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Dr. Lowenstein returns to tell us what he has been up to- writing a new book on headaches!  His new book, Headache Surgery- Understanding a Path Forward reviews where headaches come from and why they occur.  The book additionally discusses how and why nerve decompression provides headache releif with detailed, straightforward explainations.  With diagrams and operative photos as well as patient stories, Headache Surgery- Understanding a Path Forward aims to educate and empower chronic headache patients. Dr. Lowenstein has also been working on some patient-inspired essays and in this episode, he reads one of these works.  Learn about your headache pain and consider ways to find relief.

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Esta tercer Kata trabaja también con el elemento Fuego. En esta ocasión se trabajará con la parte occipital de la cabeza. Un sitio que las tradiciones antiguas han relacionado con una parte importante para la creación de realidades y centro de manifestación. A través de esta meditación se realiza una meditación para transmutar situaciones de nuestro pasado. Para realizar esta meditación se hará uso del segundo símbolo de Reiki, el símbolo mental. Si no eres iniciado en Reiki, no importa, simplemente sigue la meditación y da la intención de la transmutación de esas memorias. Busca un lugar tranquilo para realizar tu práctica. Puedes hacer esta meditación sentada o bien, si te es más cómodo realizará acostado ya que gran parte del tiempo tendrás las manos en tu nuca. Permite realizar imágenes claras en tu mente para poder transmutar esos eventos. Al terminar la práctica anota sus observaciones. Esta y mas meditaciones de Reiki Satori las puedes encontrar en : Holistic Lunar #reiki #satori #meditacion #liberación #memoriasakashicas #holisticlunar

In this episode of the Headache Doctor Podcast, we dive into the world of occipital and trigeminal neuralgia. While these conditions are known for causing sharp, stabbing nerve pain, we explain why the nerves themselves aren't always the issue. Learn how poor neck movement and posture can irritate nerves and discover non-invasive treatments that can provide lasting relief without the need for injections or surgery. Tune in to understand the root causes of nerve pain and take control of your symptoms!If you live in or can easily get to Parker Colorado. Schedule a visit today by clicking this link and booking a free discovery visit or initial evaluation! Novera: Headache Center

Are migraines getting on your nerves? They quite literally could be—or they could be stemming from a condition called Occipital Neuralgia (ON). ON is caused by irritated or damaged occipital nerves, which run from the top of your spine, up your neck, and into your scalp. When you suffer from ON, you experience intense head pain that can be mistaken for migraines. In this episode, we're unraveling the truth about the occipital nerve so you can determine if your head pain is truly from migraines or if you have ON to blame.   In this episode, you'll hear: What the occipital nerve is, and where it causes pain The many symptoms of ON that often get mistaken for migraines How to tell the difference between ON and migraines Common ON triggers Why inflammation is the #1 cause of head pain associated with ON and migraines How to treat ON Last week, our discussion focused on the trigeminal nerve. If you haven't checked out that, I highly recommend listening to episode 36 before tuning in today.   Resources: Complete the Migraine Sensitivity Scorecard to determine your migraine sensitivity. Once you receive your results, email us at debbie@debbiewaidl.com to access the training that accompanies your score!   Connect with Debbie:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debbiewaidl.migrainefree/ Women's Migraine Freedom Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/womensmigrainefreedom LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbie-waidl Website: https://debbiewaidl.com/   Disclaimer: The Migraine Freedom Your Way Podcast and information provided by Debbie Waidl and guests in this podcast is presented solely to provide helpful information, education, and entertainment on the subjects discussed. The use of information or resources mentioned on or linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk and discretion. This podcast is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical condition. For diagnosis or treatment of any medical problem, consult your own physician. Debbie Waidl and In The Balance Health Coaching LLC are not responsible for any medical conditions or liable for any damages or negative consequences from any treatment, action, application, or preparation to any person reading or following the information presented on this podcast. References are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of any websites or other sources.   

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Chronic headaches are extremely debilitating conditions which significantly impact the quality of life. Dr Giorgio Pietramaggiori and Dr Saja Scherer of Global Medical Institute, Switzerland employ minimally invasive treatments such as targeted Botox injections, surgical release of nerves, and fat transfer, which aim to offer relief for people suffering from chronic headaches when pharmacological alternatives fail. Read more in Research Features: doi.org/10.26904/RF-149-5161384107Read the original research: doi.org/10.1097/prs.0000000000009777

In episode 17 of the Exiled Minds Podcast we look to the stars and peer deep into the darkness to find the abyss. And in this case it does indeed stare back and shows us ourselves. How curious? This needs checking out! Inspired by the works of Santos Bonnaci we take an overview journey through Biochemistry, Alchemy and Astrology. Follow here: https://linktr.ee/exiledminds Please Support: Help improve the show if you find anything of value, share, and subscribe plus you can donate here. Cash App: £Rohanno6 Paypal: Paypal: paypal.me/exiledm  Links: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy https://www.google.com/search?q=Chakras&client=opera&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP__aFvsD8AhXPiFwKHWK9DacQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1880&bih=931&dpr=1 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tria_prima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah) https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism/7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/extraordinary-meridian https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326621 https://quotefancy.com/quote/1598392/Proclus-The-light-of-the-Sun-is-the-pure-energy-of-intellect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenoid_bone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bone https://www.dana.org/article/why-the-white-brain-matters/ https://www.iflscience.com/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal-life-31083 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/ Friends Of EMP: Follow Algo Rhythm -- https://bit.ly/3uq7yRY Follow Apoc -- https://bit.ly/3DRCUEj Follow Ash -- https://bit.ly/3CUTe4Z Follow Daryl -- https://bit.ly/3GHyIaN Follow James -- https://bit.ly/3kSiTEY Follow Jennifer -- https://bit.ly/3BVLyCM Follow Joseph -- https://bit.ly/3pNjbzb Matt's Book -- https://amzn.to/3fqmRWg Follow MysticWook -- http://bit.ly/3J1uFdh Follow Nightstocker -- https://bit.ly/3mFGGtx Robert's Book -- https://amzn.to/3GEsFUK Follow TamBam -- https://bit.ly/3LIQkFw Michael Strange Troubled Minds Radio -- https://troubledminds.org #astrology #alchemy #biology --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-martin31/message

Occipital Neuralgia Hello and welcome to the Extraordinary Health Podcast. My name is Dr. Paul Beckham and today we're going to be going over occipital neuralgia. What is occipital neuralgia? Occipital neuralgia is just a fancy term for the nerves that are on the backside of your head that go from the base of it up into your neck and travel up over your head and when they get irritated. they're gonna cause basically a muscle tension headache. And the big thing that we always have to look at in our office is to make sure that we're finding out exactly what might be causing the occipital neuralgia. Is it the nerves themselves that are just causing the problem? There's something wrong there. Could even be nutrients that you need in your body. Or it could be that, hey, there's some scar tissue in the area from a previous injury or something like that. People that have had whiplash injuries from car accidents can get those nerves irritated. The other thing that can happen is that the muscles up in that portion of your neck can get super tight and they can cause even myofascial trigger points that'll radiate up over your head. So we're trying to determine during your exam, is this something coming from the nerves or is it coming from the muscles? Or the other thing is, is it coming from the bones and joints up in that portion of your neck? which would include your occiput, that's where you get occipital neuralgia from, the nerves are coming out from there, as well as the first and second cervical vertebra are usually what are involved. Occasionally we can even get the TMJ effect in the area as well. If that gets tight kinda on the front side, it'll cause those muscles in the backside to get tight. But hey, this is something that is very treatable and we get excellent results with it because we get down to what's causing the root cause of the problem here, rather than, you know, in a traditional medical sense where they're just going to give you a medication to cover up the symptoms. And then you end up having the same thing happening again. So let's stop that cycle of using pain medications, just to cover up the symptoms. Let's find out what the root cause of the problem is and get it resolved for you so that you can live life headache free. I mean, if you're suffering from, you know, occipital neuralgia or occipital neuralgia with headaches, you know, give us a call at 701-356-0016 or go out to our website at allseasonsintegrative.com and you can click on the schedule now button and schedule your appointment so we can get you evaluated and get you checked out to see what we can do for you to get down to that root cause so that you can live headache free and stop chasing those symptoms. because even long term, you've seen all the medication advertisements on TV. What do these medications even cause? I mean, worst case scenario, death, right? But a lot of them, especially when you're getting into the non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, things like ibuprofen, aspirin, Tylenol, maybe not so much, but you can actually cause problems with your gastrointestinal tract. So all of a sudden, you can have a ton of other issues going on and you're basically, you can get rebound headaches even from these medications. So here the problem is the medication's not even taking so let's try and stop this and at the end I'm gonna give you some different things here that you can even do diet nutrition wise to possibly even help out in the meantime here. So if you have occipital neuralgia, hey, it is a treatable condition and we can get. results because we get to the root cause of the problem so that you can live life headache free. And here's some tips. You know, dietary tips with occipital neuralgia. There's, you know, there might be a few different things going on here. I would say people could probably look at eating things a little bit more on the organic end of the spectrum. You know, some organic beef, especially some of the wild caught salmon and all that. They're gonna have lots of those good essential fatty acids. that can help protect those nerves and keep them healthy. But once we get into some diet nutrition things, the big thing would be to just make sure you have a really good high potency multivitamin or mineral that you're taking. Some of the things to pay attention to there are also to make sure that it has enough B6. That is a huge help to help get these headaches to go away. You wanna get somewhere in between 75 and 100 milligrams of that per day. You probably wanna split the doses up. I usually however tell people to take the B vitamins in the morning because it's gonna act like an energy drink So if you're tired in the morning, this would be something to help you out there Whereas the next one magnesium you want to get about two to six hundred milligrams of that a day Preferably, you know in more like an amino acid bonded form you know literally like magnesium malate magnesium threonate glycinate Because those are gonna be super helpful for you sleeping at night. So I would say maybe take one magnesium in the morning, that's maybe about 200 milligrams, and take two of them at night, just to help you sleep a little bit better at night. Now the big thing is, although we should probably get it checked first, is vitamin D levels. Let's make sure that your vitamin D levels are at an appropriate level here, so that long term, if that happens to be the issue, and you can start taking some vitamin D, I usually tell people to shoot for about 5,000 IUs a day, but again, we need to check your levels first before you. really start getting going on any kind of vitamin D levels there. Just like I talked about before, those fish oils, you know, if you're going to take it in a supplement form, which one to be able to get in is literally one to three grams of what is called EPA and DHA. Those are the smallest essential fatty acids that you can get that are used things for things like your nerves with occipital neuralgia here. There's also use for a lot of other things in your body. So you need to get enough into your body can just repair itself. You never want to be short on any of that. because long term, you're just going to have more and more neurological things kind of going on in your life. Oh, the big thing is just, you know, make sure you get plenty of protein in cause that can be helpful here. This might be not going to help so much with occipital neurology here, but everybody needs to get plenty of protein in. Another thing is just look at getting in some kind of antioxidants, you know, plant based antioxidant could be grapeseed extract, could be pine bark extract or any other flavonoid rich, Foods some of them could be you know, I always tell people to eat the rainbow and I'm not talking about skittles I'm talking about Eating eating the rainbow with vegetables and fruits in your diet So one of the highest ones that will give you the biggest boost there as far as orac which is a Oxygen rich antioxidant. I can't remember the darn thing for a But literally it's going to help pull some of the extra oxygen. So like when your body's starting to rust, you know, so these foods like prunes is the biggest one there. On the vegetable side is kale. So eating some of those in your diet could be super helpful here in helping your body just get rid of any inflammation that's kind of going on or that rust that just constantly wears down on a person's body. So I hope those tips helped and you know, please listen in next week here. I'm gonna continue with these here. Hopefully with a little bit more of a functional medicine slant and things that you can be doing for yourself at home so that you can Finally feel good and live your full potential This is dr. Paul Beckham with the extraordinary health podcast. Talk to you next week.

"How I Do It: Occipital Nerve Stimulator Implant Procedure Guidance" by by Alexander Nurre, MD, Haider Ali, MD, Maddassir Sana, MBBS, Maged Guirguis, MD, and Yashar Eshraghi, MD, ASRA Pain Medicine President. From ASRA Pain Medicine News, August 2023. See original article at www.asra.com/august23news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.   

