MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'conditioning'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:05:06 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028212&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-you-can-avoid-heat-rash-during-the-hot-summer-months%2F2011.07.15 I just flew back from Atlanta for the 4th of July weekend, and, boy, are my sweat glands killing me. Atlanta has a way of making your sweat glands work overtime, and overworked sweat glands can lead to dreaded heat rash. Heat rash is a common, annoying problem in summertime that develops when sweat glands are blocked, thereby preventing sweat from escaping and irritating your skin. Hot skin trapped under clothing is often affected, leading to red itchy or prickly bumps (hence it’s other name, prickly heat). Humid heat is worse than dry heat, and anything that blocks the sweat ducts such as lying on your back at night, wearing tight fitting clothing or even applying thick sunscreen is a sure way to bring the rash out. Prickly heat is commonly seen in babies who aren’t able to tell us w... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028212 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:24 +0100 5028212 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4360980&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ffarm-woo-and-our-food%2F2011.01.18 Google is an amazing thing — it occasionally tosses you a link that lands you in an alternate universe of folks you’d never encounter in real life. Like cattle ranchers. I’ve just spent the good part of an hour wandering their world — reading about their concerns (water, wolves, the economy), seeing how cattle breeding has changed (you pick a sire at Bullsemen.com, then do genomic profiling on your stock — did you know that cows bred for docility have more tender meat ?), and learning that ranchers are not immune to marketing from the world of scientific woo. Check this out — it’s called SOP Life Vibration or “Serio Bio-Hygienization.” They’re selling it to farmers and ranchers in Europe and the U.S. as the latest and greatest answer to bacterial growth... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4360980 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:17 +0100 4360980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4249009&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007736.html Today video games to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. But this is just a first step. Why not video games to advance political agendas? When will political factions and financial interests fund video games to promote lifestyles and support for political positions? Why not video games to encourage kids to become investment bankers, hedge fund managers, or special forces soldiers, or believers in a religion? San Diego, CA, December 7, 2010 – Obesity in youngsters has risen dramatically in recent decades. Fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption and increased water intake can lower the risk of obesity, as can increased physical activity, but it is not always easy to convince children to eat better and exercise more. In... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4249009 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4249009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831398&cid=t_175056_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F06%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-august-6-2010%2F I remember being in my early twenties sitting in my beat-up Nissan right in the peak of traffic hour. I had no air conditioning. The music was not on. I think the only people who owned cell phones back then were doctors and dentists. It was so hot that my palms were sweaty and slippery against the hot steering wheel. The unforgiving heat from the cars all around me felt suffocating. This was an ordinary day and I was just on my way home from work. I would not have remembered it other than the fact that I had an extraordinary experience sitting there being very ordinary. Suddenly, I just felt plain loved. I felt grateful for being me, for every hardship I had ever endured, for every fear I had, for every imperfection that made me unique. In the midst of all that traffic while people were ho... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831398 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:23:27 +0100 3831398 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3827045&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F193170%2F High on Sweat but Low on Dough? Check out 13 Ways to Save Money on Air Conditioning. (via The Daily Green) Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3827045 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:00:10 +0100 3827045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3802352&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Flosing-our-cool-is-air-conditioning-bad-for-you%2F Is air-conditioning bad for you? Stan Cox thinks so. The environmental writer, who just published the book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” says A/C is eating up energy and making us isolated. Air-conditioning accounts for 20 percent of American home energy bills, despite being used only seasonally in most parts of the country. Your beloved A/C might seem like the only way to survive summer heat, but Cox says that we should find ways to resist turning on the coolant as much as possible, since we’ll be forced to conserve energy in the future anyway. Finding other ways to cool off is better for the environment, politics, and even our social lives: Resting on the stoop with neighbors, h... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3802352 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:34:49 +0100 3802352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3790671&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fsummer-schvitz-sweatings-not-fun-but-it-could-be-good-for-you%2F photo: Thinkstock How many times have we cursed the summer heat? It makes us break out, change clothes ten times a day, and just generally feel more like a linebacker than a lady. We aren’t fans. But Xu Qian, director of the infectious disease department at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, says that sweating in the summer is just a natural part of keeping your body healthy, and that staying in A/C all of the time might actually harm you. He says that summer is a natural time to sweat, and that it’s good for the body to adjust itself through the constricting of blood vessels and nerves. Sweating also eliminates toxins from the body. Well, we aren’t overly thrilled about this news. But we’ve survived this long by basking in air conditioning every summer... