Fernando Tarnogol

Team ACC6 Returns Home After Helping in Haiti

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:28:16 +0000

Nefthalie Suglia, one of my co-workers returned today from an 8 day relief effort in Haiti. She’s a native from Haiti and works in The Devereux Foundation as a Residential Counselor. She wants to spread the word on what’s going on in Haiti and to raise awareness about the precarious conditions that its people are [...]

Chile’s Earthquake Moved South American Cities. And What Happened With The Tsunami?

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:27:03 +0000

Chile’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake shook the whole continent and tilted Earth’s axis thus making our days shorter. Now it’s moving us. The city of Concepcion (Chile’s second largest) moved at least 10 ft (3 m) to the West. Other parts of the continent such as Fortaleza (Brazil’s North-East) and the Falkland Islands. Buenos Aires (Argentina’s capital) moved 1 [...]

Crucial Stages of Cancer Uncovered

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:28:17 +0000

By Maria Gonzalez.- Cancer is a sort of disease which can be described by the uncontrolled growth of a group of unusual cells within the body. This uncontrolled growth of cells can then cause death if left untreated. Thus, you have to make sure to immediately treat your cancer if ever you have acquired such [...]

Change: The Problem with Evolution and Global Warming

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:20:21 +0000

In 1996, I was almost finishing high school and we were still concerned about the Ozone hole. Global Warming “did not exist” back then. We were in Biology class discussing cancer. I remember saying that I knew it was an uncontrolled growth of a group of cells product of a maladaptive mutation. Our teacher questioned why [...]

Chilean Earthquake May Have Shifted Earth’s Axis, Made days shorter

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:14:57 +0000

According to Richard Gross, a geophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile may have also shifted Earth’s axis by bout 8 centimeters (3 inches). This happened due to the redistribution of mass on the planet (lots of rocks were moved around during the quake). Earth’s inclination [...]

Massive Earthquake Hits Chile. Tsunami Alert for the Pacific

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:30:12 +0000

February 27th, 2010 – A massive earthquake has struck Chile early this morning. The epicenter of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake was near the city of Concepción, Chile’s second largest city. It was also felt in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and as far as Sao Paulo, Brasil. A tsunami alert was issued for the Pacific. The first waves [...]

Mother’s Sensitivity May Help Language Development in Children With Autism

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:36:05 +0000

A study from the University of Miami suggests that maternal sensitivity, understood as a combo of affection, responsiveness to the child’s needs, structuring support and education, and the ability to manage presence-absence to foster independency; may influence the development and acquisition of language among children with autism or potentially at risk. Even though parenting does not [...]

What Makes an Effective Leader?

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:49:26 +0000

The most effective leaders are those focused on people instead of just goals. Goals are important but many think of people as instruments to achieve them. You can categorize leaders in two big groups. The ‘hard’ ones are those who remain distant to obtain respect and compliance with their directives and frequently resort to a [...]

Windows to the World

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:10:08 +0000

NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour landed safely in Florida on Sunday evening. The crew attached a new bus sized module to the International Space Station (ISS) and the largest observation deck ever launched into space. The Cupola, a 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) Forged Aluminium structure features 7 windows, the central one measuring 80 centimeters (31 in) wide. [...]

Napping Boosts the Brain’s Learning Capacity

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:36:40 +0000

Remember those sleepless nights in college? Well, they probably weren’t the best idea to get past that upcoming exam. New research from the University of California (Berkeley) has found that taking a 90 minute nap during the day can boost the brain’s capacity to store new facts by 40 percent. Sleep deprivation causes some brain regions to [...]

New Trends in Mental Health Care

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:45:24 +0000

I’ve been writing about the hurdles that the mental health care system has been facing since the recession struck the country. What I haven’t written about is where this whole thing is going and which trends are surfacing. The trend these days is to shift from “monster units” that house 20 or more people to [...]

Understanding Your Job – Chapter Two

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:30:48 +0000

We all occupy roles in our lives. We are fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters. We grow up performing these roles. You are born a son, you build relationships with peers, maybe you’ll have children to then become a grandfather or grandmother. And so, these roles get hard-wired into our minds. We learn how to [...]

