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Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them
Health, Sports & Psychology

Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them

...cognitive theory of panic disorder...Panic attacks: what they are and what to do about them: 2.1 Cognitive theory of panic disorder - If you walk up a flight of stairs you might notice your heart rate going up. A common thought might be ‘Wow, I really need to get a bit fitter!’ A less common thought is to think that this means you are about to have a heart attack. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with MS: Not just surviving but thriving (with a little canine care)

...cognitive problems, bladder problems are just some of the effects people living with MS experience. Any one of which on their own would be challenging to manage. While there are now treatments for the most common form of MS (Relapsing-Remitting MS), these disease modifying therapies (DMT’s) can slow the progress of the disease, but they are not a cure. Recent reports...
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Article 5 mins
Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...Cognition / Epistemology Transcript 6. What is it to experience? Transcript 7. Epistemology and ontology Transcript 8. What are the implications for your distinctions between epistemology and ontology for practice? Transcript 9. Exploring implications of the different pathway choices - Objectivity and responsibility Transcript 10. Our history - Structural coupling and...
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Video 1 hr
Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation
Science, Maths & Technology

Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation

...cognitive skills as well as loss of muscle tone and a lack of tears. It was first identified in 2012, and to date there have been only 55 patients identified with this disorder worldwide with ages ranging from a few months old to those in their 20’s. Currently there is no cure for this disorder and all medications focus on treating the symptoms. More on rare diseases...
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Article 10 mins
Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?
Digital & Computing

Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?

...cognitive workload”, the amount of information your brain can process at any one time. This makes sense, as we have a limited supply of attentional resources, which include all the resources needed to perceive things in our vision, understand what we hear, and plan for upcoming actions. When driving, your workload may be relatively manageable, yet adding a phone...
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Article 5 mins
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...cognitive process, or at least that there is a particular value of the story form to the juror's personal cognition (Pennington, & Hastie, 1991). However, it's not clear what this value really is. The same model can be represented identically in different forms, say stories, digital computer code, connectionist systems, or neuronal flesh-and-blood. Here again there seems...
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Article 5 mins
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...cognition – do people think and behave differently when emotions are higher? They argued against traditional thinking that emotions lead to irrational behaviour, but instead proposed that understanding your own emotions and those of others may allow us to manage and adapt our behaviour in a positive way, and it is these skills they called ‘emotional intelligence’....
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Article 10 mins
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...cognitive process. Figure 1 Scarlett interacting with her father You will start to consider the relationship between language and learning by looking closely at an informal exchange between a young child, her father and her grandmother. Activity 1 Timing: Allow 1 hour FATHER Should we just fill up the watering cans? SCARLETT Yeah. It’s coming down nice. FATHER OK. Here...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs