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To wish you a great year ...

At the beginning of the year, the time to take stock of all kinds! Before embarking on a new undisclosed location, would it not, for all of us the opportunity to make a quick analysis of this year? A small inventory of our souls?

, Go back a few moments and ask yourself: how many days spent laughing at? A cry? A dream? What percentage of moments of happiness? Anger? Trouble? Doubt? How many words of love spoken? How many others who have not crossed the barrier of your lips? How much pain, too, imposed by the solitude of heart? Did you find happiness? Or have you lost along the way while you were on point the finger ...? Because yes, happiness is wild, elusive and so fragile that he fled upon hearing the noise of our footsteps, fainted when he feels a little too far, bursts like a soap bubble when one tries to capture it.

My own percentages would scare you, or maybe not finally. Maybe you'll find you. I have a secret to tell you: I think 2010 was paid my head!

Ah yes, they were beautiful his promises of hope, new beginnings, happiness, answers to my deepest questions ... But what about after these past twelve months with 2010 ...

Of happiness? I had, of course, even with a shovel! Of those moments that make life infinitely more beautiful, softer, more valuable. But always in their path this time of sadness and collapse that are running too many of these salty pearls along our cheeks.

Hopes? Obviously, I've fed the tons! Of those who make their eyes sparkle and enjoy the storm in the summer! But all disappointed.

My heart was lost, sought, found and finally broken. A few more scars, but still no wrinkles. My heart is a warrior.

So it is high time to find your 2010! Without regret. And take with you your lack of empathy, your hardness and your shots that wounded me to almost put me down. Almost I say. For behind all my tears hide too much courage to let me down, too many smiles to no longer believe that life is beautiful, too many hopes to renounce all these suns resides in the cloud.

Spring be strongest of all these tests? I do not think ... And I'm afraid to disappoint you and deprive you of your most expensive alibi, but we do not learn from its mistakes. Every situation is new, and every joy, disappointment, or the failure is too. Because every moment of our lives, we are different from what we were the previous time, carried by the current time passes and our experiences. For proof, have you ever tried to relive a happy moment passed? And have you not been so disappointed that nothing can bring back memories to this? Once past, happiness is lost forever. Even the memories that we are not up to par.

So let's lucid moments: no, our wounds do not make us stronger. Quite the contrary, they weaken us, it emerges bruised, and each new failure we always so bad. So.

But remember one thing above all: you come out alive! And it's probably the point. As we suffer, we fight, we cry is that we are alive and we can still go conquer new joys! No gift is ultimately more valuable than that. And those moments of deep sadness do not they make our moments of happiness even more beautiful? More intense? If misfortune and sometimes in our lives is simply to allow happiness to rest a little.

So anyway, thank you 2010! Because thanks to you I'm alive! And that 2011 should be held in tile, because I intend to conquer my happiness, whatever the obstacles it will try to put in my way! And you? Will you be both?

To you whom I love - family, friends, and other treasures that life has placed in my way - and all of you, whom you linger a moment on these lines that 2010 me inspired, I wish you a beautiful and sweet year. That each day is filled with laughter, love, joy, color and poetry. And if you happen to cross one day a little dark, smile, and you'll see it glow.

Never stop hoping. For it is the hope and dreams that accompany that is the happiness within reach of everyone.

And most importantly, never stop loving you no matter what the cost. Because true wealth is the heart.

"Every moment is happiness that is able to see it as such. "Henry Miller

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Tonsils and emotions ... for a debate on February 4!


Emotions ... in our brains through our body and immaterial?
Much research exploring the link between certain brain structures (including the amygdala) and emotions. New neuroimaging techniques (including the
fMRI) produce results that require us to rethink, among others - the question of the seat of emotions. They reveal how some areas are activated when emotions occur, including the amygdala (The hippocampus and amygdala (not those at the bottom of the gorge, which is at the center of the brain ...).

Source: http://www.socialliteracytoday.com/?page_id=74

Two Recent research highlights links between their functioning, size or lack thereof and emotions.

Biologists are probably inclined to believe that one day we can explain emotions in terms of neuronal activity in the brain's complex system without necessarily having seriously challenged assumptions.

The literary and philosophical than I could cross disbelieve that science may one day explain the emotions and cry reductionism, sometimes without really bothered to understand these new studies.

So the question of body and mind arises in a new way:

Emotions Are the manifestation of the activity nerve centers that begins to identify more precisely, or are they more noble and do not they reduce to a simple hardware support ... As the sheet of paper is necessary to the poet, but Creativity is not his? The movement of the pen appear every time you see a poem should not conclude that poetry is born in the pen or hand! Yet much research supports more firmly a neurological basis for emotions! Both positions are they necessarily irreconcilable? there any intermediate positions, or way out of this alternative ?

On 4 February, four senior specialists will share their views: a rare chance to have such different perspectives but all high-level meeting to discuss!

C is that fMRI is still a new field for many. This day is an opportunity to understand the technical potential but also to put into perspective the findings. An example of fMRI during visual stimulation to the right. Source:

Purves (2001) To be able to make informed judgments about publications, to answer questions from students.
Or just to have fun listening to a stimulating debate! Since it remains

space in the room, I take the initiative to say that the day is open to all!

training for teachers of biology, philosophy and all others! not

brain imaging: should we rethink human emotional? Friday, February 4, 2011 Open to all: MS Room 160 8:30 Unimail with 4 High-Level Expert: François Ansermet, Julien Deonna, Didier Grandjean and Patrick Vuillemier Description of functional MRI techniques, discussion of their limitations using examples in the field of emotions, decision making of the face and voice recognition and attachment. - Psychoanalytic Insight report on the body / mind in the emotions. - Neurobiology: the biological perspective on the examples cited. - Lighting philosophical: the relation between body and mind. - Debate and confrontation of perspectives. To be part of continuing education OP-10401 or contact E. Scheidegger here Two examples of recent research supporting the idea instead of a neurological basis for emotions: Of everything I have chosen two examples published lately, not directly related fMRI, as it will be presented on February 4 but which are accessible and beautiful open questions. And you'll want to attend the day? Both speak of the amygdala, a bilateral structure the size of two kernels (hence its name amygdala) For more information on the amygdala: cf Purves here

• Fig 1: This is the amygdala

- which is

singular

even if it is bilateral said Ivan Rodriguez - in the nervous system (it is part of the limbic system) and not the tonsils the back of the throat (secondary immune organ)! The amygdala was greater for more social beings? How many friends you could be predicted by the size of the tonsil (See fig 1) found in a wide range of vertebrates, reports
Weave

Dr. Janelle . (2010 in a news item in Nature (
here).

Fig 2: The size of the amygdala reveal the extent of an individual's social network. [ img] Source: Brad Dickerson

Researchers
Bickart, KC, et al. (2010) compared the size of this structure (See fig. 1) in 58 healthy adults and asked them how many friends they had and how many groups they belonged. Participants who had a social network larger and more complex had the tonsil (s) larger (s) see Fig 3.
Fig 3: The total size of 2 parts of the amygdala correlates with the number of people in the social network and the number of groups. (Source: Bickart, KC, et al. (2010) )


The nature of this relationship-volume social network remains mysterious to the authors. Perhaps the well-known role of this structure in face recognition, emotions and emotional memory effect that one develops and maintains relationships said one of the authors. We know that correlation is not causality! It is possible that this is the opposite: the size of the amygdala would be the result of a complex social network and not the cause. Kevin Ochsner, Columbia University in New York said it could even be both at once (sociability increased the size of the amygdala, which allows more sociability which increases the size, ...). It also considers the strength of evidence for this article will make it a classic.
A woman without fear and amygdala ... A woman of 44 years - out of respect for her anonymity authors call SM - has been studied extensively: she fears nothing, not snakes or spiders, or horror movies. She sees no fear in the faces of others, his eyes not looking at the face and signs of emotion as the others. Adolphs, R., et al. (2005) see cons below:
Cassandra Willyard (2010) reported in Science now ( here)
, we found the reason: two black holes where there should be her amygdala, following a
rare genetic disease (Urbach-Wiethe).

Fig 4: The authors compare a scan of 10 years ago and now B shows the disappearance of the amygdala targeted


. " I mages Were Has Acquired (A) The onset of this study and (B) 10 Years Earlier. Axial slices (1A and 1B) reveal focal bilateral amygdala lesions " I admit I had trouble watching them, but I'm not specialist. To the right is a dangerous snake handlers SM and a tarantula has even tried to touch. (Source: Feinstein, et al. (2011)

Feinstein, JS, et al (2011) writing in Current Biology here that this woman does not respond to many stimuli that normally cause fear. As shown in Figure 4, his emotional reactions are normal in almost all cases except a lack of fear response. They even tried Shining and the silence of the lambs without it reacts!


Fig 5: The emotional reactions of HM
to movies

are normal, except for fear. (Source: Feinstein, et al. (2011)

This case reinforces the thesis that emotions are the result of the interaction of these neurons in various parts of the brain and the amygdala plays a crucial role. Fig 6: The dual circuit of emotions . (source:



Dubuc, Bruno (2008). , More specifically, it reinforces the idea dear to Damasio, one of the authors, that emotions are bodily symptoms under control of the amygdala, in fact, directly produced by the stimuli which we realize. In this view, emotions are the accelerating pulse, sweating, dry throat, ... and then we would realize our emotions through the body. Damasio Antonio: "The rational choice does not exist" (Research- intranet) Damasio, AR, & White, M. (2001). The error Descartes: Paris: Odile Jacob. On the other hand, the absence of the amygdala when the malfunction does not prove that's where all what constitutes the emotion of fear occurs, it shows that this structure is necessary to fear. As if we remove the spark plugs of a car and it rolls over, we can deduce that they are necessary, but not that candles cause the wheels are
the engine! it does not prove that any mechanics is useless and to repair the car should make incantations rather as examine rigorously its operation ...