The Kuna People from Panama: Facing Extinction

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:54:37 +0000

In September of 2007 I travel to Peru’s popular Macchu Picchu. Although fascinating, the high note of my trip was far away from there; in Panama to be precise. No, the Canal wasn’t that transcendental place I found (went there too though). In a 365 archipelago I spent a week living among their inhabitants, the [...]

Weekly news mashup

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:14:11 +0000

I just finished perusing these last couple of days’ news and I couldn’t decide wether to blog about Bill Clinton’s heart surgery, the Georgian luger that lost his life in a training session (on the world’s fastest track) of Vancouver’s Winter Olympics or the blogosphere’s outrage at Googles’ new product, Buzz, due to its privacy issues. [...]

Understanding your job. Chapter One

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:14:05 +0000

I wanted to write a series of posts that you could apply to your job. Something you can relate to wether you are a salesman, doctor, telemarketer or a store manager. Do any of those professions have anything in common with each other? Yes, no. Doesn’t matter. My goal is to give you some tools [...]

Link Love morning! These are some of my favorite blogs

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:44:21 +0000

This are the places where I spend the most time when I’m not looking for anything specific, in no particular order. Global Voices: aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. That’s their tagline. It’s a great way to find news, some of them almost [...]

Readability. Ad and clutter free reading

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:05:04 +0000

Thanks to ALT1040 if found Readability. If you spend a lot of time reading on the internet then this is something you must try. You just need to drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar and that’s it; clutter and ad free reading. After configuring font style. size and text width you are good [...]

How to find motivation when it’s gone on vacations

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:52:34 +0000

Ever felt at work that you are stuck in first or second gear or you are on those days when your motivation is idling. Well, it’s normal. No one can sustain 290 (give or take) days a year at full throttle. If you can you are either alien, on crack cocaine or you are my [...]

Historic winter storm hits the US. Live coverage from a couch

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:17:52 +0000

February 6, 2010, West Chester, PA 11:50 PM. Looks like it’s not gonna stop snowing so I’m stranded here until the glaciers recede. Probably sometime during the day after tomorrow (pun intended). According to Tom Moore, Lead Meteorologist of the Weather Channel this is a [rephrase] historic storm which will paralyze the Mid-Atlantic (us included). I’d post [...]

The state of the Mental Health Care System in the US – Part 2

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:04:49 +0000

Last December I wrote an article summarizing some of the consequences that the economic recession has brought to the Mental Health Care System and how the inadequacy of some policies and practices have surfaced along with it. Today I’d like to expand on that topic mostly centering in the challenges that Residential Treatment Facilities which [...]

Miracle spray may revolutionize the way we clean and preserve stuff thanks to nanotechnology

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:35:58 +0000

“SiO2- ultra thin layering” (that’s the technical name) comes in the form of a liquid glass which can coat surfaces with a 15 to 30 molecules thick (500 times thinner than human hair) film. It is eco-friendly, non-toxic and it protects almost any surface from dirt, bacteria, UV radiation, heat and acids. The liquid is almost [...]

Apple’s iPad. What a disappointment

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:06:29 +0000

It’s finally here. After months of rumors, speculation and a hype level only comparable to that of the iPhone a couple of years ago Apple finally released its “netbook killer” to fill the niche between smartphones and laptops. I’ve been restraining myself from writing about it. After all, who needed another speculative post? What else was [...]

LinkedIn will soon upgrade the way we browse connections

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:42:03 +0000

Finding the person you are looking for within LinkedIn can sometimes be a difficult task. Search results are not always what you expect and even though there are ways to filter them (by company, location, function, etc.) sometimes finding what you are looking for is an exercise of patience (perusing through search results) and luck. Among [...]

New logo for the blog!

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:08:31 +0000

The blog’s got a new logo courtesy of the Internet. I got it done in 1/2 an hour using only web based image editing apps (check here and here). They tend to be buggy and crash a lot but they get the job done. Cheers to the cloud! Technorati Tags: blog update, cloud, cloud computing, new logo, [...]

Scientists have discovered how memories are encoded in the brain

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:45:09 +0000

Via Physorg.com The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory. Previous studies have proven that synapses cement memories into place. What was recently discovered is how those synapses are strengthened and the role that proteins have in the process. Follow the [...]

