Are Holiday Traditions Sacrosanct or Can They Be Changed?
With the winter holidays approaching, many are faced with both anticipation and anxiety. For some it brings back memories of delight and magic and for others, dread and mayhem. It may have been a time when loving family and friends gathered around a tree, a menorah, a kinara or yule log, singing familiar songs. It may also, less pleasantly, recall times when holiday spirit was more of the liquid form indulged in to excess, voices were raised in anger, hands were raised to strike or throw objects that smashed into walls.
Cellular memory is based on the idea that our bodies store experiences. We may not be consciously awar...
Source: World of Psychology - November 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Family Holiday Coping PTSD Trauma Christmas family tradition Holiday Tradition Life Changes Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
We have to deal with the trauma in veterans early on
My medical center recently cemented an agreement with the Veterans Administration to offer care to veterans who could not be accommodated at the VA. We need paying patients, they need doctors of our caliber — establishing mutual benefit. Military veterans have always been among our patients. During my professional lifetime that has included men of my father’s generation whose young adult years encompassed World War II’s widespread draft. World War I and Korea conscriptions were less universal, but patients frequently had served in these settings. Vietnam service seemed more selective.
Even when employed as a VA p...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/richard-plotzker" rel="tag" > Richard Plotzker, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
How Much Do Our Personalities Have to Do with Us?
Personality is understood as the consistent features we display in regards to our thinking, feeling, and behavior. It begins to emerge around the age of 3. Prior to that, we refer to the genetically primed aspects of who we are as temperament.
Personality is dynamically formed via multiple inputs from many others. It becomes consolidated in our late teens to early 20’s. Around age 30 or so it becomes relatively fixed.
According to Daniel Siegel, personality is deeply rooted in the human mind by the flow of information in the brain and between brains, is created via neural/mental representations during this flow, and inte...
Source: World of Psychology - September 14, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Brain Blogger Personality Publishers behavior Feeling global personality orientation interpretation reality thinking Source Type: blogs
The Rocky Road from the Military to the VA
While serving in the military, few think about what comes next. What happens if you are injured and the physical, mental, emotional damage does not go away? Who is tasked to make you “whole” again through health care and compensation? It is a process with which most civilians, and many service members and their families have little familiarity. It is cumbersome, and starts when the individual is still in the service, with a transition program and virtually no follow up by the military.
For the last twenty years, the Department of Labor (DOL) Veterans Employment and Training Services (VETS) has provided grants to the Na...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sep 1, Martin Luther King: Today in the History of Psychology (1st September 1967)
Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a speech entitled 'The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement' at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention in Washington, D.C.
Among the major topics raised in this powerful address were urban riots, the Vietnam War, unemployment, civil disobedience, political action, creative maladjustment and the pressing need for the 'social scientist to address the white community and tell it like it is.'Click Here To Support The All About Psychology Patreon page! (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - September 1, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
McCain's Heroism
According to Phillip Carter, John McCain ' s heroism will forever punctuate America ' s memory of the Vietnam War, reminding us both of the horrors of war and the human potential to transcend them. His heroism also stands out because of how it empowered him as a congressman and senator to do things others could not. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 27, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Phillip Carter Source Type: blogs
Birthright Citizenship Slightly Boosts Immigrant Assimilation: What the Research Says
Former White House national security official and Hillsdale College lecturer Michael Anton wrote anop-ed recently in theWashington Postwhere he usedfalsified quotes,poor legal reasoning, and displayedignorance of the history and debates surrounding the 14th amendment to argue that President Trump should unilaterally end birthright citizenship (here ’s Anton’s poorresponse to the devastating criticisms). Few commentators discussed what the actual effects of removing birthright citizenship would be and instead focused on the comparatively unimportant legal questions. As an exception, mypiece for theAmerican Conserva...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Study: Practice effect due to repeated testing can delay detection of cognitive impairment and dementia
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Practice Imperfect: Repeated Cognitive Testing Can Obscure Early Signs of Dementia (UC San Diego Health press release):
“Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative condition that often begins with mild cognitive impairment or MCI, making early and repeated assessments of cognitive change crucial to diagnosis and treatment.