Separate the emotions of the body? K. Scherrer
• extracts intranet (Ietemp) In bio springboard
  

A reflection on the limitations of fMRI Emotions and love (17 September 2010 brain imaging: is rethink the human emotional?
)

• Emotions and memory (26 August 2009 Forget what you know, the memory has changed! )

Emotions and development of teenagers: March 5, 2008 Aggressive teens visualized in the brain?

Emotions and pheromones May 29, 2009
• mice detect the disease at the smell ...
Science is not done certainties
• If you are sure of your point of view,
are a scientist, doubt,

come to nuance a little !

If you doubt, come to support the views of hard facts ...

That there are people much more knowledgeable than others is not very intriguing. What is extraordinary, and devilishly instructive is how two people with close acquaintances may differ in how they interpret them. Placed, as to know, about the same point they observe worlds that seem to have nothing in common irreducibilities Such interpretations are more rewarding than the differences in areas of knowledge. An author

not wiser than his readers but which includes know in a way that surprised the dumbfounded and even shocking, gives them an author who has more to offer than their larger knowledge that theirs. If you're left, read the right authors, if you are rational, read mystical (and symmetrically, course)! Stimulation of the disagreement arises. Nobody knows what they think when we understand the reasons of those who think otherwise.

Nordon, D. (2007)

. Provided I do not understand!

take advantage of this special day to take the measure of a fascinating debate that is sure to appear in class!

Sources

Adolphs, R., Gosselin, F., Buchanan, TW, Tranel, D., Schyns, P., & Damasio, AR (2005). A Mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage. Nature, 433 (7021), 68-72. doi: 10.1038/nature03086
Bickart, KC, Wright, CI, Dautoff, RJ, Dickerson, BC & Barrett, LF (2010). Amygdala volume and social network size in human. Nat Neurosci
, advance online publication

. doi: 10.1038/nn.2724

Dubuc, Bruno. (2008),

The brain at all levels. Mc Gill

• Feinstein, JS, Adolphs, R., Damasio, A., & Tranel, D. (2011). The Human Amygdala And The Induction and Experience of Fear. [Doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.042 ]. Current Biology (In Press, Corrected Proof). extracts-intranet.pdf Nordon, D. (2007). Provided I do not understand! For Science. (December 2007), 5.
  Purves, et Al (2001) Neuroscience
Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc..
• Weave
• Dr. Janelle
• . (2010). Amygdala
  
at the Centre of your social network. Nature News 26 December 2010 biology. To explore how we could keep alive the link between research and teaching.

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manipulations of TP in scientific report ... how to ensure that students learn to do science?

"What learnings can we expect from writing a lab report?" With Claudine Larcher international expert who has studied how the writing experience reports influence the learning . It is still room for colleagues who are interested in this seminar had escaped since the arrival of a specialist in this topic that is C. Larcher is rare in Geneva: I'm sure a last-minute registration is possible for those who can be free that Tuesday ... I think it here or e-mail here

Objectives: - Define the concept of scientific report and clarify how to teach it, both in its written form and its content. - Succeed to give meaning to the eyes of our students. The seminar will be held there Tuesday, January 18, 2011 from 8:30 to 12h00 and from 13h30 to 17h00 the building of the IUFE - Mail Pavilion, room 01 Boulevard du Pont d'Arve 40-1205 Geneva (left behind the Uni-Mail) (with easy access to trams 15 and 17 stop: Uni Mail)

Come with examples of lab reports and sample Editorial Guidelines that you think should be discussed (whether good or they'll appear on a debatable point or another)

Program Summary provided 8h30-10h

Recall during training Bernd Hatlanek
Presentations dees participating / reporting forms and expectations. Intervention

C. Larcher: Implementation perspective that diversity

Discussion 10h30-12h Introducing Claudine Larcher: a theoretical framework for understanding what is really happening according to the type of guidance and report. Discussion Dining Common UniMail proposed. (at the expense of the participants, not dreaming ...)


1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.:
A) Activity analysis of TP and editorial guidelines

15h - 15h30
B) Activity of synthetic
Purpose: To promote a personal synthesis oriented classroom practice
15h45-17h C) Synthesis and trails further reflection C. Larcher and F. Lombard D) Evaluation of the seminar Bernd Hatlanek
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