The state of the Mental Health Care System in the US

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:56:28 +0000

The crisis has spread to everywhere and even when signs of recovery are spotted here and there we are not out of the storm yet. Actually, we may have to wait for one or two more years to be back to “normal”. The Mental Health Care System is no exception to this and is being hit [...]

New Category Layout

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:48:19 +0000

Hi everyone, the blog’s categories were a mess so I cleaned everything up in order to make it easier to navigate the topics. There are now only 5 parent categories: Management, Psychology, Science, Social Trends and Books. Sub-categories branch from them. Cheers! Fernando image credit Jaypeeonline.com Technorati Tags: blog, categories, update

Have your DNA analyzed for $250. Live longer

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:45:10 +0000

Wanna know your genetic health risks? How about tracking back your genetic ancestry up to 10.000 years into the past and know what traits you inherited from your caveman grandpa? Two years ago, the same service used to cost $1000 or more. Pathway Genomics now provides an affordable DNA testing service. According to their site, they claim [...]

After fixing some glitches the biggest particle accelerator in the world is online

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:43:21 +0000

The biggest particle accelerator in the world is back online after a couple of glitches kept it unoperational for more than a year (some months ago a bird dropped a piece of bread on a section of it causing the 27km machine to shut down. Unbelievable, right?). The LHC is not only the biggest particle accelerator [...]

and other stuff

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:41:01 +0000

I felt like writing off topic today. Truth is, I didn´t know what I wanted to write about. I just wanted to write. “Original content”? Mabybe I could surf the net and post something awesome, life changing, the most awesome news of the decade. Maybe I should publish what I really think about BBQ sauce… [...]

Taking shelter during a crisis won’t help your business

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:42:34 +0000

During times of crisis, tightening your belt will help you cut costs and take shed from the storm, but you won’t get any advantage against the competition. Key during these times is to embrace the moment and increase your market share and/or differentiate from the competition by providing an excellent service while others retreat to [...]

It’s OK for kids to dress up evil for Halloween

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:36:20 +0000

A recent article in the New York Times (“Drop the Halloween Mask! It Might Scare Someone“) reported how, “in some classrooms across the country, the interpretation of what is too scary – or offensive, gross or saddening – is now also leading to an abundance of caution and some prohibitions” on what kids can “be” [...]

If Bipolar Disorder Is Over-diagnosed, What Are The Actual Diagnoses?

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:07:15 +0000

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2009) — A year ago, a study by Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University researchers reported that fewer than half the patients previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder received an actual diagnosis of bipolar disorder after using a comprehensive, psychiatric diagnostic interview tool –the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID). In this follow-up [...]

A position every company should have

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:38:45 +0000

There’s something paradoxical about organizational culture. The higher you go the more responsibility and power you have to develop or establish you own company’s culture. At the same time, you lose control over the memes that configure that culture. Pretend (unless you are) that you are a CEO or an HR Director. You, your team and [...]

Real Time information is here. What’s next?

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:13:17 +0000

Google is too slow, RSS is too slow, traditional media is too slow, printed media is waaaay to slow. Now it seems that anything that has happened more than 20 seconds ago is old. The first sentence of this post is old (depending on how fast you read… wait… now it’s old). We are now [...]

The e-volution of the internet

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:06:56 +0000

I was reading the article Game Web 2.Over? published on meish.org. It was about what’s currently going on with the social web. And it made me think. We are currently in the epilogue of web 2.0 and maybe starting to read the prologue of 3.0. But this is not another post about what’s coming, or how’s it gonna [...]

Preventing Burnout: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, and Coping Strategies

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:09:39 +0000

You are not a lazy person. You work hard. You give your very best every day; and still, every time the alarm clock wakes you up you wish you had a mace to smash it and keep sleeping. And you know what’s the weirdest part? Some time ago you didn’t even need an alarm to [...]

Behavioral Support Systems in mental health residential units

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:13:22 +0000

In mental health residential environments one of the most difficult things is keeping the clients engaged with the programming and their challenging behaviors to a minimum. Every unit of every organization has a behavioral support system in place (along with structured activities) to achieve this objective. The efficiency and effectiveness of these systems will dictate [...]

