"One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realized she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...
Amazed to find herself alive, Taylor spent eight years recovering her ability to think, walk and talk. She has become a spokesperson for stroke recovery and for the possibility of coming back from brain injury stronger than before. In her case, although the stroke damaged the left side of her brain, her recovery unleashed a torrent of creative energy from her right. From her home base in Indiana, she now travels the country on behalf of the Harvard Brain Bank as the "Singin' Scientist.""
"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career." Jill Bolte Taylor
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
Notable speakers on the TED website include Stephen Hawking, Daniel Goleman, Sherwin Nuland, Steven Pinker, Michael Pollan, Jane Goodall, Isabel Allende, BONO, Steven Johnson, Dr. Dean Ornish... 198 speakers on their website to date.
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parenting, weight loss, technology burnout, bereavement, chronic or auto-immune disease, chronic pain,
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Classes include training in meditation, self-care and relaxation techniques. There will be periods of experiential practice, lecture and discussion in a confidential, compassionate setting.
Dr. Marty Rossman
Physician, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant, Dr. Rossman founded The Healing Mind in order to raise awareness about the power of high quality mind/body self-care tools in self-healing and in the health professions.
The following practitioners collaborate on this website as well:
Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen
Rachel Naomi Remen is the Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal
Dr. Emmett Miller
Emmett Miller, MD, one of the fathers of mind/body medicine, is a physician, scientist, musician, and master storyteller, whose multicultural heritage has given him a unique social, medical, and spiritual perspective.
Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese form of exercise, may help older adults avoid getting shingles by increasing immunity to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and boosting the immune response to varicella vaccine in older adults, according to a new study published in print this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study is the first rigorous clinical trial to suggest that a behavioral intervention, alone or in combination with a vaccine, can help protect older adults from VZV, which causes both chickenpox and shingles.
Tai Chi alone was found to increase participants’ immunity to varicella as much as the vaccine typically produces in 30- to 40-year-old adults, and Tai Chi combined with the vaccine produced a significantly higher level of immunity, about a 40 percent increase, over that produced by the vaccine alone.Read the complete article at: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/apr2007/nia-06.htm
More information on Tai Chi can be found on NCCAM’s website at http://nccam.nih.gov/health/taichi/
