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The impact of fruit flavonoids on memory and cognition
There is intense interest in the studies related to the potential of phytochemical-rich foods to prevent age-related neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Recent evidence has indicated that a group of plant-derived compounds known as flavonoids may exert particularly powerful actions on mammalian cognition and may reverse age-related declines in memory and learning. In particular, evidence suggests that foods rich in three specific flavonoid sub-groups, the flavanols, anthocyanins and/or flavanones, possess the greatest potential to act on the cognitive processes. This review will highlight the evidence for the actions of such flavonoids, found most commonly in fruits, such as apples, berries and citrus, on cognitive behaviour and the underlying cellular architecture. Although the precise mechanisms by which these flavonoids act within the brain remain unresolved, the present review focuses on their ability to protect vulnerable neurons and enhance the function of existing neuronal structures, two processes known to be influenced by flavonoids and also known to underpin neuro-cognitive function. Most notably, we discuss their selective interactions with protein kinase and lipid kinase signalling cascades (i.e. phosphoinositide-3 kinase/Akt and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways), which regulate transcription factors and gene expression involved in both synaptic plasticity and cerebrovascular blood flow. Overall, the review attempts to provide an initial insight into the potential impact of regular flavonoid-rich fruit consumption on normal or abnormal deteriorations in cognitive performance
Military Training in an Academic Environment The University of Toronto Canadian Officers Training Corps, 1914-l968
'Variation' : 32 short performances
'Variation' consists of 32 short performances varying in length from 35 seconds to 6 minutes and 4 seconds. The performances occured at 1.30pm on 32 consecutive weekdays in the foyer space at Back Hill, London
Review of Michelle Ruth Gamburd, Breaking the Ashes: The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka
Review of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey by Marcelle Martin (San Francisco, California: Inner Light Books, 2016)
I feel somewhat reluctant to write a review of this book. Not because I fear being too critical of it, but because I fear being too complimentary. Full disclosure: Not only did I have the privilege of writing the preface to Our Life is Love, but I read drafts of some of the chapters as they were being written when Marcelle Martin was the Mullen Writing Fellow at Earlham School of Religion. I also know Martin personally, and her life authentically accords with what she has written, indeed, her life is love. So naturally I feel a deep investment in its reception, promotion, and a hope for a wide readership. I will also confess that it supported and confirmed much of my own research and interpretation of early Quaker history as a movement of transformational holiness, and I appreciate the methodology of a narrative and participatory approach. Martin also helped expand my vision of contemporary Quaker spirituality beyond familiar terrain, as my thinking about Quaker holiness has continued to evolve. The great strength of the book is found in Martin’s ability to translate the early Quaker mystical experience, which can feel alien and unreal in the demise of traditional religious narrative today, into a meaningful context
Manousos\u27 A Western Quaker Reader: Writings by and about Independent Quakers in the Western United States, 1929-1999 - Book Review
Verification (5 decades)
Verification (5 decades) is a series of 5 short performances in the foyer space at Back Hill, London. They took place on the following dates in 2009: 14th January, 4th February, 18th February, 4th March, 18th March. Verification (5 decades) is a companion piece to 'Variation'
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