Monday, January 31, 2011

Order Of Service For Catholic Confirmation

! Ouch!. How to clean the soul, or at least turn down the guilty knows



In life there are times when the watered-plane and do some behavior that ends up affecting us, or hurting another person undeservedly. Of course this comes after repentance and moral raw. This phenomenon is so common that various religions have devised different methods to cure this hangover. One of these methods that share both Christianity and Islam is to atone for sins through the pain. Por ejemplo en la carta apostólica “Salvifici Doloris” el Sumo Pontifice Juan Pablo II comienza “Suplo en mi carne —dice el apóstol Pablo, indicando el valor salvífico del sufrimiento— lo que falta a las tribulaciones de Cristo por su cuerpo, que es la Iglesia”. Por otro lado, en el islam el profeta Mahoma enseñó: “Cuando el creyente está afligido por el dolor, aun si es por una espina, Dios perdona sus pecados, y sus errores son descartados como el árbol se despoja de sus hojas”.


Bueno, pues para variar nunca falta algún científico que target their noses in these matters. This is the case of Brock Bastian, who along with Jolanda Jetten and Fabio Fasoli. Queensland universities, Exeter and Trent, respectively, published the article entitled "Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh: The Guilt-Reducing Effect of Pain", in January this year in the journal Psychological Science.

What did?

In this study, researchers asked a group of volunteers to remember a time when you had behaved in an unacceptable way, and to rate how guilty they felt about this (through an assessment of affection). After divided the subjects into a group that was asked to keep a hand in a bucket of ice water, and a group that was asked to keep it in a bucket of warm water. Also added a third group was also asked to keep a hand in the bucket of ice water, but not applied the assessment of affection.

What did they find?

The results were very interesting. Group participants who recalled their bad behavior not only hand held longer in the ice bucket, but rated as more painful this action the group not asked to remember misconduct. And even more interesting is that after testing the bucket with ice water, this group got their guilt significantly compared the group also assessed their misconduct, but that was submitted to the bowl with warm water.
The authors suggest that people seem to give meaning to their pain, so arguing that people interpret their pain on a judicial model in which pain is a punishment that serves to atone for their sins. This could mean in certain religions that his soul is purified of its past sins. I think I do not share this line of thought, because according to this, the masochists, or even some types program like a jackass would all saints .. and no, I do not.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Can I Use A Deplitory On My Vulva

More old devil, that devil. Or how practice makes perfect.

Ever happened that you take your car to the mechanic and you meet the person serving you does not seem to have no idea what happens, but when the "master "Then then proposes some solutions? Or when you go to a hospital and a resident who serves you will explore a thousand times but can not seem to hit it at a diagnosis, and when it's "doctor" almost nomas to see and have two or three possible diagnoses?. Well, a group of Japanese researchers led by Dr. Keiji Tanaka, and included X. Wan, H. Nakatani, K. Ueno, T. Asamizuya and K. Cheng decided to investigate whether they could detect differences in brain function between novices and experts. To achieve this investigated Japanese players on a chess-like game called Shogi. They published their findings in the journal Science in January of this year.



The scientists decided to investigate this particular game because it has well-defined rules to follow and you can be making expert as you practice more. In the study using fMRI, we explored a number of conditions including comparing the brain activation by detecting the position of a particular piece and make a sensory-motor task. But the most important condition was to compare brain activation between novices and experts during the rapid generation of the most appropriate next move. That is, given a position on the board, decide within a period of two seconds what would be the next best move.


Well, the researchers found as expected a stream of activations throughout the brain. But as they were removing activations related to different cognitive processes, they reported that only two activations were correlated with the degree of experience of subjects. One was the activation in a brain region called the precuneus which is located in the parietal lobe and activated during the perception of patterns of pieces on the board, and the other was the caudate nucleus, part of the basal ganglia of brain, and activated during the rapid generation of the next best move. They also found that the activity of these two areas covariate for relevant tasks, which suggested to the authors that when skilled players analyze a scenario to run the next play, the precuneus, caudate circuit implements an automatic process and implied that allows the player to make a quick and effective.

