On Monday January 23 sends KRO-NCRV the Depression Gala from (NPO 1, 22:00). There are several artists including comedian Mike Boddé, René van der Gijp,small artist Martine Sandifort and Laura van Kaam (winner of The Voice Kids) who tell their personal experiences on this night and thus draw attention to depression among other youth and young women. This gala is presented by Anita Witzier.
want to take the creators of the taboo on depression with the television premiere of the Depression Gala so that people dare talk about it. "Talking is the most important step," emphasizes Anita Witzier. "Only then we can recognize the signs of depression in time and do something about it."
During the gala, there is a conversation that includes Laura van Kaam. She had recently taken her coming out. In the Netherlands she shared via Facebook her depression, a brave move. Her coach and 'auntie' Karin Bloemen - himself an experienced practitioner - looking for her for an honest conversation about their demons. Also Mike Boddé, René van der Gijp and Martine Sandifort tell how she eventually chose to share their illness with their environment and what their experiences, positive or negative, therewith.
Depression forms in adolescents and young women, the most common health burden. 1 in 15 adolescents and 1 in 20 adults suffer from it. More attention is needed to prevent this epidemic, now in the top three health problems. "Most people do not realize what depression is and how it feels," said Anita Witzier. "By informing about it on television we can get a large piece of ignorance deliver you the world and may be more understanding for this disease."
The Depression Gala is an initiative of the Mental Health Foundation, which seeks to reduce the taboo through greater openness about depression. "Talking about depression to be as normal as talking about physical symptoms," says psychiatrist and president of the foundation Bram Bakker. The Depression Gala will take place on Monday, January 16 in Amsterdam Theatre. The broadcast a week later: Monday, January 23, NPO 1, 22:00. Tickets for the gala are available.
Australian swimmers in Melbourne can not currently be going into the sea. By intense floods have been landed in the water both animal and human feces. Yakkiebah!
By severe storms and heavy rainfall, the contaminated water is blown into the bay. People who have ingested the water running under greater risk of gastroenteritis. Especially for children and the elderly contaminated water can be dangerous.
The authorities measure the degree of contamination of the water on the basis of the bacterium enterococcus. In dry periods, 100 milliliters of water contains about forty of these bacteria. The authorities in Port Philip Bay, the bay where the affected beaches are 400 or more measured bacteria per 100 milliliters.
,, We have indicators of fecal contamination, which is a neat definition of poop, "said Dr. Anthony Boxshall of the authority for nature protection, EPA. ,, It is bird droppings, it's horse shit, it's cow dung and the people's shit. "
Groundbreaking news: a cripple patient through surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht with her thoughts to operate a computer voice. Wow!There have been placed on the brains of women electrodes pick her brain activity.
The patient suffers from ALS and therefore can not move and talk, but by the brain implant she can make herself understood anyway. ,, In fact, this patient has a remote control given in the head " , says Professor Nick Ramsey, a professor of cognitive neuroscience.
It is according to the hospital unique in the world that a patient can use the technique at home. They control the computer by voice in mind to move her fingers. For example, they can select a screen letters and form words that are spoken by the computer.
According to Ramsey, it is a major breakthrough ,, in the achievement of self-contained communication in severely cripple patients ".
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