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Noemi – La borsa di una donna
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Art therapy: a world beyond #creativeexpression | Carol Hammal | TEDx
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Leaves and shadows
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A journey along the River Gange
A spiritual journey along the River Ganges collecting sounds & stories from among the 400 million who live and work on its banks. Audio HERE
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heart disease & drinking
Can you drink if you have heart disease? Moderate drinking should be OK, if your doctor approves, but you shouldn’t count on alcohol to be a major part of your heart health plan.
“If you don’t drink alcohol now, there is no reason to start,” says Mark Urman, MD, a cardiologist at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles.
It’s true that there have been studies linking drinking small amounts of alcohol — no more than two drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women — to better heart health.
But the exact link isn’t clear. Those studies don’t prove that the alcohol (whether it was wine, beer, or liquor) was the only thing that mattered.
Other lifestyle habits could have been involved, the American Heart Association notes. Or the important thing could have been nutrients that are in grapes, which you can get from the grapes themselves, without drinking wine.
“One drink a day is probably healthy for people with heart disease and those without it,” says James Beckerman, MD, a cardiologist at Providence St. Vincent Heart Clinic Cardiology in Portland, OR.
But whether or not you drink, you also need to keep the rest of your diet healthy, not smoke, and get regular exercise. Read More.
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Nessa Rua
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dreams
“Don’t look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.” Michael Beckwith
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Exercise reorganizes the brain to be more resilient to stress
Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University.
The researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that when mice allowed to exercise regularly experienced a stressor — exposure to cold water — their brains exhibited a spike in the activity of neurons that shut off excitement in the ventral hippocampus, a brain region shown to regulate anxiety.
These findings potentially resolve a discrepancy in research related to the effect of exercise on the brain — namely that exercise reduces anxiety while also promoting the growth of new neurons in the ventral hippocampus. Because these young neurons are typically more excitable than their more mature counterparts, exercise should result in more anxiety, not less. The Princeton-led researchers, however, found that exercise also strengthens the mechanisms that prevent these brain cells from firing.
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Psychology RSS News Feeds
I try and keep up on the latest news in the world of psychology using RSS feeds on the homepage of my web browser. Lots of articles and tidbits which on occasion lead me to more research on subjects that I care about. All of the feeds listed here can be either read at the site or subscribed to as an RSS feed.
Psycport is an on-line news clipping service from the American Psychological Association (APA) that scans news headlines from around the globe for stories that have a psychological connection.
Psychology Today has more general interest psychology related stories.
New Scientist: Being Human has interesting stories that range from neuroscience to anthropology that relate to ….. well … being human.
Scientific American Mind and Brain very similar to New Scientist but more neuroscience articles.
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Etze li ha’Shuka – SHEFITA [the market song]
