Could This App Treat Depression? | Popular Science

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; " class=""><div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">A new company with a Harvard psychiatrist as inventor-in-residence says it's got the research to back up its claims.</div><div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="readableBigImage"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhErDTvWviart1NjN0szrZOSfuqGUBBBblaYHXGzz2i6UbLNzFcUYHXyjCidTk5VP0p5qRGL6ahkuy4AQMzXSUDIIPlw-xBd0-7aHlpzlIBkEhr7ulHqomS-LtUqXBjCuwJQ97P_3qyjk/s1600/braintracerproto2-731786.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5853041554517929346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhErDTvWviart1NjN0szrZOSfuqGUBBBblaYHXGzz2i6UbLNzFcUYHXyjCidTk5VP0p5qRGL6ahkuy4AQMzXSUDIIPlw-xBd0-7aHlpzlIBkEhr7ulHqomS-LtUqXBjCuwJQ97P_3qyjk/s320/braintracerproto2-731786.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">BrainTracer Game Prototype BrainTracer</div></div><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class="">Diego Pizzagalli spent a good chunk of 10 years at Harvard doing what most professors at elite institutions do: research. Specifically, research on depression. He's fMRI'd and EEG'd a lot of gray matter, but most of his work got stuck in the lab and never evolved into any real-world application. Then he developed something that was too good to let collect dust in the hallowed halls of academia: software that he says could help treat depression.</span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">Now with the help of the Baltimore-based startup incubator Canterbury Road Partners, Pizzagalli is set to turn his lab invention into an app. MoodTune will be a series of simple games that when played regularly, can help treat depression, Pizzagalli and his colleagues say. Turn on the app for 15 minutes a day, play through some games, and maybe it could help. Maybe, they say, in some cases, it'd be all a depressed person would need. Could something that simple actually work?</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">* * *</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">Pizzagalli started working on depression in 1999 and released some of his most important papers in 2001. The papers focused on "biomarkers," signals of response in the brain to antidepressants and psychotherapy. Take a peek inside the brain, and you can see areas light up--or fail to light up--in response to treatments. Whether an area lights up or not predicts, with considerable accuracy, whether a treatment works, he says.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">So, the thinking goes, what we if we illuminate those regions another way? The brain could readjust appropriately without the need for a pill. The anterior cingulate cortex is associated with depression and also works when snap decisions need to be made, Pizzagalli says, so perhaps having someone make snap decisions would help treat depression. He developed desktop software in his lab to test it out and was happy enough with the results to delve deeper into the technology.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">Software like that could make for a "bottom-up" approach to depression treatment. It could "strengthen the circuitry" of the ruminative brain. It could break the cycle of dwelling seen in so many depressives. It could be the first treatment of its kind to go on the market. But to turn the research into anything tangible took some extracurricular assistance.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">* * *</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">Universities are well-equipped to do research: they have large staffs, top-shelf gear, and the greatest minds in their fields in a condensed area. And after the research is done? Well, they still have large staffs, but that stops being an asset. Sean Pool, a general partner at Canterbury, put it like this: "By and large, universities are these massive, inertial bureaucracies." So why not take the inventors out of the Ivory Tower, team them up with entrepreneurs, have them form lean, Silicon Valleyish startups, and get their products to market faster?</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">There are plenty of 'health' apps out there that don't function much better than a placebo, if that--but Pizzagalli insist there's the science to back up BrainTracer.With Pizzagalli, Canterbury Road is doing precisely that. Pizzagalli originally approached Harvard about marketing the technology behind his research, but the process stalled until he moved to the university's McLean Hospital, where administration suggested he partner with Canterbury. Canterbury set up a venture company for his research (Venture Launch Team No. 1), offered the CEO position to Andre Konig, an "entrepreneur in residence" who's spent a decade working in consulting and more recently in private equity, and soon they had a name for the business (BrainTracer) and the prototype app (MoodTune). As for what Canterbury gets out of it? It holds a small stake in the venture.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class="">Immediately, Konig and Pizzagalli got to work developing a business model, shopping around for investors, and designing a prototype. BrainTracer, if all goes according to plan, will launch its flagship app, MoodTune, by the end of spring. The idea is for Pizzagalli and other psychologists' research to create an app that can help combat depression. On its face, that doesn't sound like the most medically credible idea--there are plenty of "health" apps out there that don't function much better than a placebo, if that--but Pizzagalli insists there's science to back it up. BrainTracer officially launched Monday, but before the app is released, Pizzagalli and Konig will also send it through a medical trial to test for its effectiveness. The pair is hoping to snag an National Institute of Health grant for "cognitive training" software.