Who would have thought he could see a President of the United States in color and mostly young? Well here we are finally
dreams come true!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Central Auditory Processing Disorder
When dreams come true ...
Who would have thought he could see a President of the United States in color and mostly young? Well here we are finally
dreams come true!
Who would have thought he could see a President of the United States in color and mostly young? Well here we are finally
dreams come true!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Milena Velda In Streaming
If the brain does not go on vacation .....
Italy is the land of poets, painters, artists but also of great scientists. Although many times we forget, or worse, we could not value them enough, these people have continued their work with an extraordinary passion and with important results for the entire humanity.
So today, we report a special interview appeared a few days ago about the Republic, dedicated to one of the smartest women of our country, Rita Levi Montalcini.
"The brain has no wrinkles. If you continue to work hard, is constantly renewed, even after eighty years. Indeed, unlike other organs, may even improve." With my business proves it: I now have more opportunities when I was twenty, for deep thinking and intuition, "says Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini. Then, by scientists, explains that the merits of such a prodigy is all about the neuronal plasticity: if they are not diseases such as Alzheimer's, the brain makes up for the loss of neurons with the ability of those left to find alternative circuits.
To judge from his case, the theory works: the threshold of one hundred years (they will perform April 22) is Professor in the laboratory Ebro (European Brain Research Institute, based in Rome) each morning, has recently published the book The hourglass of life and works in a new one. Not only that regularly follows the work of the Foundation she created to provide a future for African women. "We hope to get ten thousand grants awarded by April," said Joseph Tripodi, For over forty years his trusty assistant. "For the teacher this will undoubtedly be the more welcome gift."
When he enrolled in medicine because he hoped to follow the example of Albert Schweitzer, who looked after "the last of the world" in Africa. But first he found himself fighting against the wishes of his father, an engineer, the owner of an ice factory, which did not approve of their daughters were engaged in the study: "I just said 'I can not stop you, but you do not approve'." Then came the racial laws and the young Rita, who had meanwhile graduated in Turin and worked at the Institute of Comparative Anatomy, was suspended from academic. "Fixed up then a laboratory of neuro-embryology in the bedroom. "Where operated chicken embryos with thin needles. Renato Dulbecco, his fellow student, still remembers the artist's skill and precision with which the researcher moved his hands. It was in that room, in fact, that set the stage for the discovery (made later in the U.S.) NGF (Nerwe Growth Factor), the nerve growth factor, which won the Nobel.
The brain has no wrinkles, however, someone, perhaps, is more beautiful than the other ...
"I do not think the intelligence is not fully programmed at birth. In short, it is not genetic. Women, for example, are worth exactly as much as men, indeed, have a more flexible brain. Unfortunately, throughout history have been kept away from education. But where they have access to knowledge, the results are not lacking. You just come out of a book on women mathematics in Russia are many and have ability to prevail over those of men. "
She has struggled to assert themselves?
" only the beginning. Since a child I was sure I did not want to become a wife and mother. I saw a family in absolute prevalence of my father and I feared it a lot: two plus two four did before him, who was a mathematician. My mother, a painter, he had to stop working after marriage. But, at work, there has always been consistent with my colleagues males. Of course, today everything is changed, women are not forced to choose between work and family and people at home, are more collaborative. "
The world seems more rational than yesterday?
" We live still dominated by low pulse, like fifty thousand years ago. Because our brain has an archaic and limbic component (which is located in the hippocampus) that is aggressive, emotional, and affective and the one that has allowed all'australopiteco to save himself when he fell from the trees and approached the world. The other component, and cognitive neocortex is much more recent and corresponds to the stage of language development. Unfortunately, this part is still unable to check the more ancient, indeed, in extreme moments (war, crisis, famine) again dominant. Environmental conditions are, ultimately, to put it in operation: in totalitarian regimes, for example, the activity of the brain is the most archaic. "
But there also live the emotions, we must put to rest?
