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Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep

Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep
Katherine Streeter for NPR While the brain sleeps, it clears out harmful toxins, a process that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, researchers say. During sleep, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours, a study of mice found. "It's like a dishwasher," says Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Rochester and an author of the study in Science. The results appear to offer the best explanation yet of why animals and people need sleep. Nedergaard and a team of scientists discovered the cleaning process while studying the brains of sleeping mice. The scientists noticed that during sleep, the system that circulates cerebrospinal fluid through the brain and nervous system was "pumping fluid into the brain and removing fluid from the brain in a very rapid pace," Nedergaard says. So why doesn't the brain do this sort of housekeeping all the time?

Working with Dreams: Techniques of CG Jung & James Hillman Working with Dreams: Depth Psychology Techniques of Carl Gustav Jung and James Hillman Dream work is ancient, it’s long tradition evidenced in the temples of Asclepius in Greece where individuals went to be healed through their dreams. Dreams have been an important aspect of many spiritual traditions, and even Freud considered the study of dreams to be his most important work. There are many methods of dream analysis. In The Dream and the Underworld, archetypal psychologist and post-Jungian James Hillman prefers to allow the dream and dream symbols to remain what they are, and not to analyze and interpret them but to simply interact with them and see what comes about. I find Hillman’s technique enjoyable and rewarding as an activity, like reading a good book or watching a movie with a plot and characters that take place in front of your eyes. Jung asserts, “A dream…is a product of the total psyche. Some References Hillman, J. (1979). Hoss, R. Johnson, R. Jung, C. Sardello, R. (1995).

What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep. Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand, but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information. “When we write, a unique neural circuit is automatically activated,” said Stanislas Dehaene, a psychologist at the Collège de France in Paris. “And it seems that this circuit is contributing in unique ways we didn’t realize,” he continued. A 2012 study led by Karin James, a psychologist at Indiana University, lent support to that view. Dr. Dr.

Why broken sleep is a golden time for creativity — A... It is 4.18am. In the fireplace, where logs burned, there are now orange lumps that will soon be ash. Orion the Hunter is above the hill. It is 4.18am and I am awake. If I write in these small hours, black thoughts become clear and colourful. All humans, animals, insects and birds have clocks inside, biological devices controlled by genes, proteins and molecular cascades. The Romans, Greeks and Incas woke up without iPhone alarms or digital radio clocks. Societies built around industrialisation and clock-time brought with them urgency and the concept of being ‘on time’ or having ‘wasted time’. Then, in the late 19th century, everything changed. The lights got turned on. Modern, electrical illumination revolutionised the night and, in turn, sleep. Sleep patterns of the past might surprise us today. Before electric lighting, night was associated with crime and fear – people stayed inside and went early to bed. Updates on everything new at Aeon. It is 7.04am.

The Lowdown on Longhand: How Writing by Hand Benefits the Brain My Catholic school third grade teacher was extremely tough on me. Her biggest gripe was my handwriting, which looks more like an EKG scan than penmanship. For years, I harbored not-so-fond memories of her, but now I know that her strictness about penmanship was actually helping my brain develop. Today, cursive writing is becoming a lost art as note taking with laptops becomes more and more prominent in classrooms. There has been much debate on the use of laptops for note taking in classrooms. So in this age of technology, I'm suggesting that students take notes with paper and pen. A Plea for Penmanship When students take notes with their laptops, they tend to mindlessly transcribe the data word for word, like speech-to-text software. Now, I'll be the first to say that longhand writing is so 19th century. The Pen is Mightier All this begs the question of how we can incorporate longhand in a digital age. A lost art in the world of science is the lab notebook.

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