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    What Your Breath Could Reveal about Your Health

    What Your Breath Could Reveal about Your Health

    There's no better way to stop a disease than to catch and treat it early, before symptoms occur. That's the whole point of medical screening techniques like radiography, MRIs and blood tests. But there's one medium with overlooked potential for medical analysis: your breath. Technologist Julian Burschka shares the latest in the science of breath analysis -- the screening of the volatile organic compounds in your exhaled breath -- and how it could be used as a powerful tool to detect, predict and ultimately prevent disease.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Medicine Preventive Respiration
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    Could A Tattoo Help You Stay Healthy?

    Could A Tattoo Help You Stay Healthy?

    Can we make tattoos both beautiful and functional? Nanotechnologist Carson Bruns shares his work creating high-tech tattoos that react to their environment -- like color-changing ink that can tell you when you're getting a sunburn -- and shows exciting ways they can deliver real-time information about our health.

    Subjects:
    Health Technology and Informatics and Biology
    Keywords:
    Tattooing -- Health aspects
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    The Difference Between Healthy And Unhealthy Love

    The Difference Between Healthy And Unhealthy Love

    In a talk about understanding and practicing the art of healthy relationships, Katie Hood reveals the five signs you might be in an unhealthy relationship -- with a romantic partner, a friend, a family member -- and shares the things you can do every day to love with respect, kindness and joy. "While love is an instinct and an emotion, the ability to love better is a skill we can all build and improve on over time," she says.

    Subjects:
    Sociology and Psychology
    Keywords:
    Intimacy (Psychology) Interpersonal relationships Love
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    How Artificial Light Affects Our Health

    How Artificial Light Affects Our Health

    In the last century, our sleep patterns have been heavily influenced by artificial light sources. (Think about your smartphone.) In this instructive talk, sleep researcher Dragana Rogulja outlines the damage this does to our health and suggests some ways to combat the problem.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Psychology
    Keywords:
    Sleep -- Physiological aspects Light pollution Electric lighting -- Health aspects
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    Why We Get Mad -- And Why It's Healthy

    Why We Get Mad -- And Why It's Healthy

    Anger researcher Ryan Martin draws from a career studying what makes people mad to explain some of the cognitive processes behind anger -- and why a healthy dose of it can actually be useful. "Your anger exists in you ... because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, an evolutionary advantage," he says. "[It's] a powerful and healthy force in your life."

    Subjects:
    Psychology
    Keywords:
    Mental health Anger
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    How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare -- Before, During And After Pregnancy

    How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare -- Before, During And After Pregnancy

    Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals and doctors to make pregnancy safer for women before, during and after childbirth.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Maternal health services
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    How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health

    How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health

    "For all that's ever been said about climate change, we haven't heard nearly enough about the psychological impacts of living in a warming world," says science writer Britt Wray. In this quick talk, she explores how climate change is threatening our well-being -- mental, social and spiritual -- and offers a starting point for what we can do about it.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Environmental Sciences
    Keywords:
    Climatic changes -- Social aspects Mental health
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    Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions

    Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions

    Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Health behavior Decision (Psychology)
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    How The Gut Microbes You're Born with Affect Your Lifelong Health

    How The Gut Microbes You're Born with Affect Your Lifelong Health

    Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Microorganisms Medical genetics
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    What Investigating Neural Pathways Can Reveal about Mental Health

    What Investigating Neural Pathways Can Reveal about Mental Health

    Neuroscientist Kay M. Tye investigates how your brain gives rise to complex emotional states like depression, anxiety or loneliness. From the cutting edge of science, she shares her latest findings -- including the development of a tool that uses light to activate specific neurons and create dramatic behavioral changes in mice. Learn how these discoveries could change the way you think about your mind -- and possibly uncover effective treatments for mental disorders.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental illness -- Physiological aspects
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