[in the SPOTLIGHT] Richard J. Davidson and Antoine Lutz Buddha’s Brain: Neuroplasticity and Meditation I n a recent visit to the United States‚ the Dalai Lama gave a speech at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in Washington‚ D.C. Over the past several years‚ he has helped recruit Tibetan Buddhist monks for— and directly encouraged—research on the brain and meditation in the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior at the University of WisconsinMadison. The findings
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Elizabeth Morgan March 10‚ 2014 Chemical Dependencies midterm paper Is Addiction a Symptom Or a Primary Disease? The problem with the question of whether addiction is a disease or not is that it requires us to try to fit a loosely defined term into a vaguely defined category. Critics of the addictive disease model‚ also called the medical model‚ say that labeling drug addiction as a disease
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Our Right to Bear Arms is a Danger to America: An Annotated Bibliography "Assault Weapons." Issues & Controversies. Infobase Learning‚ 29 Jan. 2016. Web. 9 Nov. 2016. This article details history of mass shootings that used assault weapons in America. The author places a definition on assault weapons as “a semiautomatic weapon with a detachable ammunition magazine and some type of advanced feature typically used in military-grade weapons.” The previous and now expired ban on certain assault weapons
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No Child Left Behind Act De’Vaka Newton Ashford University: ENG 122 Instructor: Evan Halpine-Berger June 01‚ 2014 The No Child Left Behind Act is a legislation that was signed by President Bush whereas states would conduct student assessments annually in reading and math that are linked to state standards. It reveals the schools that are failing towards making progress and those that are excelling in reading and math. Many still believe that this legislation had good intentions
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—PLINY‚ the Younger The term ’Brain-drain’ has recently come into vogue for describing the flight of talent from our country to another. Often‚ it is loosely employed to describe all migration of educated and talented persons to countries abroad in search of better careers even though their services may be badly needed in their native land‚ and thus‚ this exodus of talent‚ depletes a country’s intellectual resources and tells on national life. However‚ the problem of ’Brain-drain’ is not peculiar to
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for how video games (VG) improve the human brain‚ but also heavy criticism whenever someone sees a member of the gaming community do something unacceptable: they let one decision forever stain the image of the community. Othello has deemed himself worthy to the people of Venice through his achievement to becoming one of the most respected Military Generals
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No Child Left Behind The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001‚ signed into law by President Bush on Jan. 8‚ 2002‚ was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act‚ the central federal law in pre-collegiate education. The ESEA‚ first enacted in 1965 and previously reauthorized in 1994‚ encompasses Title I‚ the federal government’s flagship aid program for disadvantaged students (Education‚ 2001‚ Augu).
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child’s mind? Malcolm Gladwell proposes in his article‚ “Brain Candy‚” that playing video games or watching television is just as important as reading a book. Gladwell is using rhetorical appeals to prove that in fact‚ video games are not dumbing down society. Pop culture is helping to improve test scores and knowledge. In “Brain Candy‚” Malcolm Gladwell does affectively use rhetorical appeals to convince his audience that pop culture is making our society smarter. First‚ Gladwell effectively appeals
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Definition Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a nondegenerative‚ noncongenital insult to the brain from an external mechanical force‚ possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive‚ physical‚ and psychosocial functions‚ with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness. The definition of TBI has not been consistent and tends to vary according to specialties and circumstances. Often‚ the term brain injury is used synonymously with head injury‚ which may not be associated
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Peter Singer’s book‚ A Darwinian Left: Politics‚ Evolution‚ and Cooperation‚ offers many arguments for why we should investigate ethics in the context of various sciences‚ especially evolutionary theory. Singer argues that the political left must revise its view on human nature as it has changed greatly over the past few years. He greatly focuses upon the political rejection of Darwinism‚ the theory of the evolution of species by natural selection advanced by Charles Darwin‚ and how much the reasoning
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