</span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">* * *</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">When MoodTune is out, this is how it'll work: You'll open the app and be directed to a simple game (there are "six or seven" games so far Konig says.) The images you see here are from the prototype, but the final version will probably be similar. Here's the example Pizzagalli gave of a game that could be used for a "workout." A face appears onscreen. The user--or patient, depending on your thoughts about the app--looks at the face as words flash above it: "Happy." "Happy." "Sad." "Happy." The user gets slammed with some serious cognitive dissonance as they try to reconcile the faces and words. After the user is done, he gets a review of his score for the game, as well as his overall progress in treatment.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><div style="margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="readableBigImage"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTnUbC2fGd_uweX1EmkPzWnaoN6u_yQwAHiRYiCmf_izRk5jJ-NJLiUBNmi_I775BMXeTLK-xDW-JdDU5W3z5BixweSLCSegrWdCMrRPoWvyRuGR8EC-RRe9nzIylijeRDvxvvWeBF3VE/s1600/braintracerproto1-733521.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5853041558062840770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTnUbC2fGd_uweX1EmkPzWnaoN6u_yQwAHiRYiCmf_izRk5jJ-NJLiUBNmi_I775BMXeTLK-xDW-JdDU5W3z5BixweSLCSegrWdCMrRPoWvyRuGR8EC-RRe9nzIylijeRDvxvvWeBF3VE/s320/braintracerproto1-733521.jpg" /></a></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">BrainTracer Interface Prototype: BrainTracer</div></div><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">An exercise like that can cause certain parts of the brain to work overtime, Pizzagalli says. It's enough, he says, to give certain parts of the brain a "tune-up" and enough, apparently, when done for 15 minutes every day, to counteract some of the symptoms of depression.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">Pizzagalli and Konig aren't the only ones looking into similar "cognitive training" approaches in mental health. A 2003 study into cognitive training techniques in schizophrenia noted that the approach showed "effective components that hold promise for improving cognitive performance." Multiple studies in the <a target="_blank" href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=204643" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: inherit; cursor: pointer; " class="">Journal of the American Medical Association</a> have found modest increases in brain function apparently spurred by cognitive training.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">Still, the idea that brains can be successfully "trained" is more than a little controversial. Lumosity, a series of "brain training" software products, has been maligned for selling digital snake oil. The software is pitched as a set of simple games that can improve everything from memory to concentration (and that its games are backed up by neuroscience, too). When the consumer group<i class="">Which?</i> asked a panel of scientists to explain the effectiveness of neuro-gadgets, including Lumosity, the scientists concluded there was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/26/brain-training-games-which" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: inherit; cursor: pointer; " class="">no evidence</a> to back up the claims. At best, they said, the training would help about as much as a crossword puzzle or round of <i class="">Space Invaders</i>--nothing especially brain-empowering about it.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit; text-align: inherit; " class="">* * *</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">So what's different? Precision, for one, Pizzagalli says. Instead of trying to play the full court, they take a position: the app, unlike Lumosity, only focuses on depression. That focus gives it an edge. Pizzagalli is also shooting for openness. MoodTune will have a dashboard feature that can give the users more information about the app and updates on their progress. Users will also be able to respond to BrainTracer about the app, letting the team know how well it's working.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">A 2003 study into cognitive training techniques in schizophrenia noted that the approach showed 'effective components that hold promise for improving cognitive performance.'Either way, expectations are at least a little tempered. The app, they say, could only work on its own for people on the margins of clinical depression, not meeting all the criteria to make it official but still exhibiting some of the symptoms. Modest gains are what the team is hoping for, but they're optimistic enough to have laid out a business model for the app. And if the technology isn't the same as Lumosity's, the tiered pricing model is at least similar. Pay for access for a few months with x dollars, or upgrade to a few more months for y dollars. For BrainTracer, that might mean tiers from $30 to $50 monthly.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">That could make it cheaper than the cost of depression medication (and possibly more fun to take).</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">That's in the pro column. In the minus column, the question might eventually be: How do we sell this app? There are similar-sounding apps out there based on shaky science at best. On Google Play, for instance, you can <a target="_blank" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihunda.android.binauralbeat&hl=en" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: inherit; cursor: pointer; " class="">download</a> so-called "binaural beats," apps designed to alter one's state of mind. Need some creativity? Tap. How about just some relaxation? Tap-tap.</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); " class="">Apps like that don't have the science to back them up, and certainly didn't go through a trial process in line for an NIH grant, so there'll be some pressure for MoodTune to distinguish itself from them. The dashboard system in MoodTune could help out, Konig says. After each game, the users can have the science behind the game explained to them. That's something a lot of other apps can't offer--or at least can't offer as easily. They'll also be mostly marketing the app to institutional clients like government organizations, rather than just individuals, meaning the standard of proof for the app is higher but it'll reach more people once the bar is reached. (Along with investors, they're looking to the<a target="_blank" href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/345876?show_todos=true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: inherit; cursor: pointer; " class="">crowdfunding site Indiegogo</a> to help pay for it.)