" should keep them under control. And that's what should be taught in school. Education is still too tied to the combination of Victorian-kick award. Children are not puppies, they have a cognitive component which needs to leverage from birth. "
neuroscience in recent years have achieved a lot. When will a cure for Alzheimer's?
"We work day and night. I discovered in 1940 by NGF is a protein molecule that turns a cell in any one neuron. Tested on mice, has proven to be able to stop Alzheimer's and it was also in very few human cases in which it was used. I am desperate for funds because the drug can be made available to all, but unfortunately the industry so far has not wanted to invest. "
Despite the Nobel ...
"The award not brought me any economic advantage (it was donated to charity) and I have to thank President Ciampi in 2001 I was appointed senator for life. Not having retired or honorary, I was in economic difficulties. "
About Parliament, which have the effect of our politicians when he saw them up close?
" Excluding a few people of great value, as Anna Finocchiaro, not is a world that I like. Prodi was when I went regularly to Parliament. Among other things we have common goals: he now enters in the activity to Africa ...".
She is in favor of living wills and stem cell research. He believes that there is an irreconcilable conflict between science and faith?
"Everyone who wants to be religion: Christian, Muslim ... I am of the religion secular (smiles). But there's not much contrast with the research. You can not put locks on the brain, because it is the only thing that differentiates us from animals. As for the living will, I believe that everyone has the right to exit with dignity from the world ".
you at the time was a brain drain. What is your advice to university students of today?
" Italy was suicidal: the best of our brains has always gone abroad where, being very well, do not return. Italy should recall, but only on merit and not belonging to the groups of power. But there is no meritocracy in Italy: it is a good time. "
More today than yesterday?
"The past was better, far from it. If we think of the total subordination of women, things are much improved."
But women have achieved full equality of treatment, now that the Minister Brunetta wants them to retire at 65? What do you think?
"The board can not be delayed because there are many young people, especially women, who must enter the world of work. That said, our life expectancy is now such that at least ten years before retirement one should think of a second task, a second passion to be developed. Why else would the brain stops. And with him the body. "
And among its
, passions, there is still Bach and Schubert?
"When I was a girl I listened to them at five in the morning, my neighbors told me, at least hang on the door the day's program. Today? Today I miss the time ...". 
Italy is the land of poets, painters, artists but also of great scientists. Although many times we forget, or worse, we could not value them enough, these people have continued their work with an extraordinary passion and with important results for the entire humanity.
So today, we report a special interview appeared a few days ago about the Republic, dedicated to one of the smartest women of our country, Rita Levi Montalcini.
"The brain has no wrinkles. If you continue to work hard, is constantly renewed, even after eighty years. Indeed, unlike other organs, may even improve." With my business proves it: I now have more opportunities when I was twenty, for deep thinking and intuition, "says Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini. Then, by scientists, explains that the merits of such a prodigy is all about the neuronal plasticity: if they are not diseases such as Alzheimer's, the brain makes up for the loss of neurons with the ability of those left to find alternative circuits.
To judge from his case, the theory works: the threshold of one hundred years (they will perform April 22) is Professor in the laboratory Ebro (European Brain Research Institute, based in Rome) each morning, has recently published the book The hourglass of life and works in a new one. Not only that regularly follows the work of the Foundation she created to provide a future for African women. "We hope to get ten thousand grants awarded by April," said Joseph Tripodi, For over forty years his trusty assistant. "For the teacher this will undoubtedly be the more welcome gift."
When he enrolled in medicine because he hoped to follow the example of Albert Schweitzer, who looked after "the last of the world" in Africa. But first he found himself fighting against the wishes of his father, an engineer, the owner of an ice factory, which did not approve of their daughters were engaged in the study: "I just said 'I can not stop you, but you do not approve'." Then came the racial laws and the young Rita, who had meanwhile graduated in Turin and worked at the Institute of Comparative Anatomy, was suspended from academic. "Fixed up then a laboratory of neuro-embryology in the bedroom. "Where operated chicken embryos with thin needles. Renato Dulbecco, his fellow student, still remembers the artist's skill and precision with which the researcher moved his hands. It was in that room, in fact, that set the stage for the discovery (made later in the U.S.) NGF (Nerwe Growth Factor), the nerve growth factor, which won the Nobel.
