Work and Well-Being

``Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.``
- Viktor E. Frankl



"There is no contradiction between being effective and successful and taking care of yourself."
Arianna Huffington


"American corporations are losing $300 billion a year because of stress. $200-$300 billion because of indirect healthcare costs."
Arianna Huffington


“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
― Mark Twain


Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams


What can you do right now to be more healthy at work?

Don't sell out your health in order to be successful in your professional life.

Earning lots of money is not worth putting your health is at risk.


Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. -Margaret Mead


Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people. ―
 Rashida Rowe


Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. ~ Les Brown

"The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it" Warren Buffett

When you come to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra

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Addicts' Cravings Have Different Roots in Men and Women

Neuroscience Making Memories Last: Prion-Like Protein Plays Key Role in Storing Long-Term Memories

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  Neuroscience One gene appears to regulate the brain’s ability to form new memories.
  
  When you experience a new event, your brain encodes a memory of it by altering the connections between neurons. This requires turning on many genes in those neurons. Now, MIT neuro...See More

  

  Neuroscientists identify a master controller of memory - MIT News Office

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  One gene appears to regulate the brain’s ability to form new memories.

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Positron emission tomography (PET)

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  Neuroscience Read the full article online: http://goo.gl/jKM0C

  

  Cure for insomnia could be on the cards - Telegraph

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  Scientists are a step closer to developing a cure for insomnia after discovering the enzyme responsible for waking people up.

Cure for insomnia could be on the cards





Modern Neuroscience: The Human Nervous System



The nervous system is defined by the presence of a special type of cell—the neuron






Clues to what causes compulsive behavior could improve OCD treatments http://goo.gl/5pseZ

 By activating a brain circuit that controls compulsive behavior, MIT neuroscientists have shown that they can block a compulsive behavior in mice -- a result that could help researchers develop new treatments for diseases such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette's syndrome.

A new animal model gives insights into mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis http://goo.gl/XJE2b



[PODCAST] "Do repetitive episodes of mental stress result in increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity?" http://goo.gl/OS4H1




While music is an individualistic experience, different people’s brains track music in a consistent way http://goo.gl/XaFDc



Detecting autism from brain activity http://goo.gl/wIInl




How the brain loses and regains consciousness http://goo.gl/lgNKC



Human cognition depends upon slow-firing neurons http://goo.gl/qKo2i





2013 Wiley prize awarded for the discovery of the molecular mechanisms governing circadian rhythms http://bit.ly/HobgMm




Multiple sclerosis study reveals how killer t cells learn to recognize nerve fiber 


insulators   http://goo.gl/XW48l


 Misguided killer T cells may be the missing link in sustained tissue damage in the brains and spines of people with multiple sclerosis, findings from the University of Washington reveal. Cytoxic T cells, also known as CD8+ T cells, are white blood cells that normally are in the body’s arsenal to fight disease.

 Multiple Sclerosis (MS), is a progressive disease that attacks the myelin of axons (nerve fibres) in the central nervous system. It is an autoimmune disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the body as if it were a foreign substance







Ethical? Physicians in China treat addictions by destroying the brain’s pleasure center http://goo.gl/Kca6e





Itchiness explained: Specific set of nerve cells signal itch but not pain

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Chemotherapy disrupts learning, neurogenesis and theta activity in the adult 

brainhttp://goo.gl/VvZ9t





Children exposed to music at home have enhanced development of auditory abilitieshttp://goo.gl/lmnFX

The relation between informal musical activities at home and electrophysiological indices of neural auditory change detection was investigated in 2–3-year-old children. Auditory event-related potentials were recorded in a multi-feature paradigm that included frequency, duration, intensity, direction, gap deviants and attention-catching novel sounds.







The many maps of the brain http://goo.gl/71K8Z

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Body language, not facial expressions, broadcasts what's happening to us http://goo.gl/th63J

Neuroscience Uncommon features of Einstein's brain might explain his remarkable cognitive abilitieshttp://goo.gl/g324V

Corridors of the Mind: Could neuroscientists be the next great architects?http://goo.gl/PMzxH



Thinking up a world ruled by neuroscience http://goo.gl/8l8DH






Global experiment probes the deceptions of human memory http://goo.gl/kkY2L[Watch the BBC Breakfast video online]

 Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories. The story was broadcasted on this morning's BBC breakfast show. http://goo.gl/kkY2L

Global Experiment Probes the Deceptions of Human Memory

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Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories. [VIDEO] Earlier this year, an online m

 Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories. The story was broadcasted on this morning's BBC breakfast show. http://goo.gl/kkY2L

Global Experiment Probes the Deceptions of Human Memory

wisciblog.com

Preliminary results are in from a huge online experiment designed to test a flaw in the way the brain stores memories. [VIDEO] Earlier this year, an online m

The worst noises in the world: Why we recoil at unpleasant soundshttp://goo.gl/AR55Q [What noise do you hate the most?]





Immune system can boost nerve regrowth http://goo.gl/ZNdUs




The power of your amazing brain [provided by www.twitter.com/neuroscience]





What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience http://goo.gl/TJI9V

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Latin Quarter

Latin Quarter of Paris: Famous landmarks, such as Nôtre Dame Cathedral, the Luxembourg Gardens, the Cluny Museum, the Panthéon and the Sorbonne are within blocks. Yet hidden in full view around us is another Paris that is often forgotten in the bustle: historic Arab Paris.

For many, an Arab Paris may seem of more interest to journalists than historians. After all, it's only relatively recently that hundreds of thousands of Parisians speak Arabic as their first or second language, and that couscous, mezze and shwarma have become as common as coq au vin. 

So it's all too easy to overlook a history that began some 500 years ago, when France became the first Christian nation to establish a diplomatic alliance with the Ottoman Empire, initiating a flow of diplomats, intellectuals, tourists and students from the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa to the French capital.


"By the end of the 18th century, relationships with the Muslim world were so common as to have become banal. People walked about Paris not even blinking when they saw someone wearing a turban, because they were so used to it," says Ian Coller, history professor and author of the 2011 book Arab France. 

Turbaned figures were simply part of the crowd in engravings, watercolors and oil paintings of the period—even in Jacques-Louis David's early-19th-century "Coronation of Napoleon," where the Ottoman ambassador can be spotted among the dignitaries.






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http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/201204/a.walk.through.historic.arab.paris.htm

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