Pujya Sir K.C.Narayana ( KCN ) Messages  (Meditation, Raja Yoga, Training, Spirituality, PAM - Pranahuti Aided Meditation, Divinity, Divine Service & Research, Babuji Disciple) Pujya Sri Ramchandraji's Disciple & Founder of  “Institute of Sri RamChandra Consciousness”  *Messages delivered by Pujya Sir K.C.Narayana ( KCN ), Hyderabad, India.  Dedicated his life for the Spiritual service of Pujya Sri Ramchandraji's Pranahuti Aided Meditation, Research, Meditation Trainings, Audio Messages, Books & SatSangh   For Meditation Info Contact: www.sriramchandra.in  Biography: kcnarayana.org Episode Notes: Path of Pain. K.C.Narayana. Paper presented during the seminar on Suffering is the root and results are flowers. 1. One of the meanings of the Sanskrit word ‘saha' is "to endure, to go patiently through hardships without rebelling." The process of enlightenment has always been held as an unquestionably painful process. This enlightenment comes only after disillusionment about the permanency of objects and relationships we have some how got involved with. Sahaja therefore would mean that which arises from enduring the suffering process accepting everything as a gift of God. The attitude of taking miseries as blessings for our good is cultivated only through assiduous practice and this obviously is not a gift which many seekers somehow feel they are entitled to. Genuine spiritual life and progress in the same has never been popular, and never will be, because most people are unwilling to open to and accept pain. 2. I find Masters' greatness from a very practical angle is the acknowledgment of pain or suffering or misery in life and sharing his agony and pain. This was the first noble truth of Lord Buddha. This acknowledgment of pain and suffering as true of life is fundamental to the spiritual growth. That these sufferings arise out of desires and wishes is the knowledge one gains in the process of spiritual development. Master says” There are miseries all around for the embodied one. Even then, we remain so much attached to the body that this thing does not forsake us up to the end, and we even wish to be born again. It matters little that the wish is for being born in a prosperous home or in a royal family, since, as soon as the Name (Individualized Existence) has arisen, my brethren, misery would start, in howsoever subtle mould, it might be cast.” 3. For any sadhaka it is obvious that our pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses or covers as a veil our understanding. It is quite conceivable that not only is pain a necessary aspect of the spiritual process, but that to consciously enter into and experience suffering is the doorway to a more profound understanding of reality, something to even be sought after. This is what Master said: “It is good to be put to worries. The home is the training centre for submission and endurance. To put up patiently with the day-to-day events of life is the highest form of penance and sacrifice. So, instead of anger and resentment, one must cultivate in himself a meek temperament. Meekness refers to that feeling of mind in which, on being rebuked by others, one feels his own self to be at fault, and for which he has to yield to what is meted out to him. For others, aloofness, solitude and dissociation might be the means for cultivating contentment, endurance and freedom from the entanglements of life, whereas for us, to put up with the taunts and rebukes of the family, friends and society, is the greatest form of penance and sacrifice.” 4. In fact in spirituality we understand through of course a very painful process that the things which we considered as pain and that which we considered as cruel and demonic is infact the very thing that is the very door of liberation. These are the thorns that lead us to the flowers of the garden as Master puts it. “When we feel ourselves to be doer, difficulty comes in the way. Of course thistles and thorns also bear beautiful flowers, which please the eye and fill the heart with joy. Even so, in case, God is the flower of His own tree, we enjoy God and not the tree to that extent.” There is in reality no other way out. The circumstances that we consider as generating pain in us in fact only generates ‘heat' and that is felt as pain. It is heat of reality that is not pleasant to the uninitiated in spirituality. Initiation in fact actually involves the process of inviting pain through the most supreme consciousness of humility in accepting the will of Master in every walk of life. As Master put it to me once the process of initiation starts from the aspirant and the process of giving ‘diksha' by the gurus is a farce and many times a fraud. 5. In fact all mental process that we have in the states of Moodha, Kshipta, Vikshipta, Ekagra Vrtti and Samadhan, there is always a point of heat, and we experience that as pain or restlessness. It may be surprising to some that I have included in the painful process even the state of Samadhan or settled-ness. In the path to Infinity there arises a condition when we move on even after the state of peace to a state of restlessness in peace. Master puts it as”Many a man must have had a taste of the condition of peace. Let us now taste the former (restlessness) for a spark of which one might be ready to forego a thousand states of peace and calmness. This is in fact the foundation of the entire structure which brings forth rare personalities into the world.” My revered father used to say that this is another Dawn. It's the place where reality is coming up above the horizon where it is at dawn, and that very Dawn becomes our point of orientation. 6. The point to understand is that the Master is infact not asking us to seek suffering, but is saying that we have to look for the heat. This is what was sought to be explained by him in his First Commandment and this of course gets understood only by those who are blessed with the condition of that heat at Dawn- a heat that is not that of the celestial star Sun but that of Reality. That is the heat of activity nearer the Centre or Tam. That state becomes totally unattainable without going through suffering and pain: we learn that Pain is the great teacher or guru who through the lessons of tolerance and fortitude and Gairat teaches us to appreciate and love the heat of Reality. For those who are not advanced but yet get glimpses of the condition obtaining in the Central region it is common to feel the uncomfortable feeling in the Occipital prominence. 7. In a reasonably successful person there is a huge area of self-satisfaction and so far so good. But then when difficulties and miseries engulf him there develops an area where there is a crack in the door of ego. And it is through that crack alone does the bright light come and it is not all that pleasant in the beginning; it is in fact very irritating. Slowly when the cracks increase and more light starts pouring in through the crevices in the Ego we start learning to look for the same with eagerness and are in fact we wait for such light beams as may drown us. From this state we learn that the light is really inviting us to find our way out and we find the doors of the Ego are now open to go yonder. 8. This is one of the most important lessons in sadhana: to look for the crack in the shell of Ego where there is a bright light coming through. It is too bright and it is irritating and it is painful, but that is the way out. If we do not do this exercise ourselves the masters help us making the cracks bigger and larger through lessons that are equally painful to learn and understand. Many miss the opportunities provided thus because of the thickness and roughness of their shells. 9. Thus the very thing that spiritual aspirants, as well as all other people, should seek but tend to avoid is the exit path of light that is thrown open through the crevices and cracks in the shell of Ego. Paradoxically this is what every one desperately claims to want to locate. In the practice of PAM the experience of light is not uncommon even for the beginners. This is had by just sitting with an open mind waiting for the Divine light to find its way through the Ego shell. It does come, we know. 10. In the process all the dirt and unwholesome ideas and desires are basically thrown up. Instead of keeping quiet we seem to run in search of our broom to sweep them away. They are inconvenient and unpleasant but they are ours and we should learn to sit quiet in their midst and in fact live through it. This pain in meditation and in real life is something we should stoically endure. When Master said be unmindful of the thoughts that arise during meditation and treat them as uninvited guests he was asking us to develop this attitude of tolerance to our own mistakes and follies which fry up through the crevices in our Ego structure during meditation. 11. When Master said that in the past saints sought for pain as against the present day attitude of shunning it he was emphasizing the fact that this pain is so crucial to one's spiritual understanding that if one is not in touch with it their practice should be to intentionally look for and relate to the pain in any situation. When pain is understood as the means to develop humility which in turn makes us remember the Master so long as the pain persists, it becomes something that we earnestly seek for. Only then it gets treated as a gift from the Lord. Such an awareness of the pain as a blessing is what the Master was emphasizing in the fifth Commandment. 12. It may be surprising if I were to say that in our tradition, pain is the vanguard of enlightenment. Pain is ego's response to Reality. This should be understood well and the lives of our Masters are a lesson for us to contemplate and understand this basic truth. However if our life is in an environment that is ninety-nine percent happiness and one percent pain we should know that the pain actually represents reality to us and the happiness the illusion in life. The pain is what we need to look for and find. 13. If our meditations are disturbing it is really helping us to search for reality. If however it is always satisfying we should know we are stuck and we should find out how we can become restless. We should understand the content of consciousness during meditations and in other situations and be aware of the whole context and should not try to perpetuate the blissful or peaceful condition. We may have to actually relate to the pain in the bliss. This is the call for the condition of non peace-peace about which Master talks so much. It is our experience that there is no perfect happiness, even in a so-called bliss state and there is always a shadow. 14. I know that every time I have experienced something like bliss, there was at least the fear or apprehension of losing it somewhere on the periphery of that experience. I have learnt to pay a lot of attention to the shadows in such situations I was in and always yielded to the Master in the most submissive manner. It is not because of any masochistic tendency to torture myself, but because such shadows represents the earth, that's the ground. No one can ever manage his own shadow and there lies the need to surrender. We find that Pain is not only the way out, but the way in and down. That is the reason thinkers like Plato have asked us not to look up the screen to which the light is getting projected where we see our own shadows but to turn back to the Sun from whom the light is emanating. Such a Sun is what we have in our Master and we should turn towards him and not the shadows. 15. Otherwise our spiritual life can easily become imbalanced and fixated at a certain point if the bright aspect of Truth or God is not balanced with its shadow aspect. In the story of Kunti the mother of the Pandavas of Maha Bharat we see her knowing the value of contemplating on her own misery, which brings balance and humility to the exalted states of communion with the Lord and in the end abundance- prosperity that is just and due to her. 16. This is the most important lesson that we gain from imperiencing our meditations: the knowledge of oneself and the cause of our bondages leading to misery. It is then we understand that all the favors which Master has granted us are invariably enwrapped in the knowledge of the emptiness of our faculties compared with the abundance which our psyche experienced. Thus we recognize our own lowliness and misery, which in the time of our prosperity we were unable to comprehend. 17. When this humility and lowliness of our being is imperienced then the sweetness and pleasures of meditation and prayer are found to give us some degree of strength in our connection with Master. In fact Master then appears to desire to lead us further, wherein we can commune with Him more intimately and abundantly. It is in such poverty of Ego that we commune and when we are thrown into circumstances where there is a play of great pleasures, and we fool ourselves that we are then having the Divine favor shining most brightly upon us, we find that Master has in fact has set us down into darkness and has shut the door to the springs of divine nectar which we were tasting in the company of the Master whenever and as long as we desired. 18. The pain that God gives is His gift, and not His curse, as it is so often felt to be. This clinging to the Master is not an eternal feature of our spiritual life. Once we have learnt the lessons that poverty teaches and humility is firmly established we become capable of managing ourselves. The sadhaka then earns the privilege of being placed down from the safe arms of communion with Master and this is the stage of the Prapanna Prabhu. The communion is available yet one feels one knows the mind of the Master in such a way he finds it easy to perform without permission. 19. One cannot have a full spiritual life if one has not come to terms with one's pain. Life is painful anyway. Pain can be temporarily evaded or drugged or resisted, but it cannot ultimately be avoided. There is pain in "neurotic suffering," which is the way we ordinarily think of pain, and there is also the pain of suffering for Master, or suffering with humanity. They are very different types of suffering, but both are suffering; and whereas neurotic suffering only perpetuates itself, suffering for Master, or enlightened suffering, serves all of humanity. 20. Many harbor the belief that in order to serve humanity, one must know humanity: in fact one needs to know the Divinity to serve humanity. This is an important aspect of life that tends to be neglected by all. By realizing the potentiality for divinity in every human being we attend to the task of developing the divine resource in humanity. Verily in that lies the solution to the problem of human beings- almost living in continuous warfare, conflict and strife. We need to explore great depths of suffering and the causes there of so that the problem of life is squarely dealt: this is what Master taught. 21. The Master said “Many of the associates write to me about their troubles and want me to remove them. To them, as also to all others, I would say that the trouble reminds us of its silent stage. We get comfort in the state of discomfort. We remember it when it's opposite is there. In this way, we develop forbearance and a little bit of peace also.” Our sufferings are due to the binds that we have in the various planes of our existence. We have the divine realm of love and that is our plus point. We need to strengthen the same. We also have the human realm which comprises of jealousy, hatred, and host of other negative intentions; we have the realm of the animal, the hungry ghost realm and possibly a hell realm too! The full range of human experience is included in such realms. 22. All civilizations so far have only tried to explore the realms other than the divine all these ages and we are still exploring them. The more we explored into the non divine realms the more we have ourselves got exposed to the dangers of those realms and we have as if put a time bomb on our pockets to annihilate ourselves. The modern day phenomena of human time bombs just to seek satisfaction of hatred and animosity are only a tip of the ice berg. This type of suffering grants no spiritual lessons unless we remember the pledge of our Master that the things will change for the better and he is there to ensure human progress into the divine realms. The limits of human degradation need to be known and felt before a conscious decision is taken to change for the better. And that is a quite a lesson for us to learn! 23. We have to go through all of those experiences in order to be helpful to other people. We need to know the limits of suffering and also the limits of endurance. Then only we can claim a certain amount of eligibility to help others. If we are resistant to suffering what endurance can we teach others? If we were looking for some kind of state of mind, call it a state of bliss only and do not know anything of the suffering during and after meditation we will be least fitted for a serious study of the states in meditation and consequent exercises in ‘imperience'. If some one were to ask me "Have you ever been in the state of confusion struggling with lower order mental vrttis?" My answer would be "Of course." If any one further asked me "What did you do then?” my answer would be "Tried to stay there ignoring all other thoughts than the divine light which any way was not there". I understood that attitude is staying with Reality whatever it might be. I have a lesson learnt there that if I can be settled in such a state I can be in any other place and circumstance. 24. To remain fixed on the thought of the divine light when we are bombarded with impulses emanating from the lower animal and ghost realms of consciousness are tough. This suffering is the worst mental plane suffering that we learn to endure with the help of the Pranahuti in our system. But that does not by itself nullify the suffering and in fact we learn to appreciate and evaluate the spectrum of suffering we have and thereby develop a stoic attitude along with the development of faith in the Master. 25. The lesson that is taught in such a suffering during meditations is to be in the thought of the Master: the only thing that is to be learned. We learn very few things that really matter: we need to learn only to be with our Master, as He wills, not as we will. It is really all the grace of Master, that such experiences are given. That it is felt by us as pain or suffering is our reaction to the heat of such learning. In all this He reveals a part of Himself, and sometimes we are allowed to witness a little bit of it, a peep into it but most of the time nothing that we understand. Mostly it would be too difficult to make sense of such suffering which certain times border on agony and anguish. While reviewing our pettiness in our behavior, thinking and attitudes and treatments to fellow beings and hanging our heads in shame we find still the presence of the Master "There"- where we ourselves loath to live. There is so much love, so much intimacy, and then we wake up after the meditation. That presence of the Master that is imperienced helps us to go to work and attend to whatever we have to do that day. 26. It is often funny that when we get too far in this path and live in a state of constant remembrance where the Master's presence is felt we get a knock at the door and we are given a tax-bill that needs to be cleared immediately. We are also ordinary human beings who live in this world with all of the limitations of this world. During meditations/imperience we are so free, it is so limitless, and here the concrete world poses problems that are not always easy to tackle. We learn that impatience does not work and stoic attitude alone saves the situation. Problems have a knack of getting solved on their own and few realize this! Or more appropriately it is Time that heals all wounds and solve all problems. 27. If the situation is totally helpless all that we should do is to be helpless. We need to stand ‘naked' before Master and he knows what to do. Many sadhakas entertain an idea that with the spiritual life, there will be an increase in the amount of happy experiences and a decrease in the amount of unhappy experiences in life. Most often it is the other way about. In fact there is nothing like happy and unhappy experiences: for a sincere seeker the difference is in the way in which he lives those experiences. In such cases the whole mental sphere is oriented to the Master with no concern for the self and its pains and pleasures. The roots of pain then remind us of the Master as also their result the ‘flowers'. The pain then is no torture and the fragrance is no pleasure. In such a state of balance; and only in such a state we can say that the fragrance of the flowers of Chit Lake (Manasarovar) which is turned towards the Divine always, is experienced.  