But in a paper published online in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, a team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that repeated testing of middle-age men pr...
Source: SharpBrains - July 30, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology aging Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s Disease cognitive change cognitive-decline cognitive-testing dementia MCI middle-age mild-cognitive-impairment neurodegenerative practice eff Source Type: blogs
On Holiday With Health Technologies
Scorching sun, ice-cold beverages, light naps in a poolside beach bed. The time for summer vacation has finally arrived, and you cannot even think of anything else just some margaritas in the pool bar. We collected the best digital technologies for you, so you don’t have to worry about emergency situations or your health on holiday. Have a great vacation!
1) Protect your skin with wearable patches!
Although we have to wait a bit until nanoparticles make their way into UV-light absorbing sunscreens and anti-aging products, health apps and wearables already line up to save your skin from looking red potatoes the next day.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - July 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Patients chatbot dermatology digital health food allergy food sensor health chatbot holiday summer technology telemedicine Source Type: blogs
How basic training changed me as a doctor
Written by George Kamajian as told by Bob Fedor.
I’m an old family doctor. I’ve seen much and forgot more. Life has taught me that we touch our patients’ lives for a moment, a season or a reason — and sometimes with unforeseen consequences.
I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1968, when I was 19, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam caught the American military off-guard, and the Pentagon began frantically drafting new troops.
My lottery number was low. I knew my civilian days were numbered, but I didn’t want to go to Vietnam to be a trained killer. It wasn’t in my nature, then or now.
Seeing the Nation...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/george-kamajian-and-bob-fedor" rel="tag" > George Kamajian, MD and Bob Fedor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Citric Acid Increases Balloon Inflation (aka sour taste makes you more risky)
fromBalloon Analog Risk Task (BART)– Joggle Research for iPadRisk taking andrisk preference1 are complex constructs measured byself-report questionnaires ( “propensity”), laboratory tasks, and the frequency of real-life behaviors (smoking, alcohol use, etc). A recent mega-study of 1507 healthy adults byFrey et al. (2017) measured risk preference using six questionnaires (and their subscales), eight behavioral tasks, and six frequency measures of real-life behavior.Table 1 (Frey et al., 2017).Risk-taking measures used in the Basel-Berlin Risk Study.-- click on image for a larger view --The authors were intereste...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 17, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Chicago Police Don't Need Facial Recognition Drones
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel isbacking legislation that passed the state Senate earlier this month that would allow Illinois police to use drones to monitor “large scale events,” including protests. This legislation would be worrying enough if the drones were merely outfitted with video and audio capability. However, these drones could one day be equipped with facial recognition tools, amplifying the privacy risks associated with drones buzzing over citizens engaging in First Amendment-protected activities.Supporters of drone surveillance such as State SenatorMartin Sandoval (D-11th District) cite public safety concerns...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 22, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Deciphering Vietnam's Evolving Military Doctrine in the South China Sea
Vietnam has sought to balance China ' s expanding presence in the South China Sea through diplomacy and military modernization. The Vietnam People ' s Army has acquired many useful weapons, but unfamiliarity with combat in the sea and air will test its evolving military doctrine. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - May 11, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman; Nguyen Nhat Anh Source Type: blogs
More Immigrants Come From Democracies Today Than Prior Waves
Duringmy panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference, conservative columnist Ralph Hallow said that the United States is “bringing in people with no experience with our idea that the individual has ultimate worth and that the government exists only because we say it can.” For the past couple of months, I gathered data to test this claim. Here’s what I found: while immigrants do have less experience with liberal democracy than Americans do, the recent wave of immigrants actually comes from much more democratic countries than earlier waves.I calculated the level of democracy using the Polity dataset from the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 3, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
