Barahona picks up the thread of this thought saying something we rarely hear: “Marriage is suffering. Having a family is suffering. A child is a suffering. And we miss the best in a kind of permanent Peter Pan Syndrome. All this fear of suffering. And so, the tranquilizers, the drugs...
Bungee jumping is one way you can experience an adrenaline rush. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) Some activities, likeskydiving and bungee jumping, can give you an adrenaline rush. Competitions in athletic sports can also give you this rush of epinephrine. This feeling either excites you oram...
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Increasing evidence suggests that inflammatory and immune components in brain are important in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and anti-inflammatory and immunotherapeutic approaches may be amenable to AD treatment. It is known that complement activation occurs
Hypovolemia, hypoalbuminemia, and peripheral edema occurs in several medical diseases and is generally attributed to increased capillary permeability, as reviewed by Siddall et al. [58]. Sepsis is the “type model” but others include snakebites, viral hemorrhagic fever, engraftment syndrome, and au...
Hypovolemia, hypoalbuminemia, and peripheral edema occurs in several medical diseases and is generally attributed to increased capillary permeability, as reviewed by Siddall et al.[58]. Sepsis is the “type model” but others include snakebites, viral hemorrhagic fever, engraftment syndrome, and auto...
Mass gatherings are characterized by the concentration of people temporally and spatially, and may lead to the emergence of infectious diseases due to enhanced transmission between attendees. This is well-demonstrated in the context of the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages in Saudi Arabia. The goal of this...
liberated my grandmother from a train carrying her from one concentration camp to another. They named my mother Aliza after my grandfather’s first first-born child, Freidl, who had been killed by the Nazis, the word for happiness translated from Yiddish to Hebrew in the spirit of the new ...
is the thought of someday going home and living a happy life again. "Don't lose courage you've already escaped the gravest danger: selection." (P. 75) Prisoners didn't want to give up so easily, they had already been through so much and didn't want to give up their hope for ...
The mechanism of memory remains one of the great unsolved problems of biology. Grappling with the question more than a hundred years ago, the German zoologist Richard Semon formulated the concept of the engram, lasting connections in the brain that resul