What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life

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Stettler GR, Moore EE, Moore HB, Nunns GR, Silliman CC, Banerjee A, et al. Redefining postinjury fibrinolysis phenotypes using two viscoelastic assays. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2019;86(4):679–685. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002165. How is it that we learned our mother tongue so easily as kids, while learning new languages today is so hard? Well, babies have the upper hand here – they’re predisposed to learning languages. It’s how you gain confidence that you can indeed help your clients step into their healing potential.

Imagine watching a film where the images and sound aren’t synced – it’s very confusing or irritating, right? This is because our hearing and vision are deeply connected. But as infants, we rely far more on sound than we do on sight.

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Kuiper GJAJM, Kleinegris MCF, van Oerle R, Spronk HMH, Lancé MD, ten Cate H, et al. Validation of a modified thromboelastometry approach to detect changes in fibrinolytic activity. Thromb  2016;14:1. Freud located Schreber’s illness in his denial that he was sexually attracted to the asylum director who was the arbiter of his fate. Perhaps Schreber was frightened of his doctor, and fantasised about sex as a means to placate him? Many patients, Alice James among them, sense from time to time a strong wave of hostility from their carers. Alice felt, Dillon says, ‘exposed, degraded and reduced by the medical gaze’. The hostility of doctors and nurses to patients (who provoke in them fear and sensations of powerlessness) is one of the great taboo subjects, but it is no secret to the assiduous and dedicated patient. A doctor wields immense power; his cures can kill more efficiently than the disease itself; he can also deal out existential death. Andy Warhol was particularly suspicious of doctors, who he believed had given his mother an unnecessary colostomy, thus creating a shameful confusion between the outer and inner worlds, between what can be looked at and what ought to be concealed. I remember when I first started practicing as a functional nutritionist. I’d get caught up in the flurry of my clients’ symptoms, trying to “fix them” or make them go away. Just over a month ago, Israeli politicians formed the most rightwing and anti-Arab government in the country’s history. Far-right and ultranationalist figures, such as the extremist settler Itamar Ben-Gvir, took ministerial positions after campaigning to annex the West Bank and aggressively entrench military control over Palestinians. Experiences of motion satisfy a baby’s need for stimulation. They can handle motion well too, because they’re born with a well-developed sense of balance. This, in turn, allows babies to observe their environment from a very young age, as their brains are able to make sense of visual changes when they move their heads.

Today, there’s no shortage of guidebooks filled with advice on what to do during pregnancy. Of course, all children and mothers are different, but these discussions are important. After all, pregnancy and birth are crucial stages in human development. Fei Z et al (2020) Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet (London, England) 395(10229):1054–62 [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32171076/?from_single_result=Lancet+Lond... Tuculeanu G, Barbu EC, Lazar M, Chitu-Tisu CE, Moisa E, Negoita SI, Ion DA. Tuculeanu G, et al. J Clin Med. 2023 Jan 11;12(2):601. doi: 10.3390/jcm12020601. J Clin Med. 2023. PMID: 36675530 Free PMC article. Review. Wright FL et al (2020) Fibrinolysis shutdown correlates to thromboembolic events in severe COVID-19 infection. J Am Coll Surg [cited 14 Jun 2020]. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32422349/

Milić D, Lazarević M, Vuković N, Kamenov A, Perić V, Golubović M, Stošić M, Spasić D, Stojiljković V, Stokanović D. Milić D, et al. Medicina (Kaunas). 2023 Jun 26;59(7):1202. doi: 10.3390/medicina59071202. Medicina (Kaunas). 2023. PMID: 37512014 Free PMC article. I compared it with companies in other countries I talked to and especially given net salary you can make literally more than in the UK with lower cost of living. So it's not just salary / col, it's net salary that is higher.

All babies begin smiling at the sound of other people’s voices at around six months of age, and not only their parents’. This is called social smiling, and even blind babies develop this innate tendency around the same time. However, babies also exhibit stranger anxiety from six months of age, largely because they start moving around independently at that time, too. Much of what we love in other people has to do with their charming personalities and little quirks. What parent wouldn’t want their child to grow up into a loveable person? Of course, while some things are determined genetically, other aspects of a human’s character can be shaped by childhood experiences. Daniel Paul Schreber is the least known of Dillon’s subjects, and we may fairly regard him as the one plunged deepest into the pit of hypochondriac delusion, since it was definitely not true that 240 Benedictine monks were living in his skull. Freud wrote him up in 1911, but his own account was given a few years earlier in Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Born in Leipzig in 1842, Schreber became an eminent jurist and a heroic sufferer. He was subject, he felt, to assaults on his body which he called ‘miracles’, though they were of a malign type. Dillon describes an array of ‘extraordinary amputations, evacuations and disappearances from within the unguarded precincts of his body’. He was bombarded by rays. Sometimes his stomach vanished and his food went straight down to his legs. He had survived so much he feared he might be immortal. He was also turning into a woman, who would be impregnated by God and found a new race (he was the sole survivor of the old one, since all the people walking about in the world were dead already). From time to time Schreber was able to corral his delusions and live among the well. But after five years during which his symptoms remitted he became subject to the appalling conviction that his body was dead and rotting, while his head was still alive.

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I’m sure a lot of people would agree that we live in strange times. But do they have to be so strange that Area 51 is making headlines? And what’s this about fish the look like aliens. September’s Words in the News explain all.

Genes also shape the way these different parts of the brain communicate with each other. Neurons connect when our genes cause chemical attractants to be released at the right place and the right time inside our brains. I give you all the best questions to ask your clients so you really can uncover what’s going on in there. Collocations are words that are often used together and are brilliant at providing natural sounding language for your speech and writing. Varlas VN, Borș RG, Plotogea M, Iordache M, Mehedințu C, Cîrstoiu MM. Varlas VN, et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 20;20(3):1949. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20031949. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023. PMID: 36767320 Free PMC article. Review.And if you’d like to dive deeper with this concept, grab a copy of my Functional Nutrition 101 ebook. Breakwater, which focuses on Palestinian armed groups in Jenin and Nablus, has so far contributed to the highest death toll in Israel and the West Bank since the second intifada ended in 2005, with about 150 Palestinians and 30 Israelis killed in 2022. What is the current political situation? For highlights from the latest issue, our archive and the blog, as well as news, events and exclusive promotions. There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more. This week we are looking at two words which may be confused by learners of English: produce and product. Improve your English with Collins.