MEMORY LOSS CAN BEGIN FROM AGE 45, SCIENTISTS SAY

The scientists say that the brain begins to lose sharpness of memory and powers of reasoning and understanding from as early as 45.

The confirmation comes from a large study of more than 7,000 civil servants aged between 45 and 70. Men and Woman agreed to undergo verbal and written tests on three occasions over a 10 year period.

The researchers found that the brains of even the youngest were already on the slide. Is very important, say the scientists, because those whose brains appear to deteriorate fastest may be more probably to develop dementia in old age.

Is important to say that there are many very well-educated people in the civil service, but each individual’s educational background was taken into account so that it didn’t influence the results.

The Scientists concluded that deterioration of the brain sets in earlier than most of us would have hoped, but there are things that can be done about it.

Studies show that people with blood pressure, obesity and high cholesterol have higher risk of dementia.

The risk to mental health and wellbeing can persuade people that it is unwise to only take action if and when their bodies and minds break down. Research in this area would help public health experts be even more effective in taking preventative action to protect and improve older people’s heath.

The link of this article is: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/06/memory-loss-begins-at-45-says-study

WHAT ABOUT HAPPINESS?

The happiness is a concept very difficult to define; many people throughout history have talked about this topic (philosophers, psychologists, etc.) and all of them think different things about happiness. But I think that we all agree that happiness is a permanent good physical and mental state that all human being wishes to achieve; at least I broadly define the happiness this way.

With my own definition I might to say that there are many things that makes me happy: to do things that I like; to be with my family, friends or any loved one; to help people; to achieve my aims; and a lot of things that even I don’t know that makes me happy. And I’m sure that in the future there will be new things that make me happy too.

I don’t know exactly why for many people is so difficult to be happy, but I think that we all have problems, some more serious than others, however, how we face up the problems depend of us; we must not allow these problems ruin our happiness.

I’m not sure what the statistic says about whether Chile is a happy country or not but I know that this country has one the biggest stress rate in the world and this stress obviously damage the happiness of Chilean people. 

And as the popular song says: Don’t Worry, Be Happy!!! 

C A L I F O R N I A

I`m not a globetrotter or something else but I like very much travelling and to know many places throughout Chile or around the world if I have the opportunity to do it.

I would like to visit many countries around the world but in this moment, if I had to choose any country, I would choose EE.UU, specifically Los Angeles, the most populous city in the California’s state.

I’d choose this place because I have a good friend there. Her name is Laura and she’s 22. She was for one year an exchange student here in Chile and I met her in a class of Psicología Social last year. From that moment we didn’t give up talking each other and finally we made a beautiful friendship.

I don’t know a lot of things about that country and that city, but I know that U.S.A is called “the country of opportunities” and is a very popular and controversy country especially after the terrorist attack occurred in September 11^th, 2001.

I would like to visit all the states as I could, but above all the state of California. I would like to know these fantastic beaches that I saw in movies and series and I would like to know the UCSB (University of California, Santa Bárbara), because this is the University where my friend Laura studies, she always told me about how was it and about she did there. It sounds great. For that reason I would like to go to California to study a year for an exchange, so in this way I could visit to my dear friend in her city and her University too.

Have a nice happy new year!!!!

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is an annual celebration where the people commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. This commemoration is done generally on December 25 as a religious and cultural holiday. I don´t know what is exactly the origin of Christmas but, according to Wikipedia, today, whether or not the birth date of Jesus is on December 25 is not considered to be an important issue among mainstream Christian denominations; rather, celebrating the coming of God into the world in the form of man to atone for the sins of humanity is considered to be the primary meaning of Christmas.

In my opinion, whether or not the birth date of Jesus Christmas is a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the son of God, in a stable from the humble village from Belen.

I celebrate the Christmas day every year with my family (parents and sister) with a delicious dinner and then we give the presents that we have to each one.

I like very much Christmas time because is a beautiful day to share and to be with the family and the beloved ones and because generally I`m on vacations in this time.

