Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Head injuries in sports players can cause tragic consequences years later

There has been a great deal of controversy about the ethics of risky sports participation, particularly for children. Michigan Technological University reports it has become clear that that longterm effects from repeated head injuries may takes years after the injury to surface. L. Syd Johnson, who studies sport associated concussion, and the ethical implications of engaging in risky sports participation for kids, says sports players should be respected as people, not simply as replaceable beings which are used to entertain us. One of the causes of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is believed to be sub-concussive impacts, which is the type of ordinary hits that athletes routinely take during the course of play.  

Brain Injury Research Institute reports CTE is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain of people who have suffered from repeated concussions along with traumatic brain injuries. This is a condition of brain damage which lasts over many years or decades and which is due to traumatic impacts to the cranium. Symptoms of CTE may be debilitating and include loss of memory, impaired judgment, problems controlling impulsive or erratic behavior, behavioral disturbances which include aggression and depression, and a gradual development of dementia. Clearly there should be aggressive efforts made to protect sports players from head injuries.

Saturday, January 7, 2017

A toxic boss can ruin you

It is important to have a good support system at work to do well. Toxic bosses can ruin your health and everything you have worked hard to achieve. The medical profession is well known for having highly toxic bosses in internship and residency training programs with scores of the brightest young men and women in the world being catastrophically ruined and even driven into suicide by doctor bosses who abuse them instead of helping them to progress in their hard earned careers. This problem is of course also seen with bad bosses in other walks of life.  

The British Psychological Society reports that toxic bosses are bad for both your health and your reputation. It has been observed that toxic bosses who display psychopathic and narcissistic traits make workers feel depressed. The bullying behavior of toxic bosses also leads workers to engage in behaviors which are not desirable at work. These findings come from research from the University of Manchester's Business School. It was found workers who had bosses with negative traits shared lower levels of job satisfaction and manifested higher levels of depression. Counterproductive behavior at work was also seen more often in workers with toxic bosses. Bosses displaying psychopathy and narcissism have a lust for power and generally lack empathy. This results in workers being taken advantage of.  

Daily Mail reports your career can be ruined by a toxic boss. Such bad bosses can also make you physically and mentally ill reports The Washington Post. The anxiety associated with having a bad boss can lead to high blood pressure, sleep problems, anxiety and depression. We lose a lot of good doctors and good people in other walks of life to toxic bosses all of the time. Psychiatrists claim they try to help with this problem but due to the unusually toxic personalities of the psychiatrists themselves they consistently exacerbate the problem of dealing with toxic bosses.

Monday, January 2, 2017

The future generation of toys will be controlled by the mind


People have often been looked upon as if they may be insane when they discuss the possibility of the mind controlling outside things. These people have generally simply been highly insightful with reports now surfacing many new toys on the market will be able to be controlled by the mind. 

The University of Warwick reports the next generation of Christmas presents will be made up of mind-controlled toys. It will actually be possible for kids to control toys with the power of their thoughts. With this technology brain waves are received by sensors in headsets which are than fed into electrical circuits. Professor Christopher James, Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine at the School of Engineering, and his associates have developed technology which allows electrical impulses from brain waves to activate electronic devices. This can be done via connecting thoughts to computerized systems. 

iTechPost reports kids will soon have toys which can be controlled via brain waves. This technology will clearly not be limited to toys. This is all very exciting and could lead the way to technology which makes it possible to unlock the front door or answer the phone via brain-computer interfaces. And who knows for certain in what ways this technology may help people with their work.