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And the band played on

Cartea lui Randy Shilts. a fost adaptata intr-un film care poate fi vizionat mai jos:

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Snow Day Thursday

We are being hit by Winter Storm Elliott, so we will be closed for the day and very probably tomorrow as well. To reflect the snowy clime, we present a Chinese scroll painting entitled Qi Dakui’s picture of snow in the deep mountains (imitating the brushwork of Li Tang [Xi Gu]) - 祁大夔深山雪霽圖(仿李唐(晞古)筆意, from our Tse-Tsung Chow Collection of Chinese Scrolls and Fan Paintings.

Qi Dakui (1921-1982), known by the pseudonym Xiao Xi Ju Shi, was born in Beijing and specialized in landscape painting. His father, Qi Kun, was also a renowned landscape painter during the beginning of Republic of China. This ink-wash style of painting is known as Shuimo. Here, Qi is emulating the style of the noted 11th-century Chinese painter Li Tang (c. 1050 – 1130).

There are five Chinese seals or chops. They read: 1) 祁 - Qi; 2) 小西 - Xiaoxi; 3) 伯龍 - Bolong; 4) 周策縱 - Zhou Cezong (i.e., Tse Tsung Chow); 5) 晴窗一日幾回春 - Seeing spring scences several times a day from sunny windows.

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Ignaz Semmelweis s-a născut în anul 1818 în Buda, Ungaria, într-o familie bogată de negustor. După încheierea studiilor de medicină în Viena (1844) decide să se specializeze în ginecologie, iar după încă doi ani devine asistentul profesorului Klein la clinica de ginecologie din cadrul Spitalului General Viena. Spitalul avea două clinici de ginecologie: una condusă de medici, iar cealaltă de…

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#Antropologie #Antropologie medicala #Boala #Istorii de viata #Istorii sociale #Spital #Stiinta

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Rock Hudson in Grado, Italy, 1957. Photograph by Bob Willoughby

Golden tears.

Summer refectory of the Seligenstadt Abbey.

> Photo: Michael Leukel.

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You can see a lot of people online saying that in the end this will backfire because Hagia Sofia is such a tourist cash cow. They don’t understand how fast people will drop everything in exchange for meaning, and how powerful religion is when it comes to brainwashing.

People will literally live in their own shit, if religion says so.

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2020 Moon Calendar Print // MSaferillustration

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#2020 #HappyNewYear

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Goodbyes are inevitable | discarded library book acquired from Michael Dumontier @stoppingoffplace

#books #libraries

A Fine Frenzy - Rangers

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Brain pathways of aversion identified

Scientists have long been interested in how the brain creates signals associated with negative emotions in order to better understand how imbalances in the same system can lead to affective disorders such as depression and anxiety.

The amygdala has long been the most commonly studied brain structure for understanding fear, whereas for rewards and positive signals the focus has been on the neurotransmitter dopamine. But when it comes to areas of the brain that control feelings of discomfort and aversion, much less is known.

Brain structure controlling emotions

In the past few years, research has indicated that a brain structure called the habenula controls positive and negative emotions in animal models. Moreover, clinical cases have been conducted with patients suffering from depression where deep brain stimulation of the habenula has been beneficial. The habenula controls both dopamine and the neurotransmitter serotonin, which is thought to play a significant part in the sense of wellbeing. However, it has not been known how the habenula is regulated.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have now mapped which networks in the mouse brain control the habenula, and what role they play in aversion.

“We’ve discovered a specific pathway that goes between the hypothalamus and the habenula, and that can be modulated using optogenetics to control the feeling of aversion,” says study leader docent Dinos Meletis at the Department of Neuroscience. “Our hope is that this can lead to the development of new treatments that can rebalance the brain’s networks in for example depression or anxiety disorders.”

Using light to activate neurons

Using optogenetics and other advanced methods, the group were able to identify the identity of the nerve cells and map their interconnections. Optogenetics is a method that uses light to activate specific neurons in order to study how the activation of different networks affects behaviour.

“This methodological revolution in brain research has made it possible to functionally study how different types of nerve cell and pathways actually control different types of behaviour, something that was impossible to do only a decade ago,” says Dr Meletis.

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