Well, I only want to say: Marry Christmas dear classmates and teacher!!!

See you!

This term...

Hi!

Well, my name is Carolina Moreno and I`m in third of psychology.

My expectations for this new term are: 1) A term very short and compressed 2) The more hot term of my life and 3) a term with a lot of protest from students and workers.

In this short semester I take 7 subjetcts!! Five of them are of my career: Screening neuropsicológico (my favorite subject), Intervención comunitaria,  Salud mental laboral, Asesoramiento a instituciones educativas and Psicopatología infant-juvenil. One is a CFG: “El arte del cine: principales movimientos, escuelas y tendencias” and the subject of my blog: English 4.

I don´t like very much have to study in Christmas time because I`ll not can enjoy this beautiful holyday like every year. First, because I`ll be stressed and worried about my homeworks, tests and reports and second because I don´t have many money! And I`ll not can to do all presents that I want.

I would like that in this term all the people from the campus play to “water`s war” every friday!! =D This summer will be very very hot and we need to cool down.

See you!

My international friend

Hi again!

¿What I could write in this post?

Really I didn´t know about what to write, but thinking and thinking I had one idea related with English: my gringa friend called Laura!

About Laura…

Her name is Laura Philpott and she is 21. I and my friends called her “Lora”, because this way is pronounced her name in English jajaja

 Laura arrived to Chile in august of 2010 and she decided stay for one year here, therefore she goes back to EE.UU. in august from this year. Laura lives in Los Angeles California but she bored in San Francisco. She’s in third year of psychology in Santa Barbara’s university in California. All the people ask her: why Chile??!!!!, and she say: I don´t know! Only were the country and the university that had a similar program of psychology that the program from Santa Barbara. Anyway I know that she is happy with her choice and I and her Chilean friends too, she is really a good person, very nice and funny and she is very dear by all the people that meet her.

I knew to Laura in a class of last semester called Psicología Social II, and from that moment, little by little, we have made a nice friendship =). We do the homework together and moreover we go out with our friends and have fun! She always makes me laugh with her “Espanglish” language, LOL.

The sad goodbye

She leaves Chile the lasts days of June because before to go back to U.S.A in august she will go to Bolivia with a gringa friend and later she will visit Perú.

Laura promised come back to Chile and I promised her to go to EE.UU. to visit her some day. I hope that both keep our promise because promises are promises!!!! J

GUSTAVO CERATI

I think that an interesting topic to post in my blog is about one of my favourite singer: Gustavo Cerati.

¿How I find him?

I knew this fantastic music, singer and composer for a CD that a gas station called COPEC gives to my dad. In this CD there were many Latin’s bands of 80’, and one of them was Soda Stereo. I was only a child, I was around ten years old, and this kind of music wasn’t the typical to my age, but from that moment I loved his voice and his music style.

Soda Stereo

Soda Stereo was one of the most influential and important rock bands of all time of the hispanic music and of the latin rock. This band was formed in Buenos Aires in 1982 by Gustavo Cerati (singer-songwriter and guitarist), Héctor “Zeta” Bosio (bass) and Carlos Alberto Ficicchia (Charly Alberti, on drums) and in 1997 they broken up for personal problems.

            About the middle of 2007 the band announced his return to make only one continental tour called “Me Verás Volver” where attended more than a million of fans.

My sister and I had the opportunity to go to this amazing recital in the estadio nacional in 2008. This summer’s day was great; we were very excited and happy about the recital. We arrived to stadium very early, around 15:30, and the recital started to 21:00 hrs and the first thing that we did was to buy posters and head bans of the band. Our sweet mom prepared us delicious sandwiches to eat while we waited to see them.

The concert was really fantastic, my sister and I were the youngest in the public!!! LOL but we didn´t care because we were the most cheerful in the concert.

No doubt it was the best concert ever =)

Pitifully the Gustavo’s health isn´t good, I really hope he gets better soon

Only one thing to say: “GRACIAS TOTALES”