 “Like an ocean of purity are the mother and father of these children, who are like a heavenly desire tree, who have a spotless beauty that gives the eyes so much happiness that is without end.” (Janaki Mangala, 43)
punya payodhi mātu pitu e sisu suratarū |
rūpa sudhā sukha deta nayana amarani barū ||
Like it or not, your behavior is a reflection on your upbringing. The people who raise you are responsible for making sure that when you’re an adult you follow the proper standards of conduct, that you obey the law and don’t cause a nuisance to society. A parent especially understands how difficult it is to raise a child and make sure that they grow up to be properly educated and well-behaved, so when they see good traits in another child they immediately think of the role of the parents. This was the case with a famous king who cast his glance upon the transcendental form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Rama.
What is a transcendental form? Can God have any other kind of form? God is everything, a fact which isn’t too earthshattering. In mathematics there is the concept of sets and what different values they can contain. The most inclusive set is that which has the most values, the largest amount of numbers that represent the possible aggregations one can find. If we looked at the entire creation from a mathematical perspective, we’d see that there is a sum collection of space and its component objects. Obviously the measurement of that collection is unfathomable, but there is nevertheless a total amount. If we see a jar full of jellybeans, we can’t be exactly sure to the number how many jellybeans there are, but there is still a specific total.
 If we calculated a total for the universe, it’d be a representation of God. His universal form, orvirat-rupa, is one way to think of Him, but at the same time this only represents a partial view. “How is this possible? If we include everything, is that not the limit to existence? The Absolute Truth is the entire collection of gross matter, or a form that is considered invisible to the mind. We can’t see the universal form but we know that it exists. Therefore God is not a perceived reality. He must be accepted as an impersonal force that is always present in some way.”
But the Vedas, the ancient scriptures of India, reveal that the Supreme Lord is both formless and with form. The distinction itself is a necessary product of illusion, pointing to a limitation in understanding. Just as we say that the sun is not out on a particular day because of the influence of the clouds, since we can’t understand what a spiritual form is, we say that the macrocosmic vision of the Lord is His only feature. But to show what it means to have a transcendental form, that Absolute Truth kindly appears before our eyes every now and then. The foolish still don’t understand His true nature even when looking directly at Him, but for those who are humble enough to know their limitations and accept the statements of the bona fide acharyas on faith in the beginning, the fruit of existence is revealed.
Shri Rama, the young boy who accompanied Vishvamitra Muni through the forests many thousands of years ago, showed the pious exactly what God looks like. The Lord has many spiritual forms and the fact that they appear within this material world is not extraordinary. A person who is superior and in charge of a particular energy can never be beholden to that energy’s influence. The material nature, which spreads illusion that results in an identification with dull matter, has no existence on its own. Rather, it is consciousness that brings the presence of life, and the source of that consciousness is God.
In every vibrant life form, including our own body, the consciousness derived from the Supreme Lord’s superconsciousness is present. We can think, feel and will because we are similar in quality to God but vastly inferior to Him in quantitative powers. We can be illusioned, but He cannot. With proper training in the system of spirituality descending from Shri Rama, illusion can dissipate, paving the way towards basking in the sweetness of God’s transcendental form.
 Even the exalted figures are sometimes bewildered by this apparent duality, the fact that God is everything and still capable of appearing within a smaller section. Mother Parvati once asked her dear husband Lord Shiva to describe the glories of Shri Rama and explain how Rama is actually God and not an ordinary man. Lord Shiva began his discourse by remarking that there is no difference between the personal and the impersonal features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is only a perceived difference, and due to that one tends to think that Rama accepts a material form and then rejects it. The Supreme Lord is never subject to illusion nor is He ever away from us. He pervades all of space and at the same time He is not personally present within everything. His divine vision is granted to the kind souls who know how to properly utilize His energies.
When King Janaka saw Rama and Lakshmana entering his kingdom, he was enamored by their beauty. Vishvamitra brought the brothers to Janakpur to witness the bow-lifting contest that was taking place. Up to this point, Janaka was intimately familiar with Brahman, which is a theoretical understanding of spirit but one that is still not complete. To know Brahman is to know that spirit is the essence of identity and that it is transcendental to matter. Knowing Bhagavan, however, is knowing that Brahman has an origin.
