TED talks
Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog!
The goal of this article is to share useful Ted Talks related to my field of study. These were very interesting to me and I hope you appreciate them as well!
1) The first Ted Talk explains how trauma, especially during the formative years, can affect someone's health across a lifetime. The early stages in a child’s life are crucial. This is when they learn the most and, most importantly, when they are most likely to recreate everything they see or hear. In the first eight years of a lifetime, the brain is constantly developing and a lot of factors can affect this development. I chose this specific talk because I have always had an interest on how emotions can affect physical health. I think if people were investing the same amount of time in their mental health as their physical health, there would be fewer people suffering from mental disorders.
Nadine Burke Harris is a Canadian pediatrician. She first received her bachelor's degree in integrative biology from Berkeley university and her medical degree from the university of Davis. She then completed her residency at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital before earning her master's degree in public health from the University of Harvard. In 2019, Miss Harris obtained the position of Surgeon General of California. She is the first person appointed to that position.
Matthew A. Wilson first completed his graduate degree in performance studies at New York University. The Emmy winner then formed a tactical art consultancy with the goal of improving conditions for the medical staff and patients. In order to create this program, he studied a variety of researched-based strategies from the arts. He then continued his career as a supervising "clown doctor" with the first professional medical clown program in the United States.
TED- The Health Benefits of Clowning Around (site consulted 2021-09-26) [online]
https://www.ted.com/talks/matthew_a_wilson_the_health_benefits_of_clowning_around
Hi Elisabeth!
RépondreEffacerI love your blog post. There is so much more to laughter than one might think! In fact, a friend of a very good friend of mine is a clown (well, humanitarian clown) in the Mauricie region, and he goes from one senior residence to another to cheer the hearts of the elderly. It is amazing to see him work his magic! Moreover, he goes to hospitals to visit children, etc. Before Covid hit, he was abroad more often than not, lending a helping smile to populations living in desolation, mainly in poor and neglected neighborhoods (and even in hazardous locations such as places recently hit by war). You might know him (or know of him), his name is Guillaume Vermette!
Here are a few elements to improve:
- Now, I know that this phrase is technically grammatically correct, but there's something about it that keep nagging at me: "there would be a lot less sickness in the world." This is just a suggestion - I do not claim to have ultimate knowledge or anything, so if anyone can suggest anything else, I'm all ears (all eyes, as this is a blog). I'd write something like: "there would be fewer people suffering from mental disorders"
- expression: to a whole new point - to a whole new level
- Parallelism: His job consists of doing rounds in the hospital and help patients, especially younger ones, take their minds off of their condition
- Verb tense: I choose this talk
- Spelling (plural): glimps
- Preposition (to): It was very interesting to me