it's this discrepancy that creates humor and we need humor. simply as fragile heroes seem perpetually overwhelmed by the world and that's something many can relate to all too well in these difficult times. you're watching the news live from berlin we are more for you at the top of the hour but next is our special edition on the coronavirus crisis or try to get the latest that you have you news of a dot com away and look for thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update nineteen's. on t w. i was issued when i arrived here i slept with

people in a room. it was hard i was fair. i even got white hairs that. language no not this keeps me and they go but you need to interrupt the flight you want to know their story my kids are fighting and reliable information for margaret. the covert crisis has taken a psychological toll on all of us but teens are especially hard hit. instead of going to class and hanging out with friends teenagers have been banished to a life of screens so the chewed and uncertainty. school closures and social distancing have cut them off from their support networks the risk of developing

anxiety and depression is higher. psychologists say than. needs of teams are often overseen when it comes to covert restrictions. i've been fizzling thanks for joining us the struggle continues covert hasn't gone away it's one way valve after the next and lock downs become part of life for many of us but that doesn't make it any easier mental health services are overwhelmed in countries like belgium. rose budget reports. long months of blocked and have been a vattel for many young people. teenagers in acute mental distress come to them in hospital for psychiatric care often after traumatic events or suicide attempts among the residents is this 17 year old we are calling alexandra covert it was an

extra thing that just made me kind of it was the one thing to marge to have my high risk so i had to. kind of isolated from my from. my parents alexandra is not alone in struggling to cope with covert but she's one of those fortunate enough to access this hospital's help director sophie math says new admission requests for troubled teens have skyrocketed since january. maass thinks that's due to exhaustion exam stress and dashed hopes for a return to normality. although makeshift rooms were added there are no places left and no even the waiting list is closed. can you choose between a societal 15 year old and a suicidal 16 year old it's impossible with a doctor must believe the authorities could save lives by prioritising teens as

society reopens to this person. we need to create spaces for play for joy and for conversation so all young people can once again be part of the social fabric of life something so crucial for teenagers. if not there's a real risk their mental health will keep deteriorating and i'm truly afraid to said rates increase what it feels like we're at the edge of for the tsunami and be urgently need to build flood defenses. as the young people living here build up their emotional defenses to reenter the outside world alexandra hopes sharing her story will give strength to other teens who are suffering. we're all struggling with this situation. the fact that we're all still here and we're all still fighting against is something very positive and something that. will grow and will be able to look after and say wow i've ones through

these tough times i made. her priority is getting better as soon as she can which could open the door for another young person who needs help. because it's a really is an associate professor in psychology at the car alinsky institute. one year into this pandemic a you afraid the number of teens with mental health problems will keep rising. well yes i am our study was conducted over 20 in me last year and already then we could see quite severe effects on both children and their parents and i think it's important to notice that although we examine the effects of homeschooling i think that this was certainly not limited to just effects on the academics but also on mental health issues so how has home schooling affect the mental health of children

and parents based on your studies. our study included about 7000 ratings from parents on the effects of that on their own life and on their children's and data was collected in 7 different european countries and about 25 to 35 percent of the parents reported negative effects severe negative effects i would say on their child's life and as many as 35 to 55 of the parents supported negative effect on themselves. and with regard to their effects on the children i think that a lot of. children have really large problems carrying out home schooling they were really large demands on them and doing a lot of studies and they had that increased their you know mental health problems and parents also reported a lot of worrying and a lot of stress because they had to carry out most of the home schooling where the

children yeah well apart from the extra what the extra the added stress what about positives for new studies i know i had a bit of a hard time at school when of mind skipping the buses and long walk to school as well. well that is true and actually that the transportation issue he says is something that a lot of parents are actually talking about that it saves time that they don't have to travel to school especially for the older children which they might have a longer time to get to school and back and that time can of course we set spent on for example exercise and family time so a lot of the pay or not a lot but some of the other families are reporting you know more family time they do things together they have lunch together but that's of course dependent on if the parents are also at home and working whereas we do have also a sub study on or a subgroup of children with mental health problems who are actually bullied in school and don't have a good social relationships with their peers and they are of course also happy to