Rama is Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing before the eyes of the earth’s creatures in the guise of a warrior prince. In Bhagavan’s original feature, He is Shri Krishna, the charming youth with a blackish complexion holding a flute in His hands and enchanting the residents of the spiritual planet of Goloka Vrindavana. The personal expansions of Krishna are identical to Him in potency. The only difference is in the transcendental mood of devotion that they instill in their followers. Rama was especially attractive to Janaka upon first sight. The king couldn’t believe what he was feeling, a sort of ecstasy that he did not think was possible. By understanding Brahman one learns to keep their emotions in check, to not be distracted by temporary highs and lows. Indeed, Janaka was holding this contest only to follow dharma. Personally he did not wish to part with his beloved daughter Sita, but dharma called for the king to marry off his daughter when she reached an appropriate age.
 When Janaka, a good parent in his own right, saw Rama and Lakshmana, he immediately thought of their parents. He thought that the parents must be an ocean of purity, for the boys were like a wish-fulfilling tree whose beautiful forms granted so much unending happiness to the eyes. The children are produced by the parents, and in the Vedic culture one follows so many rules and regulations to ensure that their offspring are beautiful and virtuous. Rama was the most beautiful and Lakshmana was like His twin, so whoever produced them must have had the largest store of virtue.
Rama would uphold the good name and fame of His parents by His outward beauty and by His actions. As God, Rama does not have any parents, but to give pleasure in the mood of bhakti known as vatsalya-rasa He appears from the womb of mother Kausalya during every Treta Yuga, or second time period of creation. He accepts King Dasharatha as a father to give the pious leader an heir to the throne of Ayodhya. Dasharatha also develops a firm attachment to Rama, who becomes the king’s life and soul.
Rama would give so much fame to His family line by winning the contest, being the only man capable of lifting Shiva’s bow. It was almost as if Lord Shiva had coordinated the events, for he delights in hearing about Rama and discussing His pastimes with others. Goswami Tulsidas, the author of the Janaki Mangala, follows Mahadeva’s example by giving the world delightful poetry to be used in remembering Sita, Rama, Lakshmana and the Lord’s most faithful servant Hanuman.
King Janaka was very sweet in his observations on Rama and Lakshmana and their family, and the same sentiments could be applied to him. How pious the parents of Janaka must have been to get a son who would take care of the goddess of fortune, Sita Devi, and then invite Shri Rama Himself to the kingdom. Tulsidas sparks the same question in the reader. Where did Rama find someone so kind to describe His pastimes? Where does Rama find a dedicated brother like Lakshmana and a heroic servant like Hanuman? These questions are difficult to answer even for the Lord, for He is so pleased by the service of the devotees.
 From this incident with Janaka we get a good idea on how to serve our parents, who do so much to protect us in life. The parents have a difficult job because they cannot slip in their behavior. The impressionable young child will follow the behavior of the parents more than their words. If we do acquire any good qualities, if we are fortunate enough to chant the holy names of the Lord, “Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare”, it should be understood that our parents did a good job in raising us, even if it may seem otherwise. Somehow or other we were put into the position to connect with the holy name, which fully represents the Supreme Lord and His personal self.
To repay the service offered by the parents, one should follow the highest system of piety, which is known as bhagavata-dharma, or devotional service. Rama upheld the virtue of His parents and ancestors by following the prescribed duties of His order, the kshatriya. The kshatriyas are royal administrators, so they must exhibit bravery in combat and impartiality in the distribution of justice. In the current age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the lines have been blurred to the point that one can’t figure out what their occupational duties are. Thus there is only one dharma that need be followed: devotion to God. From regularly chanting God’s names, hearing about His pastimes and worshiping and honoring His servants, we give the highest service to our parents. We represent them in our behavior, so if we can show that life’s mission of understanding God is reached, we prove that they are full of purity as well, for they gave the world a sincere servant of the Lord, whose association is a terrific boon.
In Closing:
Know that responsibility with everything you do,
Represent your character and your parents’ too.