</p><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); display: inline !important; float: none; " class=""></span><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class="">On the other hand, if there's a market for enhancing creativity, there's <i class="">definitely</i> a market for fighting depression. Tens of billions in productivity costs are lost every year to the illness, and fighting it is a multi-billion dollar industry itself. Plenty of people out there are willing to try out new treatments, whatever they look like.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, 'Book Antigua', Georgia, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(40, 40, 40); text-align: left; font-variant: normal; line-height: 27px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245); position: static; z-index: auto; " class=""><br class=""></p></div><a href="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/depression-app" class="">http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-02/depression-app</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; " class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It is commonly suggested that money can't buy happiness. However, it may buy willpower. While some employers and insurance agencies have had limited success in the past trying to get people to quit smoking or eat healthier by offering up the gift of money, a new study has taken a different approach. And the results are encouraging.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Researchers from the <a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mayo Clinic</a> in Rochester, Minnesota have demonstrated that a yearlong program to instill willpower has been largely successful, thanks in part to the way they conducted the study. The program included 100 overweight or <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/topics/obesity/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">obese</a> Mayo employees and instead of just offering a monetary reward to get them to change their ways, they turned it into a game. And who doesn't like a fun game, especially when prizes are involved?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">To be sure, the Mayo offered the participants a $20 cash reward if they could lose four pounds in a month during the 12-month study. However, they would risk losing $20 if they did not meet monthly goals. But where other similar studies failed, this one succeeded because it not only offered simple rewards for simple goals, it also offered dieters multiple ways to achieve their goals and even gave participants a chance to recoup their penalties when they failed in a particular month.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The study, which is set to be presented at the annual meeting of the <a href="http://www.cardiosource.org/acc" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">American College of Cardiology</a> beginning this weekend in San Francisco, was able to help 62 percent of those who joined the program meet or exceed their goals. Only 26 percent of participants in a control group who were not offered incentives or penalties met their goals.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">INCENTIVES NOT TRAINING WHEELS</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dr. Steven Driver, resident physician of internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic, said that incentives are "not like training wheels where people learn healthy habits and then will continue them on their own" – you have to keep them going or people will falter.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And for those who wish to set up a similar system in their workplace, Driver said the key is to make it self-sustaining, such as offering both rewards and penalties. And it's a good idea to have people pay up in advance when beginning such a study. People don't like the fact that they have to pay penalties after receiving bad news. He said during the Mayo study, one woman panicked after stepping onto the scale only to find out she had to pay for her weight gain.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"She headed for the door" but later came back and paid, Driver said. "People in Minnesota are pretty honest."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Driver, who owns stock in <a href="http://www.gym-pact.com/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">GymPact</a>, a firm that offers financial incentives for exercising, said the weight-loss industry is "way ahead" of the science of incentive-based dieting. "We needed to do some research to see what works," he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Financial incentives and disincentives can help people lose weight, and keep it off for one year," Driver said. "It's not about getting rich, it's about being held accountable."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Of the 100 obese employees who took part in the 12-month program, 50 were offered weight-loss counseling, monthly weigh-ins and a three-month gym membership. The other half of the group was offered all these plus financial incentives and penalties.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">GOALS</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The aim of the study was to have each employee lose four pounds per month up to a goal that was determined for their starting weight. Those who met the monthly goal got a voucher to collect a cash reward when the study ended. But if they failed, they had to pay a penalty to the naughty jar. The penalty money was used to help pay the rewards. The rest was put into a lottery that anyone could win, regardless if they met their weight-loss goals or not.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Driver said that the participants "saw that if they stuck with it, they had a chance at winning more than they had lost" by the end of the study period.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Participants in the financial incentives group also earned $10 per month and a ticket for the lottery for coming to the monthly weigh-ins and also texting their weights to study leaders each week, according to Dr. Don Hensrud, chief of preventive medicine at the Mayo. He said that in the end, people could have lost as much as $240 or won as much as $360, plus a shot at winning the lottery fund.