Based on the availability of new literature, the current article is a minor update only that does not result in modification of the prior recommendations: Clinicians may use ONS as a treatment option for patients with medically refractory ON. J. Bradley Elder, MD Michael D. Staudt, MD, MSc Jorge Ahmed, MD

Frontal bone (Latin: os frontale) - This is the bone that forms the forehead and the roof of the orbits. The word "frontal" comes from the Latin word "frons," which means "forehead." Parietal bones (Latin: ossa parietalia) - These are the two bones that form the sides and top of the skull. The word "parietal" comes from the Latin word "paries," which means "wall." Temporal bones (Latin: ossa temporalia) - These are the bones that form the sides and base of the skull. They contain the middle ear and the temporalis muscle. The word "temporal" comes from the Latin word "tempus," which means "time." Occipital bone (Latin: os occipitale) - This is the bone that forms the back of the skull and the base of the foramen magnum, which is the opening through which the spinal cord passes. The word "occipital" comes from the Latin word "occeps," which means "back of the head." Sphenoid bone (Greek: σφηνοειδές, sphēnoeidēs) - This is a complex bone that forms the middle of the skull. It contains the sella turcica, which is the depression that houses the pituitary gland. The word "sphenoid" comes from the Greek word "σφηνός," sphênos, which means "wedge." Ethmoid bone (Greek: ἔθμον, ethmos) - This is a small bone that forms the roof of the nasal cavity and the floor of the anterior cranial fossa. The word "ethmoid" comes from the Greek word "ἔθμος," ethmos, which means "sieve." Zygomatic bones (Greek: ζυγοειδής, zygoeidēs) - These are the two bones that form the prominence of the cheeks. The word "zygomatic" comes from the Greek word "ζυγον," zygon, which means "yoke." Maxillae (Latin: maxillae) - These are the two bones that form the upper jaw and contain the upper teeth. The word "maxillae" comes from the Latin word "maxilla," which means "jaw." Mandible (Latin: mandibula) - This is the largest bone in the face. It forms the lower jaw and contains the lower teeth. The word "mandible" comes from the Latin word "mandere," which means "to chew." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-connerly/support

Dr Isabelle Adant follows up on a recent review on ATP7A with the case of a neonate presenting with occipital horn syndrome. Neonatal presentation of occipital horn syndrome caused by a ATP7A missense variant Isabelle Adant, et al https://doi.org/10.1002/jimd.12621

The Therapy Insights Resource Roadmap Show is a monthly talk show all about the new content we release every month- from therapy materials to eval tools to patient education handouts and more. Join us as we discuss how to use these resources and we discuss various approaches to clinical cases.00:00 - WelcomeWelcome to episode 03 of the Resource Roadmap Show!02:47 - Cough…Is it Strong Enough?This resource explains the physiological process of a cough, how to measure cough strength, and why an adequate peak expiratory flow rate is important.https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/coughis-it-strong-enough11:45 - The Use of Cough Peak Flow in the Assessment of Respiratory Function in Clinical Practice - A Narrative Literature Review (2022)https://therapyinsights.com/article-snapshots/the-use-of-cough-peak-flow-in-the-assessment-of-respiratory-function-in-clinical-practice-a-narrative-literature-review-202215:45 - The Five Components of Dysarthria This resource explores the five components considered when a speech therapist evaluates and treats dysarthria. https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/the-five-components-of-dysarthria19:05 - Model of AttentionThis resource defines the distinct yet interrelated subcomponents of attention.https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/model-of-attention27:19 - Environmental Swallowing Considerations for People with Dementia There are many adjustments that care partners can implement to improve the feeding environment for people with dementia. https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/environmental-swallowing-considerations-for-people-with-dementia31:41 - Using Backward Design in Dysphagia Management: A Paradigm Shift Toward More Culturally Responsive Care (2022)https://therapyinsights.com/article-snapshots/using-backward-design-in-dysphagia-management-a-paradigm-shift-toward-more-culturally-responsive-care-202237:02 - Impairments of Occipital Lobe StrokesThis resource provides basic education regarding functional impairment related to occipital lobe strokes.https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/impairments-of-occipital-lobe-strokes44:39 - Case StudyJoe is a 72 yo male with COPD who is frequently re-admitted to the hospital due to what the doctor refers to as “non-compliance with medications.” You note that while Joe doesn't have a neurological diagnosis, the OT shares with the team that he scored a 19/30 on the MOCA and it's unclear if he is “non-compliant,” or simply unable to manage his medications successfully at home. Joe isn't currently on your caseload.45:34 - Medication Management AidsWith the complexity and number of medications administered following brain injury, other diagnoses, or general cognitive and physical decline with aging, it can be difficult for a person to manage their medications independently. Unfortunately, many people do not have the supervision or assistance needed 24/7 to assist with this skill. This handout provides a variety of aids including smart device applications, medication boxes, and pharmacy programs for medication administration that may help a person be more independent with medications.https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/medication-management-aids/48:04 - Types of Acquired Brain InjuryThis handout is targeted for patients, staff, and caregivers, and outlines five major causes of acquired brain injury, including strokes, tumors, infections, brain hemorrhage, and loss of oxygen.https://therapyinsights.com/clinical-resources/types-of-acquired-brain-injury51:44 - Patient Non-Compliance: Deviance or Reasoned Decision-Making? Can be accessed via Google Scholar.55:28 - A Brief Comparison of Medical Modelshttps://therapyinsights.com/free-downloads/

In this episode Dr. Taves explains the diagnosis of Occipital Neuralgia, a sharp/burning/stabbing pain in the backside of your head and top part of your neck. He provides next steps, stretches and tools for taking control of your health and healing if you have been diagnosed with Occipital Neuralgia. Novera: Headache Center

In episode 17 of the Exiled Minds Podcast we look to the stars and peer deep into the darkness to find the abyss. And in this case it does indeed stare back and shows us ourselves. How curious? This needs checking out! Inspired by the works of Santos Bonnaci we take an overview journey through Biochemistry, Alchemy and Astrology. Follow here: https://linktr.ee/exiledminds Please support: Help improve the show if you find anything of value, share, and subscribe plus you can donate here. Cash App: £Rohanno6 Paypal: https://paypal.me/exiledm?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GBhttps://paypal.me/exiledm?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Links: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tria_prima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah) https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism/7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/extraordinary-meridian https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326621 https://quotefancy.com/quote/1598392/Proclus-The-light-of-the-Sun-is-the-pure-energy-of-intellect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenoid_bone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bone https://www.dana.org/article/why-the-white-brain-matters/ https://www.iflscience.com/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal-life-31083 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-martin31/message

In this episode of the Exiled Minds Podcast we look to the stars and peer deep into the darkness to find the abyss. And in this case it does indeed stare back and shows us ourselves. How curious? This needs checking out! Inspired by the works of Santos Bonnaci we take an overview journey through Biochemistry, Alchemy and Astrology. Follow here: Telegram Channel - https://t.me/+b6GFW6GFlctiZjQ8 Discord Server - https://discord.gg/ugTQd8MZ Twitter Feed - https://twitter.com/exiled_minds Wisdom.audio - https://wisdom.app/exiled_minds Support: Cash App: £Rohanno6 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=TCTV8RJFRKMBL Links: http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/detail.aspx?id=611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy https://www.google.com/search?q=Chakras&client=opera&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjP__aFvsD8AhXPiFwKHWK9DacQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1880&bih=931&dpr=1 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tria_prima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warriors_Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_life_(Kabbalah) https://www.britannica.com/topic/number-symbolism/7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medulla_oblongata https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/extraordinary-meridian https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326621 https://quotefancy.com/quote/1598392/Proclus-The-light-of-the-Sun-is-the-pure-energy-of-intellect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenoid_bone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital_bone https://www.dana.org/article/why-the-white-brain-matters/ https://www.iflscience.com/man-tiny-brain-lived-normal-life-31083 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/liam-martin31/message

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.01.514715v1?rss=1 Authors: Fernandez, A., Hanning, N. M., Carrasco, M. Abstract: Covert endogenous (voluntary) attention improves visual performance. Human neuroimaging studies suggest that the putative human homolog of macaque FEF (FEF+) is critical for this improvement, whereas early visual areas are not. Yet, MRI methods are correlational, as they do not manipulate brain function. Here we investigated whether rFEF+ or V1/V2 play a causal role in endogenous attention. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to alter activity in visual cortex (Exp.1) or rFEF+ (Exp.2) when observers performed an orientation discrimination task while attention was manipulated. On every trial, they received double-pulse TMS at a predetermined site (stimulated region) around the occipital pole or the rFEF+. Two cortically magnified gratings were presented, one in the stimulated region (contralateral to the stimulated cortical area) and another in the symmetric (ipsilateral) non-stimulated region. Grating contrast was varied to measure contrast response functions (CRFs) for all attention and stimulation combinations. In Exp.1, the CRFs were similar at the stimulated and non-stimulated regions, indicating that early visual areas do not modulate endogenous attention during stimulus presentation. In contrast, occipital TMS eliminates exogenous (involuntary) attention effects on performance (1). In Exp.2, rFEF+ stimulation decreased the overall attentional effect; neither benefits at the attended location nor cost at the unattended location were significant. This pattern is mimicked in the frequency and directionality of microsaccades: Whereas occipital stimulation did not affect microsaccades, rFEF+ stimulation caused a higher microsaccade rate selectively directed toward the stimulated hemifield. These results provide causal evidence of the role of this frontal region for endogenous attention. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

 OcciGuide is a revolutionary device that enables clinicians to provide specialized headache relief for many headache types including migraine and post traumatic headache. With OcciGuide, emergency room, urgent care, and primary care providers can provide guided occipital nerve blocks for fast, localized non-opioid pain relief. OcciGuide helps any practitioner to accurately and consistently perform occipital nerve blocks by locating the pathway of the occipital nerves.  With Occiguide, all providers can deliver quick pain relief and patients can get back to life. Occipital nerve block, a proven headache relief treatment, typically hasn't been available in the emergency or primary care setting. With OcciGuide, you can receive this powerful headache treatment when you need it. Whether that's at the emergency room or from your primary care physician, you can get the fast, effective headache relief you deserve.https://www.occiguide.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jillian-fink-41764aa8/ Podcast Link: https://link.chtbl.com/FemTechFocusSocial HandlesLinkedin: @FemTech Focus @Brittany BarretoTwitter: @Femtech_Focus @DrBrittBInstagram: @FemTechFocus @DrBrittanyBarretoFacebook: @FemTech Focus @Dr. Brittany BarretoFemTech Focus Bio:FemTech Focus is a 501c3 non-profit organization founded to bring awareness externally and internally for the FemTech industry and to empower the key stakeholders including entrepreneurs, investors, physicians, governments, and biopharma with resources and research to elevate women's health and wellness globally. Subscribe and Donate: www.femtechfocus.orgFemTech Focus Podcast Description:The FemTech Focus Podcast with Dr. Brittany Barreto is a meaningfully provocative conversational series that brings women's health experts - including doctors, scientists, inventors, and founders - on air to talk about the innovative technology, services, and products that are improving women, female, and girl's health and wellness, collectively known as FemTech. The podcast gives the host, Dr. Brittany Barreto, and guests an engaging, friendly environment to learn about the past, present, and future of women's health and wellness. 

Trigeminal Neuralgia is commonly known as Suicide Disease because it causes painful nervous sensations in the head. At their most desperate moments, they are pushed to think about the unthinkable to free themselves from their suffering. Dr. Jeff Scott, a Blair upper cervical doctor at Montclair Upper Cervical, joins Dr. Kevin Pecca to talk about the primary causes of this dreadful disease, which are usually little habits that accumulate over time. Dr. Kevin explains how Trigeminal Neuralgia can be carefully treated through upper cervical care and chiropractic methods. He also discusses Occipital Neuralgia, another type of Neuralgia that runs around the back of the skull and results in an equally painful experience.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join Expect Miracles community today:drkevinpecca.comMontclair Upper Cervical Chiropractic FacebookDr. Kevin Pecca InstagramEmail Dr. Kevin Pecca

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.09.21.508882v1?rss=1 Authors: Vigue-Guix, I., Soto-Faraco, S. Abstract: Spontaneous oscillatory neural activity can influence the processing of incoming sensory input and subsequent behavioural reactions. Spontaneous oscillatory activity mostly appears in stochastic bursts, but typical trial-averaged approaches fail to capture this. We aimed at relating oscillatory bursts in the alpha band (8-13 Hz) to behaviour directly, via an EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) that allowed for burst-triggered stimulus presentation in real-time in a visual detection task. According to alpha theories, we hypothesised that targets presented during alpha-bursts should lead to slower responses and higher miss rates, whereas targets presented in the absence of bursts should lead to faster responses and higher false alarm rates. Our findings support the role of bursts in alpha-oscillations in visual perception and exemplify how real-time BCI systems can be used as a test bench for brain-behavioural theories. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by PaperPlayer

The Occipital Lobes are the backmost lobes of the human brain. They sit above the cerebellum but behind the parietal and temporal lobes and are separated by the parieto-occipital sulcus and the preoccipital notch. They help us in our visual processing--whether that be in terms of motion, content, distance, depth, or color. In this fast-facts episode, Edward reviews the Occipital Lobes' form and function, as well as the key features that make us who we are.To create this episode, I used information provided by Queensland Health, which can be found here:  https://www.health.qld.gov.au/abios/asp/boccipitalNote: I referred to this episode as the 12th episode in the fourth season. It should've been the 11th episode in the fourth season. Sorry!No statement, phrase, or episode of this series—or any episode in this podcast—are intended to treat, diagnose, cure, prevent, or otherwise change your mind or body in any form or manner. This podcast—and this series especially—is meant purely for education purposes for the common person. Please do not rely on any of the information I share in this podcast in any way for your medical or psychological treatment. If you feel that you may have a condition mentioned or not mentioned in this podcast, do not come to me. Instead, immediately go to a trusted psychiatrist, psychologist, therapist, counselor, or other reliable source of information and help for further guidance. Never disregard professional, psychological, or medical advice—nor delay in the seeking of this advice—because of something that you have heard or read from this podcast, this podcast's episode descriptions, this podcast's promotional materials, or any other information explicitly or implicitly generated from this podcast.-----If you love this podcast, show your support by rating, subscribing, and downloading!  The best way to support me is by sharing this podcast with others—the more people can learn, the better we can understand the crazy world we live in :D

