Why You Shouldn ’ t Overrely Your Strengths
Given the choice, most people try to play to their strengths. A naturally athletic child will sign up for lots of sports teams; a friendly, outgoing college student who loves being surrounded by people will likely prefer a career in teaching over a job in IT.
For the past 20 years, this philosophy — strengths-based theory — has dominated everything from career development and leadership to education and psychology. But research suggests that relying too much on our strengths can lead to major blind spots.
A client who I work with as a career coach, “James,” is a great example of a person who can take his...
Source: World of Psychology - July 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Industrial and Workplace Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Source Type: blogs
Why Your Shouldn ’ t Over-Rely on Your Strengths
Given the choice, most people try to play to their strengths. A naturally athletic child will sign up for lots of sports teams; a friendly, outgoing college student who loves being surrounded by people will likely prefer a career in teaching over a job in IT.
For the past 20 years, this philosophy — strengths-based theory — has dominated everything from career development and leadership to education and psychology. But research suggests that relying too much on our strengths can lead to major blind spots.
A client who I work with as a career coach, “James,” is a great example of a person who can take his...
Source: World of Psychology - July 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Industrial and Workplace Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Source Type: blogs
What If We All Lived Beyond 130 Years?
Life expectancy is continuously growing but how far could it be stretched? Could you imagine that the average person lived beyond 130 years of age? How would longevity transform societies and our ways of life?
Based on the book, My Health: Upgraded.
The quest for immortality
Humanity has been yearning for the secret of immortality since the first temple for the ever-living Gods was built, which might have been 12,000 years ago in Gobekli Tepe, according to the current state of archeology. The ancient legends and myths are full of tales about how men on Earth wanted to join the community of immortals. However, sometimes t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 9, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine aging digital innovation Healthcare immortality longevity Personalized medicine society technology Source Type: blogs
I Cured My Neighbors' Alzheimer's
Today I learned an important lesson. But first, let me tell you how I cured a neighbor of Alzheimer's.By Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomOh happy day. I just learnedfor the first time ever that someone in the Pines finally listened to me.I live in a community where there are a lot of people over 80 years old.The simple statistics tell me thatone in every three will suffer from dementia. If they live long enough,one in every two.Those are the odds.13 Things Every Alzheimer's Caregiver Needs to KnowFor some reason when a person starts showing signs of dementia here, and I suggest they get a full blown evaluation and full ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 28, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer's Alzheimer's cure alzheimer's symptoms alzheimers care dementia dementia care dementia help for caregivers dementia symptoms health lifestyle memory care memory test Vitamin B12 wellness Source Type: blogs
App Interprets Cries of Infants to Help Deaf People Raise Kids
Being deaf while raising a child can be a serious challenge, in part because it’s impossible to know when your child is crying and to understand what that crying is supposed to imply.
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles have now developed software that listens to a baby’s crying and interprets it based on a few clues that parents with healthy hearing have learned to focus on. “For example, if a cry has a long period of silence, it’s more likely that the baby is fussy,” says Ariana Anderson, PhD, the lead researcher of the project. “If there are constant, high-volume frequencies...
Source: Medgadget - May 22, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Net News Pediatrics Rehab Source Type: blogs
A young man with lightheadedness and bradycardia, and an impatient AV node.
A healthy 20 y.o. man presented with lightheadedness. The symptoms began about 2 weeks prior and were exertional. He stated that he plays on a college basketball team and he noticed over the previous 2 weeks that every time he exercised with the team he felt lightheaded. There was no actual history of syncope. He had had no associated chest pain, shortness of breath or palpitations. He had had no symptoms at rest or associated with positional changes. No history of similar symptoms previously. No history of heart or lung disease. There was no family history heart problems, sudden death, d...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - May 11, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
News Media Practices: Slanting, Implying, Innuendo, Speculating
Media Technique: SlantingSenator Target was walking his dog in the park one morning, when he noticed a young girl had dropped her doll ’s necklace. He hurried over and picked it up. “Excuse me, young lady,” he said, tapping her on the shoulder, “but I believe this necklace is yours.”At that moment, the child ’s mother looked over from a nearby park bench and saw the expression of fear and uncertainty on her daughter’s face. “Help! Police!” she shouted. “A man is molesting my child!” A park policeman soon arrived, and in spite of Senator Target’s protests, arrested the senator.After a lengthy discuss...