be at home so some of those kinds of positive effects can also be seen but i should be careful and say that this is really a subgroup of people reporting the positive effects you said you talked to thousands of families what were the most significant differences between countries . well i think the largest differences between countries were actually in how homeschooling was carried out. and that of course also had effects on the negative and positive effects so in general we saw that a lot of the home schooling was carried out studies or in contact with the parent and very little homeschooling was carried out as online teaching but this really vary between countries and in the u.k. and germany for example about 5 percent of the time was spent online teaching whereas the corresponding numbers were about 25 to 30 percent in sweden and italy

so this was really had a huge effect of course on that these families. this also resulted in large differences differences with regard to how much schooling that the children actually did in u.k. for example quite a lot of the children only got about one or 2 hours of schooling each day and this was of course you know the huge difference compared to the children in for example sweden they had a lot of online teaching so briefly what's the best way to educate kids in a pandemic. well i think that we do need to do more online teaching especially i mean even for younger children i think it's doable we have seen that some schools have been managing on like teaching for for young children as well and i think it's it's really not possible for parents to do

to take such a large responsibility in the home schooling if we should have funded well functioning system. i also think it's important to take into account the new technologies that we have that we can use to make the school teaching more adaptable and actually be adapted to the needs of the individual students but this of course requires that we have you know each student needs to have their own computer they need to have a good internet connection and they need to have a quite place to sit and do their home schooling and this is of course not it's a reality for a lot of children in europe today not always a given these are terrelle thank you very much for being on the show today thank you. and for the last time this week is derek williams with another about your questions. have we seen any impact on babies born from covert positive mothers. i was really surprised just how complex this answer

turned out to be and just how many issues are involved the 1st is the breakdown of access in many places during the pandemic to 2 routine prenatal care for expecting mothers now that's definitely having a big impact on child health though the one that's hard to quantify the good news the experts say is that babies born to mothers infected with sars code to actually very rarely get severely ill themselves and studies show that in general the virus appears not to cross the placenta however they also show that pregnant women who catch covert 19 are at more risk of developing severe forms of the disease and and this is key that an infection during pregnancy likely contributes to

a higher risk of giving birth pre-term one estimate says 1000 in the mother makes pre-term delivery this 3 times more likely and that's something that unquestionably has a negative impact on newborns and previous face a whole range of unique medical and development issues many of which can be mitigated by a simple yet vital measure which is skin to skin contact with parents that's also known as as kangaroo mother care the problem is because of the pandemic babies are being separated from their infected mothers at alarming rates. is it really to protect the child tells but according to the w.h.o. that's doing actually a lot more damage than good in a report published last week it said the practice was putting newborn lives at risk

in a big way and encouraged hospitals to allow mothers and babies to share rooms even if the mother has an active covert 19 infection because although it seems counter-intuitive came to room mother care will generally help the infant much more than a coping $1000.00 infection would hurt it. thank you derek thank you for watching and stay safe as you can see by. fresh blood makes you young. researches have discovered. young black men last night stimulates the growth of brain cells. is the key to a channel you. are something else still needed.

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discovery home. subscribe to the documentary to. love can be a hop skip and a jump for the young. but as we get older we may need to invest a little more ethic to stay fit physically and mentally and so it's just want to help somebody a found a way to boost and aging memory. all that's imo coming up welcome to tomorrow today the science show.

