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psychosocial support: Common Bond Institute and IFMSA -JO

Here is the link for the monthly newsletter by Common Bond Institute. It includes articles about: - 5th Annual International Conference on "Transgenerational Trauma:" Communal Wounds and Victim Identities. - The  Social Health Care for Healing Syrian Refugees  Clinic Training I have participated in the conference and the psychosocial support for the Syrian Refugees. Thank you Common Bond Institute and IFMSA -JO for this great opportunity. 😍😍😍  Great conference, great event, and great people.  One of the greatest events ever! http://r.newslettercbiworld.com/1y925u08bf.html #IFMSA #Common_Bond_Institute

Tips on how to get the most of reading scientific papers

Having trouble getting through that research article? Scientists and students share their reading tips: http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper?utm_source=sciencemagazine&utm_medium=facebook-text&utm_campaign=seriouspaper-3110 😀😀😉😉

A simple exercise to increase wellbeing and lower depression

A simple exercise to increase wellbeing and lower depression from pioneering psychologist Martin Seligman, founder of the positive psychology movement. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/18/martin-seligman-gratitude-visit-three-blessings/ 😍😍 

Sleep deprivation harms your brain

You can take this as an advice from me: stop studying and go to sleep! :p Scientists from the Universities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Pennsylvania have discovered a piece in the puzzle of how sleep deprivation negatively affects memory. http://neurosciencenews.com/memory-sleep-deprivation-4894/ 

Stop child abuse !

لهذا السبب يجب أن نحارب العنف ضد الأطفال بكافة أشكاله! Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown. :'( 😭 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1112/111205-maltreated-children-fMRI-study 

Metabolic Dysfunction in Aging

As we age, we experience a decline in our metabolism and metabolic function. Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified the enzyme, called CD38, that is responsible for the decrease in nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) during aging, a process that is associated with age-related metabolic decline. Results demonstrated an increase in the presence of CD38 with aging in both mice and humans. read the article:  http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-researchers-link-specific-enzyme-to-process-of-metabolic-dysfunction-in-aging/?linkId=25536304

Future brain therapies for Parkinson's disease

Future brain therapies for Parkinson's possible with stem cell bioengineering innovation Scientists at Rutgers and Stanford universities have created a new technology that could someday help treat Parkinson's disease and other devastating brain-related conditions that affect millions of people. 😍 😍  We encourage our colleagues to read more about this subject, so they can come up with new ideas for new researches 😍 😍 Read the Article: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/ru-fbt031616.php#.VuqOJvT9M84.reddit

When one eats may be as important as what one eats!

توقيت تناولك لوجباتك الغذائية مهم جداً، تماماً كأهمية نوعية الطعام المُستهلَك. حيث وجد مجموعة من الباحثين أن المايتوكندريا تعمل وفقاً لساعاتنا البيولوجية!  When one eats may be as important as what one eats.  Our cells' power plants - the mitochondria - are highly regulated by the body's circadian clocks. Read more:  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-scientists-cells-power-timers.html

Let's find out why our body's temperature is 37C

لماذا درجة حرارة جسم الإنسان هي37 سيلسيوس ، او 98.6 فهرينهايت؟؟ It's well known that the human body's temperature is 98°F. But why? Let's find out.  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=se5JDnrdeU8

Celiac Disease Awareness Day

This video is from Dr. Fareed Khdair's project on Celiac Disease Awareness Saturday, April 9th, 2016. In the University of Jordan Hospital (JUH).  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTPOrUeY5s

Some bacterial species were found to thrive better in space !!!

Some species of bacteria have made themselves right at home in space, with one species, Bacillus safensis, found to thrive more in the microgravity of the International Space Station than here on Earth. Read more: http://www.iflscience.com/space/bacteria-found-thrive-better-space-earth

لا تَخَفْ من الإبر بعد اليوم

لكل من يخاف من الإبر، لا تنظر بعيداً بل انظر للإبرة كي تشعر بألمٍ أقل !!! هذا ما أثبتته آخر أبحاث علم النفس.  Read more:  http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/obsonline/to-feel-less-pain-dont-look-away.html

Biologists have just created a new species of bacteria with just 437 genes!!

with a genetic code that's smaller than any found in nature, Which is just 437 genes, the lab-made organism is carrying the absolute known minimum amount of genetic code required to support life. Read more: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-created-a-living-organism-with-the-smallest-genome-yet

A BIOTECH COMPANY IS TRYING TO WAKE UP THE BRAIN AFTER DEATH!!

