Psychology Around the Net: June 13, 2020
This week’s Psychology Around the Net dives into the benefits of using mindfulness to address the looming mental health crisis in business, why playing hard to get as a mating strategy can actually work, how shaking your booty with your grandma and grandpa can boost both their physical and mental health, and more. Stay well, friends! How We Justify Victim-Blaming, Scapegoating, and Systemic Abuse: Rebecca Mandeville explains the “just-world” hypothesis and how it relates to victim-blaming, scapegoating, and systemic abuse. The Power of 10 Minutes: How Mindfulness Can Address the Looming Mental Health Cri...
Source: World of Psychology - June 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net Career COVID-19 Creativity dance therapy grandchildren Grandparents hobby pandemic Paranoia quarantine Scapegoating systemic abuse Victim blaming Source Type: blogs

The Facts About the L-1 Visa Program
ConclusionMultinational companies play an exceptionally important role in the United States. U.S. parent companies account for nearly a  quarter of all private sector output, nearly half of all exports, and nearly three quarters of all private research and development.[44] More than 30 million American workers ’ jobs depend on multinationals. The U.S. government should not further upend investment and job growth by these companies in the United States during the economic recovery. The unemployment rate in computer occupations where many L‐​1s are employed did not increase at all during the downturn,[45] and the Unit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 10, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs

5 Role Models to Help Us Cope with the Pandemic
How do you dig deep to withstand the ongoing stress and requirements of life during a pandemic? Look to the role models: seniors. Seniors have a depth of experience confronting crises and using creative problem-solving skills that summon the higher instincts of the human spirit. They have experience showing up. They reached within to draw on character and integrity, and learned what it means to come through a recovery. From the Great Depression to World War II to 9/11, they did what was needed. Right now, they can be a fountain of hope.  There are countless examples of people who had to switch to plan B and not only survi...
Source: World of Psychology - June 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BJ Kittredge Tags: Aging Self-Help coronavirus COVID-19 Elderly seniors Source Type: blogs

Young Children Believe Intervening In Antisocial Behaviour Is A Universal Duty. Adults Don ’t
By Emily Reynolds When witnessing harmful behaviour, most of us hope for intervention of some kind: if we see someone receiving abuse on public transport, for example, it’s likely we want to see some action taken. Who we want to intervene in such acts, however, is more divisive. Some believe social norms should be enforced by authorities, whilst others stress that responsibility should be shared amongst us all. An interesting example of this is the discussion around policing, with abolitionists arguing that much of the work done by the police would be better led by communities themselves. Our politics may inform our sta...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: bullying Developmental Social Source Type: blogs

We Can ’ t Breathe
This study reinforces calls to treat police violence as a public health issue . Racially unequal exposure to the risk of state violence has profound consequences for public health, democracy, and racial stratification.” Credit: Edwards, Lee, Esposito/PNAS The problem goes beyond police violence.  We incarcerate far more people than any other country — per capita or in absolute numbers — and those prisoners are much more likely to be minorities (especially men).  Black men have a 1 in 3 lifetime chance of being imprisoned, Latino men 1 in 6, versus white men’s 1 in 17. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health disparities Politics COVID-19 george floyd Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs

Network Medicine in the Fight Against COVID-19
COVID-19 forced stakeholders in the healthcare landscape to adopt a new perspective in this sphere. Telemedicine rose to fame as a ready-made solution; artificial intelligence’s contribution became more apparent from early outbreak predictions to resource management; and digital health technologies lent a helping hand early on. Another promising area joining the fight is network medicine, a branch of network science. The latter field studies the interaction between actors within a network. Such analyses are applicable to virtually any sector, from the world wide web through social networks to how molecules interact wi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Network medicine Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology Telemedicine & Smartphones AI MIT coronavirus covid covid19 vaccine research pandemic network science Albert-László Barabási Source Type: blogs

Practicing Emotional Awareness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged as a clear and present public health threat, most people felt the same range of emotions: somewhere along the spectrum of fear and anxiety. People are still feeling this way of course. But as initial shock wears off, people are settling into a new normal. As new studies emerge predicting longer and longer periods of social distancing, we’re starting to strap ourselves in for the long haul. In some ways, this is a step up from fear and uncertainty. But it also brings a range of new emotions—and all of them have an important mental health impact. A major component of mental health is emotional awar...
Source: World of Psychology - May 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Mental Health America Publishers coronavirus COVID-19 Emotional Awareness Feelings Source Type: blogs

