Laughing My Ass Off

[Michael Scally MD]

I realize this is a "real" study, but it is so far out there and comical as to be LMFAO! It reminds one of those "Shake Weight" marketing, but combined with "magnets." Holy Crap! The best of both worlds. One has to only wonder where the "vibrostimulation and magnetotherapy" is applied.


Mikheev AA, Volchkova OA, Voronitskii NE. [The influence of vibration training in combination with general magnetotherapy on dynamics of performance efficiency in athletes]. Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult (5):24-7. [The influence of vibration training in combinatio... [Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult. 2010 Sep-Oct] - PubMed result

The objective of this study was to evaluate effects of a combined treatment including vibrostimulation and magnetotherapy on the working capacity of athletes. Participants of the study were 8 male judo wrestlers. It was shown that implementation of a specialized training program comprising seances of vibration loading and general magnetotherapy 40 and 60 min in duration respectively during 3 consecutive days produced marked beneficial effect on the hormonal status of the athletes. Specifically, the three-day long treatment resulted in a significant increase of blood cortisol and testosterone levels considered to be an objective sign of improved performance parameters in athletes engaged in strength and speed sports. The optimal length of vibration training during 3 days of specialized training is estimated at 20 to 40 minutes supplemented by general magnetotherapy for 60 minutes.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

This is where it is necessary to click on the article link and view the videos!!!

A man lost in musical time
Researchers document the first case of ‘beat deafness’
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/70584/title/A_man_lost_in_musical_time

By Bruce Bower
March 4th, 2011

The Go-Go’s had a 1982 hit record with “We Got the Beat,” but a 23-year-old man named Mathieu never got their message. Researchers have identified Mathieu as the first documented case of beat deafness, a condition in which a person can’t feel music’s beat or move in time to it.

Mathieu flails in a time zone of his own when bouncing up and down to a melody, unlike people who don’t dance particularly well but generally move in sync with a musical beat, according to a team led by psychologists Jessica Phillips-Silver and Isabelle Peretz, both of the University of Montreal. What’s more, Mathieu usually fails to recognize when someone else dances out of sync to a tune, the researchers report in a paper that will appear in Neuropsychologia.

“We suspect that beat deafness is specific to music and is quite rare,” Phillips-Silver says. She and her colleagues plan to investigate whether Mathieu takes an offbeat approach to nonmusical activities, such as conversational turn-taking and adjusting one’s gait to that of someone else.

Language lacks the periodic rhythms found in music, so it’s unlikely that Mathieu’s problem affects speech perception, remarks cognitive scientist Josh McDermott of New York University. If periodic sounds of all kinds confuse Mathieu, this problem may loom large when he confronts complex musical beats, McDermott suggests.

Mathieu does much better — although still with room for improvement — at bouncing in sync to a metronome’s periodic tone, indicating that he has a timing problem specific to music, Phillips-Silver says. Mathieu sings in tune and recognizes familiar melodies, so musical pitch doesn’t elude him.

Hearing and motor areas of Mathieu’s brain appear to be healthy, the researchers add.

They hypothesize that the young man’s beat deafness arises from disconnects in a widespread brain network involved in musical beat, rhythm and meter. Babies recognize simple musical beats within days of birth, possibly reflecting the operation of an inborn neural timekeeper (SN: 8/14/10, p. 18).

With further research, beat deafness may join tone deafness as a music-specific disorder. Researchers regard tone deafness an inherited disruption of a brain network that decodes musical pitch.

Phillips-Silver’s group found Mathieu as part of a project to recruit people who feel that they can’t keep musical beats, such as clapping in time at a concert or dancing at a club. So far, no other beat-deaf individuals have been identified.

Mathieu and 33 adults who had no musical timing problems were told to bounce with their knees to a popular merengue song — Suavementeby Elvis Crespo. Mathieu and 10 other participants then bounced to eight additional musical excerpts from a variety of genres.

Dancers wore devices around their waists that measured the acceleration of bouncing, from which the researchers calculated the extent to which bounces followed a song’s beat.

Mathieu consistently bounced out of sync to various musical tempos. He could imitate an experimenter who stood next to him and bounced in time to a merengue tune, but when left to his own devices he lost the beat.

Even tapping a finger to a merengue beat proved difficult for the young man.

In further trials, Mathieu also floundered at detecting when an experimenter shown in video clips moved in or slightly out of time to a musical beat. He did much better at this task when the experimenter moved to a metronome’s beat.


Phillips-Silver J, Toiviainen P, Gosselin N, et al. Born to dance but beat deaf: A new form of congenital amusia. Neuropsychologia. http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/plab/downloads/Phillips-Silver__Peretz_Neuropsychologia_in_press.pdf

Humans move to the beat of music. Despite the ubiquity and early emergence of this response, some individuals report being unable to feel the beat in music. We report a sample of people without special training, all of whom were proficient at perceiving and producing the musical beat with the exception of one case ("Mathieu"). Motion capture and psychophysical tests revealed that people synchronized full-body motion to music and detected when a model dancer was not in time with the music. In contrast, Mathieu failed to period- and phase-lock his movement to the beat of most music pieces, and failed to detect most asynchronies of the model dancer. Mathieu's near-normal synchronization with a metronome suggests that the deficit concerns beat finding in the context of music. These results point to time as having a distinct neurobiological origin from pitch in music processing.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

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The United States Of Comedy: 50 Comedians From 50 States (PICTURE)

 

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"We have to flush the toilet 10 times before it works," Paul said. "I've been waiting for 20 years to talk about how bad these toilets are and this was a good excuse today." [Is Rand Paul saying he is full of shit? If so, it is no surprise that this would be an issue for him.]

 

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Bugging You! - http://beverlys.net/LJ/BuggingYou.swf

 

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"How can any one person eat this many fries in one sitting and not die?"
Best French Fries In New York City

Where are the best Fries in your city?

 

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Daily Show: Black - Back in Black - Trump 2012
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[lifterjaydawg]

Love the Jon Stewart show, funny clip.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

[Maybe, more smilin' than laughin']

 

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Unbelievably, this guy is SERIOUS!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl_QNa-bCKc

YouTube - Rep. Hale Defends Drunk Driving

 

[TheChosen1]

BIG MAN IN ELEVATOR

Mike enters the elevator after leaving his office. After entering, he notices a huge guy enters seconds later and wait to get to the 1st floor, as is Mike. Amazed by the guy's mammoth size, Mike begins to observe the guy more. Suddenly, the guy faces Mike and says, "350 pounds, bench 500, arms are 23 inches, penis is footlong, and testicles are the size of baseballs. Turner Brown."

Without warning, Mike fell to the floor and fainted. Several minutes later, he comes to after the guy gently slaps his face to wake him. "Are you okay, dude?", ask the guy.

"I'm sorry, what did you tell me earlier?", asks Mike.

"I noticed you staring so I answered the questions that's always asked of me. I weigh 350, I bench 500, my arms are 23 inches in size, penis is 12 inches in length, and my testicles are like baseballs. My name is Turner Brown."

Mike replies, "Oh thank God. I thought you told me to turn around."

 

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