a magic potion for the mind. well not quite but there is promising stuff in blood plasma the yellowish liquid part of the blood that can be separated in the lab from the blood cells. just like contains lots of proteins divided into 2 classes i'll be humans and globulin is. a monk they functions transposing homeowners and enzymes and aiding the immune response. there are scientists in california have made some pretty astounding discovery. many of the ideas that have come out of silicon valley have changed our world. here at stanford university toni vickery from switzerland is doing with search into aging and outside ms disease town is aging is the main risk factor for alzheimer's. and that started me

thinking about why we age. is so. i was totally fascinated by that was what determines the lifespan of an organism. now can we understand that and then manipulated organisms this corey and his team began looking for a substance that could delay the aging process or even reverse it a rejuvenating therapy. and this is their great hope blood plasma. no harm goes out we studied around 2000 proteins in blood plasma. on the 1st course and we discovered that many of those proteins change as we age to feel quite a lot of bad proteins that you don't want to increase with age. while others that are pretty good well lost as we get older. and i believe your family

your doctor. the scientists used mice to test how the blood plasma proteins affect the aging process at 10 months these mice. are already elderly like humans the older my shows signs of cognitive decline such as memory loss. in this test the mice have to find their way back to the hole that they can actually cool inside. the scientists tested how young and old the mice performed in the test the young man's here on the left finds the right tone in just every 20 seconds while the older mouse on the right takes nearly 4 times as long. the scientists then give the older mice blood plasma taken from the younger ones the effect is amazing. their memory has improved and the older mice now find their way back to the right old just as quickly as the young mice. there's even

been a biological change that can be seen as tests showed the older mice have actually developed a new brain cells. so could this region even a shin work on humans too in a pilot test 18 older patients in the early stages of alzheimer's were injected once a week with plasma taken from young people. after a few weeks the scientists tested whether the patients membranes had improved for parts and look at things that are very important for patients to vittie is like being able to button up your shirt and clean your teeth and it supports monetary activities of living as we say. we are so that's what we measured and we discovered that there was indeed a significant effect. for the patients who had received blood from young people displayed certain improvement documents a focus on that subject so what we're able to show is that changes related to aging

can be pushed back through this process. which don't get whipped so indeed it's reversing the effect. so of aging to a certain extent on give us and we keep going until. the scientists are hoping to repeat these very promising results in large scale studies and they're also trying the method on another disease parkinson's. snail slime is said to do wonders for the skin. like this action is a quick fix for the body. some people go to great young at least. no injection that will halt aging in its tracks. living a long life just a matter of luck. some things we can't control other fact is maybe. 5 tickets to longevity in the lottery of life 1st and foremost genes.

that basically we get from our parents. it's often the case in families that the parents live to a great age so to their children. the right d.n.a. is a big girl british researchers have discovered genes that are directly related to life expectancy. in one particular gene affect the immune system for example which can have a positive effect on how long someone lives. in general having the right genes can increase our life expectancy. it's estimated that 25 to 30 percent of the variation in human lifespan is down to d.n.a. . gender is the 2nd ticket for

a long life. women have a higher life expectancy than men in germany they currently live almost 6 years longer on average. but when men and women lead the same lifestyle like monks and nuns in a convent the women's advantage. still nuns in convents live nearly 2 years longer than monks. one explanation for this could be chromosomes. women have 2 identical x. chromosomes. on the other hand have one x. and one y. chromosome this makes them more susceptible to genetic defects. and for men hormones like testosterone may be more likely to cause cardiovascular disease.

nutrition is the 3rd ticket to longevity. a good balanced diet plays an important role in staying healthy and can help us live longer. one good example is a mediterranean diet. boiled large balls and salad along with whole grains can actually extend our lifespan swedish researchers have proven the life extending effects of such a diet. calories we consume also has an impact on our lifespan. those who keep their way to check by eating in moderation can expect to live longer. positive attitude to life is ticket number for.

those early 1979 researchers in the united states discovered that people who have a positive attitude towards aging live longer. you know a long term study that lewis terman started with children in the 1920 s. surprising facts emerge data years later about lifestyle in old age. and corning to the study relaxing with golf in retirement didn't help but those who continued working after 65 lived significantly longer by an average of 4 years. so being active in old age prolongs life. exercise is the 5th ticket. and exercise have a significant impact on our health and the way we age. job is for

example see health gains in old age that continue long after they've stopped jogging. researchers from one reason to this when they tested people who suddenly trained hard. after a few weeks they could see changes in cells that were triggered by training the cells and body were fitter and better equipped for old age. 5 tickets to longevity genes and gender or luck of the draw but through diet a positive attitude and exercise we can all help to increase our life expectancy. alike without change which would be pretty dull. transforming your appearance might take some time and imagination but it can be done most of the time what about tweaking the personality. the way you feel and behave that's