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At the conclusion of the study, 27 of the 50 incentive participants came out ahead moneywise. Overall, the average weight lost in the incentive group was nine pounds; in the non-incentive group, the average weight lost was 2.3 pounds.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dr. Kevin Volpp, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (<a href="http://chibe.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">CHIBE</a>), said the results of the study are promising. However, he cautioned, people need to lose a lot more than nine pounds to make a big difference in their health.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"There's been an explosion of interest in this" and most large companies now provide incentive-based programs similar to this one, Volpp told the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hCYObWN1pgzzxKD2wxrrHFsSC5qA?docId=ce11f757bf7a435796fd5a675fd5c4d0" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Associated Press</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Volpp has also seen success in a similar study he published in 2009 in the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">New England Journal of Medicine</em>(<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0806819" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">NEJM</em></a>). In that study, it was shown that people were three times more likely to <a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1638157/cash_incentives_help_people_stop_smoking/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">stop smoking</a> for six months if they were offered up to $750.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">He said the program worked because of the way it was designed. Poorly designed studies with inadequate funding have proven ineffective. "If you do a low-budget incentive program, it may have little effect," he said shortly after his 2009 study.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; ">CHALLENGES</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">With significant resources, come significant results. However, Driver acknowledged that more research is needed to see how long changes like the one in his study last. "The real challenge is to extend this research, and see if we can develop a sustainable financial incentive model that lasts for longer than one year," he said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"The challenge is how to help people lose weight in a way that is sustainable. This is more data that financial incentives and disincentives do play a role in what our behaviors are, but things like this are not likely to make a long-term impact on the obesity epidemic by themselves," noted Dr. Scott Kahan, director of the <a href="http://centerforweightandwellness.com/" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">National Center for Weight and Wellness</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"We need to be thinking about a comprehensive approach that addresses much more than increasing initial motivation," he explained to Denise Mann of <a href="http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/03/07/cash-incentives-penalties-may-spur-people-to-shed-more-pounds" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">US News</a>. "We need to maintain this motivation over time."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For Audrey Traun, 29, a lab specialist at the Mayo, the cash incentive was a big motivator for her. She lost 40 pounds during the yearlong program.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"I was impressed. I didn't think I was quite capable of that," said Traun. She said, however, that as the study went on, the cash became less important to her and she found "it was actually more motivating to see my progress — pounds lost and how my clothes were fitting," she said.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Traun said she used the $400 she earned for a family vacation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">The Mayo program follows a similar 2008 study published in <a href="http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=183047" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(19, 83, 154); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; ">JAMA</em></a> where 57 overweight and obese individuals were randomly assigned to monthly weigh-ins or two weight-loss incentive programs. One included a lottery and one a contract that required a deposit. In that study, the incentive group lost an average of 13 to 14 pounds, while the control group lost only four pounds.</p></div><a href="http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112799360/cash-incentives-help-obese-lose-weight-030813/?print=true">http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112799360/cash-incentives-help-obese-lose-weight-030813/?print=true</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<b>Library Technical Assistant -</b> <b><span style="color: #48286d;">Hamden Public Library</span></b>. Position Definition: Performs responsible and varied paraprofessional library duties or administrative clerical work. Assists patrons in using library services and facilities. May select and/or maintain materials of a specific unit or library division. Supervision Received: Receives general supervision from a professional Librarian. Supervision Exercised: Provides general or task supervision to library clerks, pages, and seasonal employees or volunteers. Examples of Essential Job Duties: Plans work according to established procedures. Prioritizes tasks within work assignment. Performs work in special unit, including cataloging, children's, circulation, media, reference, branch services or as assigned. Maintains specific materials, supplies or equipment. Performs circulation desk duties, including charging and discharging library materials, and registering new patrons; answers telephone calls and provides information as necessary. Places books and loan materials on reserve as requested. Maintains circulation desk area in neat and functional conditions. Provides backup assistance in other library areas as required. Receives new collection materials, i.e., books, documents, music cassettes, CD's