Thus if you point your behavior in right direction,
On the merits of mother and father a good reflection.
Seeing Rama and Lakshmana, of their origin Janaka unsure,
But could guess that their parents were like an ocean pure.
Endless happiness to eyes that their forms see,
Thus boys appeared as if they were heavenly desire tree.
When your consciousness to divine realm you send,
The pious credits to your good parents will extend.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Who You Represent
Understanding how our brain perceives space
European scientists looked into the cellular properties of neurons responsible for space coordination. Insight into the neuronal network of the entorhinal cortex will help understand what determines space and movement perception, and also how it is linked to brain-related disorders.
The ability to find one’s way is performed in a special site of the mammalian cortex known as the entorhinal cortex. Information regarding place, direction and destination is processed in specialised neurons called grid cells. These cells present with specific spatially firing fields that repeat at regular intervals and have been found to scale up progressively along the dorsal-ventral axis.
Further dissection of this neural map was the subject of the EU-funded project ‘Spatial representation in the entorhinal neural circuit’ (Entorhinal Circuits). More specifically, scientists hypothesised that the topographic expansion of grid cells paralleled changes in cellular properties and particularly in the current (Ih) which went through hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels.
Using transgenic animals with forebrain-specific knockout of the transmembrane protein HCN1, researchers found that HCN1 modulated grid cell properties, especially the size and spacing of the grid fields. This clearly indicated that HCN1 was crucial for the spatial representation in the entorhinal circuit. It also implies that during self-motion–based navigation, the current that goes through HCN1 is responsible for transforming movement signals to spatial firing fields.
Entorhinal Circuits results offered unique insights into some of the fundamental principles of neuronal assembly and microcircuit operation in the mammalian cortex. The generated knowledge will hopefully shed light into the role of the entorhinal cortex in various neuronal diseases like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.
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"Understanding how our brain perceives space." May 28th, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-brain-space.html
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Robert Karl Stonjek
Robert Karl Stonjek
பெண்களைத் தாக்கும் அபாயகரமான நோய்கள்
 குடும்பம், குழந்தைகள் என நாள் முழுவதும் வேலை வேலை என பம்பரமாய் சுழன்று களைத்த பெண்களுக்கு ஆதரவாக, கொஞ்சம் ஆறுதலாக பேசுவதற்கு கூட யாரும் இருக்க மாட்டார்கள்.
பெண்களின் உடலும் ரத்தமும் சதையால் ஆனது தான், அவர்களையும் நோய்கள் தாக்கும்.
அந்த நோய்களின் தீவிரத்தால் மன அழுத்தம் வரும், அந்த நேரத்தில் அவர்களை சரியாக கவனித்தாலே போதும், பெண்களுக்கு ஏற்பட்ட நோய்கள் எல்லாம் உடனடியாக குணமடையும். பெண்களும் தங்களின் உடல் நலத்தில் சரியான அக்கறை எடுத்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்கின்றனர் மகளிர் மருத்துவர்கள்.
பெண்களுக்கு எலும்பு உடைதல் நோய், கருப்பை, மார்பக புற்றுநோய், இதயநோய், மன அழுத்தம், கருமுட்டை குறைபாடு ஆகிய ஆபத்தான ஐந்து நோய்கள் தாக்குகின்றன. இந்த நோய்களில் இருந்து எவ்வாறு தங்களை பாதுகாத்துக்கொள்வது என்று ஆலோசனை அளித்துள்ளனர் மகளிர் மருத்துவர்கள்.
எலும்பு உடைதல் நோய்: பெண்கள் இயற்கையிலேயே மென்மையானவர்கள். நாற்பது வயதை கடந்த உடனே அவர்களின் உடலும், எலும்பும் நாளடைவில் மெலிவடைந்து விடும்.
இதனால் லேசாக கீழே விழுந்தாலோ எழும்புகள் உடைந்து விடும். எனவே உடலில் கால்சியம் சத்து குறைபாடு ஏற்படாமல் பார்த்துக் கொள்ள வேண்டும். எலும்பு பாதிப்பு நோய் ஏற்பட்டவர்கள் லேசாக எலும்பு பாதிப்பு ஏற்பட்டலே அப்புறம் நீண்டகாலத்திற்கு வீல் சேரை தேட வேண்டியிருக்கும். எனவே பெண்களே உங்கள் எலும்புகளின் மீது நீங்கள் அக்கறை கொள்ளுங்கள்.
