6 Good Reasons to Laugh More
It’s been 40 years since Norman Cousins published his classic An Anatomy of an Illness, in which he documents curing himself with a high dose of vitamin C and a continuous stream of humorous films. Since then research has further established the medicinal benefits of laughter, helping everything from Alzheimer’s disease and allergies to backaches and muscle cramping.
Following one of his studies on the benefits of laughter, Dr. Michael Miller said he envisioned a time when physicians might recommend that everyone get 15 to 20 minutes of laughter in a day much like physicians recommend regular exercise. Noted laughter ...
Source: World of Psychology - March 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: General Happiness Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Psychology Research Stress Fun Humor Laughter Source Type: blogs
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Do Jurors Have a Moral Obligation to Avoid Deadlock?
This essay was the runner up in the undergraduate category of the 5th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Written by University of Oxford student Angelo Ryu 1. Introduction Many legal systems have juries decide cases of an especially grave nature. Because a jury consists of a group of individual jurors, they need a […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 13, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Ethics Tags: Ethics Health Care Justice jury law Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Question: Can soldiers justify killing some as a means to influence the decisions of others?
This essay received an honourable mention in the 5th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics, Graduate Category. Written by University of Oxford DPhil student, Robert Underwood. Lt. Col. Bob Underwood is a U.S. Army officer and a Fellow in its Advanced Strategic Plans and Policy Program. He is pursuing a DPhil in Philosophy […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 12, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Ethics Tags: Health Care ethics of war killing in war morality Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics syndicated Source Type: blogs
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?: A Case for a Samaritan Rescue Principle
This essay was a joint runner up in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Graduate Category Written by University of Oxford student Brian Wong Uncontacted peoples refer to individuals who live (by choice or by circumstance) without coming into contact with broader, greater civilisation.[1] I make the idealised[2] assumption that our act of contacting […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 11, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Practical Ethics Tags: Ethics Health Care Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Rescue Principle syndicated Uncontacted peoples Source Type: blogs
Podcast: What is Schadenfreude?
We’ve all experienced it – that feeling of smug happiness at another person’s misfortune. From someone slipping on a banana peel to a jerk receiving a dose of instant karma, there’s something satisfying about this strange emotion. Why is that? Are we living in an “Age of Schadenfreude”? Should we feel guilty about feeling it? And for crying out loud, how do we say it in English? Listen in to find out!
Subscribe to Our Show!
And Remember to Review Us!
About Our Guest
Dr. Tiffany Watt Smith is a cultural historian and author of The Book of Human Emotions. In 2014, she was named a BBC N...
Source: World of Psychology - February 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Happiness Psychology The Psych Central Show Emotion Gabe Howard schadenfreude Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Reporting on the Longevity Leaders Conference
Some of the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation folk were at the recent Longevity Leaders conference in London, and wrote up a report on the event. The conference split up into three streams later in the day, one of which is followed here. Being focused on the pensions and life insurance industries as much as biotechnology, there were a lot of people present with minimal exposure to the prospects for rejuvenation and slowing of aging. It was noteworthy to see so many there being newly interested in the topic of treating aging as a medical condition, and motivated to learn more because it is important to their work in other ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 8, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Librarians and Publishers Working Together: MLA InSight Summit 2
The second MLA InSight Summit was held in Chicago in September. I am on the Insight committee, the group that is working to put on a good program and produce deliverables to both librarians and publishers. I also was the moderator for the September summit. (Gabe Rios moderated the first one and Jerry Perry is going to moderate the third summit.)
The summits are intended to be a space where librarians and key figures in the publishing and vendor world work together to try understand users (researchers, clinicians, students, nurses, etc.). It is not a place to talk about pricing, sales, or budget blaming. It is a place...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - January 31, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Annual Meeting Journals and Books Library Profession Other Medical Library Stuff Research Source Type: blogs
Dancing in the Rain: On Becoming More Emotionally Resilient
During the first half of my life, I tried to find THE solution to my depression and anxiety — a cure that would forever eradicate my symptoms. I was a gullible consumer of dogmatic books and advice promising Nirvana: by balancing my gut bacteria, by committing to a daily meditation practice, by taking fish oil and vitamin D, or by sweating out my toxins through hot yoga six times a week.