CD-ROMs, videos, DVDs and talking books, periodicals, etc. Reconciles materials received with purchase orders to assure accuracy of shipment. Enters library materials into database, bibliographic and holdings information. Copy cataloging and editing of MARC records. Physically processes all audio-visual materials for circulation. Assists patrons in the use of the library's catalogue and reference materials, answers reference questions as able; locates information or guides patrons to source materials. Assists patrons in use of computers and equipment, including database and Internet searching. Assists patrons in use of reference materials and public access catalogs and other library sources. Refers patrons as necessary to Reference Librarians. Assists children and students in the use of the library's catalogue and reference materials, answers reference questions; locates information or guides children to source materials. Assists children and students in use of computer system to locate books and materials, to access Internet and CD ROM reference sources. May lead story hours, library tours, craft programs, and related events to encourage reading, viewing and listening skills. Refers children and students to Children's Librarian as necessary. Prepared materials in promoting use of library, including posters, newsletters and exhibits. Processes books and materials for mailing in the interlibrary loan program. Maintains records of outgoing and incoming materials. Maintains inventory of library materials and supplies. Interacts with professional staff in maintaining Library collection by recommending or selecting new and replacement books, periodicals and other materials. Examples of Incidental Duties: May lead story hours; library tours, craft programs, and related events to encourage reading, viewing and listening skills when assigned to Children's unit. Relieves other employees as directed by supervisor, including responsibility for a unit in temporary absence of professional librarian. Interviews candidates for Page positions and provides on-the-job training to Pages and Clerks. Minimum Qualifications Required: An Associates Degree in Library Science, or two (2) years' experience in public library work, or an equivalent combination of experience and training. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: A working knowledge of library principles and practices is required. Must be able to apply the principles of library science to resolve practical problems and to deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagrammatic and schedules form. Must be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, and compute ratios, rates and percentages. Must acquire a proficiency in library computer applications and have a general working knowledge of other interfacing departmental applications. Must acquire a proficiency in department specific applications and have a general knowledge of integrated software such as Microsoft Office and its applications, including Word and Excel, and be able to utilize the Town's e-mail system, or be able to acquire these skills within a limited training period as determined by department needs. Must be able to relate to and have the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with library staff, children and adult patrons. Must have a general knowledge of library reference methods and procedures. Must be able to perform story telling and other presentations, and provide how to use the library instructions to classes. Must have working knowledge of children's literature and school reading programs. License or Certificate: A Connecticut Motor Vehicle Operator's license is desirable. Applications and copies of the job description are available in the Personnel/Civil Service Office from 8:30 - 4:30 PM daily.Closing date: Friday, <span style="color: red;">March 22, 2013</span> at 4:00 PM.

Library Technical Assistant - Hamden Public Library

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More Architectural Album Covers

Architizer has compiled a list of <a href="http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/78598/kickoff-sxsw-20-architectural-album-covers/">20 Architectural Album Covers</a>, but they left out a few albums that are actually inspired by architecture, albums that exist because of buildings. The short-lived Architettura series from Caipirinha Records featured electronic artists doing experimental music based on specific buildings. I have Tower of Winds, and actually <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2001/04/09/tower-of-winds/">wrote about it</a> back in 2001. I wrote: "Savvas and Taylor developed a production technique that accepts environmental inputs (sans keyboards and other devices) much the same way the tower reinterprets the sounds of the city." Below are it and the other three albums in the series, linked to All Music Guide for more information.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/tower-of-winds-mw0000062567"><i>Tower of Winds</i></a> (1998), Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree:<br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsb16bWvaAW7bk5gxnGgQuR3Ry-P4ltTTTBKDKhMSrjeozm1VX3i51XOhDDrg8O_6HpIN89GbyacAlCNvQ4FhV1wgT9Ifi-M0Arg9VZNTGcM96BUN14Yi59ma7eN9ce1AWkYQRgmarg5Yh/s1600/MI0001544265.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/waterloo-terminal-architettura-series-2-mw0000043802"><i>Waterloo Terminal</i></a> (1998),<i> </i>Tetsu:<br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUAiVO-4uwIPiftILEaIw50k06MeUj4vj5sOh-NgfjJbYq2RvfRZHAVk3ST29KuQNZC8HGdp2zJfx8eyBiLU_6MtqqUCiP5BynpEsROP-hBXRYnnwDWY4u2F8sqO1PAzCHpO7hT2t3g9X9/s1600/MI0000177577.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/museum-of-fruit-mw0000242088"><i>Museum of Fruit</i></a> (1999), David Toop:<br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrFDUPTl7nttM9h3N7misIalehDuQgobBTku9iMMXyEsLCBtzsFJs-xLdDiJdTDDLzF3Y3AW4SLzcUiJl-4euLJBxoYv5mvs6MQiM-yU3kBf_Tt3vCdgDtAxrXJqvOykSzHpDgAVB3ISMe/s1600/MI0000210663.jpg" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/brasilia-architettura-vol-4-mw0000605711"><i>Brasilia</i></a> (2000), Panacea:<br /><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqD6QB6Vm4bxmThu3wYdbKoaLG5uci1jl23j0B_q7z8Xi7XlIz803NwnZHOD8LKN7caBkk1_DRETk04_X1tQDs-Q_i1tvMIlKebBKgdOAzgpbB3I_ZxjFdKO1kJLQrl_U0MOWlT9hR1bB2/s1600/MI0000266256.jpg" />