“As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible—there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.” Hilary Swank On the episode you will learn: The Neuroscience behind ✔ Why our dreams are so weird, highly emotional and often forgotten. ✔ With a BRAIN STRATEGY you can use to improve your waking life, with your brain and sleep in mind. For returning guests, welcome back, and for those who are new here, I'm Andrea Samadi, author, and educator, with a passion for learning, understanding difficult concepts, and breaking them down so that we can all use and apply the most current research to improve our productivity and results in our schools, sports environments, and modern workplaces. On today's EPISODE #226 and Brain Fact Friday, we are going to dive deeper into the research of Dr. Baland Jalal, who has studied the phenomenon of sleep paralysis and dreams for the past decade, and see what we can learn from our brain, while dreaming. To do this, we are going to review what's happening to the brain during sleep paralysis, and during our REM/dream state to see what we can learn from this understanding. I hope this will open up our level of awareness and help us to understand how our dream world can impact our everyday, waking world. What is Sleep Paralysis? Dr. Jalal and I discussed this terrifying experience in depth on our recent interview, episode #224[i] and most of us can relate to this experience, but wonder what it is, and why it happens, in addition to many other questions I had about dreams themselves. You can see Dr. Jalal's lectures on this topic, where he explains what happens to our brain when we sleep and that we even see things we might say were ghosts. Now that I have heard Dr. Jalal's explanation of what happens to our brains when we are dreaming, I definitely think of my brain now, when analyzing my dreams, with this new awareness. Which brings us to this week's Brain Fact Friday where I want to explore sleep paralysis, why dreams are so weird, and why are they highly emotional, and do this, with our brain in mind. SLEEP PARALYSIS DID YOU KNOW that during REM sleep (when we dream) there's a part of the brain in the brain stem that paralyzes the body to keep us (and our sleeping partner) safe[ii] and another part of our brain (the cortex) that's responsible for our perceptual awareness. Occasionally, we can wake up when we are still in REM sleep, and are perceptually aware, but unable to move as we are paralyzed. This is sleep paralysis, and can feel terrifying, if you have no idea what's going on. I learned from Dr. Jalal that in this state we can also see what we think is a ghost, or which he explains is “an illusion that your brain creates” in the Temporal Parietal Junction (that's close to our Occipital or Visual Lobe) that can project a sense of our self, outside of our body. Have you ever felt or seen something like this and thought it was a ghost? Seeing something like this, paired up with feeling paralyzed can be a terrifying experience as I told him in the interview, and he agreed, with his own sleep paralysis experience. Then, our brain doesn't like the feeling of incompleteness and it will make up a story of what you are seeing. Dr. Jalal explains that in all of the years he has done this work, he has found that our cultural background can influence what we think we are seeing. It took me some time to make the connection, but the ghost I saw, was not far off from an 18th Century Englishman, or even someone wearing the outfits of the guards at Buckingham Palace. I did grow up with a photo of the Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip in my house, and this made me think it could have been the reason why my ghost was of British decent when I was actually in a house in Vancouver, Canada. My brain created this image from a past, cultural memory. WHY ARE DREAMS SO WEIRD? DID YOU KNOW that there's a part of our brain called the Dorsolateral PFC[iii] (a region of the frontal lobes associated with executive functions like working memory and attention) (Curtis and D'Esposito, 2003) that put concepts together in a meaningful way in our life—and that during REM sleep, or when we are dreaming, this part of the brain “shuts off”[iv] so we aren't usually aware that we are dreaming? If you have ever thought “that dream felt so real” this is the reason why, and it also explains why everything in our dreams is messed up and backwards. One minute we are on a bus with friends we haven't seen in years, you grab one of your friends' hand, jump off the bus, and go to the movies, and the next minute, you are back in your childhood home, drinking tea. This is one of my bizarre dreams, and I'm sure you can relate with your dreams. Now that I understand Dr. Jalal's explanation of the part of my brain that puts concepts together in a meaningful way, shutting down during REM sleep, I can clearly see why everything in my dream is disjointed and doesn't make much linear sense. WHY ARE DREAMS FILLED WITH STRONG EMOTION, PAST MEMORIES AND PEOPLE? DID YOU KNOW that during the REM state, or while we are dreaming, that “four areas of the brain fire up: the visual spatial regions (that help people to find their way around the world), the motor cortex (creates movement in the body), the hippocampus (our memory center) and amygdala (that processes strong emotions like fear, pleasure or anger)” “Which is why dreams are often filled with movement, strong emotions, past memories, people, experiences and are irrational.” Mathew Walker[v] tells us on his podcast that's all about why we dream. If you can keep a dream log, over time you can see what's going on in your waking hours, and learn from your dreams. Usually our concerns, worries and fears will show up in our dreams in some way, and you can solve them once you are aware of what they are. To conclude this week's Brain Fact Friday, that came from our recent interview with the world's leading expert on sleep paralysis, Dr. Baland Jalal, we took a closer look at the neuroscience of our dream world, explaining why our dreams are so weird, often highly emotional and what we can learn from them. I have four brain tips to make what we have learned about our brain when we sleep, useful in our daily life. UNDERSTANDING SLEEP PARALYSIS: Once we know what sleep paralysis is, that our brain paralyzes our body to keep us safe, then we can understand what might happen if we become perceptually aware during our REM sleep, and stuck between our sleep and wake state. BRAIN TIP FOR THIS FACT: OUR BRAIN DOESN'T LIKE CONFLICT OR INCOMPLETENESS: So figure out what your story is, if you have had a sleep paralysis experience and it's left you feeling unsettled. I explained my British ghost that my brain created as an illusion to tell the story and fill in the blanks of the unknown. What was YOUR sleep paralysis experience, and how can YOU  make sense of it?   WHY ARE DREAMS SO WEIRD AND OFTEN FORGOTTEN: Since we now know the Dorsolateral PFC, the front part of our brain associated with memory, attention and putting things together in a meaningful way in our life, shuts down during REM sleep, we can now understand why dreams are so weird and events that happen are all over the place. If the part of our brain responsible for our memory is turned off, this explains why “95% of our dreams we don't remember” but we might remember the last few minutes, and last stage of our dreams if we are intentional about it. BRAIN TIP FOR THIS FACT: REPEAT TO REMEMBER: (which is John Medina's Brain Rule #5).[vi] If you want to improve this number see if you can remember your dreams when you wake up. Write them down before you do anything else, or they will be forgotten. Sometimes I'm not even awake yet, and I repeat the dream in my head while I'm brushing my teeth, to help me to remember and write it down when I can. Also, it will help if you are intentional about this practice and say “I will remember my dream” before you go to sleep at night. LEARN WHY DREAMS ARE HIGHLY EMOTIONAL: When we know what parts of the brain fire up during REM sleep, especially our amygdala that processes strong emotions, or past memories and experiences, we can now look for messages in our dreams, over time to see what common themes come up. If we can solve the problems that we find in our waking hours, it will help improve the other 1/3 of our life spent in sleep. BRAIN TIP FOR THIS FACT: SLEEP WELL, THINK WELL (John Medina's Brain Rule #7).[vii] Here's the im portance of sleep again. It keeps coming back on this podcast. John Medina writes in his Brain Rules book, that “people vary on how much sleep they need and when they prefer to get it, but the biological need for a nap is universal.” (Medina, Brain Rules)[viii] If there's something bothering you in your waking hours, it will show up in your dreams in some way, and will impact your sleep. To truly sleep well, leading to improved “attention, executive function, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning and even motor dexterity” (Medina) work out your problems, and add a nap to your day to keep your mind operating at its highest levels. While Dr. Jalal does put his neuroscientific mind first with every question I asked him, there were still some questions that he said science couldn't prove, that have a spiritual side. Instead of saying that some things are not possible, he leaves this up to us to keep an open mind, and perhaps in the future, new advancements in science could move us forward so that we could find answers to the spiritual questions of our dreams in a way to benefit our waking life. Until then, I plan to keep on dreaming, and learning as much as I can on this topic to share with you here. I hope you've enjoyed diving deep into sleep paralysis, why our dreams are so weird, and highly emotional with some tips we can all use to take our understanding and awareness to a new level. It really helped me to make sense of my sleep paralysis experience after interviewing Dr. Jalal, and thinking of ways that we can all use what we learned from his research. I do plan to keep an open mind moving forward to see what else I can learn from lucid dreaming, especially as it relates to improving our psychological well-being. See you next week and hope you have sweet dreams this weekend. REFERENCES: [i] Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning Podcast EPISODE #224 with Dr. Baland Jalal on “Expanding our Awareness into the Mysteries of the Brain During Sleep” https://andreasamadi.podbean.com/e/harvard-neuroscientist-drbaland-jalalexplainssleepparalysislucid-dreaming-andpremonitionsexpandingour-awareness-into-the-mysteries-ofourbrainduring-sl/ [ii] Sleep Paralysis https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21974-sleep-paralysis#:~:text=Why%20does%20sleep%20paralysis%20happen,or%20coming%20out%20of%20REM. [iii] Dorsolateral PFC https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/dorsolateral-prefrontal-cortex#:~:text=The%20dorsolateral%20prefrontal%20cortex%20is,Pathways%20in%20Clinical%20Neuropsychiatry%2C%202016 [iv] Neuroscience of Dreams and Sleep Paralysis at Harvard University Published on YouTube Feb. 13, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBL-51kIkc&t=7s [v] Mathew Walker Podcast The Sleep Diplomat https://www.sleepdiplomat.com/podcast [vi] John Medina's Brain Rule #5 Repeat to Remember https://brainrules.net/short-term-memory/#:~:text=Rule%20%235%3A%20Repeat%20to%20remember.&text=Which%20means%2C%20your%20brain%20can,have%20to%20repeat%20to%20remember. [vii] John Medina's Brain Rule #7 Sleep well, think well.

Thank you for joining us for our 2nd Cabral HouseCall of the weekend! I'm looking forward to sharing with you some of our community's questions that have come in over the past few weeks… Afaf: Greetings, Could you kindly answer an inquiry for my dad who was diagnosed with a prostate cancer? He is 78 years old, 5'10 and weighs 150 lbs. The conclusion of the biopsy shows: - Right prostatic biopsy: adenocarcinoma prostatic grade 4 of ISUP, Score of Gleason at 8 (4+4), infiltrating 80% of the examined sample - Left prostatic biopsy: foyer of 2mm of an adenocarcinoma prostatic grade 4 of ISUP, Score of Gleason at 8 (4+4) The test results from the CT scan showed no other organ is damaged along with his bones. His doctor advised to start radio therapy and hormone-therapy. My inquiry is related to the Prostate Support supplementation as I would like to know if it is compatible with the treatment he is about to start. Can he take the supplements while he is ongoing treatment? Otherwise, should these supplements be taken prior to the start of treatment or after? When and what is the best timeframe to take these? Many thanks for your precious advice. Siomara: Hi Dr. Cabral I am a 47 year old female. I've had sleeping issues for years now. I use to take the generic brand of ambien and that didn't make my sleeping issue any better. Every night when I put my head on my pillow the back of my head and neck hurts to the point where I can't sleep. My head feels restless, if that even makes sense. I saw a neurologist and she said I have occipital neuralgia and she poked me with a needle to block the nerve on the back of my head, It didn't work for me. I also went to a pain management doctor and he told me it was stress and prescribed noretriptilyne to relax me at night, that didn't work either. I stopped taking every medication given to me for this problem and I just bare the pain. I've also purchased every pillow imaginable for the head and neck and nothing seems to work. I've changed my lifestyle by eating healthy for the past two years. I am gluten free and eat clean. I've eliminated processed foods and sugar from my diet. I was thinking of going to a chiropractor. Please let me know what you think. I am always so tired because I do not get any sleep. Thanks in advance for your help! Amy: Hello Dr. Cabral, Thank you for all that you do. My husband has had consistently low HDL levels (often in the low 30 mg/dl) despite being of normal weight and without other known risk factors. His father (deceased from a heart attack) and his sister have also both had consistently low HDL (although both were/are overweight). The doctor would advise him to exercise more, which is ironic since my husband runs quite a bit. Having said that my questions are : In an otherwise healthy individual is low HDL something to be concerned about? If it is something of concern, other than increasing exercise might there be some natural ways of raising HDL levels despite a possible genetic connection? Thank you for all you do.  Summer: Hi doc! Question regarding EBV. I'm 32 & had mono around age 15. My health tanked after that until about 5 years ago. My white blood cell count, absolute neutrophils, & absolute monocytes are all low. EBV early antigen D AB (IGG) is 29.4 u/mL, EBV viral capsid AG (VCA) AB (IGG) is 297 U/mL, & EBV nuclear AG (EBNA) AB (IGG) is 191 U/mL. I'm told all the EBV levels are high & that these labs point to chronic active EBV. I've been working diligently for at least 5 years on my health. I've overcome PCOS, PMD, endometriosis, H Pylori, depression, arthritis, migraines, exercise intolerance, regained energy & drive, but still having gut & thyroid issues. I've been overdosed on Bioidentical T3 for a number of years & have recently weaned off & my thyroid has improved dramatically. By the time you answer this I'll be about half done with the CBO protocol. I guess I'm wondering how do I know that the EBV is causing my residual health issues? Should I have addressed the EBV first instead of the gut? I've already been doing most of the things listed in ep. 760 so curious why my levels would still show a problem with EBV. I've worked so hard & feel like I just can't quite get all the way there. I'm struggling with the right order to attack these remaining problems. Thanks so much! Chelsea: Hi Dr. Cabral - question about coffee enemas. Does caffeine get absorbed into the bloodstream when doing a coffee enema? Or can they be done later in the day without caffeine affecting sleep? Isabella: Where does exercise fit in when you're under extreme mental & emotional stress and not getting enough sleep (4-6 hrs) and still have to manage a household with kids and a spouse? I try to eat well, at least 5-7 cups of veggies per day, lean proteins, supplement with Daily Foundation Protocol 2 plus Zinc. I usually do HIIT classes but worry that it may just be adding more stress to my current situation. Thank you for tuning into this weekend's Cabral HouseCalls and be sure to check back tomorrow for our Mindset & Motivation Monday show to get your week started off right! - - - Show Notes & Resources:  http://StephenCabral.com/2277 - - - Dr. Cabral's New Book, The Rain Barrel Effect https://amzn.to/2H0W7Ge - - - Join the Community & Get Your Questions Answered: http://CabralSupportGroup.com - - -  Dr. Cabral's Most Popular At-Home Lab Tests: > Complete Minerals & Metals Test (Test for mineral imbalances & heavy metal toxicity) - - - > Complete Candida, Metabolic & Vitamins Test (Test for 75 biomarkers including yeast & bacterial gut overgrowth, as well as vitamin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Mood & Metabolism Test (Discover your complete thyroid, adrenal, hormone, vitamin D & insulin levels) - - - > Complete Stress, Sleep & Hormones Test (Run your adrenal & hormone levels) - - - > Complete Food Sensitivity Test (Find out your hidden food sensitivities) - - - > Complete Omega-3 & Inflammation Test (Discover your levels of inflammation related to your omega-6 to omega-3 levels)

In this episode, Caroline interviews visual artist Occipital. They discuss Occipital's use of body language and emotion, the origins of Occipital's art style, and the themes in Occipital's work.