இதய நோய்: கடந்த பத்து ஆண்டுகளில் இதயநோயினால் பாதிக்கப்பட்ட பெண்களின் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகரித்து வருகிறது.
இதற்கு காரணம் மாறிவரும் உணவுப் பழக்கத்தினால் பெரும்பாலான பெண்களின் உடல் பருமனாகிறது. இதனால் உயர்ரத்த அழுத்தம், இதயபாதிப்புகள் ஏற்படுகின்றன. எனவே பெண்களே சரியான உணவுகளை உட்கொண்டு இதயத்தை பத்திரமாக பார்த்துக்கொள்ளுங்கள்.
மன அழுத்தம் கவனிங்க: மன அழுத்தம் என்பது பெண்களை பாதிக்கும் மிகப்பெரிய நோயாக உள்ளது. நாற்பது வயதுக்கு மேல் பெண்களுக்கு ஏற்படும் மெனோபாஸ் பிரச்சினை, ஹார்மோன் மாறுதல் போன்றவைகளினால் பெண்களுக்கு மன அழுத்தம் ஏற்படுகிறது. எனவே மெனோபாஸ் பருவத்தில் ஊட்டச்சத்துள்ள உணவுகளை உட்கொள்ளுங்களேன். உங்களுக்கான மன அழுத்தப் பிரச்சினைக்கு எளிதில் தீர்வு கிடைக்கும்.
புற்றுநோய் தாக்குதல்: இன்றைக்கு பெரும்பாலான பெண்கள் மார்பகப் புற்றுநோய், கருப்பை வாய் புற்றுநோயினால் பாதிக்கப்படுகின்றனர். இருபதோ, நாற்பதோ எந்த வயது பெண்களாக இருந்தாலும் தினசரி 5 நிமிடம் செலவழித்து தங்கள் மார்புகளை பரிசோதனை செய்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.
அதேபோல் 35 வயதை கடந்த பெண்கள் ஆண்டிற்கு ஒருமுறை முழு உடல் பரிசோனை செய்து கொள்வது நல்லது என்கின்றனர் மருத்துவர்கள். ஏனெனில் ஒவ்வொரு ஆண்டிற்கு ஒருமுறை கருப்பை வாய் புற்றுநோயினால் பாதிக்கப்படுபவர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகரித்துக்கொண்டே போகிறதாக கணக்கெடுப்பு ஒன்று தெரிவிக்கின்றது.
கருமுட்டை உற்பத்தி: முறையற்ற மாதவிடாய் கோளாறுகள் இன்றைக்கு இளம் வயது பெண்களையும் தாக்குகின்றன. இதற்கு காரணம் மாறிவரும் உணவுப்பழக்கம் தான் என்கின்றனர் மருத்துவர்கள்.
முறையற்ற மாதவிடாய் கோளாறுகளால் கருமுட்டை உற்பத்தியில் குளறுபடிகள் ஏற்படுகின்றன. இதனால் திருமணத்திற்குப் பின்னர் குழந்தை உருவாவதில் பிரச்சினைகள் எழும் என்பது மருத்துவர்களின் எச்சரிக்கை. எனவே இந்த பிரச்சினைகளில் இருந்து தப்பிக்க சத்தான சரியான உணவுகளை உட்கொள்ள வேண்டும் என்கின்றனர் மருத்துவர்கள்.
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Water Therapy
Water Therapy To Cleanse And Release Toxins From Your Body
Water therapy or hydrotherapy supports free and safe treatment. The treatment is done without the help of any specialist.
This therapy is used when you require perfect medicine to cure all sicknesses.
Drink six glasses (1.5 liters) of water everyday and avoid taking medicine, tablets, injections, diagnosis and other treatments.
Process of water therapy treatment:
Hydrotherapy is a very simple treatment. Everyday you have to take 1.5 liters of water. If water is not clean, then it is required to use clean and boiled water for doing this process.