In panel D we can see the differences in the caudate nucleus among professionals and novices in the task of making the movement more effective taking only two seconds to decide.

These results suggest that as one goes by an expert, the brain will strengthen this functional circuit that allows quick decisions just to take a look at a specific scenario in which a subject is an expert. According to the authors that unfolds over a long period, about ten years, and also is specific to the information on which he trained. This suggests that the power to make quick decisions as a mechanic, not going to make quick decisions to leave as a physician or the physician and psychologist, or this as a lawyer. Or what is the same, to finish as I started as "shoemaker to your shoes."


Monday, January 17, 2011

What Medicine Helps A Tight Chest?

of how music can take us to heaven, or the release of dopamine!

ever happened to you you hear a piece of music that hits you very hard?. For example, I clearly remember when I saw the film in the Mission which has music composed by Ennio Morricone. The music is beautiful, and even now every time I hear this music I feel a great emotion that I left in a great mood. I think I'm not the one that happens because the love of music is almost universal. Just look at the success of iTunes, or social status of musicians recognized. Almost all people I chat about all we can say that has one or more preferred rolas, the kind that you curl your skin. Well, a group of researchers led by Robert Zatorre, and included Valorie Salimpoor, Mitchel Benovoy, Kevin Larcher and Alain Dagher, Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill Unviersidad, Canada, investigated the effect on the brain you listen to your music.

These researchers investigated the effect of music on brain reward systems we have discussed on previous occasions. To do this they recruited 10 volunteers (5 men and 5 women) aged more than 200 applicants to participate in this study. Its main feature is that the volunteers were selected had to curl the skin every time you hear your favorite piece without getting tired of it. After selecting the subject, proceeded to take their brain imaging using positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (fMRI). With PTSD can assess the activity of the dopaminergic system, which is a key component of reward systems, and the RMF can be located in a space-time regions that are activated. During the experiment, each volunteer will put your favorite music and favorite music on any other volunteer. In this way they could assess the difference of the dopaminergic system when they heard that special music that came up to the most intimate, versus just listening to some music that did not produce the same emotional effect.

What they found?

Well, the results were conclusive. The subjects reported more emotion in the pieces they had chosen as opposed to other parts. This correlated with an increase in heart rate response, breathing and sweating. Similarly, the functional imaging analysis showed a significant increase in dopamine release during exposure to your favorite music. Not only that, but the study found that there were areas of the brain called the caudate nucleus in which dopamine is released just before the part of the music they produced the emotional climax, and other brain regions as the nucleus accumbens in which Dopamine is released during the musical climax.

Measurement of the increase of dopamine release measured by the decrease in binding of raclopride (dopamine receptor antagonist).

This finding is formidable, since according to the authors, this is the first evidence that it produces intense pleasure listening to music is associated with the release of dopamine in the mesolimbic reward system. If we think carefully about this is doubly surprising because this system evolved to enhance basic biological behavior with a high adaptive value, such as feeding or reproduction, and as far as one might think, the music is not a basic necessity for human survival!. Another interesting aspect is that the mere anticipation of sublime musical segment that we can produce a state of emotional excitement that precedes the activation of the reward system, which has been used by great musicians to play with the height of their pieces (which reminds me of some of the symphonies of Beethoven!). This functional mechanism is not unique to music, since there are other systems that include a stage of dopaminergic release and anticipatory consummatory responses, such as the expectation of eating a delicious steak and the fact finally eating it.

And this, does that imply?