Los lóbulos occipitales contienen el principal centro de procesamiento de la información visual. En Clínica Abierta, el Dr. Elmo Rodríguez, doctor en medicina, ofrece sabios consejos de salud, así como efectivos remedios basados en la medicina natural. Su co-animadora, Lorraine Vázquez, mantiene el ameno curso del programa con sus interesantes preguntas y comentarios.

https://entrearchitect.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/KevinStephens-scaled.jpg ()Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App Kevin Stephens started programming on an Apple II+ at the age of four, which established his love of technology. After earning his degree in computer science at the University of California, San Diego, Kevin spent time as a software engineer at Apple before joining Google in its early days. There, he worked on a variety of products and helped build Google's presence internationally. He later co-founded and led Blink, the first consumer ephemeral text messaging app, which was acquired by Yahoo. Kevin subsequently led product teams at GoToMeeting and Thumbtack before joining Occipital as CEO. At Occipital, Kevin leads its two business units: Canvas, a mobile app that saves home improvement professionals days of work on every project by turning a simple iPhone or iPad scan into accurate measurements through its Scan To CAD service, and Structure, which brings the power of mobile 3D scanning to medical practices. Kevin also serves as an angel investor and advisor to multiple early-stage startups. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two daughters. This week at EntreArchitect Podcast, Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App with Kevin Stephens.  Check out https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canvas-lidar-3d-measurements/id1169235377 (Canvas app) for yourself. Learn more about Canvas http://canvas.io (here) and connect with Kevin at Kevin@Occipital.com or on http://linkedin.com/in/kjstephe (LinkedIn). Follow Canvas on https://instagram.com/scannedwithcanvas (Instagram) and https://www.facebook.com/scannedwithcanvas/ (Facebook). Please visit Our Platform Sponsors https://arcat.com (ARCAT) is the online resource delivering quality building material information, CAD details, BIM, Specs, and more… all for free. Visit ARCAT now and subscribe to http://arcat.com (ARCATECT Weekly and ARCATAlert). http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (Freshbooks) is the all in one bookkeeping software that can save your small architecture firm both time and money by simplifying the hard parts of running your own business. Try Freshbooks for 30 days for FREE at http://EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks (EntreArchitect.com/Freshbooks). Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects. The post https://entrearchitect.com/podcast/entrearch/scanning-existing-conditions-with-the-canvas-app/ (EA437: Kevin Stephens – Scanning Existing Conditions with the Canvas App) appeared first on https://entrearchitect.com (EntreArchitect // Small Firm Entrepreneur Architects).

Living the Full Life with Dr. Juan from December 11, 2021

Jillian's work with horses draws upon Classical Dressage principles and her roots in the Western Horse arena, as well as from her equine education. She has studied with Manolo Mendez, Peggy Cummings, Stephanie Millham, and the late Mark Russell. As a perpetual student of the horse, Jillian also spends quality time reading literature to stay informed with the latest research from professionals in the field. The convergence of all the information and wisdom shared by these instructors blends beautifully into what Jillian teaches her students. Jillian makes decisions about what knowledge to apply in training, lessons, and lectures by determining if it is in alignment with horse and human functional anatomy, and their mental well-being. ​ She believes that the deepest and most insightful lessons come from the horses themselves — trusted friends.

The Occipital Nerve The Greater, Lesser and Third ON... Dr. Rosenblum reviews the anatomy of the Greater, Lesser and Third Occipital Nerve... New 2 in 1 Charging Station for Clarius HD Wireless Ultrasound System- Click on the following link and you can enter your credit card info, billing and shipping and your code (DARO) for 20% off! https://store.clarius.com/collections/accessories/products/package-2-in-1-charging-station-hd Events: Plymouth Medical Dec. 2nd and NRAP Tampa Ultrasound Workshop Jan.29, 2022! NRAP Tampa- Jan. 29th, 2022 This 1 day intensive workshop has been developed for both novices and advanced pain physicians providers who would like to either learn the basics or further advance their skills in ultrasound guided pain procedures. Participants will have up to 5 hours of hands on ultrasound scanning on live models of different body habitus to learn and identify different sono‐anatomy. Get Your Tickets  Advanced Ultrasound Training Workshop! Register Now! Plymouth Medical Upcoming Orthobiologics Education Webinar! December 2nd, 2021 8PM: Join PLYMOUTH MEDICAL's Orthobiologics Education Webinar with David Rosenblum, M.D., AABP on December 2 at 8:00PM ET to discuss the most effective Orthobiologics solutions and learn how to optimize treatments in your clinic from patient selection to marketing. Register Now! NANS 25th Annual Meeting! January 13-15th, 2022 JOIN US AT THE 2022 NANS ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 13-15, 2022, AT THE WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN AND DOLPHIN RESORT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA The 2022 NANS Annual Meeting will showcase the latest advances in the field through cutting edge plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and oral abstract presentations, as well as exhibitions from numerous device companies. NANS will offer attendees an opportunity to connect with colleagues and potential collaborators, continuing to serve as the premier meeting for advancing the science and practice of neuromodulation. Register Now!   Podcast Resources: Yu M, Wang SM. Anatomy, Head and Neck, Occipital Nerves. [Updated 2020 Nov 12]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542213/ New Updates- New 1 on 1 Training Service! New Hospital and Medical Network Group Training Program! Exclusive Dr/Medical Professional affiliate program! Leverage Your Social Network! PainExam "Complete" Complete CME Course now available! Subscribe to PainExam's Mailing List * indicates required Email Address *     Download the PainExam Official Apps for Android and IOS Devices! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painexam.android.painexam&hl=en_US https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-pain-management-review/id997396714 Follow PainExam- https://painexam.com/blog/ https://www.facebook.com/PainExam/ https://twitter.com/painexams https://www.instagram.com/painexam/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/painexam https://www.pinterest.com/painexam https://www.youtube.com/user/DocRosenblum/videos

The Occipital Nerve The Greater, Lesser and Third ON... Dr. Rosenblum reviews the anatomy of the Greater, Lesser and Third Occipital Nerve... New 2 in 1 Charging Station for Clarius HD Wireless Ultrasound System- Click on the following link and you can enter your credit card info, billing and shipping and your code (DARO) for 20% off! https://store.clarius.com/collections/accessories/products/package-2-in-1-charging-station-hd Events: Plymouth Medical Dec. 2nd, NANS Jan. 13-15,  and NRAP Tampa Ultrasound Workshop Jan.29, 2022! NRAP Tampa- Jan. 29th, 2022 This 1 day intensive workshop has been developed for both novices and advanced pain physician providers who would like to either learn the basics or further advance their skills in ultrasound guided pain procedures. Participants will have up to 5 hours of hands on ultrasound scanning on live models of different body habitus to learn and identify different sono‐anatomy. Get Your Tickets  Advanced Ultrasound Training Workshop! Register Now! Plymouth Medical Upcoming Orthobiologics Education Webinar! December 2nd, 2021 8PM: Join PLYMOUTH MEDICAL's Orthobiologics Education Webinar with David Rosenblum, M.D., AABP on December 2 at 8:00PM ET to discuss the most effective Orthobiologics solutions and learn how to optimize treatments in your clinic from patient selection to marketing. Register Now! NANS 25th Annual Meeting! JOIN US AT THE 2022 NANS ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 13-15, 2022, AT THE WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN AND DOLPHIN RESORT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA The 2022 NANS Annual Meeting will showcase the latest advances in the field through cutting edge plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and oral abstract presentations, as well as exhibitions from numerous device companies. NANS will offer attendees an opportunity to connect with colleagues and potential collaborators, continuing to serve as the premier meeting for advancing the science and practice of neuromodulation. Register Now! Podcast Resources: Yu M, Wang SM. Anatomy, Head and Neck, Occipital Nerves. [Updated 2020 Nov 12]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542213/ New Updates- New 1 on 1 Training Service! New Hospital and Medical Network Group Training Program! Exclusive Dr/Medical Professional affiliate program! Leverage Your Social Network! PainExam "Complete" Complete CME Course now available! Subscribe to the AnesthesiaExam mailing list! * indicates required Email Address *     Download the PainExam Official Apps for Android and IOS Devices! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painexam.android.painexam&hl=en_US https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-pain-management-review/id997396714 Follow PainExam- https://painexam.com/blog/ https://www.facebook.com/PainExam/ https://twitter.com/painexams https://www.instagram.com/painexam/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/painexam https://www.pinterest.com/painexam https://www.youtube.com/user/DocRosenblum/videos

The Occipital Nerve The Greater, Lesser and Third ON... Dr. Rosenblum reviews the anatomy of the Greater, Lesser and Third Occipital Nerve... New 2 in 1 Charging Station for Clarius HD Wireless Ultrasound System- Click on the following link and you can enter your credit card info, billing and shipping and your code (DARO) for 20% off! https://store.clarius.com/collections/accessories/products/package-2-in-1-charging-station-hd Events: Plymouth Medical Dec. 2nd, NANS Jan. 13-15,  and NRAP Tampa Ultrasound Workshop Jan.29, 2022! NRAP Tampa- Jan. 29th, 2022 This 1 day intensive workshop has been developed for both novices and advanced pain physicians providers who would like to either learn the basics or further advance their skills in ultrasound guided pain procedures. Participants will have up to 5 hours of hands on ultrasound scanning on live models of different body habitus to learn and identify different sono‐anatomy. Get Your Tickets  Advanced Ultrasound Training Workshop! Register Now! Plymouth Medical Upcoming Orthobiologics Education Webinar! December 2nd, 2021 8PM: Join PLYMOUTH MEDICAL's Orthobiologics Education Webinar with David Rosenblum, M.D., AABP on December 2 at 8:00PM ET to discuss the most effective Orthobiologics solutions and learn how to optimize treatments in your clinic from patient selection to marketing. Register Now! NANS 25th Annual Meeting! JOIN US AT THE 2022 NANS ANNUAL MEETING JANUARY 13-15, 2022, AT THE WALT DISNEY WORLD SWAN AND DOLPHIN RESORT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA The 2022 NANS Annual Meeting will showcase the latest advances in the field through cutting edge plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and oral abstract presentations, as well as exhibitions from numerous device companies. NANS will offer attendees an opportunity to connect with colleagues and potential collaborators, continuing to serve as the premier meeting for advancing the science and practice of neuromodulation. Register Now! Podcast Resources: Yu M, Wang SM. Anatomy, Head and Neck, Occipital Nerves. [Updated 2020 Nov 12]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542213/ New Updates- New 1 on 1 Training Service! New Hospital and Medical Network Group Training Program! Exclusive Dr/Medical Professional affiliate program! Leverage Your Social Network! PainExam "Complete" Complete CME Course now available! Subscribe to the PMRExam Mailing List for Free Board Prep Material & More! * indicates required Email Address * Email Format html text     Download the PainExam Official Apps for Android and IOS Devices! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painexam.android.painexam&hl=en_US https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-pain-management-review/id997396714 Follow PainExam- https://painexam.com/blog/ https://www.facebook.com/PainExam/ https://twitter.com/painexams https://www.instagram.com/painexam/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/painexam https://www.pinterest.com/painexam https://www.youtube.com/user/DocRosenblum/videos

Have you been diagnosed with Trigeminal or Occipital Neuralgia? We discuss these 2 diagnoses and provide you with a better understanding of what they truly mean. We also discuss from a physical therapy perspective why we feel like it's most appropriate to go down the avenue of looking at the neck and how we as PTs can reduce stress to the nerve - versus the traditional route and what patients are currently getting for treatment options. We also discuss what you can do about it so you feel empowered to move forward. 

Welcome to episode #55 of The Robot Industry Podcast. My guest for this episode is Jeff Mahler, from Ambi Robotics. Dr. Mahler is the CTO and co-founder of Ambi Robotics. He received his PhD in AI and robotics from the University of California, Berkeley for his work with Prof. Ken Goldberg on the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net), a state-of-the-art method for rapidly teaching robots to pick up items they've never been trained on before. His robot vision research has appeared in The New York Times, MIT Tech Review, and Forbes, and has been nominated for numerous awards at international research conferences including Best Manipulation Paper and Best Human-Robot Interaction Paper. Jeff also holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he was the co-founder and lead computer vision engineer at Lynx Labs, a 3D scanning startup that was acquired by Occipital in 2015. Here are some of the questions that we talk about in this edition of The Robot Industry Podcast: What do you do at Ambi robotics? How did you get started? Who is your ideal customer? What is their big problem? Are you robot agnostic? What is adaptable AI? How do you use simulation software? Which one? How important is data for your customers? What other problems do you solve than just picking and placing? Robots as a service, data, kitting, packing and pick and place. Partners and contract manufacturing with DWFRITZ company Thanks to our Jeff and our partners, A3 The Association for Advancing Automation, PaintedRobot and our sponsor, Ehrhardt Automation Systems. If you would like to find out more about Ambi Robotics, here is the link to their site https://www.ambirobotics.com/ and you can find Jeff on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-mahler-64b56138/ and you can email him at jeff@ambirobotics.com Enjoy the podcast! Jim Customer Attraction | The Robot Industry Podcast If you would like to get involved with The Robot Industry Podcast, would like to become a guest or nominate someone, you can find me, Jim Beretta on LinkedIn or send me an email to therobotindustry at gmail dot com, no spaces. Our sponsor for this episode is Ehrhardt Automation Systems. Ehrhardt Automation builds and commissions turnkey automated solutions for their worldwide clients. With over 80 years of precision manufacturing they understand the complex world of automated manufacturing, project management, supply chain management and delivering world-class custom automation on-time and on-budget. Contact one of their sales engineers to see what Ehrhardt can build for you at info@ehrhardtautomation.com Keywords and terms for this podcast: Ambi Robotics, Ambidexterous Robotics, Warehouse automation, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Adaptable AI, AmbiOS, Ehrhardt Automation Systems, Jim Beretta, parcel sorting robots, Pitney Bowes, A3, DWFRITZ, Dexterity Network, #therobotindustrypodcast.

