via www.youtube.com @malcolmgladwell on why income #inequality disadvantages generations and our #society. #agoodlife #democracy
Continue reading »Atul Gawande on death – The New Yorker Festival – The New Yorker
via www.youtube.com @atulgawande talking about #death and how we view it. #medicine #health #ethics #agoodlife
Continue reading »New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function – ScienceAlert
Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques – structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients. If a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it’s usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions – amyloid
Continue reading »Willpower – Can we really just say no?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141204060615-26966637-willpower-can-we-really-just-say-no?trk=mp-author-card Willpower is something that has a powerful mind body link. Without adequate glucose we can't make decisions. #willpower #brain #diet #health
Continue reading »Lead like a King
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141208041350-26966637-lead-like-a-mughal-king?trk=mp-author-card Culture is complex, when you integrate #culture through art, architecture and freedom of expression you enable #talent and #human #potential. #integration #leadership
Continue reading »A new kind of kindergarten design encourages kids to be their silly selves.
TED Ideas worth spreading. One of 1,000+ TED Talks. via www.upworthy.com True #designthinking for the user; children. What #workplace #design could look like if it were designed for the #worker and not the #employer? #workplace #community
Continue reading »Mindfulness as effective as pills for treating recurrent depression – study | Society | The Guardian
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may be as good as pills at stopping people relapsing after recovering from major bouts of depression, according to a study. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) was developed from mindfulness techniques, which encourage individuals to pay more attention to the present moment, combined with cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), specifically to try to help
Continue reading »e-Health Pressures and Realities
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/practice-pressures-ehealth-realities-phil-offer?trk=hp-feed-article-title It's all about behavioural change not the technology. #change #behaviour #medical #technology #ehealth
Continue reading »With Elder-Support Service, Apple Moves Deeper Into The Health Care Space | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
In partnership with a company called Japan Post, IBM and Apple plan to bring an iPad-based service to 4 or 5 million elderly people in the Asian nation by 2020. Japan Post is a government-owned holding company that runs a postal service, and it already offered a "watch over" service through which, for a fee,
Continue reading »The Backwards Brain Bicycle – Smarter Every Day 133
via www.youtube.com It's just like riding a bicycle; or is it? #neuroscience #change #brain #plasticity
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