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3790671 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:18:22 +0100 3790671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3757837&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F10-ways-to-an-eco-chic-living-room-green-your-house-series%2F Kick back and relax at home in your living room — just not in a pleather recliner in front of a plasma TV with the A/C blasting. Here are 10 natural selections that will liven up your living room in the eco-friendliest (and eco-chicest) ways. Energy-Efficient Boob-Tube With all their bells and whistles, some flat-screens now rival the fridge as your home’s energy Public Enemy Number One. Your best bet: an Energy Star-certified LCD or LED model (plasma TVs tend to be the biggest electricity hogs). We like the sleek look of Philips’ new Eco TVs from the 5000 and 7000 series. From $1,000; visit Philips for more. Clean Carpets Sure, sisal and sea grass are earth-friendly and affordable rug options, but unless your house is free of kids wielding markers, pets that pee, or guests who s... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3757837 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:42:05 +0100 3757837 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746697&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007334.html Ready for some scientific guidance to your golf game?Avoid repeatedly practicing just one shot. Sounds like good advice for life. Struggling with your chip shot? Constant drills with your wedge may not help much, but mixing in longer drives will, and a new study shows why. Previous studies have shown that variable practice improves the brain’s memory of most skills better than practice focused on a single task. Cognitive neuroscientists at USC and UCLA describe the neural basis for this paradox in a new study in Nature Neuroscience. The researchers split 59 volunteers into six groups: three groups were asked to practice a challenging arm movement, while the other three groups practiced the movement and related tasks in a variable... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746697 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3746697 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3733054&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F7-ways-to-stay-safe-in-the-sun-because-love-is-not-a-heatwave%2F It’s like a heat wave…Burnin’ in my heart…I can’t keep from cryin…It’s tearin’ me apart. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas might call this love, but we call it hellish weather, and it’s hitting a lot of us this week. We haven’t figured out how to stay unfazed by 100º weather, but we welcome Care2’s 7 tips for avoiding heat stroke. They might seem obvious, but muggy heat doesn’t exactly encourage clear thinking. Stick to the basics and be smart in the sun this summer: Air-conditioning, fans, and shade: The best way to keep cool is air-conditioning, and though we don’t encourage excessive use of the energy-sucking machines, when it gets super hot, it’s smart to use air-conditioning, fans, and shade to keep... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3733054 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:07:15 +0100 3733054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3742321&cid=t_175056_122_f&fid=35077&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneurophilosophy.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F02%2Fscared_by_the_light%2F Using state-of-the-art technique called optogenetics, researchers provide new insights into the neural basis of fear conditioning (Source: Neurophilosophy) Neurophilosophy blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3742321 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:25:47 +0100 3742321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3671648&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Feco-friendly-living-more-energy-efficient-air-conditioning-coming-soon%2F photo via Treehugger Air conditioning is one of those things that we feel bad about using, but really can’t make ourselves give up. The heat makes us cranky, so imagine how overjoyed we were today to learn that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has invented a new air conditioning process that would use 50-90% less energy than today’s most energy-efficient units. There will also be no CFCs of HCFCs used in the machines. One pound of either of those chemicals contributes to global warming as much as 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. Whoa. Get us these A/Cs, pronto, please. via Treehugger Post from: BlissTree Eco-Friendly Living: More Energy-Efficient Air-Conditioning Coming Soon (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3671648 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:05:35 +0100 3671648 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3448840&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfKl5B8C4qYk%2F By Thomas FireyA record-setting heat wave has settled on the Beltway this week, resulting in my thermometer topping the 85°F mark by the time I came into work today. Did I mention my thermometer is inside my apartment? “Oh yuck,” you’re probably thinking. “You should get a place with air conditioning.” But you see, my unit has air conditioning. The problem is that, under Virginia law, it can’t be turned on until May 1. My apartment is in an older building (1958) with a centralized HVAC system. As a result, the whole building must either be in heating mode or cooling mode. One of the quirks of this system is that it takes a couple of days for it to be converted from one mode to the other. That physical reality doesn’t jibe well with Virginia la... