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The Quantum Medicine NEWSLETTER Have a good week!!! This is September 25th newsletter! Let's invite other people to subscibe to this newsletter! For Archives The full version is at
the link: www.quantumedicine.com/article/nuovofile273.html
1)
Anticipation
Plays A Powerful Role In Human Memory 2) Parents:
The Weakest Link in the Childhood Obesity Epidemic 3)
The Money Tree
Formula
The thought of the week : "l just love when people say I can't do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it". Ted Turner
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Anticipation
Plays A Powerful Role In Human Memory Probing
deeper into how such memories form, researchers at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison have found that the mere anticipation of a fearful situation
can fire up two memory-forming regions of the brain - even before the event has
occurred. That means the simple act of anticipation may play a surprisingly
important role in how fresh the memory of a tough experience remains. The findings
of the brain-imaging study, which appear in the current issue of the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have important implications
for the treatment of psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) and social anxiety, which are often characterized by flashbacks
and intrusive memories of upsetting events. "The
main motivation for this study was a clinical one, in terms of understanding
and applying knowledge about memory so that we can better inform the treatment
of disorders that have a large memory component, like PTSD," says lead
author Kristen Mackiewicz, a graduate student at the University of Colorado who
worked on the anticipation study while a student at UW-Madison. The project
also builds on a relatively new body of work on the role of anticipation in
emotion and clinical disorders, says senior author Jack Nitschke, a UW-Madison
assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology. "Our
study illustrates how the power of expectancy can extend to memory formation as
well," says Nitschke, also an associate of UW-Madison's Waisman Laboratory
for Brain Imaging and Behavior. "Just the expectation of seeing something bad can
enhance the memory of it after it happens." A teacher
who struggles with stage fright, for example, might feel anxious before every
class she has to teach. The
UW-Madison work suggests that the longer she spends dreading her next lecture,
the stronger her memory of the uncomfortable experience is likely to be when it
is over. Unfortunately, that sets a vicious cycle in motion,
because the stronger her memory of discomfort, the worse her performance
anxiety is likely to get. The
UW-Madison scientists found that two key regions of the brain - the amygdala
and the hippocampus - become activated when a person is anticipating a
difficult situation. Scientists
think the amygdala is associated with the formation of emotional memories,
while the hippocampus helps the brain form long-term recollections, Nitschke
says. The
researchers studied the brain activity of 36 healthy volunteers using a
technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which produces
high-contrast images of human tissue. They began by showing the volunteers two kinds of signals.
One was neutral, but the other indicated that some type of gruesome picture was
soon to follow, such as explicit photos of bloody, mutilated bodies. Thirty
minutes after the researchers had shown dozens of violent images, they quizzed
study participants on how well they remembered the pictures they had just seen.
"We
found that the more activated the amygdala and hippocampus had been during the
anticipation [of the pictures], the more likely it was that a person would
remember more of them right away," says Nitschke. Two weeks
after the experiment, scientists met with the study subjects again to measure
how well they remembered the same disturbing images. This time, they found that people
who best remembered them had shown the greatest amygdala and hippocampus
activity during the picture-viewing exercise two weeks before. That
suggested that those subjects' brains had already started converting short-term
memories of the images into longer-lasting ones. Mackiewicz
says the anticipation of an uncomfortable situation probably kick-starts a kind
of "arousal or fear circuitry" in the brain, which in turn helps to
reinforce old memories. "In
the future, we could look for ways to dampen that arousal response in patients
so that they do not evoke negative memories so easily," she adds. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060904220231.htm Parents:
The Weakest Link in the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Children are influenced in good ways
and, especially, bad ones by their parents. So, it should come as no surprise,
nutritional experts believe, as I do, controlling the childhood obesity
epidemic depends on the parental guidance -- or lack of it -- kids receive at
home, based, in part, on a report released today by the Institute of Medicine
(IOM). No wonder, considering so many
time-starved young parents have grown up in a fast-food world and are
passing their bad habits along to their children, experts say. Nevertheless,
the IOM report spreads the blame around among government, industry, media,
communities, schools and the home environment. You'd think that knowledge would
make parents more aware about all the outside influences, including TV that
conspire to keep kids obese, but it doesn't, according to one expert and a
mother of three daughters. Perhaps, one quote sums it up the best: All of us
need to do something about it. When it comes to (obesity), we cannot put a
Band-Aid on it anymore. Again, don't expect your government
to do anything about the obesity epidemic, especially in your home. But there
are things you can do today to make your child's transition to better eating
habits an easier one:
The Money Tree
Formula The first step to picking the right
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you have an exhaustible, effortlessly generating, stream of cash flow which
doesn’t require your presence. In order to do this, you must be in a position
to create, control and own that stream of income. Another way of saying the
same thing, is you must become an entrepreneur...a business person. You may
still retain your employee position, but on the side, as a way of protecting
your long term financial future, you need to create additional streams of
income. ASAP I remember watching TV recently as a
couple was being interviewed about being laid off from a long term job
position. The wife looked into the screen and said, with tears in her eyes, "For
17 years we worked hard for our security, and now we’re out in the cold. It’s
not fair." I wanted to reach through the television set and tell her,
that for 17 years she had the illusion of security. She wasn’t secure, she just
thought she was. Working for someone else, unless you own a piece of the
profits, is not security. It’s just the illusion of security. If you’re going to become a home
based entrepreneur, you’d better learn which businesses have the potential for
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formula for the perfect business in the next century. I call it the Money Tree
formula and it will be very easy for you to remember because it spells the word
MONEY TREE... http://www.oneminutemillionaire.com/articles/moneytree.asp
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