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#5Thoughts Friday
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12/9/2022
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The Brain Injury Association of Maryland is turning 40!!!
Please save the date and help us celebrate our 40th birthday next spring.
The celebration will take place at the Centennial Park in Ellicott city, MD on May 7th, 2023
More information coming soon HERE!
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BIAMD's Brain Injury Conference
is set for
March 23-24, 2023
at the beautiful
For over three decades, BIAMD has brought together individuals with brain injuries, family members, caregivers, healthcare professionals and educators from around the country to gather, discuss, educate, and encourage each other about all aspects of brain injury.
We have a few breakout session slots still available that we would love to fill with interesting, informative, and instructional presentations.
Like yours.
If you have been thinking about presenting, have a presentation you would like to try out in front of a receptive audience, have research you would like to report on, or have had success with a unique approach to working with individuals with brain injury,
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE
and
WE ARE YOUR CONFERENCE.
All breakout session proposals much be submitted by no later than December 9th to be considered.
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Summary: Certain auditory cues not only help us recognize an object more quickly, but they also even alter our visual perception. |
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Perception generally feels effortless. If you hear a bird chirping and look out the window, it hardly feels like your brain has done anything at all when you recognize that chirping critter on your windowsill as a bird.
In fact, research in Psychological Science suggests that these kinds of audio cues can not only help us to recognize objects more quickly but can even alter our visual perception. That is, pair birdsong with a bird and we see a bird—but replace that birdsong with a squirrel’s chatter, and we’re not quite so sure what we’re looking at.
“Your brain spends a significant amount of energy to process the sensory information in the world and to give you that feeling of a full and seamless perception,” said lead author Jamal R. Williams (University of California, San Diego) in an interview. “One way that it does this is by making inferences about what sorts of information should be expected.”
Although these “informed guesses” can help us to process information more quickly, they can also lead us astray when what we’re hearing doesn’t match up with what we expect to see, said Williams, who conducted this research with Yuri A. Markov, Natalia A. Tiurina (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), and Viola S. Störmer (University of California, San Diego and Dartmouth College).
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There were about 181,806 nonfatal opioid overdoses recorded in the United States in the past year, and it’s taken about 9.8 minutes on average for emergency medical services to reach someone who’s overdosing, according to a data dashboard that the White House debuted Thursday.
This first-of-its-kind dashboard was developed to track nonfatal opioid overdoses, which have become a growing public health concern as the US struggles with a decades-long opioid epidemic.
The dashboard is expected to be updated every Monday morning, with a two-week lag in the data.
It shows that as of this week, compared with the national rate of nonfatal overdoses, some of the top cities and counties with rates that are much higher than average, per 100,000 people in their population, are Portsmouth, Virginia; Powell, Kentucky; Philadelphia; Caroll, Kentucky; and Walker, Alabama.
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2) Books We are READING This Week
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Joanne E. Cohen has over 37 years combined experience in coaching, consulting, organization development, facilitation, and training. She has consulted, trained and coached executives and their teams in the planning and implementation of new strategic directions that are in alignment with the business goals and objectives of their companies.
This book is the compelling story of one woman's challenges as she faced sequential "hits" and how she handled adversity with resilience time after time. Joanne Cohen shares her honest and authentic journey that depicts the path to "move beyond" and create a full life that includes supporting others with tools to help enrich their lives.
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1) Quote We are Contemplating |
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“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” –Kahlil Gibran
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Looking for Something fun to do in Maryland this weekend?
Click the picture below and discover a world of possibilities for things to do this weekend!
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HAVE A WONDERFUL
WEEKEND!
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Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful weekend.
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