When Gaming Is Good for You Alcohol 'more harmful than heroin' says Prof David Nutt 1 November 2010Last updated at 14:11 Professor David Nutt: "In terms of the cost to society, alcohol causes the biggest harm" Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack when the overall dangers to the individual and society are considered, according to a study in the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former government chief drugs adviser who was sacked in 2009. It ranked 20 drugs on 16 measures of harm to users and to wider society. Heroin, crack and crystal meth were deemed worst for individuals, with alcohol, heroin and crack cocaine worst for society, and alcohol worst overall. Harm score Professor Nutt refused to leave the drugs debate when he was sacked from his official post by the former Labour Home Secretary, Alan Johnson. He went on to form the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, which says it aims to investigate the drug issue without any political interference. 'Valid and necessary' 'Extraordinary lengths' "We are talking about a minority.
La plasticidad cerebral, un buen predictor del éxito de la terapia Para Hebbs la plasticidad es la capacidad que tiene el cerebro de conectarse con varias neuronas en una red. El cerebro posee millones de neuronas que todo el tiempo están haciendo sinapsis, las cuales nos permiten percibir el mundo de la forma en que lo hacemos. Las sinapsis influyen en las emociones, conductas y pensamientos. Por lo tanto parte de lo que somos esta dado por nuestro funcionamiento neuronal. Esto quiere decir que mientras más estimulemos el cerebro con información sobre un tema, esto hará que el cerebro se potencialice y se creen nuevas conexiones neuronales que formaran una red. Dentro del campo de la psicología esto es muy alentador, ya que muchos de los comportamientos de los pacientes vienen dados por condicionamientos desde la niñez, que hacen que las personas se mantengan rígidas en una visión del mundo y en un comportamiento. Por Psicóloga Adriana Fornasini Psicólogos Quito Atención psicologógica
The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order » Absolutely No Machete Juggling Brace yourselves, what follows is an amazingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's Despecialized Editions. They are 720p videos that are the result of "Harmy" from The Original Trilogy forums painstakingly reconstructing the theatrical releases of all three films utilizing a wide variety of video sources as well as custom mattes. Downloading, burning, labeling, and printing cases for these films is one of the neckbeardiest things I've done (aside from writing this blog post), and I'm extremely glad I did it. So, with that out of the way, what can you do if you do wish to involve the prequel trilogy? Whatever your reason, if you are showing someone the official editions of Star Wars for the first time, you have to make a decision about which order to watch the films. So neither order really works. What Gets Removed?
Cloud Computing: Cloud University The recession created new demand for higher education, demand that can be met more economically, thanks to improved broadband access and decreased costs in delivering Internet services. Remarkably, the pricing of higher education has remained flat despite these advances -- presumably reacting more to the increased demand than the decreased production costs. Webinar: The New PCI 3.0 Standard Learn the steps to take to get your company ready for PCI DSS 3.0 changes coming January 2015. We cover all of the details you need to know as we head to the deadline to complete and pass your PCI DSS 3.0 audit. View the PCI Webinar Series Now. How do you e-pledge a sorority? Four factors will contribute to this move: Increased broadband access: The number of broadband users in the U.S. rose from 48 million in 2000 to 232 million in 2012, with 1.7 billion broadband users estimated globally. Ripe for the Taking This could enable elite universities to open their doors, suggests Felix Salmon.
