Life After 50 Expo

Mandarin Senior Expo Announced !

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Ramada Conference Center at 3130 Hartley Road will host the first ever Mandarin Senior Expo. The  free event on January 25 will be open from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

 

Free parking, speakers and entertainment all day, a large number of Vendors some with free Health Screening are offered.

 

While this is the first Mandarin Senior Expo, similar events in Clay County have attracted 1200 – 1800 people each year.

 

Senior Guardians of America, Miracle Ear, Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research and Mandarin NewsLine are among the Sponsors. First Coast Senior Info Reporter is presenting the event.

 

 

For more information contact:

 

Jim Long

904-415-0062

Jlwin2@yahoo.com

Training the brain to combat stress !

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While there are ways to train the brain to manage stress and other emotional responses, such techniques do not work for everyone and are not always highly accessible. Now, a new study reveals the development of a new tool that could bring self-regulation of brain activity to a much wider audience.
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Researchers say their new imaging tool could help individuals self-regulate their emotional responses.

In the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers from Tel-Aviv University in Israel report how a new imaging technique provides accurate feedback on electrical activity in the amygdala of the brain – the region that regulates emotional responses, such as fear and stress.

By using this tool, researchers found participants were better able to reduce amygdala activity, which enabled better control of emotional responses.

According to senior author Dr. Talma Hendler, of the Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and colleagues, it is notoriously difficult to monitor activity in the amygdala; it is located deep within the brain’s medial temporal lobe, making it hard to reach.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is typically used to assess amygdala activity, but the team notes that this imaging technique is expensive and largely inaccessible, which restricts its use in clinical practice.

Now, Dr. Hendler and team describe how a low-cost imaging tool that uses electroencephalography (EEG) could offer a reliable, highly accessible way to monitor amygdala activity, enabling better self-regulation of such activity.

Click below to read full article:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312877.php

Job dissatisfaction has negative health effects by age 40!

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Manyy people strive to have a fulfilling, rewarding job, but the reality does not always meet the expectation. New research shows the jobs you have in your 20s and 30s can affect your overall health in your 40s onward.
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People who were unhappy with their work early in their careers were more depressed, worried, and had more trouble sleeping.

According to a 2014 report, most Americans – around 52 percent – were unhappy with their job. Few would suspect, however, that this would have substantial health implications for later in their lives.

A new study conducted at the Ohio State University, by Jonathan Dirlam, a doctoral student in sociology, was set up to investigate the long-term health effects of job satisfaction, or lack of it, earlier in people’s careers.

to contue reading click link below:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312458.php

Clay County Senior Expo August 24

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Thrasher Horne Conference Center on the campus of Saint Johns River State College will host the 2016 Clay County Senior Expo. The August 24 event will be open from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

 

This free event features  Entertainment,  Information for Seniors, Free Health Screenings and Free Parking.   More than 65 vendors participated in 2015.

 

Last year over 1800 Seniors and friends attended the event. Attendance has grown each year says Jim Long the Expo’s producer

 

While the program is still being developed, line dancers and singers are among the entertainers who will join the celebration. Karaoke Joe will be there to keep things moving.

 

This years Sponsors are: St. Vincent’s Healthcare, Island Doctors, Senior Guardians, North Florida Surgeons/Clay County, Family Life Care, Haven Hospice, Orange Park Medical Center, Taylor Residences , National Cremation Society, Humana, Consulate Healthcare, Neptune Society and Clay Today. Presented by FirstCoastSeniorInfoReporter.com.

 

 

For more information contact Jim Long at 904-415-0062 or email jlwin2@yahoo.com or jim.long.senior.expo@gmail.com