In the third installation of Brainy Bits, Jeff and Paul introduce the occipital lobe of the brain. Humans and many mammals are heavily reliant on vision as the primary sense used to navigate their environment. Afterwards, blindsight is briefly described in order to provide the listener an example of sight without conscious perception, which the occipital lobe is implicated to be involved with based on multiple case studies.

Amanda sits down for Happy Hour with Giana Sacco, a designer, and visual artist by the name Occipital, as they talk about their experiences with all things design. The conversation branches from how the design industry has adapted to becoming virtual to exciting travel experiences. Giana talks about the need for companies to expand their social media strategies and digital marketing from a graphic design standpoint. Giana also sheds light on how she grew her own artistic personality to share her expression with the world. From admiring fashion week to trending topics of graphic design, the Happy Hour remains fascinating and informative!

Hi everyone! In today's episode we're going to be talking about the occipital lobe and it's different functions.

Today we get to learn from Andrew Bourne D.C.  He is a long-time personal friend of the host and a very fine practitioner.We cover a lot of ground in this episode.  Andrew has a tremendous knowledge of the human body and how it heals.  He also uses a few specialized techniques that makes his practice unique- he is no ordinary chiropractor—  We talk all about that and more!We also cover some very interesting topics, including Sacral Occipital Technique (SOT) which has to do with cranial sacral respiratory mechanism of the body.  Plus some interesting technology that he uses in his office.He explains body function and how certain aspects deep inside the body are so important to our health and healing.Topics touched on are:Fascia (the body's connective tissue)Meridians (the energy pathways used in Chinese Medicine)Chi (life force energy, what flow through our system, mainly the meridians)The hidden importance of the small intestineDr. Bourne educates us on the 4 major food sensitivities and what to look out for if we think we may have them. His practice is based in Louisville, KYYou can find him through Google- “Bourne Chiropractic”Instagram: @drbournedcFacebookWebsite

You are the unfortunate recipient of an injury that caused whiplash, concussion, and persistent concussion symptoms (PCS).  You do all the physical, vestibular, and vision therapy but the symptoms persist.  You experience a constant headache with zapping pain that goes from the back to the front of your head.  You've tried migraine treatments, you've seen specialist after specialist, but nothing helps. Sound like you?  Join us in this episode as we learn more about occipital neuralgia (ON) from the founder of the Occipital Neuralgia Foundation, Kayla Smock! Learn more, and find hope and support at http://www.onfsupport.org (www.ONFsupport.org); on facebook at Occipital Neuralgia Foundation; and on Instagram at Occipital.neuralgia.   Covered in this episode:  Occipital Neuralgia Foundation: The mission is to raise awareness in the medical community and public about ON and to foster research on ON.  The foundation focuses on providing an online community to support and educate.  They are working on establishing connections in the medical community to pursue research.  Social media accounts and the website focus on sharing resources, survivor stories, education, and most importantly providing light and positivity to those with ON. 3 in 100,000 people have Occipital Neuralgia diagnosed, likely there are many more but it is not readily diagnosed or broadly known about in the medical community   Symptoms: People with ON have constant headaches that do not improve with treatment characterized by a zapping pain from the back of the head to front of the head. They may also have pain down the arms, blurry vision, and eye fatigue Treatment: headache medications, injections: botox, nerve blocks, or trigger point; nerve decompression surgery, radio frequency ablation, nerve excision, neuro-stimulator implant   Advice to those going through ON: connect with others who have what you do (see links below), keep advocating for yourself and find a provider who will listen.  Doctors are humans, not every doctor knows everything; it's ok to find one that knows about what you're going through.  Have a support person to help you advocate.   The Foundation is IN SEARCH OF medical providers and researchers interested in finding a cure.  Please contact the Occipital Neuralgia Foundation at ONFsupport.org Links to resources: http://www.onfsuppport.org (www.ONFsuppport.org) Facebook: Occipital Neuralgia Foundation Instagram: @occipital.neuralgia   HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!   If you dug this episode head on over to Apple Podcasts and kindlyhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-headway/id1534964037 ( leave us a rating, a review and subscribe!) Ways to subscribe to the Making Headway Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-headway/id1534964037 (Click here to subscribe via Apple Podcasts) https://open.spotify.com/show/4Ishnxgh8xbJfV8BtbCtZw (Click here to subscribe via Spotify) https://making-headway.captivate.fm/listen (Click here to subscribe via RSS) https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/making-headway (You can also subscribe via Stitcher)   https://www.makingheadwaypodcast.com/ (Visit the Making Headway Podcast website) to learn more about Eryn and Mariah and our journey to podcasting. Follow us onhttps://www.instagram.com/makingheadwaypodcast/ ( Instagram) orhttps://www.facebook.com/makingheadwaypodcast ( Facebook).

When I meet a person whose life and career seem to keep them in the physical realm (personal trainers, physical therapists, kinesiologists) I am tempted to worry that they will not be open to mind/body work. That makes it even better and more gratifying when I come across someone like Kate Murphy. Kate is successfully coaching people in Foundational Training as well as other fitness philosophies, while fully embracing TMS and mind/body medicine in her practice and her life. Join Kate and I as we discuss her own story - both painful and triumphant - and see the ways in which she totally understands that without emotional health, physical health is almost impossible. Lots of wise gems in this one! Hoping this finds you well today. OX, n. PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW THE PODCAST HERE TO HELP OTHERS FIND IT! My next VIRTUAL FULL WEEKEND RETREAT is live and on sale! With the cancellation of OMEGA, my guest instructors have rallied and we will be coming together to bring you an incredible weekend of connection, guidance and love on September 18-20 2020. Click here for all the info! **INCLUDED IN YOUR RETREAT FEE IS A COMPLIMENTARY DOWNLOAD OF MY ONLINE COURSE AS WELL AS ALL 4 OF MY ORIGINAL GUIDED MEDITATIONS** ANNOUCEMENTS: CANCELLED: My retreat at 1440 Multiversity has sadly been cancelled for October 18-23, 2020. I hope to reschedule for 2021. 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC will be hosting my work in the coming year. We had a fall date, but are moving it to Spring 2021 in light of current circumstances. Click here to learn more about their beautiful space. If you are interested in supporting the many free resources I offer to get this message to the global community, please consider donating to my cause on my website, www.thecureforchronicpain.com. Look for the DONATE button on the home page. Thank you so much! ALL MY RESOURCES: Instagram: Follow me on insta @nicolesachslcsw for tons of new content Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group:JournalSpeak with Nicole Sachs, LCSW OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify

What a joy to sit down with the amazing and resilient Angie Firmalino to discuss her journey through medical trauma (implanted with the device Essure which she has now successfully gotten removed from the market after a ten year advocacy battle) and her myriad symptoms which had confounded her for years. She knew that all of the trauma and debilitating conditions in her body must be related, but she had no idea how... until she found my work. One day, scrolling through podcasts, she found the story of our own lovely Scarlett Murray. This began her incredible journey of hope and healing. Join us today as we share some deep and beautiful knowledge, and wisdom. Recovery is possible, when you have a roadmap. Angie's story is proof of that. Sending big love. XO n. My Chicago Workshop retreat with Dr. John Stracks is coming up next month - Feb 22-23rd in Chicago. Come spend the weekend with us and let it change your life. XO Click here: https://www.drstracks.com/freedom-from-chronic-pain/freedom-from-chronic-pain-a-mind-body-approach Don't forget that our sponsor for this podcast, The Curable App, is offering my listeners 50% off their yearly membership when you visit: www.getcurable.com/nicole. Don't delay, as this amazing deal won't last forever! XOOX CLICK HERE TO SPEND THE WEEKEND WITH DR. JOHN STRACKS AND ME IN CHICAGO FEB 22-23! Join me on April 5-10, 2020 at 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. Click here to join me for this amazing experience on their stunning campus. This 5 day retreat will be the Omega of the West Coast! And of course, my second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALEfor August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video of last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. Learn more about all of my work: Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group:JournalSpeak with Nicole Sachs, LCSW OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE Subscribe Apple Podcasts Deezer iHeart RadioPublic RSS Spotify

Today you are in for a special treat. This interview with Julie is my one of my favorites ever. She has come through a grueling battle with Occipital Neuralgia to complete freedom, and she is articulate and wise in her telling of it. This is Julie's unedited original email to me: Nicole, I wanted to thank you. Make sure to add: occipitial neuralgia to your list because you helped me be cured of that! :) Thank you for helping me finally thrive, the way I should've been for years and years and years. I know you don't even know me, but your program and book completely saved my life...and my soul!!! I can't ever thank you enough. All my love, Julie :) The spirit of this email is what you will hear in this interview. Enjoy, and be inspired to take back your life, and your soul. XO If you'd like to support my work and enhance your recovery with more original content from me, or even direct interaction between us, I have established a Patreon page. You will help continue my life saving efforts, and receive some real guidance in your personal journey. Please learn more about this at www.patreon.com/NicoleSachsLCSW OR CLICK HERE! NOTE: I have been invited to do a second 5 day retreat: April 5-10, 2020 at 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA. Save the Date! The retreat will go on sale soon with the release their Spring Catalog. And of course, my second annual 5 day OMEGA Retreat is LIVE AND ON SALE for August 9-14, 2020 in beautiful Rhinebeck, NY. To see the moving video my wife Tiff made on last year's retreat, go to www.thecureforchronicpain.com/resources. CLICK HERE TO SPEND THE WEEKEND WITH DR. JOHN STRACKS AND ME IN CHICAGO FEB 22-23! Learn more about all of my work: OMEGA 2020 is LIVE and ON SALE! CLICK HERE TO SPEND THE WEEKEND WITH DR. JOHN STRACKS AND ME IN CHICAGO FEB 22-23! April 5-10, 2020: 1440 Multiversity General Info Website: The Cure for Chronic Pain YouTube: The Cure for Chronic Pain with Nicole Sachs, LCSW Book: The Meaning of Truth Online Course: FREEDOM FROM CHRONIC PAIN FB Closed Group:JournalSpeak with Nicole Sachs, LCSW OMEGA General info: OMEGA INSTITUTE

Dr. Lowenstein speaks with Dr. Hossein Ansari, the head of the Headache Clinic at the University of California San Diego about chronic headaches and migraines.  Listen to the discussion of the different diagnoses associated with headache pain as well as the initial workup that a patient should expect when seeing a headache specialist.

