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#5Thoughts Friday
The
Edition
11/25/2022
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At a time when we are all still recovering from the shared tragedy of the COVID pandemic, generosity and love are the languages that bring people of all races, faiths, and political views together across the globe. Generosity and love gives everyone the power to make a positive change in the lives of others and is a fundamental value anyone can act on.
If you want to join in the National Movement known as #GivingTuesday and would like to celebrate by making a donation to the Brain Injury Association of Maryland, please click below help us bring more services to more families in coming New Year.
As always, thank you for your generous support.
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Periods off-line during training mitigated 'catastrophic forgetting' in computing systems |
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Depending on age, humans need 7 to 13 hours of sleep per 24 hours. During this time, a lot happens: Heart rate, breathing and metabolism ebb and flow; hormone levels adjust; the body relaxes. Not so much in the brain.
"The brain is very busy when we sleep, repeating what we have learned during the day," said Maxim Bazhenov, PhD, professor of medicine and a sleep researcher at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. "Sleep helps reorganize memories and presents them in the most efficient way."
In previous published work, Bazhenov and colleagues have reported how sleep builds rational memory, the ability to remember arbitrary or indirect associations between objects, people or events, and protects against forgetting old memories.
Artificial neural networks leverage the architecture of the human brain to improve numerous technologies and systems, from basic science and medicine to finance and social media. In some ways, they have achieved superhuman performance, such as computational speed, but they fail in one key aspect: When artificial neural networks learn sequentially, new information overwrites previous information, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting.
"In contrast, the human brain learns continuously and incorporates new data into existing knowledge," said Bazhenov, "and it typically learns best when new training is interleaved with periods of sleep for memory consolidation."
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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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Your brain naturally 'rewires' itself as you age. But it doesn't have to, at least not as quickly. |
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We all thought Derek (not his real name, for reasons that will soon be obvious) had gotten stuck in his ways: too rigid, too conventional, too slow to act on new ideas. We liked him as a person. But as a supervisor? Maybe a little past his sell-by date.
Hold that thought.
Where success is concerned, luck matters: Right place. Right time. Right person, idea, market, or audience. Problem is, you can't control luck.
But you can control how smart you are. You can improve your judgment. Your decision-making skills. Your ability to learn quickly, and retain and use what you've learned.
To a point, that is.
A systematic review of dozens of studies published this year in Psychophysiology found that brain connectivity changes dramatically over time.
Somewhere around the time we turn 40, our brains begin to undergo what neurologists call a radical rewiring: What were partitioned networks, with each cognitive domain responsible for specialized processing, steadily become more integrated. (In simple terms, different parts of your brain handle different processes; as you age, the number of separate domains declines.)
The good news? Because of that generalization, vocabulary and general knowledge tend to increase, possibly because those neural networks have become more integrated. But the same generalization negatively impacts executive function and attention.
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It's not uncommon for people to lose their sense of taste and smell due to a Covid-19 infection. In others, the disease has had an even stronger impact on the nervous system, with effects ranging from lasting concentration problems to strokes. Now, researchers led by Professor Gregor Hutter from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital of Basel have reported new insights into the development of "neuro-Covid" in the journal Nature Communications.
Specifically, the team investigated how different severities of neuro-COVID can be detected and predicted by analyzing the cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma of affected individuals. Their findings also offer some indications of how to prevent neurological damage due to Covid-19.
The study included 40 Covid-19 patients with differing degrees of neurological symptoms. In order to identify typical changes associated with neuro-Covid, the team of researchers compared these individuals' cerebrospinal fluid and blood plasma with samples from a control group. They also measured the brain structures of test subjects and surveyed participants 13 months after their illness in order to identify any lasting symptoms.
Particularly in the group with the most serious neurological symptoms, the researchers identified a link with an excessive immune response.
CLICK HERE and to see more in this cutting edge interface.
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2) Books We are READING This Week |
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In this thoughtful and poignant collection of essays and stories, John P. Weiss inspires readers with life lessons about hope, love, loss, creative passion, self-improvement, relationships, and getting the most out of life. A full-time writer and artist, Weiss is a former police chief with over two decades of law enforcement experience. He is the author of An Artful Life: Inspirational Stories and Essays for the Artist in Everyone
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1) Quote We are Contemplating |
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"We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction."
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HAVE A WONDERFUL
EXTENDED WEEKEND!
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