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What is International Women’s Day?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><h2 class="subhead" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Google celebrates International Women’s Day with a doodle of women from around the world. Many will honor advancements for women’s rights Friday, but how familiar are people with its history?</div></h2><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;">By Steph Solis / March 8, 2013</div><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2013/0308-international-women-doodle/15221593-1-eng-US/0308-international-women-doodle_full_380.jpg" /></div><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em;">Friday is International Women's Day. Google celebrated with a special banner.</span></div><div class="sByline" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_credit" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;" title="Photo Credit">Google</div><div class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_credit" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;" title="Photo Credit"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">After more than 100 years, International Women’s Day draws millions to commemorate the advancements made in human rights and to discuss the challenges women continue to face in politics, education, employment, and other areas of daily life.</span></div><div class="caption" id="pgallerycarousel_credit" style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 0.6em; padding: 0px;" title="Photo Credit"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">However, International Women’s Day originally commemorated the working rights protests led by female garment workers. Many seem to forget the holiday’s ties to the working rights movement in the<a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">United States</a> and the Socialist Party. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The origins of the holiday can be traced back to March 8, 1857, when garment workers in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/New+York+City" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">New York City</a>staged a protest against inhumane working conditions and low wages, <a href="http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/womensday/pages/how_content_1.asp" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">according</a> to the <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+Nations" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">United Nations</a>. The police attacked the protesters and dispersed them, but the movement continued and led to the creation of the first women’s labor union.</div><div class="promotion-tag" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="promotion-tag-p" style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">RECOMMENDED: <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2012/0308/International-Women-s-Day-How-it-s-celebrated-around-the-globe/Asia-Pacific?nav=638983-csm_article-promoLink" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">International Women's Day: How it's celebrated around the globe</a></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Fast forward to March 8, 1908: 15,000 women marched in New York City for shorter work hours, better pay, voting rights, and an end to child labor.  The slogan “Bread and Roses” emerged, with bread symbolizing economic security and roses for better living standards. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Many of those who protested for working rights were young immigrants from <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Europe" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Europe</a>, who came to the United States seeking better opportunities, says Carol Rosenblatt of the Coalition of Labor Union Women. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">“Workers in this country also died in their efforts to advance workers’ rights, but they weren’t fearful in the same way that they were in some of the countries that they came from,” says Ms. Rosenblatt, executive director of the coalition. “They had a much different expectation than when they got here. They were exploited.”</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">That May 1908, the Socialist Party of America declared that the last Sunday in February would be National Women’s Day. The first National Women’s Day was celebrated on Feb. 28, 1909 in the United States.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">International Women’s Day (then International Working Women’s Day) was introduced during the International Conference of Working Women in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Copenhagen" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Copenhagen</a>, <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Denmark" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Denmark</a>. Clara Zetkin, a German socialist, suggested a holiday honoring the strike of garment workers in the United States. The proposal received unanimous approval from the 100 women from 17 countries.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The proposal did not give a fixed date of observance, but in the first years International Women’s Day was observed on different days in March. In 1911, <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Austria" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Austria</a>, Denmark, <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Germany" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Germany</a>, and<a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Switzerland" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Switzerland</a> supported the holiday on March 19, with more than a million men and women rallying.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">Shortly after, however, women gathered in light of a tragedy. The Triangle Waist Company building in New York City caught fire in March 25, killing 146 young immigrant workers.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The incident, which drew attention to the inhuman working conditions for industrial workers, prompted the Women’s Trade Union League and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union to stage demonstrations. One protest, a silent funeral march, <a href="http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/story/introduction.html" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">drew</a> more than 100,000 people.