Last
As any dietician, fitness blogger or biology student will tell you — if you want to lose weight, you must consume fewer calories than your body is burning. While this simple rule can certainly be a useful tool to incorporate into your larger health and fitness plan, cutting calories does not make a healthy diet. In fact, over-prioritizing portion control can lead to negative health consequences of its own, without offering the desired benefit of improved wellness and fitness.
A healthy diet is, at its core, more about understanding what goes into the food you eat than it is about reducing portion sizes. If you c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - November 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement eating habits self improvemet Source Type: blogs
Enrico Coirea Muses On The Risks Of Not Investing In AI Research – Especially In Health!
This appeared last week and is reproduced with Enrico ’s permission: When it comes to national security, artificial intelligence is a sovereign risk Editor: Marie McInerney Author: Enrico Coiera on: November 11, 2020 Introduction by Croakey: Policy development on artificial intelligence (AI) is setting a pace, nationally and internationally and with in health. That includes Artificial Intelligence in Health: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges, released in June by the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, and the work of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare. Earlier this y...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 20, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Social Workers are the Healthcare Heroes We Need
By ALIZA NORWOOD
I’m a primary care doctor at a clinic providing care to uninsured and under-insured patients in central Texas. As COVID-19 cases rise around the country, one thing has become crystal clear: social workers are more critical to our work than ever, and we don’t have enough of them.
I’m reminded of this one day with a patient I’ll call David. It’s late September, and he’s back for a 3-month follow-up visit. Behind the pane of a face shield, I look at his phone as he shows me pictures. By now I’m used to the blur as the shield fogs...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy aliza norwood social workers Source Type: blogs
Working together for a healthier post-Covid future
The Strategy Unit - This analysis, commissioned by the Healthier Futures Academy in the Black Country and West Birmingham, illustrates the effects that a COVID-driven recession could have on population health. It frames a discussion about how the NHS, with other local organisations, can more effectively address the causes as well as the effects of ill health.ReportSummary (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 27, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 26th 2020
In conclusion, all NAFLD histological stages were associated with significantly increased overall mortality, and this risk increased progressively with worsening NAFLD histology. Most of this excess mortality was from extrahepatic cancer and cirrhosis, while in contrast, the contributions of cardiovascular disease and HCC were modest.
BMP6 as a Target for Pro-Angiogenic Therapies
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/10/bmp6-as-a-target-for-pro-angiogenic-therapies/
Today's research materials are focused on the fine details of angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, and point to BMP6 as a p...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 25, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Challenge of Achieving Healthy Human Longevity
The big sea change of the past 10 to 15 years in aging research is that the scientific community is now near entirely behind the idea that aging is a viable target for therapy, and that we should be working towards greater healthy human longevity. Prior to this time, aging was near entirely a "look but don't touch" field, in which any talk of medical intervention in aging was strongly discouraged. Making this change come about was a battle of years of patient advocacy (such as by the SENS Research Foundation and Methuselah Foundation), argument, and incremental advances in the science funded by small sums of hard-to-find r...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Planning: Challenges & Opportunities
The National Academy of Medicine is holding a free public workshop on advance care planning on October 26 and November 2, 2020.The workshop will:Explore the challenges and opportunities of advance care planningAcknowledge and highlight divergent v... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 21, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
