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FEATURED VIDEO and Articles
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(1) How Brains see. Nature. YouTube. 8/16/2013
(2) Losing is Good for you, By Ashley Merryman, NYT OpEd, 9.14.2013
(3) (Daily Squash Report Post) http://dailysquashreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/ferez-nallaseth-responds-to-richard.html
(4) Richard Millman and Ferez Nallaseth - A Brief Conversation in Coaching http://millmansquash.com/2013/11/05/a-golden-opportunity-for-discovery/
(5) Some Numbers From Squash - And Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S.Nallaseth, PhD.1.4.2013.pdf: Ferez'nSquashDocs
(see comments about how these articles may relate to Squash in 1f, 1g, 1p, 1q1 & 1q2 below).
Website Contents
The Ferez'nSquashDocs website or selected articles from it were COVERED IN SQUASH TWEETS/BLOGS/POSTS/MAGAZINES (see below and on following pages):
Now posted on Daily Squash Report.1.6.2014
(6) Some Numbers From Squash - And More Reasons For Knowing Them! Ferez S. Nallaseth, PhD.4.5.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquashDocs
Squash In the Olympics (also see the section on Critical Issues for Squash by scrolling down):
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(7)Squash InTheOlympics.PierreBastien&FSN.SquashSource.Thread.3.21.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquash
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(8) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp.http://www.dailysquashreport.com/4_2_14_ferez.htm
(9) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' FSN Interviewed by Framboise Gommendy, Owner and Publisher of Carte Blanche In SquashSite 04 April2014.
(10) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' - Francoise Gommendy, Carte Blanche In SquashSite Pre-Edited Version. 4.5.2014. on Ferez'nSquashDocs.
(11) Carte Blanche: 'Fereze Nallaseth's Plans to Get Squash in the Olympics' 10g also posted on in Squash Ezine Online Magazine 10th April 2014.
(12) Ferez S. Nallaseth Re-Replies to Kenneth Tuttle Daily Squash Report, 4.28.2014
(1) The Daily Squash Report
(2) Squash Ezine online Squash Magazine (http://www.squashezine.com/ (copy and paste into browser)
(3) Squash Player Mag (@squashplayermag)
(4) Jonah Barrington in his Blog Hit the Nick
(5) The Squash.Com.Au Daily (@Squashcomau)
(6) SquashSource.com
(7) SquashSite
(8) Squashmad.com/
(1A) Latest Posts (1-24) for categories (1B(1a-1t) as well as associated comments Directly Relevant for Squash (Comments To Be Posted):
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(1) Switching Betwen Habitual And Goal Directed Actions - a '2 in 1' System In Our Brain, Champlinaud Foundation.sciencenewsline.com
(2) The Real Neuroscience Of Creativity, By, Scott Barry Kaufman. blogs.scientificamerican.com
(3) Researcher controls colleague's motions in first human brain-to-brain interface, Doree Armstrong and Michelle Ma, washington.edu/ 08/27/2013
(4) Neuroprotective lifestyles and the aging brain, Gow et al, neurology.org.79/17/1802.abstract
(8) Losing is Good for you, By Ashley Merryman, Op-Ed NYT, 9.14.2013
(9) Molecule Produced During Exercise Boosts Brain Health.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10.htm
(10) Brain may flush out toxins during sleep; Sleep clears molecules associated with neurodegeneration: study, NIH/National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 10.13.2013.htm#!
(11) Hypoconnectivity and Hyperfrontality in Retired American Football Players, Adam Hampshire, Alex McDonald and Adrian M. Owen, Nature Scientific Reports, 10.17.2013
(12) Michael Jordan - On Persevering, By Cherie Friedman (LinkedIn Post)
(13) Your Brain Sees Things You Dont, ScienceDaily, 11/13/2013, Jay Sanguinetti, University of Arizona, posted on LinkedIn by Lorenzo Pia, Assistant Professor at the Universita degli studi di Torino
(14) How Unconscious Thought and Perception Affect Our Every Waking Moment [Preview], Unconscious impulses and desires impel what we think and do in ways Freud never dreamed of, By John A. Bargh, Scientific American (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-unconscious-thought-and-perception-affect-our-every-waking-moment#!)