This finding helps explain the feeling so intense that experience with some pieces of music, and why the music helps us to do activities such as running for long periods of time, or environment movie scenes to achieve aesthetic almost perfect. Seeing so coldly, as one might think that great musicians are those who manage to master the art of driving slowly to our brain to release dopamine in a specific time by using sound waves. Has gee, because after reading this but I would guess, these paragraphs never be able to release one iota of dopamine by my tendency to reduce the sublime to a mere formality synaptic. Well, because the question!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Does Dream Matte Concealer/mousse Work

The girl with blue eyes (Hervé Vilard)

my mother's hair
had not imagined
of another color,
not
ash is white or silver
of gleaming whiteness;
up The other day
in a book I found by chance,
picture of a girl
with eyes as clear
that seem the sea.
Then I realized that I had
forgotten that before I was born
my mother had lived
nearly thirty years
beautiful as a flower.
realized I did not
she also loved to
see
a photo
girl with eyes as clear
as a amanercer.
I never imagined my mother
delivered a passionate,
and to me my
had to be loved and deliver
love.
Until the other day
in a book I found by chance,
picture of a girl with eyes as clear
that look the sea.
The picture of a girl
with eyes so clear,
and so sweet looking. ****

Monday, January 10, 2011

How Much Ambulance Ride Cost

Babies, language and film

Well finally came to an end the holiday and it's time to get to work with great enthusiasm. For me one of the nicest aspects of the holiday is to catch up - or at least try to catch up "in local movie listings. Now on holiday came third in the trilogy of films that began with "my girlfriend's family" with Robert de Niro and Ben Stiller. To enjoy it fully, so I decided to rent the DVD of the second part, "The My husband's family. " A fun aspect of this movie is the plot in which Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) seeks to educate her grandchild as if it were a adultito, and forbids anyone you talk to the tone or the honeyed words that we often hear or do when we go to small infants.


Well, all this is irrelevant because just in this year's first issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex, Katherine Travis, and his colleagues at the University of Califonia at San Diego published an article suggesting that infants between 12 and 18 months of age and processed language as it does adults.

In reaching this conclusion, the authors used the technique of magnetoencephalography in combination with structural magnetic resonance imaging. This allowed them to estimate the spatio-temporal brain activity selective for words in children between 12 and 18 months of age. The task was to bring them to see pictures of common objects and to hear words that they understood. A subset of these infants also heard familiar words compared with sounds. In both experiments, the words evoked the typical event-related brain responses that occur when listening to words, and displayed to 400 milliseconds after word began. In adults this activity called N400 is associated with lexical-semantic encoding and is located in the left hemisphere frontotemporal cortices. As in adults, the authors found that the amplitude of the N400 is also modulated by prior exposure semantics, known as priming, and is reduced by words that are preceded by a semantically related picture. These findings suggest that both children and adults use the frontotemporal areas left You to encode lexical-semantic information.



This suggests that after all there is some truth to the claims of Robert de Niro in the role of Jack Byrnes in saying that her grandson in the movie means more than it seems, however, as mentioned in other blogs , loving approach to infants brings emotional information that goes beyond simple semantic meaning of words, so we do not have to feel bad when we stammer borucas front of a boy or girl who actually seems to enjoy our foolishness.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Is Scorpio Man Interested?

Happiness.

happened that was the seller in the sale,
and this child was eight years asking the price of the laser gun and to find away for a moment, and return the salesman asked, "what came across, and the boy told ... Lord, how it is to convince a grandmother ...?. the seller he said. "Put a kiss on her cheek, and talk of incommensurable love." The child gave the nuevamente.Regresó thanks and walked away, and the salesman asked, "How are we doing" and the boy said, "It is proving much." Then the salesman said, "It's time to burn bridges." "Tell him that his indifference is causing pain in his chest." reaching the child not to give way to the second point, neither the seller to complete their education, when it appeared her: "What is all this," he said. "First, the incommensurable love of his grandchild," said the seller.
_ "If even kissed me," said Buela.
_ "There you are," said elvendedor.
_ "I knew this was going to be pure expenditure," he complained.
seller Before delving into his arsenal, the boy took from his little life and great intelligence this cluster bomb, "Grandma does not matter if I buy it or not ... I love you just as you said" .
_ "Ya, ya, ya," said the grandmother, "but not that of 2500." ****