A biotech company is seeking 20 people who have been declared clinically dead for an attempt to reawaken parts of their central nervous system. حصلوا على موافقة لإجراء هذه التجربة على ٢٠ شخص ميّت دماغياً!!  لقراءة المقال كاملاً: http://www.popsci.com/new-trial-to-try-regenerating-nervous-system-after-brain-death

An eukaryotic cell without these mitochondria.

لقد قام العلماء في كندا وجمهورية التشيك باكتشاف مذهل: خلايا حقيقية النواة بدون الميتوكوندريا. هذا الاكتشاف غير المسبوق يحتمل أن يغير نظرتنا عن كيف تعيش وتنمو بعض أنواع الخلايا. بكلمات أخرى، الحياة أكثر مرونة مما كنا نتصور scientists working in Canada and the Czech Republic have made a surprising discovery: a eukaryotic cell without these mitochondria. Read  more: http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-a-microbe-that-does-something-textbooks-say-is-impossible

Zika Virus !

يؤرق فيروس زيكا حالياً العالم، لما له من مخاطر على الأجنة عند الحوامل و هنلك دراسة جديدة عن هذا الفيروس Zika virus causes stillbirth? Read this article:  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/307042.php?tw Zika virus is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae and the genus Flavivirus, transmitted by daytime-active Aedes mosquitoes, such as A. aegypti and A. albopictus. Its name comes from the Zika Forest of Uganda, where the virus was first isolated in 1947. Zika virus is related to dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and West Nile viruses.

المعنى الحقيقي للصداقة

تمسكوا بأحبتكم جيداً ، وعبروا لهم عن حبكم ، واغفروا زلاتهم فقد ترحلون أو يرحلون يوماً وفي القلب لهم حديث وشوق ... واحذروا أن تخيطوا جراحكم قبل تنظيفها من الداخل [ناقشوا ، برروا ، اشرحوا ، اعترفوا ، تنازلوا ]. فالحياة قصيرة جداً لا تستحق الحقد ، الحسد ، البغض.. غداً سنكون ذكرى فقط ، والموت لا يستأذن ابتسموا وسامحوا من أساء إليكم 

How to delete unwanted memories!

تخيل لو بإمكانك تعديل ذكرياتك !! أو حتى اختلاق ذكريات لأحداث لم تحدث معك من قبل !! لا مستحيل مع العلم ، كل هذا و أكثر تجدونه في هذا المقال الشيق  😍 Are there any memories you'd like to permanently remove from your head? Or what if you could alter unpleasant memories so they're no longer upsetting? Or create entirely new memories of events that never occurred? Well, scientists have discovered how to do just that - and more. read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/scientists-have-discovered-how-to-delete-unwanted-memories/

Ebola !

من منّا لم يسمع عن فيروس الإبولا؟! ذلك الفيروس الفتّاك الذي أثار مخاوف العالم ! لكن هل تعرفون أن بعض الناجين من الإبولا ظهرت عليهم علامات تدل على تأثر الدماغ بعد ٦ أشهر من إصابتهم به؟ يمكنكم قراءة المقال التالي: https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/most-ebola-survivors-examined-study-experienced-brain-symptoms-six-months-after-284065

DNA Trojan Horse

عندما تسمع بمصطلح  Trojan Horse   أول ما يخطر ببالك هي تلك الفيروسات التي تصيب جهاز حاسوبك و تجعله بطيئاً، إلا أن باحثي جامعة أوهايو جعلوا من هذا المصطلح أملاً بالحياة لبعض مرضى السرطان لكن كيف؟؟ هذا رابط المقال البحثي http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/adma.201504733/full

Gravitational Waves

الموجات الثقالية التي تم رصدها كانت نتيجة اندماج ثقبين أسودين في ثقب واحد كل منها له كتلة تتجاوز 300 ضعف الكتلة الشمسية وتدور بسرعة تتجاوز( نصف سرعة الضوء )فيما يعرف بالإندماج الثنائي للثقوب السوداء binary black holes merge في حدث كوني فريد تم رصده منذ قرابة 1.3 مليار عام من قبل مرصد LIGO . في الرابع عشر من سبتمر عام 2015 ومنذ ذلك الحين عكف العلماء على فك الشفرات التي تحتويها هذه الموجات الثقالية للتأكد من صحتها Gravitational radiation has been directly detected two weeks ago. The first-ever detection was made by both facilities of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Washington and Louisiana simultaneously last September. After numerous consistency checks, the resulting 5-sigma discovery was published today. The measured gravitational waves match those expected from two large black holes merging after a death spiral in a distant galaxy, with the resulting new black hole momentarily vibrating in a rapid ringdown. A phenomenon predicted by Einstein, the h