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The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children
The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children

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The GN Podcast with Andrew Fuller: Heavy metals, other environmental contaminants, the brain and children

In this episode: Why you should reach for your vacuum right now! Forever chemicals and the impact on children's brains Behavioural regulation and impact on concentration and learning Host: Andrew Fuller, Clinical psychologist and family therapist, speaker and creator of Learning Strengths Guest: Mark Taylor, Professor; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University [...]

By Generation Next|2022-11-21T13:24:18+11:00March 8th, 2021|Categories: Podcast|Tags: children, cleaning, contaminants, development, dust, environment, podcast, safety, soil testing|0 Comments

Epigenetics: Phenomenon or Quackery?

Are you really what your mother ate, drank or got stressed about? The simple answer is “no”, but not in the way you think. We are products of nature via nurture. Our genes and environments interact. And “environment” can be what we are experiencing now or at any time during our life. An overwhelming body [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2015-11-26T15:01:51+11:00November 26th, 2015|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: chronic diseases, environment, Epigenetics, genes, habitat, infants, life style, parenting|0 Comments

For Your Mental Health, Get Back In Touch With Nature

Photo: Anu Kumar Research published last year found that people who live in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater wellbeing - less mental distress and higher life satisfaction - than city dwellers who don't have parks, gardens or other green space nearby. A different study followed the experience of [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2016-12-19T15:27:47+11:00January 5th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: environment, environmental psychology, greenery, life style, mental distress, Mental Health, nature, urban space|1 Comment

Students Having A Voice And Taking Action

I’m really exploring the concept of Student Voice at the moment. Both in my writing and in my work with schools. Last week I was invited back to the school where I last taught in 2012. I was part of a panel for an evening that the Year 12s had put on to discuss some [...]

By Shridevi|2014-06-23T09:34:06+10:00June 23rd, 2014|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: action, education, engagement, environment, Parents, school community, school leadership, Student Voice, students, teachers|0 Comments

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?

A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution. - Nafeez Ahmed via Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'? | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com.

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2014-03-31T09:05:35+11:00March 30th, 2014|Categories: Science & Research, Society & Culture|Tags: environment, global industrial civilisation, industrial civilisation, Nasa, resource exploitation, sustainability, unequal wealth distribution|0 Comments

Experts call for global overhaul of industrial chemical regulations

In a Review published in The Lancet Neurology, two of the world's leading experts on the link between environment and children's health are sounding the alarm on the dangers of industrial chemicals. They are calling on countries to transform their chemical risk-assessment procedures in order to protect children from everyday toxins that may be causing [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2014-02-16T21:26:57+11:00February 16th, 2014|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: brain development disorders, children, children's health, environment, industrial chemicals, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurology, toxins|0 Comments

Girlfriend September 2013

Girl Achieving: Girlfriend September 2013 Melinda Tankard Reist As always, when I review teen girls’ magazines I look for the girls who are taking up their rightful place in the world, engaging in social action and cultural transformation. This issue we meet ‘2013 Girlfriend of the Year’ (I’m ignoring the eight pages on GF’s Rimmel [...]

By Shridevi|2013-09-09T21:18:19+10:00September 8th, 2013|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: activism, air quality, Apologies, breast cancer, Coal Seam Gas Mining, cultural transformation., doctors, environment, Girlfriend, Madison Robinson, Marian Bechtel, online magazine, parenting, Positive Psychology, Product Development of Ava Anderson, social action, teachers, technology|0 Comments

Study Finds Genetic Risk Factors Shared by 5 Psychiatric Disorders

The psychiatric illnesses seem very different — schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Yet they share several genetic glitches that can nudge the brain along a path to mental illness, researchers report. Which disease, if any, develops is thought to depend on other genetic or environmental factors. via Study Finds [...]

By Dr Ramesh Manocha|2013-03-18T12:49:40+11:00March 17th, 2013|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: bipolar disorder, disease, environment, genetic glitches, mental illness, psycology, schizophrenia|0 Comments