Drink 1.5 liters altogether, after drinking you should not take any food or liquids for at least one hour. If you feel difficulty in taking 1.5 liters at a time, then take water gradually (give a gap of 2 minutes after drinking 4 glasses of water).
These 1.5 liters of water will help in cleansing your body. If you follow this process regularly, the toxins are released through sweat or urinal excretions. You should not take any alcohol last night.
Benefits with water therapy:
With water therapy, you can prevent and cure some of the diseases. If you drink water sufficiently, then it will help in enhancing your glow of skin and keep you physically fit. Water therapy is used in regulating the temperature of your body.
If you consume water properly then you can be free from constipation. Acidity can be cured with only two sessions.
With hydrotherapy, diabetes can be cured with seven sessions, hypertension can be controlled in four weeks, pulmonary TB can be cured in three months and some cancers can also be controlled.
Drinking Water therapy helpful for treating following diseases:
If you suffer from following diseases, follow drinking water therapy. It is alternate natural treatment, so it will not cause any side effects.
Anemia, rheumatism, general paralysis, obesity, arthritis, sinusitis, tachycardia, giddiness, cough, leukemia, asthma, bronchitis, meningitis, kidney stones, hyper acidity, dysentery, gastroenteritis, uterus cancer, rectal piodapse, hostorthobics, eye diseases, ophthalmic hemorrhage, irregular menstruation, breast cancer, laryngitis, headache, urogenital diseases are the diseases that can be cured from this therapy.
Properties of water helpful in some of the following conditions:
The physical properties of water are used as back pain therapy and other musculoskeletal injuries.
Buoyancy of water will help the patient to support weight and will improve balance and strength.
The viscosity of water provides resistance by its gentle friction. It will help in strengthening and conditioning of an injury and reduces the risk of injury due to loss of balance.
Hydrostatic pressure of water has powerful effects to improve heart and lung function. This pressure is useful for maintaining and strengthening heart and lung function. This pressure will effect in improving muscle blood flow.
Water therapy is the natural alternative treatment that can be followed by any person at any age of your life time. Water without life is impossible and you can live longer with water. The treatment with water is very simple and you can follow water therapy at your own place.
FIVE TRICKS TO MAKING IT AS AN ENTREPRENEUR
5 Things to Un-Learn From School
You spent a lot of time getting an education. But if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, it’s time to forget some of what you learned.
You spent a lot of years in school. You learned a lot.
Some of what you learned you need to un-learn as soon as possible. Here are five key attitudes you should adopt instead:
1. If you only do what you’re told, you’ll excel.
I know. School was hard.
But not that hard.
If you did what you were told–go to class, do the reading, turn in assignments on time, etc.–you could get As. Initiative was not required and, in fact, was often frowned on.
Now–whether you work for someone else or run your own business–doing what you’re told makes you average. Not superior, not excellent… just average.
To be above average, or to achieve better than average results, you must do two things:
- Do what others are willing to do, and do it better, and
- Do what others aren’t willing to do
Otherwise, you’re just average.
2. Being micro-managed is to be expected.
Sure, you felt overly-controlled in school: Dates, timelines, rules… not to mention the seemingly arbitrary policies and nonsensical assignments. You saw graduation as the day you would finally have more freedom.
Nope.
In school you paid people to criticize, direct, and at times micro-manage you. Now you’re the one getting paid… yet you somehow don’t feel it’s fair that investors, partners, or customers can dictate what you do, sometimes down to the smallest detail?
Don’t expect someone to trust you to perform a task or service–and give you money to perform that service–until you’ve proven you can be trusted to perform that service.
Then, once you’ve proven your skills, if you still feel micro-managed it’s your responsibility to change the situation. Communicate before you are communicated to. Answer questions before questions are asked. Demonstrate your value before you are asked to prove your value.
No one wants to micro-manage you. They have better things to do with their time.
If you’re being micro-managed it’s probably because you need to be.
3. Your time off is the highlight of the year.
You may have forgotten your mom's birthday, but I'll bet you knew the exact day every semester ended and the start and end of Spring Break. And you lived for snow days.
So it only makes sense to see weekends and vacations as the highlight of your working year, right?
