Travel Ban Spotlights U.S. Dependence On Foreign-Born Doctors
February 11, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/11/514399475/trump-travel-ban-spotlights-u-s-dependence-on-foreign-born-doctors
Month: February 2017
Happiness: Giving, Relating, Exercising
Vanessa King of Action for Happiness
TEDxStPeterPort
Apr 1, 2016
2:12 Having a sense of control in our lives is an absolutely fundamental ingredient in happiness.
[related: https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/category/behavior-sense-of-agency ]
mindful awareness
17:20 It’s a menu, it’s not a prescription.
What works for each of us is different. And we need different things at different times.
Dr. J. Doty: Hacking your brain for happiness
Hacking your brain for happiness
Dr. James Doty
TEDxSacramento
Apr 5, 2016
Dr. James Doty explains the neurological benefits of Compassion. “Project Compassion” has now turned into a leading research and educational institution and the only institution solely focused on the study of Compassion, Altruism and Empathy.
James Robert Doty, M.D., examines the neural, mental, and social bases of compassion. He serves as Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and Founder and Director of Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) – of which the Dalai Lama is the founding benefactor. He serves as Chairman of the Dalai Lama Foundation and as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Council of the Parliament of the World’s Religion.
He has just release his first book, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart.
Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD: A pervasive disorder of the emotion regulation system
Social cognition in borderline personality disorder
Frontiers in Neuroscience. 14 January 2013
http://www.frontiersin.org Volume6|Article 195 | 1
Stefan Roepke, et al.
Department of Psychiatry, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
research consistently shows that BPD patients have biases in mental state attribution (e.g., evaluate others as malevolent)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric condition characterized by a
pervasive pattern of marked impulsivity and instability in affects, self-image …
affective instability
aggressive outbursts
increased emotional reactivity
found that BPD patients had a tendency to assume that “the world and others are dangerous and malevolent” (Pretzer,1990; Arntzetal., 2004).
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Borderline personality disorder
Lancet 2004; 364: 453–61
Klaus Lieb
intense unstable relationships, which are characterised by two separate but interlocking types of problem. The first is a profound fear of abandonment, which tends to manifest itself in desperate efforts to avoid being left alone—eg, calling people on the phone repeatedly or physically clinging to them. The second is a tumultuous quality to close relationships, which are marked by frequent arguments, repeated breakups, and reliance on a series of maladaptive strategies that can both anger and frighten others—eg, highly emotional or unpredictable responses.
other:
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
NICE Clinical Guidelines, No. 78.
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (UK).
Leicester (UK): British Psychological Society; 2009.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK55399
2018
Special Books by Special Kids
2018
MedCircle, 2020
MedCircle, 2018
The Art of Being Yourself
winsound
sys.exit([arg])
The Python Standard Library »
29. Python Runtime Services »
29.1. sys — System-specific parameters and functions
sys.exit([arg])
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html
Exit from Python.
Moonshots, road maps, frameworks
Big science has a buzzword problem
Moonshots, road maps, frameworks and more are proliferating, but few can agree on what these names even mean.
Megan Scudellari
25 January 2017
http://www.nature.com/news/big-science-has-a-buzzword-problem-1.21354
Proxima b
What it would take to reach the stars
A wild plan is taking shape to visit the nearest planet outside our Solar System. Here’s how we could get to Proxima b.
01 February 2017
http://www.nature.com/news/what-it-would-take-to-reach-the-stars-1.21402