Source: The Virtual Salt - April 30, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
asEars Assists People With Single-Sided Deafness – With Style!
Last month at South by Southwest (SXSW), we came across a team of students from the University of Tokyo who were in Austin, Texas to demo their prototype glasses for people with unilateral hearing loss. Called “asEars”, these high-tech and stylish glasses consist of a tiny microphone in the upper rim on the side of the impaired ear. The microphone is connected to an integrated audio processing unit that helps detect what direction the sound is originating from and helps filter out noise. The sound is transmitted through a bone conduction transducer that is cleverly embedded in the temple closest to the working ...
Source: Medgadget - April 16, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: ENT Rehab Source Type: blogs
The Terrier Dog
It ' s obvious I don ' t blog much anymore, but when something happens that tells more of Ryan ' s (Kyle ' s) story, I feel obligated to update this. Add to the archive of his life story. Actually, there ' s a lot I could add, but this story is cool.Let me preface this by saying that even though I referred to him as Kyle for the years I was blogging, my son ' s name was actually Ryan. And in August he ' ll have been gone for 10 years. But truly gone? Read on...Ryan was an animal lover. But our lives were so busy there were barely enough hours (and dollars) for 5 kids, let alone a pet. Bu...
Source: Living With A Purple Dog - April 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jon Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 007 Mega Malaria Extravaganza
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aka Tropical Travel Trouble 007
When you think tropical medicine, malaria has to be near the top. It can be fairly complex and fortunately treatment has become a lot simpler. This post is designed to walk you through the basic principals with links to more in depth teaching if your niche is travel medicine, laboratory diagnostics or management of severe or cerebral malaria. If you stubbled on this post while drinking a cup of tea or sitting on the throne and want a few basi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine malaria Plasmodium plasmodium falciparum plasmodium knowles plasmodium malariae plasmodium ovale plasmodium vivax Source Type: blogs
You Can Help People Without Trying to ‘ Fix ’ Them
You can be helpful, without being a “fixer.”
If I had a title, it would be “The Fixer.” It’s why I write and coach, and it’s probably what most people would say if you asked them to describe me. Even my communication business had the motto, “Creative solutions to the world’s communication challenges.”
I prided myself in helping people solve their problems. Most of the time I could help. I even helped people solve their problems while I was in deep grief or anxiety myself. Even coaches have their moments of deep emotion. I’m human just like you, in addition to bei...
Source: World of Psychology - March 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Publishers Self-Esteem Self-Help YourTango abusive Boundaries Codependent Depressed fix people happy healing help people Low Self Esteem Narcissistic Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
The AIC Caucus met this past November at the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles.
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to the AIC by a laryngologist in California—was seeking consultation from an SLP with...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
What You Need to Know About Apologizing Way Too Much
Not all apologies are created equal.
The evening I realized I said “sorry” to my cat for pushing her aside so I could share the chair with her, I knew I needed to start looking into the subject of apologizing.
I’m sorry to say (pun intended!) that when I began my research, I thought I was writing a piece about why women should stop apologizing so much. Turns out, it’s complicated.
While there is some research to support the common view that women apologize more than men, it’s not overwhelming. That said, we all know someone who over-apologizes; typically, that person is female.
To decide whether you fall in the o...
Source: World of Psychology - March 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Habits Men's Issues Publishers Relationships Research Women's Issues YourTango Apologies Apologizing Apology assertive apology blame-reversing apology genuine apology how to apologize reflexive apology sorry when to apologi Source Type: blogs
WoRLD: Workshop on Reading, Language and Deafness to be held in San Sebasti án, Spain,
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (www.bcbl.eu) is pleased to announce WoRLD: Workshop on Reading, Language and Deafness to be held in San Sebasti án, Spain, from Thursday, October 18th to Saturday, October 20th 2018. Abstract submission is now open until 15th May, 2018. And registration will be availabe from 5th of March onwards.This workshop aims to bring together experts and researchers on the neurocognition of language in deaf individuals and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between scientists and stakeholders. The topics of the workshop include language processing and development in the c...
Source: Talking Brains - February 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
