More information to think about:
- These Drugs Generated Most Adverse Event Reports — Pharmalot — In the third quarter of 2009, the number of serious, disabling and fatal adverse drug events reported to the FDA numbered 29,065, compared to 26,809 in the same quarter a year earlier, an 8.4 percent rise, according to the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices. For the first three quarters of 2009 combined, the total number of reports was 8.1 percent higher than in the same period of 2008. SEROQUEL was number two on the list
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- BBC News – Nap ‘boosts’ brain learning power
- Nature’s Bounty: The Smartest Food | Psychology Today — “Neuroscientist James A. Joseph is one of those lucky people who gets to have his cake and eat it, too. At the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Joseph revels in his research demonstrating that dark-hued fruits and vegetables, especially blueberries, are just about the best foods you could consume for inoculating brain and body against the ravages of time.” — I start every morning with blueberries in my smoothie!
- Angry Resenting Angry Resentment | The Tao of Chaos
- ‘Empathic Civilization’: Amazing Empathic Babies — Huffington Post
- Mindfulness in two minutes — Chade-Meng Tan — Most evenings, before we sleep, my young daughter and I sit in Mindfulness together for two minutes. I like to joke that two minutes is optimal for us because that is the attention span of a child and an engineer. For two minutes a day, we quietly enjoy being alive and being together. More fundamentally, for two minutes a day, we enjoy being. Just being. To “just be” is simultaneously the most ordinary and the most precious experience in life. — As usual, I let my experience with a child inform how I teach adults. This daily two-minutes experience is the basis of how I introduce the practice of Mindfulness in an introductory class for adults.