Yale ’s Ventilator Splitter Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization
Vent Multiplexor LLC announced that it received FDA Emergency Use Authorization for its device that can split a single ventilator so that it can be used by two patients simultaneously. The Vent Multiplexor device was developed by a team of students and faculty at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital. It is a patent-pending co-ventilation device intended for temporary use when two patients both require emergency mechanical ventilation when only one ventilator is available. Importantly, the device allows ventilator sharing between two patients whose lung capacities and ventilator setting requirements are different...
Source: Medgadget - April 20, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Critical Care Public Health Source Type: blogs

7 Assumptions Your Brain Can ’t Help But Make
You're reading 7 Assumptions Your Brain Can’t Help But Make, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. We all want to believe we are tough to fool. The problem is, even if you are not so gullible, your brain still works a certain way, making associations that create vulnerability to being easily fooled, or fooling yourself. It takes work to release yourself from these natural assumptions that are presumed to originate from a mix of hard wiring and cultural conditioning. Getting beyond them is surely a wo...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Bundrant Tags: featured psychology self education assumptions nlp pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs

What 3 years of sitting on Japanese toilets taught me
The first time I stepped foot in Japan was the summer of 2014. I was a wide-eyed, overzealous sophomore at Yale, all packed and ready to embark on a 2-month journey to Tokyo for a Japanese study abroad program that I only enrolled in so that my language proficiency would be tolerable enough to get […]Find jobs at  Careers by KevinMD.com.  Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.  Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 19, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jay-wong" rel="tag" > Jay Wong < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

The Official Estimates of COVID-19 Deaths Are Way Too Low
By KEN TERRY While President Trump mulls whether to reopen the country again in May, and as Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade suggests that “only” 60,000 people will die from the coronavirus, there are some warning signs that the White House COVID-19 Task Force’s prediction of 100,000-240,000 deaths may be way too low. That isn’t surprising, considering that Administration officials said this projection depended on us doing everything right. Of course, it appears that large sections of the country have done many things wrong—whether it’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ reluctance to close houses of ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy COVID-19 deaths Ken Terry Pandemic Trump Source Type: blogs

The Constitutional Case for the Fed ’s Treasury Backstops
George SelginOne of the more controversial provisions of the CARES Act consists ofthe $454 billion it allows the U.S. Treasury to devote to " backstopping " (that is, to supply partial funding for) the Federal Reserve ' s emergency lending.In a previous post, I argued that these Treasury backstops help to preserve the " boundary line " separating fiscal from monetary policy. I ' ve since engaged ina spirited Twitter exchangewith Peter Conti-Brown, Dan Awrey, and Kate Judge —all legal scholars specializing in monetary policy. That exchange inspires me to offer this more complete, but qualified, defense of the Treasury ' s...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

INVU Receives FDA Clearance for Remote Pregnancy Monitoring System
Nuvo Group announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA to market INVU, a wearable device that remotely monitors fetal and maternal heart rates. Fetal and maternal heart rates are important measurements late in pregnancy, and an elevated fetal heart rate can be one of the first signals of fetal distress. Currently, obtaining these vital signs requires regular office visits and use of an electronic fetal monitor. INVU allows patients and physicians to monitor these data points remotely with convenience and accuracy. The device will be prescription-only and is meant for use in the third trimester o...
Source: Medgadget - March 31, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Cici Zhou Tags: Cardiology Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs

How Psychology Researchers Are Responding To The COVID-19 Pandemic
By Matthew Warren The world is currently in an unprecedented state of upheaval and uncertainty. As countries fight to minimise the spread of COVID-19, everyone is adjusting to the “new normal”, remaining at home and practising social distancing. And the same is true of the psychologists whose work we report on every day at Research Digest: labs have been shut and experiments have suddenly been put on hold in the wake of the pandemic. But many psychologists have also begun launching new research to understand how the present crisis is affecting us, and to inform our response to it. So this week, I’ve been talking to ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 26, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Health Source Type: blogs

On COVID-19 Testing: How it Works, Shortages, and Innovation
by Helen Stillwell Helen is a research associate in David Hafler’s immunobiology lab at Yale University; previously, she worked on poxviruses at Tonix Pharmaceuticals, and she plans to apply to PhD programs in virology this year. RT-PCR Diagnostics As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, diagnostic testing has been a principal topic of discussion. Typically, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 26, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Helen Stilwell Information coronavirus COVID-19 diagnostic tests PCR SARS-CoV-2 viral viruses Source Type: blogs