a bit more difficult. it said that week. change ourselves if we want to get hot halters not so sure about that he's an you're a biologist and he says the brain doesn't like to waste energy. undergo s. of brain is greedy and expensive and in terms of energy is always working fall out or in order to change it needs a lot of energy for various reasons for change means the brain has to rewire itself brain simply generate the feeling why should i change why should i exert myself grown bored with the known world order for me undergoing. anyone who wants to change the habits and traits they've developed over the years 1st has to overcome some resistance. our personal attributes are only partially determined by our genetic makeup they do change over time in response to

new experiences and then there's neuroplasticity the capacity of neural networks in the brain to grow and reorganize making learning and change possible even in old age. but it would be naive to think we can change our ingrained habits of sinking feeling and behavior in short our personality just like that. our personality is shaped by prenatal and childhood influences those emotional and behavioral patterns a buried deep within our limbic system a primordial part of the brain that's only barely accessible to conscious intention . is the term could be the senses which operate on a consciously do something very important they evaluate everything we perceive experience think feel and do when done and then they register but good do it again

or that's bad painful and don't do it again for those less. since we tend to avoid painful feelings we usually remain true to our habits so deeply anchored behaviors often prevail even if we would like to shake them off. it's only when they cause us a high degree of distress that ng during changes will occur. people whose established personality repertoire causes them problems and who see no way forward might be ready to try to rewire their brain. is the group there has to be the prospect of some benefit the change will mean the distress we feel is gone or at least reduced a 3rd factor alongside reducing distress and the prospect of reward is

a patient. good lord. that means person b. a ring even in the face of setbacks and coping with the uncomfortable feeling that our current reality doesn't match our dream another important question is whether we want to change for our own sake to please other people. another precondition for change is the untapped resources we bring to the process get hot rolled saw that during his work with juvenile offenders in therapy some of the young people were able to make positive changes even though they'd been abused and neglected as children are washed up to i mean they have had an attachment figure an uncle to a teacher. or someone who they told me gave them some stability and support your hope that relationship helped as well for the suffering that at the end inflicted

on them lyndal that was an inner resources they brought to the table and the source of. those in a result. that spark of trust openness and empathy are an important wellspring for change. get hot who are trans a consulting business that has change management for companies just like individuals businesses can be stuck in destructive patterns. when hordes tells them that real change takes time some refuse to play along. in the future the higher up you go in the management hierarchy this relates to the people who wield the real power to put it bluntly willing to accept change. lower and middle management or more receptive as all whom call higher ups are much more impervious this work

because change always means changes in who holds power. for. change takes motivation the prospect of rewards resources and lots of patience shaking off unwanted habits can feel risky even painful but people who can cope with those uncomfortable feelings stand a much better chance of achieving lasting change. just lay back and stare at the sky let the mind wander reflect on the nature of the universe. and you might just stumble upon a question for science like a canyon as we go from gonna. like to know. i look the same from space as it does from earth. on a sunny day from our standpoint the sky is blue.

fair composed of invisible gas molecules gives. the skies this color. as sunlight possum's through air these molecules scatter the blue component of the spectrum of visible light in all directions. and that's why the sky looks blue but just to those of us on earth. the international space station hovers above earth's atmosphere when asheron's look out the window they see our sky above . when they look directly down at the earth's surface without any clouds the astronauts can observe many glorious colors. in the atmosphere only appears as a thin blue line on the horizon. 'd looking away from the earth into space which has no air they see

a black sky filled with stars the stars appear as tiny bright dots when it's night time on earth the sky is also black to us but earth's air causes the stars to twinkle and they make sunrises into a colorful spectacles because the layers of air filter of different parts of light . 'd in contrast and airless space some light is white. sometimes clouds darken our sky they block the light as clouds increase it gets darker on the ground. but seen from above clouds appear bright because the sun is shining on them. whether satellites have a wide view of earth. they study the air in different spectrums of light to detect different temperatures or to find clouds have water or ice and how quickly they're