(15) Computational Neuroscience: Thinking an object into movement (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/disruptions-rather-than-time-computers-might-become-panacea-to-hurt/)
(16) Our Brains Have a Map for Numbers - It is as if there is a number line in our heads, Emilie Reas, Scientific American, 01.14.2014
(17) Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group nature.com. The mechanism underpinning the way two brain regions communicates when they need to cooperate, yet avoiding interference with one another when they must work alone, has been discovered. Via. Lorenzo Pia Assistant Professor on LinkedIn
('Closed Loop? - 'Making a Stroke/Reading-Responding to make the 'Get' on the Court)
(18) Confidence - Making & Breaking It! LI Thread.LI .2.24.2014.pdf
(19) Blind Athletes Provide Clues About the Nature of Our Emotions, By Melanie Tannenbaum, Scientific American, 2.17.2014
(20) Invariant object recognition - how come we don't need to think about what is it that we see? By Gaia Vasiliver-Shamis, Ph.D Scientific Program Manager at NIH/ NIAMS Top Contributor LikedIn Group: Society for Neuroscience, http://www.myscizzle.com/blog/invariant-object-recognition/
Comments for New Articles 1-24 from LinkedIn, NYT, Scientific Journals (others to be posted) :
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(1B) (1a) Are Scientists missing a rich resource in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games' and do such things exist?
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Comment:
The above Article appeared on the online magazine Squash Ezine (http://www.squashezine.com/ (copy & paste into your browser) issue of 6th of June 2013 under the Section 'More Squash News'. The items (1b to (1h2) are related papers, articles, comments and editorials.
(1b) Why can some kids cope with pressure while others fall apart? By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, New York Times, (February 6th, 2013)
(1c) Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain. By John Markoff, New York Times (18th February 2013)
(1d) Obama to Unveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain, By John Markoff and James Gorman, New York Times, (April 2, 2013)
(1e) Fear Factor: Missing Brain Enzyme (Monoamine Oxidase) Leads to Abnormal Levels of Fear in Mice, ScienceNews (July 15th 2013)
(1f) Switching Between Habitual and Goal-directed Actions - a '2 in 1' System in Our Brain; ScienceNewslineBiology, Champlinaud Foundation, 08/06/2013,
(from 1q2) How Brains see. Nature. YouTube. 8/16/2013 (see comments about these articles as they relate to Squash in 1p, 1q1 & 1q2 below).
Comment on articles in (1f) and (1L):
Perhaps a particularly relevant perspective on the transitions from Habitual and Goal Directed Behaviors emerges from the performance of Racquet Athletes. To produce an immeasurably large and dynamic repertoire of Strokes, Moves, Reads/Gets, Spatial Awareness and Mental Toughness they have to master a large range of Motor Skills, Sensory Perceptions and Cognitive functions often at the limits of Neurophysiological extremes. All of which requires integrating, synthesizing and internalizing a myriad different Physical, Neurophysiological, Chemical, Biological, Mathematical, Spatial and Behavioral functions in fractional (of seconds?) time spans, sometimes they are Counter Intuitive and ocur in the innermost recesses of the mind at the interphase of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious. Of necessity many of these functions e.g. for effective Stroke production must be 'Learned' and then executed as 'Habit' in other words there can be nothing tentative let alone contemplative about the timing, execution, power and touch delivered to the Ball! Yet a myriad different Conscious processes involving at least 7 major joints must be drawn on to impose rigorous control of Posture, Stance, Spacing, Approach, Racquet Mechanics (e.g. Swing) for a good Stroke. In another of many examples, the Initiation (Player A)/ Response (Player B) Interaction lynchpin of Racquet Sports requires 'Reading a Stroke' and making a 'Get of the Ball' that are dependent on at least 2 main steps - 'Reading the Stroke' by Looking at the Opponent (especially when he/she is making the Stroke from behind) and following the Trajectory of the Ball before making the 'Get' but without 'Jumping the Gun' i.e moving only after the Ball has left the Stroke Maker's Racquet. Yet this basic requirement in the interaction is the hardest thing to Coach, often being overridden by a reflexive frozen stance and staring at the front wall, while acquiring ever greater sophistication with increasing levels of Play upto those of Pros. In other words Evolutionary 'Flight or Fight' Reflexes override the Conscious Known - we all know to look either way before crossing the street! Can the 2 hemispheres dictating the basic 'Habitual' and 'Goal Oriented' Behaviors be overridden by Flight or Fight Reflexes identified in Racquet Sports? Are there High Frequency Transitions and Modulations between them in Racquet Sports? Can the Evolutionary context of a Court, 'Clutch Games', Sports in general and the Questions they frame for the Neurosciences provide a rich analytical resource? We think so: Are Scientists missing a rich resource in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games' and do such things exist? This work dovetails nicely with the article in 1(L): Integrating events across levels of consciousness, By Katharina Henke, Thomas P. Reber, and Simone B. Duss, in frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14th June 2013/ doi 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.0068.
