Being 'Born-Again' Linked to More Brain Atrophy: Study. WEDNESDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who say they've had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds. According to the study, people who said they were a "born-again" Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or "atrophy") compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.
The study is published online in PLoS ONE. As people age, a certain amount of brain atrophy is expected. Shrinkage of the hippocampus is also associated with depression, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In the study, researchers asked 268 people aged 58 to 84 about their religious affiliation, spiritual practices and life-changing religious experiences. Over the course of two to eight years, changes to the hippocampus were monitored using MRI scans. More information The U.S.
How To Get Maximum Results When You Have Too Many Ideas (Harnessing The Superstar Effect) By Celes on Jun 8, 2012 | ShareThis Email This Post Hi Celes, [how would you recommend] organizing one interests for maximum productivity? I know a lot of people, myself included who are passionate about lots of things, and while it’s sound advice to just hone in on the few things that really matter, there’s always the idea creep where you keep getting little project ideas and little offshoot projects etc… These can weigh down progress.
I’ve been really focusing on just a few things and for the most part it’s working for me but I’d really love to hear your take on it. – Jeff What do you do when you have too many projects you want to embark on but limited time to do them? For the first few years when I started PE, that was a situation I constantly found myself in. Too Many Ideas, Too Little Time For example, here is a list of tasks/projects/ideas that were on my consideration list in the middle of 2011 (not including personal to-dos): Maximizing My Personal Productivity The Solution 1. 2. 3. PHILOSOPHY POSTERS by Max Temkin | News | Design | Arts | Tech | Entertainment | Latest News | The Skunk Pot.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. The word “philosophy” comes from the Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means “love of wisdom“.
In this case, Max Temkin, the artist, wanted to create posters with quotes that motivated people to think ‘different‘. More about Max Temkin’s philosophy posters Also check out AMAZING SLEEPING BABIES PHOTOGRAPHY and MAPPING STEREOTYPES. Peaks and Plateaus - By Yanki Tauber. It’s interesting how we humans use time. We take one-365th part of it, outline it in red crayon, and call it our “birthday.” Other fractions are defined as “wedding anniversary,” “vacation” and an assortment of holidays and remembrance days.
Each is appropriately designated for happiness, relaxation, sadness, whatever. Instead of learning how to merge our lives with its flow, we prefer to relate only to bits and pieces of it. Instead of connecting to the totality of time, we focus on the few small, heavily bordered segments to which we can ascribe some unique quality or function. We are looking for specialness. Is that really how we are? The spiritual time to which our souls tick likewise consists of both peaks and plateaus. And then there are the “regular” mitzvot—prayer, Torah study, tefillin, kashrut—that become interwoven into our lives’ routine. Therein also lies the specialty of the month of Iyar, which begins about a week after the Passover festival.
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