Actually, no: If you feel you endure the workweek just to get to the payoff of the weekend, you're in the wrong business. Find work you enjoy; then you won't see time off as a chance to finally do something fun but as a chance to do something else fun.
While you'll never love everything you do in your professional life, you should enjoy the majority of it.
Otherwise you're not living–you're just working.
4. Getting criticized means you failed.
Here's another pay/paid dichotomy. In college you paid professors to critique your work.
So now that you are the one getting paid, why is it unfair for someone--like a customer, investor, or key partner–to critique your work?
It's not.
When you get negative feedback, see it as an opportunity. Think, "Wow, I didn't realize I wasn't doing that right. I didn't realize I wasn't doing that as well as I could."
Criticism is a chance to learn--and this time you're getting paid to learn.
Never complain when someone pays you to learn.
5. Success is based on toeing the line.
Say you disagreed with a professor's point of view on a particular point. You may even have been right... but the only way to get an A in the class was to parrot the professor's take on the subject. Except in rare cases, confirming and following the rules was everything.
In business, conforming only ensures that you will achieve the same results as other people.
If you want to achieve different results you'll have to think and act differently. Do your homework, think critically, and don't be afraid to create your own path.
But don't be different just for the sake of being different. Be different because it's who you are and what you believe... and because it will get you where you want to go, with your integrity and your sense of self intact.
Working with solvents tied to cognitive problems for less-educated people
Exposure to solvents at work may be associated with reduced thinking skills later in life for those who have less than a high school education, according to a study published in the May 29, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The thinking skills of people with more education were not affected, even if they had the same amount of exposure to solvents.
"People with more education may have a greater cognitive reserve that acts like a buffer allowing the brain to maintain its ability to function in spite of damage," said study author Lisa F. Berkman, PhD, of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "This may be because education helps build up a dense network of connections among brain cells."
The study involved 4,134 people who worked at the French national gas and electric company. The majority of the people worked at the company for their entire career. Their lifetime exposure to four types of solvents—chlorinated solvents, petroleum solvents, benzene and non-benzene aromatic solvents—was assessed. The participants took a test of thinking skills when they were an average of 59 years old and 91 percent were retired.
A total of 58 percent of the participants had less than a high school education. Of those, 32 percent had cognitive impairment, or problems with thinking skills, compared to 16 percent of those with more education. Among the less-educated, those who were highly exposed to chlorinated and petroleum solvents were 14 percent more likely to have cognitive problems than those with no exposure. People highly exposed to benzene were 24 percent more likely to have cognitive problems, and those highly exposed to non-benzene aromatic solvents were 36 percent more likely to have cognitive problems.
"These findings suggest that efforts to improve quality and quantity of education early in life could help protect people's cognitive abilities later in life," Berkman said, who worked alongside study author Erika Sabbath, ScD. "Investment in education could serve as a broad shield against both known and unknown exposures across the lifetime. This is especially important given that some evidence shows that federal levels of permissible exposure for some solvents may be insufficient to protect workers against the health consequences of exposure."
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"Working with solvents tied to cognitive problems for less-educated people." May 28th, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-solvents-tied-cognitive-problems-less-educated.html
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Scientists uncover deja vu mystery
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom have discovered a link between the déjà vu phenomenon and structures in the human brain, effectively confirming the neurological origin of this phenomenon. Despite past studies investigating this phenomenon in healthy individuals, no concrete evidence had ever emerged ... until now. The study is presented in the journal Cortex.
Led by the Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University (CEITEC MU) and Masaryk University's Faculty of Medicine in the Czech Republic, researchers discovered that specific brain structures have a direct impact on the déjà vu experience. The findings of their study showed that the size of these structures are considerably smaller in the brains of the people experiencing déjà vu, compared with individuals who had no personal experience with déjà vu.
The team from CEITEC MU, along with colleagues from other Brno research institutions as well as the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom succeeded in providing huge insight into this phenomenon that has perplexed many over the years.
The team observed how small structures in the brain's medial temporal lobes, in which memory and recollections originate, were considerably smaller in individuals with the occurrence of déjà vu than in individuals who have not experienced déjà vu. Their findings also showed that the more often the examined individuals experience déjà vu, the smaller the brain structures are.
