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The Neurobiology of Belief: Why We Believe What We Believe 11/15/06 - Advances in neuroimaging allow us now to visualize physiologic effects of meditative spiritual and/or specifically religious activity. What do these developments say-or not-about humans' biological propensity to engage in spiritual practices and believe in things spiritual or religious? These questions are explored by Dr. Andrew Newberg from the Center for Spirituality and the Neurosciences at the University of Pennsylvania |
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Meeting the Challenge: Our Mandate to Care for Older Adults 11/8/06 - Two trends are on a collision course in the U.S.-a rapidly aging population and a shortage of nurses. How will our society meet the health care needs of burgeoning numbers of elderly persons? What is the nursing profession doing to prepare nurses to care for older persons in sickness and in health? Mathy Mezey discusses these issues in the 2006 Bice Memorial Lecture. She's with the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU's College of Nursing. |
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Future Plagues: Evaluating and Responding to Natural and Man-Made Epidemics 11/1/06 - With talk of a coming pandemic, how should we approach the prospect of widespread communicable disease with substantial social, political, and economic consequences? This keynote address from the 2006 Medical Student Research Symposium brings an evolutionary perspective to the study of health and disease, integrating evolutionary explanations for the existence of disease with traditional mechanistic understandings of pathogens and human susceptibilities. |
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Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: What's the Connection? 10/28/06 - As part of the More Than the Score Pre-Game Lecture series, Brown-Forman Professor of Psychology Timothy Salthouse discusses the importance of cognitive activity to healthy aging. Professor of Medicine and Human Services Dr. Art Weltman emphasize the importance of bringing movement and fitness back into our daily activities. |
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Into the Gap: Volunteering in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina10/25/06 - What have health professionals volunteering in New Orleans encountered? What have they accomplished? A panel discussion with: Ross Isaacs, U.Va Department of Internal Medicine (Nephrology);
Marcus Martin, U.Va Department of Emergency Medicine; Mo Nadkarni, U.Va Department of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Audrey Snyder, U.Va Emergency Department. |
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Successful Aging: Recent Findings and Implications for an Aging Society 10/23/06 - Dr. John Rowe is the former Executive Chairman of Aetna Inc., and the founding director of the Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School. He spoke in the Dome Room at an event sponsored by the U.Va Institute On Aging. |
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Medical Center Hour: Humanism? But is it Medicine? 9/13/06 - Humanism is sometimes viewed--even by physicians--as part of the "art" of medicine or good bedside manner but not as the core of doctoring. Master Physician Eric J. Cassell draws on a lifetime of reading, writing and patient care to make the case for humanistic medicine as the only medicine worth practicing. |
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Engaging the Mind: Diabetes as the Next Healthcare Epidemic: Challenges and Solutions4/28/06 - University of Virginia physician/researchers Drs. Drs. Jerry Nadler and Raghu Mirmira discuss the worldwide epidemic of diabetes, causes and prevention of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, and survey some of the promising research that may lead to a cure. This talk was given at the Fairfax County Government Center as part of the Engaging the Mind statewide lecture series. |
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