PsiXP has moved to fernandotarnogol.com

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:25:58 +0000

Hi everyone! I successfully finished migrating PsiXP to its new, self-hosted domain. I still don’t know PsiXP’s fate. If I delete it, inbound traffic is going to plummet and I’ll have to start from scratch and probably losing lots of readers. So I’m going to keep it alive for now until this address gets some traction. Thank [...]

Tips for adjusting to your new job

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:19:43 +0000

So you got a new job… cool… but now you are more lost than a sneaker in a fridge, right? You know no one, everything is confusing, you feel like everyone is your boss and the pieces don’t fit. The list can go on forever. Don’t worry. Perfectly normal. Every time we move to a new environment [...]

UPS just dropped my next 3 books. All three from Malcolm Gladwell

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:52:38 +0000

Hi everyone! I arrived home from a day trip to Hershey Park, PA and found the three books I ordered from Amazon in the mail. The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. All from Malcolm Gladwell. I’m really exited :-D (I have been thinking of getting a Kindle, but the feeling I had today when I opened [...]

At work don’t give orders. Empower!

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:41:49 +0000

I learnt something today. Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of my program in which we agreed to make some minor changes in my unit. Today I broke the news to my team and they weren’t welcome very cheerfully, especially by veteran staff. Why? Obviously (now that I have time to think), people doesn’t like [...]

Adult brain can change within seconds

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:42:48 +0000

Research done by neuroscientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) found that the adult brain can almost instantly change its re-wiring to adapt to new conditions. People who has lost limbs often report feeling it when touched on the face. What wasn’t known was that the brain can readjust itself within 2 seconds. This led to the [...]

Challenging the candidate with unconventional questions in a job interview

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:12:23 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately. Evidently, the market being flooded with applicants is one of the side effects of the crisis. My organization, instead of laying people off has been steadily hiring and this is due to the high turnover rate of the industry. As any other organization, we have a “hiring [...]

A big imagination doesn’t make you more intelligent. But it helps you to be prepared

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:25:28 +0000

I don’t regard myself as an unusually intelligent guy. I’d say I’m average. But life has treated me well so far. Looks like I’ve been making good decisions, I’ve sometimes had good timing and why not, I’m might even have been a bit lucky (I haven’t won the lottery though). This article will tell you about [...]

A bilingual environment affects infant development, changes personality

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:37:43 +0000

Have you ever wondered if there was any difference in human brain development or change in personality when a person has grown up in a bilingual household or environment? Researchers from Baruch College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied how bilingual people’s personality is unconsciously affected when switching languages, according to an article published by Reuters. Also, [...]

OCD: Fact or Fiction? (PsychCentral) and why it misses the point.

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:00:48 +0000

I was surfing my stream on Twitter. I stopped at @DrKCBugg . I usually check him out. Kyle had tweeted a link to PsychCentral blogs. Browsing it, I found a post, “OCD: Fact or Fiction“. Don’t be fooled by the title. It’s nothing extreme like “OCD does not exist, it’s been a big hoax pals”; [...]

When Cognitive Psychology does not work

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:30:27 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote an article which included a mention to a client with anger management issues. Weeks ago, that client that had made notorious improvements was involved in an incident with one of his staff. After a not very significant event, he went berserk and stabbed him with an antenna. How could [...]

What is shaping future generations? Certainly it’s not formal education

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:47:23 +0000

Tonight I was watching the latest episode of Fringe, “The road not taken”. In one of the scenes, Walter is explaining Olivia why she’s been having visions. He describes our perception of time as a line, while in reality at every moment our reality unfolds into an infinite number of these lines. Every decision that [...]

Brain difference linked to autism

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:48:42 +0000

Researchers from the University of North Carolina made an interest discovery. They found out that the amygdala in toddlers with autism is 13 percent larger than the one in unaffected kids. It is believed that during the last part of the first year of life, some kids’ amygdala starts to grow. This could also explain [...]

Blue Laser could lead to Autism cure

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:40:07 +0000

Discovery News published very promising and interesting news. One characteristic of people with Autism, AD/HD and Schizophrenia, is that in their cerebral activity either don’t have gamma waves at all, or they are very irregular. The idea is to induce gamma ray activity in the brain by triggering lasers set in specific frequencies. April 29, 2009 — Lasers [...]

