Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Blackburn’
The developing human brain and bullying
Monday, November 29th, 2010
At WBI we use physical sciences to complement the “softer” social science research. It is useful to convince all opponents (the courts when involved in legal cases, business lobbyists fighting our anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill, and executives who believe they would be sissies if they stopped bullying in their organizations) that there is a physiological basis to the injuries suffered by bullied targets. A tip of the hat to David Yamada for catching the Boston Globe science writer’s recent coverage of relevant research. Emily Anthes wrote about the impact of being bullied as a child on the developing human brain. Dr. Gabor Maté, appearing on Democracy Now! Nov. 24 spoke about how the bully’s brain may develop in abnormal ways.
Tags: brain development, bullying, Daniel Peterson, David Yamada, Elizabeth Blackburn, Emily Anthes, Gabor Mate, Martin Teicher, neuroscience, Robert Hare, Robert Sapolsky, Tracy Vaillancourt, workplace bullying
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Stress, Telomeres, New Clinical Tests & the Real World
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
People who attended the Cardiff conference, WBI University or have heard my speeches or workshops, know that I emphasize the science of stress to convey the seriousness of bullying’s impact on people. The primary impact of bullying is the onset of stress-related diseases and other health complications.
Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel prize for Medicine and Physiology. I previously wrote about her work. Briefly, she discovered 20 years ago the telomere, chromosome-protecting caps at the end of strands of DNA. Telomere damage or shortening translates to advanced cellular aging. (more…)
Tags: aging, Elissa Epel, Elizabeth Blackburn, genetic testing, stress, telomeres, UCSF
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A 2009 Nobel Prize, Stress and Bullying at Work
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Elizabeth Blackburn
The 2009 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was won by Elizabeth Blackburn and two others for the discovery of “how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.” Telomere shortening makes humans age faster than they otherwise would. Blackburn, the 60-year old biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco , oversees diverse applications of the science from her lab. Read reporter Katherine Seligman’s profile of the scientist.
Tags: aging, Elissa Eppel, Elizabeth Blackburn, Katherine Seligman, oxidative stress, stress, telomerase, telomere
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