While those are all pieces of my recovery program today, none of them alone provided the answer. After years of meandering down dead-end paths, I arrived at the hard realization that I would forever be with some symptoms. My mood dis...
Source: World of Psychology - January 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Friends Habits Inspiration & Hope Mental Health and Wellness Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Perfectionism Self-Help Stress Patience radical acceptance self-compassion self-worth Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How to Let Go of Past Hurts
It’s inevitable that we will suffer emotional pain as we go through life. Whether it’s from a death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, or any number of other issues, sometimes the pain we experience becomes embedded to such a degree that we can’t seem to recover from it. We might dwell on past hurts to the point that it negatively affects our emotional health, preventing us from moving on and growing as we should. In this episode, we examine this kind of emotional baggage and how to break free of the grip it can have on us.
Subscribe to Our Show!
And Remember to Review Us!
About Our Gu...
Source: World of Psychology - January 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Grief and Loss The Psych Central Show Emotional Pain emotional recovery Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Writing a Book
by Robert MacauleyI could write a book about that …But do I really want to? That ’s the question I asked myself a few years ago, when I was invited by Oxford University Press to submit a formal proposal for a comprehensive book on the ethics of palliative care. So I reached out to mentors for advice, and they all said the same thing: Enlist twenty of your friends to each write a chapter, and you can be the editor.Sage advice, which I didn ’t take. Partly because I like challenges. Partly because I don’t really like the unevenness of multi-author texts. And partly because I drastically underestimated how much time a...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 1, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: ethics macauley The profession writing Source Type: blogs
Podcast: What Are Cognitive Distortions?
At some point or another, virtually everyone has fallen victim to cognitive distortions – lines of thinking that are based on things that are simply not true. This doesn’t mean to the level of conspiracy theories, but even the tiniest things. In this episode, Psych Central founder, Dr. John Grohol, explains many types of these distortions, as well as how to address them in order to improve our lives.
Subscribe to Our Show!
And Remember to Review Us!
About Our Guest
John M. Grohol, Psy.D. is the founder & CEO of PsychCentral.com, a mental health and human behavior/technology expert, co-a...
Source: World of Psychology - December 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Brain and Behavior General Memory and Perception The Psych Central Show Cognitive Distortion Dr John Grohol Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 17th 2018
In this study, we found that TNF-α resulted in an impairment of autophagic flux in microglia. Concomitantly, an increase of M1 marker expression and reduction of M2 marker expression were observed in TNF-α challenged microglia. Upregulation of autophagy via serum deprivation or pharmacologic activators (rapamycin and resveratrol) promoted microglia polarization toward M2 phenotype, as evidenced by suppressed M1 and elevated M2 gene expression, while inhibition of autophagy with 3-MA or Atg5 siRNA consistently aggravated the M1 polarization induced by TNF-α.
Moreover, Atg5 knockdown alone was sufficient to trigger...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 16, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Selection of Opposing Views on Cryonics
Cryopreservation via a cryonics provider, such as Alcor or the Cryonics Institute in the US, is presently the only option available to the billions who will age to death prior to the advent of a comprehensive package of rejuvenation therapies. Sadly, it is not yet a well-developed industry, operating at scale. The technology exists to vitrify people immediately following clinical death, preserving the fine structure of brain tissue if the vitrification process is of sufficiently high quality, but very few people choose to take advantage of this opportunity. Every year, tens of millions go to oblivion rather than chose the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
From Russia with Money - Harvard Medical School Accepts $200 Million from Russian Emigre with Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Putin, and Who Is Under Investigation for US Election Meddling
We present a big case of what looks like an entirely new, and very troubling variation on an institutional conflict of interest.A " Transformative " Gift to Harvard Medical SchoolOn November 8, 2018, Felice Freyer, writingin the Boston Globe, documented a huge new gift to Harvard Medical School.Harvard Medical School has received a $200 million donation— the largest in its history — to support research into fundamental questions about human illness and health.The pledge,from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, will enable the school to hire researchers, add to its advanced technology, and a build an ' incubator ' in the L...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 18, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest crime Donald Trump Harvard Harvard Medical School institutional conflicts of interest oligarchy revolving doors Russia Source Type: blogs
