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02 December 2010

Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that can often occur without an identifiable triggering stimulus. As such, it is distinguished from fear, which is an emotional response to a perceived threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is related to situations perceived as uncontrollable or unavoidable.[5]
Anxiety does not only consist of physical effects; there are many emotional ones as well. They include "feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching (and waiting) for signs (and occurrences) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank"[7] as well as "nightmares/bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary."[8] 
Neural circuitry involving the amygdala and hippocampus is thought to underlie anxiety.[11]
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, in The Concept of Anxiety, described anxiety or dread associated with the "dizziness of freedom" and suggested the possibility for positive resolution of anxiety through the self-conscious exercise of responsibility and choosing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety 
The Yale University-led study used the Keck telescope in Hawaii.
It found that galaxies older than ours contain 20 times more red dwarf stars than more recent ones.
Red dwarfs are smaller and dimmer than our own Sun; it is only recently that telescopes have been powerful enough to detect them.
Red sky at night: The view from a planet in our galaxy (left) but planets in older galaxies are bathed in a rosy glow from the many red stars in the night sky (artist's impression) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11888362

http://www.olofssonsbageri.se/historia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tfh-TALrZc
Bageriet startades 1947 av bröderna Bengt och Gunnar Olofsson.
Från början bedrevs bageriet i en bagarstuga på Gyljen, och allt gjordes för hand, till och med degarna blandade man med handkraft.
Brödet levererades av bröderna till kunderna med cykel i starten. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101201-sleep-memories-health-brain-science/?source=link_fb20101201sleepmemories
Previous research had shown that sleep helps people consolidate their memories, fixing them in the brain so we can retrieve them later.  (Read about secrets of why we sleep in National Geographic magazine.)
Rather than preserving scenes in their entirety, the brain apparently restructures scenes to remember only their most emotional and perhaps most important elements while allowing less emotional details to deteriorate.
But the new study, a review based on new studies as well as past research on sleep and memory, suggests that sleep also transforms memories in ways that make them somewhat less accurate but more useful in the long run.
For example, sleep-enabled memories may help people produce insights, draw inferences, and foster abstract thought during waking hours.
But there are dark sides to such selectivity. For instance, the brain can focus on remembering negative experiences at the exclusion of others, which occurs in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. (Related: "Beyond the Brain" in National Geographic magazine.)
Future research may shed light on what details are remembered and how they're remembered, which could help deal with trauma, Payne noted.
Ink bird Illustration on Recycled Vintage paper
Asheville Artist Gabriel Shaffer

 

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