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Building sleep reserves for that coming conference?

Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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Heavy conference ahead with early committee meetings and late night “networking” events? Try sleeping more than usual in the weeks prior to the conference.  Research by the American Sleep expert Tracy Rupp with 24 subjects makes her concludes that you can accumulate sleep for ‘use’ in periods of ‘scarcity’.Half of the test group had to be in bed 10 hours a night for a week and the other half 8 hours.
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Professor Tim Jacob PhD

Posted May 18th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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Research Overview
The psychophysiology of smell: how we smell, why we smell and what differentiates different smell qualities. We are also investigating the function of smell as a signalling medium in humans (human pheromones).

Is (day) light really valuable for meetings?

Posted March 28th, 2008 by administrator
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Use natural light.
Whenever possible, try to arrange for meetings (or breakout sessions) outside the classic four-wall meeting room. Windows that let in natural light keep people energized and contribute to mental stimulus. "Windows make a huge difference in our ability to think big and be open-minded" .

Patrick De Wit

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Patrick De Wit is a clinical neurologist, interested in rehabilitation of people. Diseases of the brain are the most important reason for learning and attention disorders.
In his function as Medical Director he is involved in the daily issues about learning, teaching and networking between medical doctors in and outside the hospital.





Department Neurology    AZ Sint Jozef    Malle, Belgium
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Digital natives have different brain

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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The Digital native is anyone younger than 25 (in 2006) that was born in the digital age. The digital immigrants are the older generation that was not. Neuroscientists now say that there is a physical difference in the brains of these two categories.

Also: The Digital natives have CPA, Continues Partial Attention. Digital natives call, send text messages and pictures, play games, download music, and watch commercials all at the same time.  

Warm body keeps the head cool

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Finnish research made a number of volunteers solve puzzles and tests at 10° Celsius during a few days. These volunteers did significantly worse that a control group at 25° Celsius. (20° Celsius is normal room temperature.) Conclusion, Cold has a negative impact on performance of the brain, because it distracts from the task at hand.

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Sleeping improves memory

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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More and more scientists are getting convinced sleep is not a waste of time.

Microphone feedback is 2nd most annoying sound

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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26 January 2007 International visitors to the BadVibes web site (www.sound101.org) — a research project from the University of Salford — listened to sounds such as a dentist's drill, fingernails scraping down a blackboard and aircraft flying past, before rating them in terms of their unpleasantness. Although fingernails scraping down a blackboard is said to be the worst sound by many people, the actual recording of this sound only came 16th out of 34 sounds auditioned.

Electricity consumption of the brain

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Our brain uses as much energy as a 20watt light bulb. With that, only 1% of our brain cells are active simultaneously. The other 99% is used too, only not at the same time. That would be impossible; our brain already uses 20% of the oxygen we breath in, and it would get overheated.

Lost memories

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Question:

In the future, will the meeting participant in stead of little conference mints, find complimentary learning stimulating medication on the table in the meeting room?
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