UPES Dehradun, a NAAC ‘A’ accredited university, announced the launch of its School of Liberal Studies and brought together renowned academicians from diverse fields to deliberate on the need to redefine liberal studies.
The launch and the discussion were joined by Robert Lensink, Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Groningen University; Nawtej Dosanjh, President & CEO, MirraU, a start-up university in Florida, USA; Dipankar Gupta, Retd Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU; Nandini Chatterjee Singh, Cognitive neuroscientist and currently Senior Project Officer at UNESCO MGIEP; Narayanan Srinivasan, Professor and Head, Department of Cognitive Science, IIT Kanpur; Sanjay Mitra, Professor of Practice, School of Public Policy, IIT Delhi; Vijay Mahajan, CEO, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, and Director, Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi and Sugata Marjit, Distinguished Professor, IIFT, and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. These distinguished personalities are also on the advisory board of the School. The discussion was moderated by Shubhashis Gangopadhyan, Dean of UPES School of Liberal Studies, an eminent economist and a well-known researcher in diverse fields including patent laws and digital preparedness.
From simply swallowing food to critical diseases, Long COVID or post-COVID syndromes can affect us in more ways than we already know of it. World Health Organisation (WHO) last week pointed out long-term effects of the coronavirus can be critical, affecting every part of your body. Following this, several studies have also shown the virus can give us some life-threatening diseases, affecting organs including the heart, lungs, intestine etc. Read on to understand the critical symptoms of long COVID and how it can affect your body.
The Vagus nerve is one of the longest nerves in the body. It extends from brain down into the torso and into the heart, lungs, and intestines, controlling various bodily functions including heart rate, speech, the gag reflex, transferring food from the mouth to the stomach.
The detailed plan shall be published shortly on College website www: islamiacollege.edu.in All students enrolled in UG and PG programmes are directed to submit the latest vaccination status, which will be subject to e-verification, through dash-board option after an authenticated login using their respective username and password. The option will be activated from 15th of Feb.,2022 10:00 a.m. and will remain open till 17th of Feb.,2000 4:00 p.m.
Today, placebos play a crucial role in medical studies in which some participants are given the treatment containing the active ingredients of the medicine, and others are given a placebo. These types of studies help tell researchers which medicines are effective, and how effective they are. Surprisingly, however, in some areas of medicine, placebos themselves provide patients with clinical improvement.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the organization that regulates which medicines are allowed to go to the consumer market, requires that all new medicines be tested in randomized controlled trials that show they are better than placebo treatments. This is an important part of ensuring the public has access to high-quality medications.But according to psychologist and placebo expert Irving Kirsch, who has studied placebo effects for decades, a large part of what makes antidepressants helpful in alleviating depression is the placebo effect – in other words, the belief that the medication will be beneficial.
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