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3448840 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:38:37 +0100 3448840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429228&cid=t_175056_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F04%2F01%2Fproof-positive-signature-strengths-and-the-plumbers-union%2F “I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it.” – Virginia Satir I’m not a handy guy. Nope. Don’t call me if there’s a leak, or a loose electrical doodad. My toolbox consists of a butter knife, a credit card, and a sledgehammer. I have no finesse at all when it comes to mechanical things. I have never even tried to open the hood of my car. If the air conditioning doesn’t work I wait for winter. I have no carpentry skills. If the door to the bathroom rubs on the floor — that’s the way it is going to stay. My favorite Beatles song is “Let it Be.” I hum this as I notice all the things that need repair. After high school I agreed to take the aptitude test for the p... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429228 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:17:34 +0100 3429228 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3171862&cid=t_175056_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006869.html Parents who try very hard to buy into school districts that feature better performing and better behaved children probably appreciate a truth about human nature. People are influenced by the extent of self control exercised by others around them. Athens, Ga. – Before patting yourself on the back for resisting that cookie or kicking yourself for giving in to temptation, look around. A new University of Georgia study has revealed that self-control—or the lack thereof—is contagious. In a just-published series of studies involving hundreds of volunteers, researchers have found that watching or even thinking about someone with good self-control makes others more likely exert self-control. The researchers found that the opposite holds, too, so that people with bad self-control influence... (S... FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3171862 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3171862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2699741&cid=t_175056_122_f&fid=34736&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FChannelN-PodcastsPoweredByOdiogo%2F%7E3%2FsHis7rgF2ow%2Fvintage-rats.html Motivation and Reward in Learning Kids excited about rodents after seeing G-Force? They’ll love this too, I’m sure. Wooden pointers assist in demonstrating an early psychology experiment with white rats pressing a bar. Vintage B&W educational film, now public domain and part of the Prelinger Archives. (Source: Channel N) Channel N blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2699741 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:30:18 +0100 2699741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2682025&cid=t_175056_122_f&fid=34755&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropsychological.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fneuropsychology-abstract-of-day-cricket.html ConclusionWe suggest that insect classical conditioning involves the formation of two kinds of memory traces, which match to stimulus-stimulus connection and stimulus-response connection. This is the first study to suggest that classical conditioning in insects involves, as does classical conditioning in higher vertebrates, the formation of stimulus-stimulus connection and its activation for memory recall, which are often called cognitive processes. (Source: BrainBlog) BrainBlog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2682025 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:30:00 +0100 2682025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2667774&cid=t_175056_180_f&fid=38610&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.productivity501.com%2Fsaving-money-on-cooling-your-home%2F340%2F Dealing with the summer heat can be pretty expensive.  The colder you need to keep your house, the more it costs.  Here are some tips to help you stay cool at home more efficiently. Dress light - Make sure you are wearing cool clothing in your home.  Wearing long sleeves and warm pants is going to force you to keep the temperature colder to stay comfortable.  If dressing in cooler clothes lets you turn the thermostat up even just a single degree, it can still result in significant savings. Take off your shoes - This is related to dressing light, but if your feet are cool, it is much easier to feel cool all over.  A cheap pair of sandals to wear inside can pay for themselves very quickly if they help you feel cooler. Use fans - Most homes don’t distribute air particularly well.... Productivity501 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2667774 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:00:22 +0100 2667774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2463418&cid=t_175056_180_f&fid=38613&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevepavlina.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fcreating-a-belief-board%2F When you set a new goal, an important step on the road to achieving that goal is to gain the belief that you will get there. If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow. In order to believe you’ll succeed, you must believe your goal is possible for you, and you must also believe that you’re actually going to reach your destination. If you don’t believe your goal is possible for you, you’ll block yourself. If you believe it’s possible but you don’t believe you’ll realistically get there, you’ll block yourself.  Beliefs exist at the subconscious level, so they typically operate below the level of conscious awareness. But you can witness their effe... Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2463418 Mon, 18 May 2009 20:45:48 +0100 2463418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1977374&cid=t_175056_165_f&fid=37959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthskills.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F21%2Fwork-conditioning-work-hardening-and-functional-restoration-for-workers-with-back-and-neck-pain%2F In New Zealand most people who have been off work with chronic pain, and receive compensation from ACC, will have been a participant in some sort of fitness programme.  