"One hundred and thirteen healthy subjects underwent a structural examination of their brain by means of magnetic resonance and subsequently by using a new sensitive method for an automatic analysis of brain morphology (source-based morphometry) [and] the size of individual brain regions was compared among the individuals who have never experienced déjà vu and those who have experienced it," said lead author Milan Brázdil from CEITEC.
"Except for the presence of the examined phenomenon, both groups of individuals were fully comparable. When we stimulate the hippocampus, we are able to induce déjà vu in neurological patients. By finding the structural differences in hippocampus in healthy individuals who do and do not experience déjà vu, we have unambiguously proved that déjà vu is directly linked to the function of these brain structures. We think that it is probably a certain small "error in the system" caused by higher excitability of hippocampuses. It is the consequence of changes in the most sensitive brain regions which probably occurred in the course of the development of the neural system."
Experts say déjà vu, while fascinating, is not an uncommon experience. Between 60% and 80% of healthy individuals have reported occasional occurrences of déjà vu.
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CN Annadurai: The Progenitor of Tamil Political Cinema
Sept.15 2008 marked the beginning of the centenary celebrations of the man who caused the birth of not only Tamil political cinema, but also the cultural politics of cinema in Tamil Nadu. C N Annadurai, also known as CNA, and affectionately as Anna or elder brother, was not yet another politician, another ideologue and another dramatist testing the socially surcharged decades of 1940-1960 in Tamil Nadu. He was instrumental for making these decades socially surcharged, politically awakened and culturally rooted. He had the advantage of a rare personae that was rooted in an understanding of the Western social movements even as it sought to fuse the message of the same in the cultural contexts of Tamil Nadu. He was raring to go intellectually to new heights that remained out of bounds to his contemporaries and peers. CNA had his BA Hons. and MA in Economics from University of Madras during the 1930s, plunged thereafter into the social movement of Periyar EV Ramasamy, broke his relationship with Periyar in 1948 and started the political party, DMK, the same year. He became a parliamentarian in 1962 and the first non-congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1967.
CN Annadurai at Yale University
The above does not tell all about CNA. He was the first to see a connection between the masses and the means of communication they were more likely lap up. CNA was a prolific writer of political plays during the 1940s. He wrote 12 political plays, 86 political essays, 5 novels and 23 short stories. His first political play was Chandrodayam, written in 1943. He also acted in his plays. Towards late 1940s, CNA was gravitating towards the medium of film, on the strengths of the popularity of his political plays and the growing need for reaching out to the target groups of his political movement faster and in a more appealing manner. Three of his political plays were made into films and marked the birth of Tamil political cinema. They are Velaikari(Servant Maid, 1949), Nalla Thambi (Good Young Brother, 1949) and Oor Iravu (One Night, 1951). The last film’s script was written by CNA during the course of one night, hence the title Oor Iravu (One Night).
Oor Iravu
Velaikari
Nalla Thambi
Endowed with a rare masterly touch in his writings and speeches, CNA proved to be the cynosure of young and old, rural and urban and illiterate and literate people of Tamil Nadu. His fans were swarming like bees whereever CNA went to deliver political speeches. He was a gentleman politician too, ever willing to respect fellow politicians and their political faiths. He was more than willing to be polite and considerate to one and all in his party. He was a charismatic mass leader, despite being short and careless about how he dressed and looked in public. CNA is also remembered by his fans for his honest and spotless political career.
While he acted in his political plays, he did not go beyond scripting political films. His script for Nalla Thambi was meant to strengthen the political and social message bearer in his friend and admirer, N S Krishnan, the Tamil actor who taught a few lessons in political communication to CNA. CNA’s Velaikari and Oor Iravu were meant to consolidate the space earmarked by CNA for another friend, K R Ramasamy, as the first party actor. CNA’s inroads into Tamil cinema were later consolidated by the political films scripted by other younger leaders of the party such as M Karunanidhi, who launched the career of Sivaji Ganesan, with Parasakthi (1952), and his nephew, Murasoli Maran, the late union cabinet minister of commerce.