moving. this data is used to predict if we can look forward to enjoying blue skies tomorrow. if outlet is right why am i. do you have a science post and you'd like us to answer. some good as a video text over or see if we feature it on the show you'll get a little surprise from us as a thank you. come on just tell us. and for more exciting stories about science check out our websites or find us on twitter. the next record is an exciting if not troubling reports about trees. around the world forests have to put up with a lot fanning climate change. in germany ash trees are under

a special threat we head to the south of the country to meet some researchers who want to save them from a ruthless. forest in inland in bavaria these 2 men are after a killer that's been claiming a growing number of victims throughout gemini and is proving relentless. right now i don't think we'll see any let up here. is a fungus that preys on ash trees. today could stand and michelle pfeiffer looking for some of the trees afflicted. i've been observing us trees in the area since 2005 and the picture has changed massively. the speed at which it spread over the past few years is not

a good development. yet the ash is considered. species that can cope well with climate change its word is a favorite of the forestry industry. the clandestine killer is hyman 1st frank serious a fungus that grows on the forest floor and produces wars. they are then spread by the wind with some landing on actually where they subsequently germinate. the fungus feeds on the tissue which slowly dies and believes with or. from here the fungus to the shoots and branches it works its way to the bark and trunk where it again leads to dead or necrotic tissue. once the fungus is in the wood the disease restricts the flow of water from the roots to the crown and the tree is weakened.

if the tissue at the base of the trunk is attacked other pests can invade like ash beetles or the are malaria fungus in the worst case the tree simply falls over. or or or when you see a monster like this this wonderful huge ass tree. the. big one the trees like. it makes you want to cry. when the roots are rotten even a tiny wind can topple an ash tree a potential danger for walkers that's why michelle feinstein christian mark marking ailing trees they will be cut down in late fall when the bird's nesting season is over so how are things looking. at us with the ash trees here seem to be in good condition especially the one on the left little experts believe that about 5 percent of ash trees are only slightly impacted by the fungus they seem to be

disease tolerant something researches want to take advantage of the tune and institute up in brandenburg. scientists francisco past and ben planted cuttings of ash trees they think are tolerant then they infected them with the fungus on the trees showing any effect. it was causing it so we hope to see nothing although that could also mean the test didn't work that's always a risk. hopefully we'll see a couple of places where there is something to see and a couple more where there is nothing. small woodchips infected with the fungus were inserted into the bark of the tree the 2 researches assigned schools from one to 51 means the tree shows no signs of damage find means its dead. cutting gets a warm fuzzy here's where we put in the wood chip. it just fell out.

no interaction is a ball no black lesions kind of. with us so far there are no traces of the fungus on the cuttings but then. i will sort of bridget a classic case. it's really sad but luckily it goes slightly i noticed in the green jungle but of course it's a bit alarming when you have to take one out from the middle all swearing was the experiment still a success isn't most don't shows it's just a few that do as we expected. to save the trees further research is being conducted on the tolerant ash trees using state of the art technology. the genes of these trees will now be studied because it seems tolerance can be inherited in addition the researches want to understand the disease better and obtain the most tolerant seeds possible. that hope. that we can preserve

that as an important economic and ecological tree species and forestry purposes and that it doesn't become a marginal. these work out here at the tune an institute small ash cuttings are already being propagated and grown indoors but for now creating the perfectly resistant ash tree in the lab remains the stuff of science fiction. back in the forest in bavaria so. people don't necessarily see what safety risks least partially damage trees poses because of this there's always criticism. criticism of cutting down trees but safety comes 1st even if this ash cannot be replaced the forestry experts will still have to look for alternative species is a chance. there is research can accomplish anything but will be the 1st to welcome it. we still hope that something can be done.

that the fungus will stop claiming more victims and that the deadly rampage will have a happy ending in years to come. that's all for this week on tomorrow today we look forward to seeing you next week until then good bye and stake here yes.

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