It’s almost a rite of passage for people to have a programme of functional restoration before or during an attempted return to work once the person has been off work for around 3 - 6 months. There are a lot of different types of programme available: two of the Prof Mick Sullivan’Goal attainment’ programmes for sub-acute pain, Functional restoration programme - for sub-acute pain, involving activity with some ‘education’ Pain management psychological services - for psychological strategies for pain management Activity focus programme - for chronic pain, involving activity and cognitive behavio... HealthSkills Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1977374 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:11:35 +0100 1977374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1956521&cid=t_175056_165_f&fid=37959&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthskills.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F13%2Fpain-related-anxiety-and-avoidance-a-practical-application-of-theory-and-research-to-clinical-practice%2F In 1995 I started work at the Burwood Pain Management Centre.  It wasn’t my first foray into pain management, but it was the first time I had worked in a fully integrated interdiscipinary team environment.  It was also significant because of the use of the words ‘fear-avoidance’, ‘guarding’ and ‘anticipatory anxiety’. What the team had observed was that there were a specific group of patients who were not just worried about experiencing pain, but were also showing the signs of increased physiological arousal, avoidance of specific activities, and firm beliefs about harm, reinjury, or doing further damage. At the time we used an operant conditioning model (based on Fordyce, 1971 & 1976), along with graded reactivation using a physical conditio... HealthSkills Weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1956521 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:55:51 +0100 1956521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1443301&cid=t_175056_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F13%2Fbf-skinners-pigeon-and-a-red-block%2F In this one-minute video from the B.F. Skinner Foundation, a pigeon uses a red block as a stand. A pigeon positions itself on a block so that a leaf that was out of its proximity before becomes within its reach. (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1443301 Wed, 14 May 2008 02:38:48 +0100 1443301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1410040&cid=t_175056_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F30%2Fbf-skinners-turning-pigeon%2F In this 85-second video, B.F. Skinner conditions a pigeon to make a complete turn (narrated by B.F. Skinner). (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1410040 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:00:02 +0100 1410040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1347436&cid=t_175056_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fwe-have-lift-off.html One of the many delights of living in California, is the weather. The seasonal changes are detectable for those paying attention, but the subject of weather is not a daily topic of conversation as it is in other countries. Some while back, before the boys had been diagnosed, our family was expanding but the house was not. On one particularly blissful day I advised my spouse that if he did not make the spare room cum office habitable, I would make his existence less blissful. He in turn advised me, that nothing on this earth or the next, would ever make the room livable. At this impasse, we made a rash decision, we would find a bigger house to fit our bigger family.We spent many weeks looking at mansions and not at our bank balance. We subsequently decided that we would stay put and extend ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1347436 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:57:00 +0100 1347436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1322016&cid=t_175056_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F23%2Fshock-treatment-but-for-children%2F We love B.F. Skinner. The original behaviorist, Skinner was an American psychologist most famous for his work with operant conditioning — getting the desired behavior from a person or child through reinforcement, punishment and extinction. But like Freud, Skinner’s time was in the 1950s and the 1960s, a time when behaviorism was a fresh and new approach to tackling problems with human behavior and emotions — a direct reaction to the psychoanalytic school of thought that was prevalent throughout much of international psychology. Cognitive behaviorism, a reaction itself to Skinner’s strict behavioral paradigm, acknowledged the importance of other factors in human psychology — you can’t treat people like mice in a maze. Well, you can, but you get far mor... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1322016 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:30:19 +0100 1322016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2512238&cid=t_175056_129_f&fid=36041&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fchrista-life-with-psoriasis%2Fdoes-air-conditioning-make-my-psoriasis-worse%2F We travel quite a lot. And living on a small island as we do, that usually involves flying. I’m not sure why but every time we fly my elbows in particular get very sore and extra dry. Now I know this to be the case, and I always use extra moisturizer and or prescription creams prior to flying. What I use and how much/how often depends largely on the state of my skin at the time, but planning a complex trip - or even a simple one - can be quite stressful, and the results are often clear to see. Now I’m not really sure why my elbows should be more affected than the rest of me? I’m not the kind of person who rests her elbows on the between-seat armrests. And no matter where my final destination might be, I always wear long sleeves for travelling. Nonetheless, it is always my... Life with Psoriasis blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2512238 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:20:13 +0100 2512238