Could the articles in (1g), (1h),1(k) and (1L) below contribute to explaining how Competitors generally manage Initiation-Response (e.g. Squash Player's making, reading and responding to Strokes) interactions in the 'Closed Loops of Clutch Games'?
Recent work on how Meditation reinforced Brain functions/Neuronal Gene Expression and 'integrating events across various levels of consciousness', may have relevance for underlying Cognitive processes in the Making/Reading of Strokes, Moves and Court Coverage/Court Sense integrated (at many potential levels) at the interface of the Conscious with the Sub-conscious - hints and a framework emerge from studies of Neuroscientists reported in articles (1h), 1(i), 1(j), (1k)and 1(L), headers and comments that follow.
(1i) Evidence Builds That Meditation Strengthens The Brain, in ScienceDaily, 5/22/2013 (Primary data from - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Eileen Luders PI at UCLA, funded by NIH).
(1j) Meditation can change your genes, By Steven Handel, THE EMOTION MACHINE PSYCHOLOGY + SELF IMPROVEMENT, 29TH MARCH 2013
(1k) Genome-wide expression changes in a higher state of consciousness,
Ravnik-Glavač M, Hrašovec S, Bon J, Dreo J, Glavač D. Conscious Cogn. 9/2012; 21(3) 1322.(IL) Integrating events across levels of consciousness, By Katharina Henke, Thomas P. Reber, and Simone B. Duss, in frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 14th June 2013/ doi 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.0068.
Comment on the Articles in 1(g), 1(h), 1(i) 1(j), 1(k) and 1(1L):
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The dawning of the mechanics of a stroke - in other ways (1m), (1n) and (1o)?
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA ,10th June 2013 Published online before print June 10, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1221127110 PNAS June 10, 2013 Author Affiliations
1.Edited by Terrence J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, and approved April 30, 2013 (received for review December 4, 2012)
Comment on this Article:
THIS WORK MAY BE THE DAWN IN UNDERSTANDING THE MAKING OF A STROKE, A MOVE AND A GET - THE NEUROSCIENCE OF RACQUET SPORTS!!
(1o) The Sensitive Robot: How Haptic Technology is Closing the Mechanical Gap, By Erik Sofge, in Robotics March 2013
Comment on this Article:THIS WORK MAY EXPLAIN THE ROLE OF TOUCH IN A STROKE A e.g. WHY HOLDING RACQUETS WITHOUT WEARING GLOVES IS SO IMPORTANT TO MAKING A GOOD STROKE - AND CONVERSELY TO HAPTIC TECHNOLOGY i.e. THE NEUROSCIENCE OF RACQUET SPORTS!!
Basis of Spatial Skills, Court Sense and 'knowing' where the Opponent's Ball is going to end up - some variant of our GPS (1p), (1q)?