Amir Rubin is the co-founder of Paracosm, a company that developed a handheld device that creates 3D color maps of real-world environments. “We’ve turned reality,” says Amir, “into a video game.” Amir is a second-generation entrepreneur. Both his parents are PhD’s, but his father quit academia to start a hardware store, and later a bakery. Amir wonders if any entrepreneur would make it without some level of “blind enthusiasm.” TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors in the things that motivate them. We’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:38 A three-dimensional world that used to be something only for science fiction and now it’s an everyday part of reality and we’re pleased to have here on our show this morning Amir Rubin, founder of a company called Paracosm, which deals very much in the 3D world and other inventions. Welcome to the show Amir. Amir Rubin: 0:56 Hey, thanks for having me, Richard. Richard Miles: 0:58 So, Amir, I always like to start out with the inventor themselves explaining what the invention is, the core technology at least behind it, what it does in very simple terms, and then we’ll come back and talk later on about sort of how you develop that. So what did you invent Amir ? And what does it do? Amir Rubin: 1:18 So, I co-founded a company in 2013, Paracosm, that has invented the world’s first handheld color lidar mapping system and a lot of fancy words there. But basically it’s a device that, the product is called the PX80. And it’s a device that you can hold, has a little handle, and you just go for a walk and in whatever environment you want indoor, outdoor, and when you’re done, we spit out a 3D replica, like a digital twin of the real world environment in full color. So it’s like we’ve, you know, one way I describe it is maybe you could think of it as we’ve turned a reality into a video game level. Richard Miles: 2:15 Okay. So, I’ve seen the product, the application before, and I’ve said it’s very impressive. I think one thing that struck me was the speed at which you can do it because the technology has existed I think for a w hile. A nd you can do 3D mapping, but your invention enables you and this i s as of several years ago a nd I know you’ve improved it to do it very quickly and pretty, very accurate to a degree that’s useful to a lot of t hings. Amir Rubin: 2:46 Yeah, exactly. So there’s been 3D scanning technologies that had been really good since, you know, the eighties and nineties, and they’ve been scanning for oil fields and oil rigs and other industrial applications and the way old or traditional scanners work is there like laser scanners that are mounted on the old, surveyors , tripods. You might have seen them when you drive by a construction site by the side of the road, you might see a crew with a survey, tripod doing surveys. So that’s a pretty similar to how 3D scanning is, has been done and is currently done. And our big Aha moment is what happens if we ditched the tripod and let people just go for a walk. And it lets you capture data really fast that’s never been possible before and lets people go into capturing new types of environments. Like we have customers, for example in Japan who mount our little 3D mapping pod onto a backpack and they go hiking through the mountainous forest of Japan and they’re able to 3D map in full color, the mountainous terrain and forest that covers 70% of Japan. Richard Miles: 4:16 So we’re going to come back a little bit later and talk about the company you founded Paracosm and what that was like but first I want to talk somewhat about your background. You have a very interesting background Amir just the little bit that I know about you is very interesting. You’ve been associated in town in Gainesville with a number of companies who are well known, Shadow Health, Prioria Robotics. You also have a patent for 3D cameras to weigh cows, which I wager is one of a kind. But let’s go back before even, and your a graduate from the University of Florida computer engineering. But let’s go back before that. Tell me where, where you’re from, what were your sort of early influences as a child, maybe what your parents did for a living and that sort of stuff? Amir Rubin: 5:09 Yeah, I would say that that all had an influence on me. Both my parents are PhDs. Um, and you know, it’s kinda funny. My Dad was a scientist, he was a PhD in Biology, but he quit before I was born and decided to start his own business. So, I’ve always kind of been used to seeing my dad own his own small businesses and he ran a hardware store when I was a kid and then started a bakery when I was in middle and high school. So kind of a funny combination of science. Richard Miles: 5:46 So here in Gainesville? Amir Rubin: 5:46 In a south Florida. And then my mother is a PhD in Education, PhD and as a teacher. So probably where some of the nerdiness came from I think. Richard Miles: 6:04 Were you a good student in school and starting out? Amir Rubin: 6:09 I was, I was like one of these annoying students, I never did my homework and I never studied for class, Richard Miles: 6:15 But you ended up doing well. Amir Rubin: 6:17 Yeah. Math and science. I never needed to study for the test. When I would take a test or do a report, the answer would just pop into my head. So I never really had to work too hard at it, which always drove people crazy. Richard Miles: 6:36 So, did your teachers find this endearing or frustrating and did your parents, were they thrilled by this ability for you to pull it out at the last minute? Amir Rubin: 6:45 I think it frustrates everybody. Yeah, I remember I even for math and science teachers, they’re cool with the English teachers hate it because I would, I got like the highest score on the the IB AP exam without ever actually reading any of the books. Richard Miles: 7:05 And your fellow students I’m sure were probably, Amir Rubin: 7:10 Well they were, they were super smart too. Richard Miles: 7:12 So in terms of science and math, I mean it sounds like you were always had an ability to do it. What were sort of the first, I guess, was it a class or you know, I know there are some people that their introduction to science or coding was, you know, a computer game for instance. Is there any sort of epiphany that you had in terms of that you think led you into the field you are now? Amir Rubin: 7:36 Yeah. There was two or three. The first was my parents bought a computer, went out when we were, um, when I was like 10 years old. So I’ve always had computers in the house and it was my, I spent every day on it. You know, um, learning how to code and, you know, initially basic and you know, other learning languages from back in the 90s, like Pascal and then, you know, this was the , this was, you know, dialing in to the local, you know, bbs and , and all this fun stuff. Um, but I’d never, you know, one thing that we kind of take for granted in the Cade, it’s like something that the Cade does a lot of work on is like the STEM and the STEAM, uh, you know, education and letting students know and you know, now we have first robotics and we have STEAM. So it’s, it’s a known thing now when if you’re in like a elementary/middle of school that, uh, engineering as a career. And I never know , no one ever told me that. Like, I didn’t know until I graduated. I was halfway through college that there was such a thing as engineering, let alone computer engineering. So people think it’s silly. But in high school, a big moment for me with taking, um , physics 1 and that was like the most mind opening class I’ve ever taken that to see that the world can be partially modeled by, you know, uh, physics equations and theories and our physics teacher was like, you know, you can become a physicist. And so that I came to University of Florida as a physics major, um, because that seemed like a career path. And one day, um, I went to a career fair and, uh, like my sophomore year, and there was not a single company hiring physicists, but there’s a few who are asking, who were like, hey, we’re, we’re, we’re looking for computer engineers. And I was like, wait, that’s, you can be a computer engineer? That’s a thing? Richard Miles: 9:37 What year are we talking about? Amir Rubin: 9:39 This is, um, uh, 2000-2001. And so yeah, it was , it was kind of unheard of back then to be a programmer or a computer engineer. And then I had the fun of graduating in 2003, which, um , was the collapse of the computer engineering industry and everyone had declared that, um, you know, computer programming, computer science and engineering is done . It’s done, it’s dead. They’ll never be an industry in this, in the U.S. it’s over. And, uh, there’s not a single job to be had in it. So that was fun times too. Richard Miles: 10:09 So you’re one of those rare students, uh, that before you even finish school, you’d already founded a company. So what you describe how your dad ran his own businesses. Running a business is really different than, you know, sitting in a classroom, right? And, and studying and doing assignments. What was it about, was there something about the business world that attracted you in addition to, you know, the , the content. I mean, you could’ve gone on and just gotten a graduate degree and a PhD, but you decided to found a company and then you, before you’re even at a school and you joined another startup company, Shadow Health, and then you found it in another one. So what, what was it about that side that attracted you? The business side? Amir Rubin: 10:52 It was, um, combination of all that. And I had stayed with my sister who lives in the bay area in California, um, the summer before I graduated and she worked at, before the dot com collapse in 99′-2000. She had worked at a, um , one of these San Francisco dot com companies. So I visited her and I was like, Hey, this is pretty, this is pretty cool. They have these cool office chairs and free snacks. And so, Richard Miles: 11:21 It’s always the snacks. Amir Rubin: 11:23 It’s always the free snacks. And, um , so when I graduated finally in 2003, by this time, you know, uh, by the time I had stayed with my sister, you know, and, and, and seeing all that, I was convinced you know by that time I had switched from physics to computer engineering major. And then when I graduate and graduated in 2003, there was just simply not, not an economy for, for programmers or , or , software engineers. And this was before the startup craze, you know, it was like Facebook probably was just started, you know, um, and no one outside of the few schools knew about them. There was no y Combinator or anything. So I thought to myself, well, I, there’s no, there’s no jobs here, but I’ve, I’ve seen it, seen it done before. I should probably, um, you know, start my own company with some friends. And, um, my then girlfriend now wife was, um, just, uh , accepted into UF Veterinary School. So it’s like, and I need an excuse to stay in Gainesville a few more years . So I’ll start, uh , computer engineering company right here in Gainesville. Richard Miles: 12:33 So that’s a, that’s a fascinating story. So, um , so I was just going to add an addition to the snacks, there’s always a girl involved, right? Amir Rubin: 12:39 Oh yeah, always, yeah. Richard Miles: 12:41 Um, okay. So, uh, so let’s talk about your current company Paracosm. Um , you founded that in 2013, so now going on, uh , gosh, six years close , right? What was that like? I mean you had, you already at that point had the core idea for the 3D sort of handheld or did you? Or did you found the company first and then the idea comes , or was it the other way around? Amir Rubin: 13:02 It was all the above. So it’s always a chaotic jumble. Richard Miles: 13:07 And , and so you obviously had to hire, I mean how many employees did you have at the beginning? Was it just you or did you? Amir Rubin: 13:13 It was myself and four other co-founders. We started with the team of five. Richard Miles: 13:18 And were you guys , did you have any money? I mean where? Amir Rubin: 13:20 I just, I’d put in, um, everything I got from, uh, my first startup. Okay . You know, from, from all the money I’d saved up from my previous start up and the first company I founded out of school. So, you know, I emptied out my 401k and my savings and I maxed out my credit card and you know, just put it, put it all in. Richard Miles: 13:40 And then your then girlfriend decided to become your then wife right? Amir Rubin: 13:44 Basically yeah, yeah. So that makes, that’s best financial decisions here. Richard Miles: 13:47 Pretty gutsy thing, cause at that point did Paracosm have any clients or sales or nothing? Nothing. Just an idea. It’s an idea. Um, all right. So you started out with, you said three co- founders or four co-founders and how many employees does Paracosm have now? Amir Rubin: 14:04 We , we were acquired last year by a larger startup, uh , Occipital. And the Paracosm division is currently 22 employees. Richard Miles: 14:13 And how much, are you in a manager role now or do you or are you like the chief technical officer? Amir Rubin: 14:20 I’m , I’m the equivalent of like CTO / general manager, president of the division. Richard Miles: 14:27 So do you, um, how much of your time do you get to spend on developing the technology or new technologies and how much time is sort of meant, uh , spent actually managing the division? Amir Rubin: 14:38 We have a pretty good workflow, so I spend, I spend a lot of time sitting with the engineering team, but don’t do the actual engineering work myself anymore and, Richard Miles: 14:50 Do you miss that or? Amir Rubin: 14:52 Um yeah, you know, a little, but you know, it’s kind of, um, it’s really hard to do both. I think. Um, you know, the, in order to do engineering work, you have to be able to have just singularly focus on the design problem or the engineering challenge you’re working on. You have to be able to have, you know, four to eight hour blocks of time set aside just to work on, on your, um projects. Richard Miles: 15:19 So not going to meetings, not messing with emails. Amir Rubin: 15:20 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And so once you start having to, um, be in a role where you’re communicating and pitching and selling and yeah , like I said, responding to to people, then it’s really hard to do both. Richard Miles: 15:36 So I imagine the fact that you were acquired means that, uh , you were profitable and you had clients at that point. Amir Rubin: 15:43 We were on the verge of it, we, we, um, we are now. Richard Miles: 15:48 I remember when we took a tour of Paracosm offices, uh , had to been at least a three or four years ago or longer. Uh , I remember at the, at that point, the type of applications you had, I remember very distinctly one was for like a military type of application, special forces. Oh , another one that’s sort of like for designers, interior designers, and you listed a few other ones. What, what has developed as kind of like your number one application or number one industry, so to speak, that loves your product? Amir Rubin: 16:19 The short answer is, uh , surveyors really have been taken taking to our product. So, you know, it’s sort of like the, the, you know, the early adopters are people who are already doing lots of survey, uh , for their businesses and they see this as like a , a really like shiny new tool that they can do their jobs much, much faster now. And so that’s been our early adopters as people doing land survey building survey. And you know, we’re starting to expand into other use cases because early adopters just are seeing the PX80 the lidar mapping system we developed as a tool to make their jobs much easier. And that’s great for getting us a good flow of early sales. But you know, we fundamentally see this technology as enabling an entirely new class of applications. So we see what we’ve done as a way to, to always have an up- to-date digital copy of reality so that it enables entirely new ways of thinking. So we’re starting to get adoption, for example, on construction sites to be able to scan a construction site every week to precisely monitor progress and do quality control. And we’re starting to get people use the PX80 to monitor like industrial facilities, factories, warehouses, you know, data centers, things like that are constantly changing and the facility manager needs to know what, what’s happening in their facility . So, uh, we’re, we’re starting to see, you know, new classes of, um , use case that, that are pretty exciting. Richard Miles: 18:01 So these are still mostly commercial applications right? There’s, there’s not a retail in game at this point? Amir Rubin: 18:08 No, no. We started out thinking there would be some, some interesting consumer and retail or end user use cases. And for a lot of reasons it turns out that’s , that’s a , that’s a very hard sell, right? One of the companies, I think doing a really successful job at that is actually like a , the Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go. They have a incredibly popular App. It’s a Pokemon game where you hunt Pokemon in the wild. But you know, future versions of that app will start to use the players, you know, the Pokemon trainers, a camera phone to map, uh , parts of the real world environment. And so, you know, what we kind of realized is to make a consumer play, there needs to be a primary driver, uh , to the consumer beyond 3D mapping. Uh, for example, Pokemon Go or, or fun engaging games like that. Whereas, um , in the, uh, you know, enterprise industrial world people, people need their data. So you can, you can make a business just to selling tools to get people data. Richard Miles: 19:21 I had a guest, I think, you know, Randy Scott, local entrepreneur now in adventure capital and, uh , he said one issue he found with sort of adventures and co-founders is that one of the pieces of advice he gives them is the first thing they have to do is learn how to fall out of love with the science behind the invention. Um, and , and coldly look at what are the sort of commercial applications, commercial potential. Yeah . And he said once he could do that, then you know , adventures can really understand. Okay. Just as you said, there’s ultimately there’s gotta be a market or somebody wanting to use that. Amir Rubin: 19:56 Yeah, yeah. We, we, we initially thought this, that this tech we developed would be, um , really popular with game designers and, you know, like augmented reality games and, and experiences and fun things like that. And so when we realized kind of like what, what Randy is saying, they want to realize the application is industrial. Well, we made kind of a tough decision as a team to , um , just focus full time on very unsexy, very kind of nose to the grindstone industry . You know, land survey, construction, facility management, these are not, they don’t grab any headlines, but when you talk about important problems, I mean, we all live in buildings that need to be built. We all drive on roads and bridges that need to be inspected and you know, hopefully done on a budget, finished on budget and a complex facilities need to need to stay running. And so there’s real need and real budgets to um, to support that. And that was a , you know, shift for us. But as soon as we made that shift, things started going our way. So the one kind of conceit we have to our old idea of like whimsical consumer games. We’ve kept our branding and our logo as like a fun kind of whimsical characters and the branding we , we uh, and the, uh, we, we made, um, for the old vision of the company. We brought that into our new product and our new market and it actually helps it stand out. Like I company mascot is a parakeet, you know, the Paracosm parakeet and uh, you know, people, people know what the parakeet means now the industry. Richard Miles: 21:40 Yeah. So it sounds like you’ve learned a lot just in the last few years. It was something you said reminded me of uh, our , our architects that built the Cade Museum, um , did a great job and it’s a fabulous innovative building. We love it. And, um, and they were very excited to build it. And , and I remember asking one of them, I said, well, you know, don’t you guys get to build stuff like this all the time? And they said, well, no, the majority of what we build is schools, hospitals, administrative buildings. You know, we’re, we’re rarely asked hey, you know, build this museum of creativity and invention and kind of do whatever you want. Amir Rubin: 22:10 They’re very innovative. Richard Miles: 22:12 They’re very excited. But it was an insight for me to understand that that part of the business were substantial. You still need schools, you still need to outsource administrative buildings. You need Compton architects to do that. Yeah . Amir Rubin: 22:21 But we do use the Cade Museum in all of our marketing. Richard Miles: 22:24 Oh good, good. Amir Rubin: 22:24 That’s a beautiful building. So we have it scanned many times and that’s the scan we show off because it looks cool. Richard Miles: 22:30 So Amir, uh, you’re not by any means an old guy, but you do have a lot of experience, you’ve done a lot of things. Sort of looking back on your career, both sort of, in, in school and then also as an engineer and a business. I’m a guy. What, what sort of lesson learned would you give to uh , um , someone who, early twenties, maybe reminds you a little bit of yourself and they’re all charged up with a great idea and they’re , they’re off to the races, they’re going to do the next big thing. What would you sit down and tell them over a cup of coffee? Hey, here are the things you definitely should do and watch out for this. Amir Rubin: 23:09 Yeah, that’s, that’s always a tough one because I think about that question often. And sometimes I wonder, you know, if you’re not dumbly and blindly charging forward with the naive enthusiasm of just being out of school and the irrational overconfidence, you know, would you even get anywhere? And so I, Richard Miles: 23:33 So you have to be a little bit blind. Right? Amir Rubin: 23:34 Yeah. I don’t like to, um, I don’t like to give you know too much advice, you know, a lot of times I find like a lot of the advice I give might sound cynical or jaded. And when I spend with students who are starting new projects, um, Richard Miles: 23:49 Cause you probably get asked a lot, right? I mean, Amir, you’re a rockstar in Gainesville. So I’m sure people go ask Amir and he’ll tell you the Amir Rubin: 23:55 In the past week alone. Yeah. I find that at least, you know , usually between two and four hours a week meeting with people just to, you know , try to spread the love and give a little encouragement. And so I find it’s better to just sometimes give encouragement. And if someone’s about to face a very obvious pitfall, try to kind of steer them away from a pitfall. But there’s something to be said for like the high energy of when someone has a lot of enthusiasm. Like I learned from that a lot of times when I talk to people. Richard Miles: 24:27 What are some of those common questions you get from those people? I mean, is it all just tell me how you did it or do or there’s something specific that they , they, think they need to know and that you can tell them . Amir Rubin: 24:37 I prefer when there is something specific um, sometimes people just wanna kinda, you know, it’s sometimes people just want to hear like my experience and , and let themselves, they’ll draw their own conclusion. It’s just a nice little data point that they can, I could say something like, okay, well in your situation, here’s, here’s what happened to me and draw your own parallels to that. Sometimes people have a specific problem. Like there’s a company here in town that just received a very large order unexpectedly for their product. And they’re like, how are we going to build this? How are we, how are we going to get, you know, $50,000 to deliver this in a month? And I was like, well, you know, good luck with that. Um, but you know, I, I help however I can, the most difficult problems I encounter and that I usually am able to kind of see right away even if the founders don’t is, you know, like, well let’s, let’s dig into the relationship between both of you here and like, um, I think that’s probably one of the main lessons learned is the relationship aspect of starting a business, especially with your employees and your co-founders and your investors. These are all relationships that, you know, will be strained heavily from the stresses of starting a company and trying to make payroll and stay in business. And that’s, you know, my biggest advice is always for people to be mindful around that. And in fact, you know, when, when, when people get far enough along the process and if I’m like really able to be more involved in mentoring or coaching them, I always, you know, my biggest advice is to learn about mindfulness and, um, how to, you know, control your breathing and your thought processes to be a , a , you know, to be more effective communicator and in the very stressful situations that pop up when you’re starting a business. Richard Miles: 26:35 It’s interesting what you say about sort of maintain that balance, I’d say between trying to inspire somebody, right? And encourage them, but also sort of, uh , speaking realistically and honestly, Um Phoebe who, you know, my, my wife and co-founder Cade Museum was asked to speak on a panel and the subject’s panel was loosely sort of like, uh , uh, you know, starting a start a museum, you know, what do you think and Phoebe sells to be the shortest panel ever. I’ll say, don’t do it. Um, but, uh, it sounds like you have acquired, uh, you know, I almost see a budding venture capitalists here. I’m here. I gotta say, you know, you have all this, a very actual useful information and insights into how these companies are formed. Um, and, and sort of what tends to succeed in what doesn’t, what’s, what’s next on the horizon for you, do you, do you see yourself staying? Well, obviously you’re not going to tell me if you’re gonna leave, but I mean, what, what is on your bucket list, I guess, say 10 years from now? Where, where do you see yourself being? Amir Rubin: 27:34 Um, uh , you know, I always, when, when we started Paracosm, I said, I’m not going to make the same mistakes. Um , I made at, at my previous, uh , startups and my previous companies and, you know, we’ve , we’ve gotten further than, than, than I had before. And so, you know, uh , Paracosm and, uh, you know, we, we still have a lot of, uh, a lot of items on our to do lists that we’re focused on. But, um, you know, in , in 10 years, you know, life, uh, you know, the next next adventure will be, um, I, I work really hard to suppress the ideas in my head to be able to focus on Paracosm. But you know, there , there, there’s always a next idea and, and you know, in 10 years I would see myself hopefully being a right back on the hamster wheel with , with a new idea and making a new set of mistakes. Um, you know, just, uh , keep trying to, you know, refine. Um, the, the, the, I don’t like to call it a process is like keep trying to refine the experience of starting a company and, um, you know, make new mistakes, don’t re learn from the old mistakes and try to do it a little better each time. Richard Miles: 28:51 So, uh, Amir when you have that new great idea, come back on Radio Cade we’ll talk about it. We’ll charge five bucks to download the episode. Once we go platinum we’ll , we’ll give you a few percentage points. Amir Rubin: 29:03 There you go, I’ll take it. Richard Miles: 29:05 Um, Amir, thank you very much for being on Radio Cade this morning, I’ve learned a lot and uh , I hope to see you back on the show. Amir Rubin: 29:11 Yeah. Thanks for having me, Richard. This was a lot of fun. Richard Miles: 29:13 I’m your host Richard Miles. Outro: 29:17 Radio Cade would like to thank the following people for their help and support, Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating and inventor interviews, Bob McPeak of Heartwood Soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing, and production of the podcast and music theme . Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song featuring violinist Jacob lawson and special thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