தூக்க மாத்திரை அதிகம் சாப்பிடுவதால் ஏற்படும் பாதிப்புகள்
வேலை பார்க்கும் அனைவருக்கும் இருக்கும் பிரச்னைகளில் ஒன்று தான் தூக்கமின்மை.
சிலருக்கு வேலைப் பளு, ஆரோக்கியமில்லா லைப் ஸ்டைலினால் தூக்கம் வராமல் தவிக்கின்றனர். அதனால் சில பேர் தூக்க மாத்திரை சாப்பிடுவார்கள்.
தூக்கம் வரவில்லை என்று தூக்க மாத்திரை சாப்பிடுவதால் உடம்புக்குத் தான் கேடு வரும்.
1. தூக்க மாத்திரை ஒரு போதைப் பொருள் மாதிரி, அதை அடிக்கடி சாப்பிட்டால் நாம அதுக்கு அடிமை ஆகிவிடுவோம். அப்புறம் நமக்கு நார்மலா தூக்கம் வந்தா கூட தூக்க மாத்திரை போடாம, நிம்மதியா தூங்க முடியாது, தூக்கமும் வராது.
2. தூக்க மாத்திரை சாப்பிட்டால் நாம் சுவாசிப்பதில் பிரச்சனை வரும். மேலும் ஆஸ்துமா, சுவாசக் கோளாறு பிரச்சனை இருக்கிற நபர்கள் தூக்க மாத்திரை சாப்பிட வேண்டாம்.
3. சிலர் தூக்க மாத்திரையை ஜூஸ் அல்லது ஆல்கஹாலில் கலந்து சாப்பிடுவார்கள். அப்படி சாப்பிட்டால் உடலுக்கு மிகவும் ஆபத்தானது. மேலும் ஆல்கஹாலில் கலந்து சாப்பிட்டால், சில சமயங்களில் மரணம் கூட ஏற்படலாம். முக்கியமாக தூக்க மாத்திரையை திராட்சை பழ ஜூஸ் கூட சாப்பிட வேண்டாம்.
4. தூக்க மாத்திரை சாப்பிட்டால் அடிக்கடி காலையில் தலைவலி, மயக்கம், சோர்வு, அதிக தாகம் போன்றவை ஏற்படும்.
5. தூக்கம் அதிகம் வருவதால், பசியைக் கூட மறந்து விடுவோம். இதனால் உடலில் உள்ள சக்தி குறைந்து, தலைச் சுற்றல், உடலில் நடுக்கம் போன்றவை ஏற்படும்.
ஆகவே தூக்க மாத்திரையை மருத்துவர் ஆலோசனை இல்லாமல் சாப்பிடாதீர்கள்.
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How allergies rise after treatments
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Australian researchers have discovered why people develop life-threatening allergies after receiving treatment for conditions such as epilepsy and AIDS.
The research, by the University of Melbourne and Monash University, could lead to the development of a diagnostic test to determine drug hypersensitivity. Published today in Nature, the study revealed how some drugs inadvertently target the body's immune system to alter how it perceives it’s own tissues, making them appear foreign. The immune system then attacks the foreign nature of the tissues as if they were incompatible transplants. Professor Jamie Rossjohn from Monash University, who led the study with Professor James McCluskey of the University of Melbourne, and Professor Tony Purcell from the University of Melbourne’s Bio21 Institute, said the study showed the biological mechanisms by which a person's exact tissue type determined whether they would develop the drug allergy. "Our findings represent the culmination of a seven-year odyssey for the collaborative groups involved in this study," Professor Rossjohn said. "We have provided insight into a general mechanism of drug hypersensitivity and the HLA locus." Professor McCluskey said an entire class of drug allergy was likely to be explained by the discovery. “There are several drugs that can cause life-threatening skin rashes and other symptoms such as fever, diarrhea, muscle aches and pains," Professor McCluskey said. “A simple blood test may help to predict adverse reactions in the treatment of a broad range of conditions like AIDS, epilepsy, gout and infections.” The study was done in collaboration with the Queensland Institute for Medical Research and was supported by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
Editor's Note: Original news release can be found here.
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