Wake Up and Dream In today's short, a man confronts a bully, and frees himself from a recurring nightmare that's terrorized him for more than 20 years. Matt Kielty introduces us to Steve Volk, a city reporter in Philadelphia who--for decades--was plagued by a recurring nightmare. It popped up whenever Steve was going through a stressful time, and it always played out exactly the same way. But no matter how self-aware Steve was about his most current set of anxieties, and no matter how hard he tried to rationalize and explain away the dream...he couldn't make it stop. Then one year, Steve started working on a book about topics at the edge of science, and along the way he stumbled into lucid dreaming. Read more: Fringe-ology, by Steve Volk Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, by Stephen LaBerge
Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity William James was one of the first psychologists to address the notion of neuroplasticity back in his late 19th century text, “The Principles of Psychology.” The central idea behind neuroplasticity is that our brain can restructure itself based on our experience. One great example of neuroplasticity is sensory substitution. Neuroplasticity occurs inside us everyday as we encounter new experiences. The more often neural pathways fire, the stronger the connections will become. The big implication here is that if our brain changes itself based on our experiences, then by changing our experiences we can actively reshape our brains. “It creates a spaciousness of the mind to notice that an impulse has arisen and to disconnect from the automatic behavior that usually follows when someone is an impulsive person. For more of Siegel’s thoughts on mindfulness and neuroplasticity you can check out the video below (or for even more information check out his book Mindsight):
Marcel Proust: neurocientífico (entrevista a Jonah Lehrer) Antes de que la neurociencia revelase algunas verdades nada evidentes sobre el funcionamiento de nuestro cerebro, muchos artistas y pensadores intuyeron, cada cual a su manera y en su parcela predilecta de reflexión y expresión, aspectos esenciales de nuestra naturaleza cuyo conocimiento preciso requeriría todavía mucha investigación y experimentación por parte de los científicos. Se anticiparon en la comprensión de funciones cognitivas como la memoria, el lenguaje y el aprendizaje, cuestiones tan trascendentes como la relación cuerpo-mente, la libertad y el sentido del yo, o el funcionamiento íntimo, asociado a sus ilusiones, de los sentidos de la vista, el oído y el gusto. Ha sido un neurocientífico exquisitamente literario quien se ha decidido a señalar a estos precursores en un ensayo que tiende nuevos puentes entre las dos culturas. Jonah ha tenido la amabilidad de respondernos unas preguntas, preparadas por Antonio Gimeno y un servidor. En ingles: 1. 2. Uncertainty is abhorrent. 3. 4. 5.
The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) | Threat Level It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. The data stored in Bluffdale will naturally go far beyond the world's billions of public web pages. Once it's operational, the Utah Data Center will become, in effect, the NSA's cloud. 1 Geostationary satellites Four satellites positioned around the globe monitor frequencies carrying everything from walkie-talkies and cell phones in Libya to radar systems in North Korea. 2 Aerospace Data Facility, Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado Intelligence collected from the geostationary satellites, as well as signals from other spacecraft and overseas listening posts, is relayed to this facility outside Denver. 5 NSA Hawaii, Oahu
Mind-altering drugs research call from Prof David Nutt 23 January 2012Last updated at 21:12 By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News Could mind-altering drugs have a medical role? Former government drugs adviser Prof David Nutt has said that regulations should be relaxed to enable researchers to experiment on mind-altering drugs. Prof Nutt told BBC News that magic mushrooms, LSD, ecstasy, cannabis and mephedrone all have potential therapeutic applications. However, he said they were not being studied because of the restrictions placed on researching illegal drugs. He said the regulations were "overwhelming". His comments followed the publication of new research by his group in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which suggests that the active ingredient in magic mushrooms could be used to treat depression. "I feel quite passionately that these drugs are profound drugs; they change the brain in a way that no other drugs do. Fired Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteProf David Nutt Medical role?
Neuroplasticity | What's On the Table? Over the Christmas break, I have been reading about neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to repair, and rebuild rather than deteriorate as was once thought. I will over the coming months provide articles on this perspective as they become available. If these are of interest-? Please let me know. I found this little gem in Parabola Magazine.. The Neurocell up close Did you ever wonder somewhat apprehensively, whether your true inner Command Centre rests in the complex biomechanics of your brain or the vast reaches of your mind? The Neurobiology of “We”Patty de Llosa Did you ever wonder, somewhat apprehensively, whether your true inner Command Centre rests in the complex biomechanics of your brain or the vast reaches of your mind? The breakthrough in imaging techniques led Dr. On another front, the millennial inner science of meditation became the focus of experiments by Dr. Relationships change the brain I asked Dr. “We is what me is!” “We can be both an ‘I’ and part of an ‘us’” 1 Jeffrey M.