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Show Notes for Podcast Five of Sex & Why Host: Jeannette Wolfe Topic: Stress Response   For Acute Care Medicine and Introduction to Sex and Gender Based Medicine CME Cruise Opportunity click here   Part 2 on biological sex differences in the stress response with special guest Justin Morgenstern We started out with a discussion on different ways to frame potential sex and gender based research using a method described by  Dr. M McCarthy A full discussion of this framework can also be found on my website McCarthy MM et al, The Journal of Neuroscience: the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2012;32(7):2241-2247. There appears to be a significant amount of individual variation in how some individuals respond to and recover from similar stresses. Some of these differences may be influenced by our biological sex. Understanding how we react and respond to stress and how this may perhaps differ from other individuals around us may help us better communicate and lead under stressful situations. Study #1 This was a follow up study to an infamous study the same team did three years before in which they looked at sex differences in reward collection on a computer balloon game (Balloon Analogue Risk Task or BART). In this game, players got 30 balloons and the farther they pumped them up the more points they got however, each balloon was also set to randomly pop somewhere between 1- 128 pumps and if the player popped their balloon before they cashed it in they lost points for that balloon. Study participants were randomized to control vs stress condition (placing hand in neutral versus ice water for 3 min) and then played the game. They found that in neutral conditions there was no significant difference in risk taking (number of pumps 39 for women versus 42 for men, but under stress women decreased their pumping to 32 while men increased to 48). In this 2012 study, Lighthall's group adjusted its protocol so that BART could now be played in an MRI scanner. Unfortunately, the new BART design subtly changed the game because now instead of going through 30 balloons, participants played the game for a set amount of time with unlimited balloons. This inadvertently added a second strategy to get lots of points as the new design allowed participants to get points by either pumping additional air into an individual balloon or rapidly moving through a greater number of balloons while pumping only a few pumps per balloon. Stress intervention was again either a cold or neutral temperature water bath and after submersion the researchers collected cortisol samples and scanned participants while they played the game. Results- no difference in control conditions (room temp water) between men and women in number of balloon pumps or points earned But under stress men acted more quickly and got increased rewards while women appeared to slow down their reaction time and decrease their rewards. Men had higher baseline and stimulated cortisol but there was no difference b/w men and women in the amount of cortisol change between baseline and stressed condition. Under basic non stress conditions- during the control testing it appeared that overall men and women utilized the same brain regions to complete the balloon task (i.e. suggesting that males and females approach the task by using similar neural strategies), however once stressed men and women seemed to use different areas of their brain. Men used their dorsal striatum and anterior insula more. Anterior insula has been associated with switching tasks from a riskier to a safer option (and in both sexes higher activity in this region correlated with higher collection rate) and the dorsal striatum is believed to be associated with obtaining predictable rewards and with integrating sensory, motor, cognitive and emotional signals. Did not find that men had increased risk taking in this study but it may have been masked in that there was now a lower risk strategy available to them that still was associated with an increased reward (pumping balloon a small amount and quickly cashing in to get to next balloon). Concept discussed is that under stress men may possible go into type one systemic thinking (automatic) while women may favor type 2 (deliberate cognitive inquiry). Lighthall, N. R., Mather, M., & Gorlick, M. A. (2009). Acute stress increases sex differences in risk seeking in the balloon analogue risk task. PloS One, 4(7), e6002. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006002 Lighthall, N. R., Sakaki, M., Vasunilashorn, S., Nga, L., Somayajula, S., Chen, E. Y. Mather, M. (2012). Gender differences in reward-related decision processing under stress. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(4), 476–84. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr026 Study #2:  Goal to determine if: Under equal subjective sensations of stress (i.e. men and women objectively rate their subjective level of stress the same on a 1-10 point scale) do men and women use the same brain circuitry to process stress or do they use different circuitries. What they did: Collect cognitive, psychiatric, and drug use assessments on 55 men and 41 women aged 19-50 Exclusions TBI, psychoactive meds, history of substance abuse, preg, DSM-IV mental health disorder and currently menstruating or oral contraceptive use (to try and mitigate additional hormonal influences) Over course of 2-3 sessions put them into a MRI scanner and asked them to visualize neutral or stress inducing images (this technique has previously been validated and involved the subjects own audiotaped accounts of stressful –rated as greater than 8 on 1-10 Likert scale- or neutral experience) which was later played back to them in MRI scanner Asked them to rank their level of stress Looked to see which areas of the brain lit up under different conditions Results Men and women appeared to have different strategies for guided visual tasks in general regardless of whether listening to neutral or stressful recordings: Men: More likely to light up areas associated with motor processing and action. Caudate, midbrain, thalamus, and cingulate gyrus and cerebellum Women: More likely to light up areas associated with visual processing, verbal expression and emotional experience             Right temporal gyrus, insula and occipital lobe Women were also more likely to increase their HR regardless of condition (likely from having increased autonomic arousal- though other studies suggest that women have increased HR at baseline compared to men in general) Under stress men and women had firing in opposite directions: Men dampened while women increased firing in: Dorsal Medial pre-frontal cortex, parietal lobes (including inferior parietal lobe and precuneus region) left temporal lobe, occipital area and cerebellum. Believed functions of these different regions Dorsal medial frontal cortex – executive functioning of cognitive control, self-awareness of emotional discomfort, strategic reasoning, and regulation Precuneus- part of the parietal lobe associated with self-referential and self-consciousness Inferior parietal lobe- cognitive appraisal and consideration of response strategies (also area often associated with mirror imaging) Left temporal gyrus- processes verbal information Occipital area- processes visual information Cerebellum- besides coordinating motor movement also is involved in emotional and cognitive processing  “Taken together, the observed differences in these regions suggest that men and women may differ in the extent to which they engage in verbal processing, visualization, self-referential thinking, and cognitive processing during the experience of stress and anxiety.” They also suggest that under stress men may feel anxious due to “hypoactivity” while women may feel stress due to “hyperactivity” in above noted regions. Conclusion: Men and women use different neural strategies under stress even with similarly reported stress levels  This research is still clearly in its infancy but suggests that under stress some men, may turn down activity in areas of their brains involved in executive functioning and that this might increase their vulnerability to impulsivity. Conversely, under stress some women may actually turn up activity in these regions that could lead to excessive rumination and possibly depression. The authors then extrapolate their data to suggest that men and women might possibly benefit from different stress reduction techniques in that some men might benefit more from cognitive behavioral therapy which enhances frontal lobe firing and some women from mindful meditation which dampens it.  Seo, D., Ahluwalia, A., Potenza, M. N., & Sinha, R. (2017). Gender Differences in Neural Correlates of Stress-Induced Anxiety. Journal of Neuroscience Research, 125, 115–125. Study #3 This study literally looks at what conditions men and women might seek out increased physical interaction with their dog after an agility competition. The background here is that in 2000 Dr. SE Taylor questioned whether the flight of fight response which has classically been described as a “universal” stress response, was actually applicable to both males and females. She questioned how realistic it was for a female who might be physically smaller and less muscular than her male peer to successfully fight or run away from a potential attacker. She suggested an alternative response of “tend and befriend” which suggests that under stress that women may naturally migrate towards their children as well as others within their intimate circle with the belief that a larger group may offer protection and a pooling of resources. Additional support for this theory is the idea that oxytocin, which has receptors throughout the brain and is usually found in higher amounts in women, may be released during this affiliative behavior and help to dampen the physiological cortisol stress response. This study was done to see if men and women seek out physical contact with another being (in this case their dog) in similar fashion when they are stressed. They chose to study human contact with a dog versus an interaction with another human to try and mitigate the influence of any “gender expectation” violations. Which in English means that if Rob would normally seek out Carol when he is stressed, he might decide not to do so in public (and in this case being videotaped) because he doesn't want to appear “less masculine”. As public affection with one's dog is considered less gender biased, the authors chose this interaction as a marker for affiliative behavior.  What they did: Videotaped and took cortisol saliva levels from 93 men and  91 women after they had run their dog through a competitive agility course. Recording and samples were taken as participants waited for their official score (although subjectively most participants pretty much already knew whether or not their dog had scored high enough to move on.) The researchers measured cortisol levels and how much participants petted their dog while waiting for this score. Results: 36 of results excluded because dogs did not finish course and were disqualified Overall there was no sex difference in total affiliative behavior Of first 180 seconds of video tape women petted dog on average 27 seconds and men 25 seconds When men and women perceived they lost, their cortisol level increased more than those who perceived they had advanced. Differences occurred however as to when men and women were more likely to pet their dogs Women petted them more when they sensed defeat- an additional 12 seconds compared to women who had won Men petted them more when they sensed victory- an additional 7 seconds when compared to men who had lost Conclusions: women sought out affiliative behavior when they lost, men sought it out when they won. Justin and I use this paper as a discussion point as to understanding how two people may get exposed to the same stressor and respond quite differently and importantly how they sort of bounce back from a stressful situation may also differ. This paper suggests that emotional debriefing after stressful experiences may be more helpful to some individuals than others. For more on the stress response please see Justin's new post on First10EM Sherman G, Rice L, Shuo Jin E, et al: (2017) Sex differences in cortisol's regulation of affiliative behavior. Hormones and Behavior 92, 20- 28

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