(1q2) How Brains see. Nature. youtube. 8/16/2013
Comment on Articles/Papers/Youtube (1f), (1g) (1p) & (1q1) and (1q2):
Could this work by Neuroscientists also explain why some Player's Temporo-Spatial Perceptions on Court (Court Sense) are so good! They generally know when, where and how to get to the right position on the court, how to stand, where the ball is headed, where an opponent is standing and when and how to cut it off on the court while mostly 'playing within their games'?
Quote by Hashim Khan (ca. 1970) : "KEEP EYE ON BALL, Is most important one thing I tell you!"(self-entitled, Edited by Chris Widney, drawings by Richard Pitts, Published by Simon & Schuster, A Fireside Book, Rockefeller Center, NY, NY,1996).
(1r) For a full list and chronology of Neurosciences, Brain Mapping and Function with Distinctions Between Brain and Mind Articles in the New York Times visit their links (copy and paste URL into your browser):
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/brain/index.html
Weight gain, exercise and Adipose Tissue a story of Genes turned on, lost and modified genetic codes (1q) & (1r).
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Critical Issues for Squash
Squash In the Olympics (also see the first article in the section on Critical Issues for Squash by scrolling down):
10 a- j Series:
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(c)SquashInTheOlympics.PierreBastien&FSN.SquashSource.Thread.3.21.2014.pdf.Ferez'nSquash
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(d) DSR-Guy. Olympics.Resp.c.4.2.2014.pdf Ferez'nSquashDocs
(e) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp.http://www.dailysquashreport.com/4_2_14_ferez.htm
(f) DSR-Guy.Olympics.Resp. Squash Ezine (copy & paste link into browser) http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=285947fb-22f7-4d54-a1f6-89e1387bb979&c=1df234b0-4f4f-11e3-a012-d4ae529cde13&ch=1ed40930-4f4f-11e3-a078-d4ae529cde13
(g) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' FSN Interviewed by Framboise Gommendy, Owner and Publisher of Carte Blanche In SquashSite 04 April2014.
(h) 'Promoting Squash or The Key To The Olympic Door' - Francoise Gommendy, Carte Blanche In SquashSite Pre-Edited Version. 4.5.2014. on Ferez'nSquashDocs.
(i) Carte Blanche: 'Fereze Nallaseth's Plans to Get Squash in the Olympics' 10g also posted on in Squash Ezine Online Magazine 10th April 2014.
(j) FSN response to Kenneth Tuttle Wilhelm Gowth of Squash vs Badminton in Daily Squash Report /4_15_14_ferez.htm
(k) Ferez S. Nallaseth Re-Replies to Kenneth Tuttle Daily Squash Report, 4.28.2014
(2) How can Baseball, Squash and Wrestling return to, enter or remain in the Olympic movement?
By bringing structural changes in the Olympic movement and the I.O.C. as well as in each of these three Sports!!
Ferez Nallaseth, Ph.D., Joseph McManus, B.M., I.B. , M.B.A., C.E.O. - Pro Squash Tour, Hunt Richardson, B.A., C.P.T., S. Mahmood Ahmed, Ph.D. and Dhanjoo Ghista, Ph.D. (complete author affiliations at the end of the document)
Comment:
The above Article appeared (1) in the online magazine Squash Ezine, (2) was re- Tweeted by 'Squash Player Magazine' on the 7th of July 2013 and (3) was forwarded by Jonah Barrington on his Blog site 'Hit the Nick' .The items (1a1 to 1a4) are related papers, articles, comments and editorials.
(1) featured in online magazine 'Squash Ezine' (http://www.squashezine.com/ (copy and paste into browser) issue of 3rd of July 2013 under the Section 'More Squash News'.
(2) Squash Player Mag (@squashplayermag) retweeted one of your Tweets!
From: Squash Player Mag (Twitter) <n-srerm.anyynfrgu=tznvy.pbz-2109e@postmaster.twitter.com>
Date: Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 4:53 AM
Subject: Squash Player Mag (@squashplayermag) retweeted one of your Tweets!
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