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The incident led to the creation of the Factory Investigating Commission, which included Francis Perkins, who would become the first female secretary of labor, and labor union activists.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">The commission's findings led to several laws in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/New+York" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">New York</a> that mandated safety standards, minimum wage, unemployment assistance, and support for workers when they grow old. These laws paved the way for <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Franklin+D.+Roosevelt" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">President Franklin Roosevelt</a>'s <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+New+Deal" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">New Deal</a> legislation.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">“It brought to light the way in which people were working and the horrific situations that people were enduring,” Rosenblatt says. “That was just one of many fires.” </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">While there have been advancements, Rosenblatt says, women continue to fight against poor working conditions and lower wages around the world.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;">“There are fires in <a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Bangladesh" style="color: #205d87; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Bangladesh</a> today in factories that are owned by American countries,” she says. “It has not gone resolved.”</div><br /><br /><div class="podStoryGal p402_hide" style="background-color: white; border: 4px solid rgb(234, 242, 238); color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 8px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="podC" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 208px;"><div class="pod" style="background-color: #f2f7f4; font-size: 11px; height: auto !important; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; min-height: 209px; 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Michael Jordan marriage: He and Yvette Prieto take another step

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Wedding bells" src="http://www.trbimg.com/img-5139f967/turbine/la-sp-sn-michael-jordan-marriage-yvette-prieto-001/600" /><br /><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto have applied for a marriage license. </span><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;">(<span class="photographer">Chuck Burton / Associated Press</span>)</span><br /><span class="credit" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Michael Jordan once gave up basketball and then came back. Now, he's coming back to married life too.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The NBA legend and his fiancee, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/human-interest/yvette-prieto-PECLB002604.topic" id="PECLB002604" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Yvette Prieto">Yvette Prieto</a>, went to the Palm Beach County, Fla., courthouse Thursday to apply for a marriage license, according to Kathy Burstein, a spokeswoman for the clerk's office.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Jordan and Prieto announced their engagement in December, 2011, so they certainly aren't rushing into anything.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">The license is valid until May 9.<br /><br />It would be Jordan's second marriage. He was married to Juanita Vanoy from 1989 to 2006.</div></div>

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The Wolfpack Is Back in 'The Hangover 3' Trailer

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NKE-RXR_XIs?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Bless the comedy gods, because the wolfpack is back and up to more hilarious antics in <em>The Hangover 3</em>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">The official trailer, which dropped Thursday, features the boys out of Thailand — the setting for the second movie — and returning to their original stomping grounds in Vegas.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Even Mr. Chow has made a comeback (this time with clothes, it seems) and beloved Melissa McCarthy seems to be stopping by the Strip. Who wouldn't love to see a romance bud between the <em>Bridesmaids</em> star and wolfpack leader Alan (played by Zach Galifianakis)?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"><strong></strong></div><div class="see-also" style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><strong>SEE ALSO: <a data-crackerjax="#post-slider" href="http://mashable.com/2013/03/05/iron-man-3-extended-trailer/" style="color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: none;">Tony Stark Is Back in the Extended 'Iron Man 3' Trailer</a></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">Even the movie's poster proved funny, spoofing the <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2</em>poster that also read "It all ends."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" name="m!fb6f" style="color: #0c74a6;"></a></div><div class="microcontent-wrapper" data-fragment="m!fb6f" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="microcontent-shares" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 1px 1px 2px; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.25s ease; border: 1px solid transparent; 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Pictures</small></em></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;">And just for giggles, let's all remember the bonding experience that was Alan's wolfpack speech from the first movie:</div><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.75em;"></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fdMxRG9Jol0?feature=player_embedded" width="640"></iframe></div>

The Hangover 3 The Wolfpack Is Back in 'The Hangover 3' Trailer

Bless the comedy gods, because the wolfpack is back and up to more hilarious antics in  The Hangover 3 . The official trailer, which dropped...

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