The brain has no wrinkles, however, someone, perhaps, is more beautiful than the other ...
"I do not think the intelligence is not fully programmed at birth. In short, it is not genetic. Women, for example, are worth exactly as much as men, indeed, have a more flexible brain. Unfortunately, throughout history have been kept away from education. But where they have access to knowledge, the results are not lacking. You just come out of a book on women mathematics in Russia are many and have ability to prevail over those of men. "
She has struggled to assert themselves?
" only the beginning. Since a child I was sure I did not want to become a wife and mother. I saw a family in absolute prevalence of my father and I feared it a lot: two plus two four did before him, who was a mathematician. My mother, a painter, he had to stop working after marriage. But, at work, there has always been consistent with my colleagues males. Of course, today everything is changed, women are not forced to choose between work and family and people at home, are more collaborative. "
The world seems more rational than yesterday?
" We live still dominated by low pulse, like fifty thousand years ago. Because our brain has an archaic and limbic component (which is located in the hippocampus) that is aggressive, emotional, and affective and the one that has allowed all'australopiteco to save himself when he fell from the trees and approached the world. The other component, and cognitive neocortex is much more recent and corresponds to the stage of language development. Unfortunately, this part is still unable to check the more ancient, indeed, in extreme moments (war, crisis, famine) again dominant. Environmental conditions are, ultimately, to put it in operation: in totalitarian regimes, for example, the activity of the brain is the most archaic. "
But there also live the emotions, we must put to rest?
" should keep them under control. And that's what should be taught in school. Education is still too tied to the combination of Victorian-kick award. Children are not puppies, they have a cognitive component which needs to leverage from birth. "
neuroscience in recent years have achieved a lot. When will a cure for Alzheimer's?
"We work day and night. I discovered in 1940 by NGF is a protein molecule that turns a cell in any one neuron. Tested on mice, has proven to be able to stop Alzheimer's and it was also in very few human cases in which it was used. I am desperate for funds because the drug can be made available to all, but unfortunately the industry so far has not wanted to invest. "
Despite the Nobel ...
"The award not brought me any economic advantage (it was donated to charity) and I have to thank President Ciampi in 2001 I was appointed senator for life. Not having retired or honorary, I was in economic difficulties. "
About Parliament, which have the effect of our politicians when he saw them up close?
" Excluding a few people of great value, as Anna Finocchiaro, not is a world that I like. Prodi was when I went regularly to Parliament. Among other things we have common goals: he now enters in the activity to Africa ...".
She is in favor of living wills and stem cell research. He believes that there is an irreconcilable conflict between science and faith?
"Everyone who wants to be religion: Christian, Muslim ... I am of the religion secular (smiles). But there's not much contrast with the research. You can not put locks on the brain, because it is the only thing that differentiates us from animals. As for the living will, I believe that everyone has the right to exit with dignity from the world ".
you at the time was a brain drain. What is your advice to university students of today?
" Italy was suicidal: the best of our brains has always gone abroad where, being very well, do not return. Italy should recall, but only on merit and not belonging to the groups of power. But there is no meritocracy in Italy: it is a good time. "
More today than yesterday?
"The past was better, far from it. If we think of the total subordination of women, things are much improved."
But women have achieved full equality of treatment, now that the Minister Brunetta wants them to retire at 65? What do you think?
"The board can not be delayed because there are many young people, especially women, who must enter the world of work. That said, our life expectancy is now such that at least ten years before retirement one should think of a second task, a second passion to be developed. Why else would the brain stops. And with him the body. "
And among its
, passions, there is still Bach and Schubert?
"When I was a girl I listened to them at five in the morning, my neighbors told me, at least hang on the door the day's program. Today? Today I miss the time ...".
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