How to know if you are being lied in a job interview. And how to counter it

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:54:15 +0000

We get to interview all kind of people. Sometimes we have to interview too many in a too short period of time. Sometimes we only have one chance to talk to that person before making conclusions. That’s why it’s important to make the most out of that time. The person in front of you has [...]

Brain Myths—Busted (MSN-Health)

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:02:45 +0000

The human brain has received unprecedented press coverage in the past few years, thanks in large part to big leaps in science’s understanding of what goes on in the space between our ears. Yet, some stubborn myths remain. For this special installment of Brain & Body, we’re offering insights into which commonly held beliefs stem from [...]

Want to Live Longer? Stop Worrying (NatGeo)

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:02:28 +0000

If you want to live to a hundred, you’d better lighten up. Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new study. That’s because being affable and more social confers health benefits, according to lead study author Thomas [...]

Depression as a survival tool? Some new treatments assume so. (biopsychiatry.com)

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:33:58 +0000

IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. was treating an 18-year-old college freshman whom he describes as “intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting.” A few years before, Thomson says, he would have interpreted her depression as anger turned inward. But instead he decided that her symptoms might be a way of [...]

Future Shock. Too much change in a too short period of time

Fernando Tarnogol — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:00:11 +0000

Times are changing, they always are. The particularity nowadays, is that things are changing faster than ever almost everywhere. Alvin Toffler coined the term “Future Shock”. He referred to it as a “personal perception of too much change in a too short period of time”. We are experiencing an immediacy of the future. The future is no [...]

Getting better at Recruiting and Retaining (World of HR Management)

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:31:35 +0000

Recruiting and retaining are two challenging tasks in the HR/Mgmt world. Key to it, is realizing what population we are considering to fill those spots in the workplace. Today, a great percentage of those applicants were born between 1980 and 1999 and grew up during the 1990s and 2000s . They are the Gen Y. Which are [...]

Interactive Autism Network Opens Its Doors To Adults With Autism

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:46:41 +0000

The Interactive Autism Network (IAN) is an innovative online project bringing together tens of thousands of people affected by autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and hundreds of researchers in a search for answers. Individuals with ASD and their families can share information in a secure setting to become part of the largest online autism research effort in [...]

Psychoanalysis: yesterday vs. today. Why we need to adapt to our new world

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:14:13 +0000

How do I start? It´s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don´t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues. Also, I don´t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the “war” it´s into [...]

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:58:14 +0000

The Blog just passed the 1000 visitor mark. Thanks to everyone who visited, read or commented on it!

Are You a Transformational Leader? (Psychologytoday)

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:36:15 +0000

Posted on Psychologytoday. Nice article. I stripped the questionnaire because I don’t usually agree with 6 item inventory/tests. They remind me of those found in magazines. No standardization, statistic validity or construct validity. The rest is worth reading and makes us think. Are we or are we not transformational leaders? Besides, it’s a good start [...]

No one knows why people bite their nails (Pravda.ru)

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:22:05 +0000

“Modern science does not have an answer to the question of what makes people bite their nails, although there are quite a number of theories to explain the mysterious phenomenon. One of the most widely spread theories says that a person develops the ill habit of nail biting as a result of stressful situations. People bite [...]

From private to public. Past and future of human privacy

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:43:52 +0000

Today, we are used to share ourselves with, almost literally, the rest of the world. Hundreds, thousands of people in some cases are able to see us, watch us, read us. We are actually broadcasting our lives. Every little aspect of our lives (thoughts, feelings, knowledge) is being transmitted to known and unknown individuals. From Facebook’s photo [...]

Nonzero: The logic of human destiny. Another book recommendation

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:24:12 +0000

What does History, Number Theory and Evolutionary sciences have in common? Nonzero takes you on a fast ride around the world (I mean the real one, not just the left side of the map) and through history. Sinthetic and comprehensive. Shows that two variables ( information & communication) have been a constant throughout history and even [...]

A little bit of humor (XKCD)

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:56:44 +0000

Credits: XKCD

Leaders Emerge by Talking First and Most Often (on Psyblog)

Fernando Tarnogol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:28:23 +0000

I found this interesting post on Psyblog: “put some random people in a group, give them a task and soon enough a leader will emerge. What is it about that person that makes others grant them the honor of being in charge?” Go to the article clicking here. Technorati Tags: group, group dynamics, leadership, Management, Psyblog

Canadian study: child abuse alters stress gene

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:30:14 +0000

Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests. to read about it, follow the link to BBC News‘ article Technorati Tags: child abuse, gene, genetic, stress

Tackling new projects, thinking out of the box

Fernando Tarnogol — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:30:25 +0000

Every time we have to start a new project or venture we are faced with one of the most difficult decisions to make: How do we start? Where do we start? Some years ago, a good boss of mine told me: “don’t try to reinvent the wheel, recycle and optimize what you already have”. I’m a little [...]

Dealing with anger management and impulse control

Fernando Tarnogol — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:16:14 +0000

A lot of times we are faced with situations that stress us, upset us, make us angry. At home, at work, at school, on the street. And sometimes, a lot of times, a few times, we lose control. We act, only to then regret it. During the past couple of months I’ve been working with a 15 [...]

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:58:35 +0000

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women’s interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics–as well as their implications for our moral [...]

Today is the World Suicide Prevention Day

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:30:00 +0000

World Suicide Prevention Day is held on September 10 each year as an initiative of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), and is co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The 2008 theme is“Think Globally. Plan Nationally. Act Locally.” This phrase, first used by the movement to save the environment, can equally well be [...]

Seven signs of relationship (dis)satisfaction. How satisfied we are with our relationships?

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:21:55 +0000

Very interesting post on Psyblog. When a relationship achieves the status of Long-term and the veil of blind love is lifted, we enter a new stage: the real world. We start to see our partner in a different light. A more realistic (and objective?) one. Being stupidly and blindly in love can last from 3 to [...]

Tips on how to deal with severe cases of low tolerance to frustration

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:25:55 +0000

I had the chance to work with a 14 year old teenager. He was born with cocaine withdrawal symptoms, has a mental age of approximately 6 years and severe behavioral issues.Something noteworthy was his extremely low tolerance to frustration. In other words, the word “NO”. Every denial of a request would trigger a self injurious [...]

New research sheds new light on Autism´s origins

Fernando Tarnogol — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:13:25 +0000

Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Children´s Center suggests that one of the origins of Autism could reside in antibodies (interfering with the fetal brain directly) produced by the mother during pregnancy, suggesting that the mother´s immune system could be a trigger or a factor in those already predisposed. Link to full article by [...]

How to know when it´s time to say bye bye to your therapy

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:50:11 +0000

It´s a question that everyone makes to themselves sooner or later. Most of the time it’s sooner. It´s called resistance to the therapy, or maybe there´s no chemistry with your therapist and it´s time to look for a different person (sometimes it´s a matter of trial and error to find the most suitable therapist for [...]

Blog update

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:36:05 +0000

I have added a “topic request page” located in the upper right corner of the blog

Problems getting quality sleep time? Read this

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:21:39 +0000

Our modern way of living attacks our sleep cycles. TV, internet, too much work and stress are just a tiny sample of factors that prevent us from getting asleep as soon as we hit the bed and keep us staring at the roof until dawn; or waking up every hour making us have the sensation [...]

What´s behind sarcasm?

Fernando Tarnogol — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:30:08 +0000

Yesterday i was in a camp day in a friend´s farm house. In the afternoon we were in a small group having a cheerful talk. A girl laughed at a comment made by another member of the group. The comment wasn´t funny, it was just a comment. When the other person asked her why she [...]

Encopresis & Enuresis (bed wetting)

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:07:42 +0000

During the past two years i`ve been working with children (3-12 years old). Two of the most common disorders i´ve come across are enuresis and encopresis disorders. Among all the cases i had, none of them were the result of bad training habits (primary enuresis/encopresis). All of them had a psychological correlation (secondary enuresis/encopresis). These disorders [...]

Discovery in autism could improve diagnostic efficiency

Fernando Tarnogol — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:51:59 +0000

Autism Disorder is one of the most elussive conditions a mental health professional can come across. Firstly, it is difficult to precisely diagnose due to it´s broad severity spectrum (depending on very subtle manifestations and timing of the condition it could be filed under Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rett Syndrome. And sometimes this subtle differences are [...]