Essential Oils for Beginners: How to Use Them Safely in Your Beauty Routine

Tom Patriot

Hello, and welcome to your crash course on essential oils. We’re happy to have you, whether you stumbled here by chance or because you’re seeking more information on the age-old plant extracts that have become increasingly popular over the years. Because of their widespread prevalence in both the beauty and wellness spaces — not to mention the fact that there are countless conflicting opinions out there — we figured it was time to enlist the help of experts to create a comprehensive guide to essential oils and all the ways you can use…

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How Can Technology Help Small Businesses? Think: ‘Cash Flow.’

Tom Patriot

You don’t have to be a meteorologist to know that at some point bad weather will hit your startup. As with most things in life, preparation is essential, and entrepreneurship is no different. Kabbage recently polled 500 successful entrepreneurs across various industries, from restaurant owners to professional services, about one of the biggest obstacles that looms for all businesses — cash flow. At the heartbeat of any business, the availability of back-up funds can mean the difference between your being able to expand your inventory and your staff and invest in initiatives to grow your company…

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Kate Middleton & Emilia Clarke Share a Special Connection

Tom Patriot

Kate Middleton and Emilia Clarke share a common goal, as both women are working with Nursing Now to bring awareness to the incredible work that nurses do all over the globe. Nursing Now is “a global campaign aimed at raising the profile of nursing worldwide” per People. Back in February 2018, the Duchess of Cambridge helped to launch the Nursing Now 2020 Campaign when she visited the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and St Thomas’s Hospital, London. And now, Clarke has been revealed as the very first ambassador for the campaign. Announcing Clarke’s new…

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Deep stimulation improves cognitive control by augmenting brain rhythms

Tom Patriot

In a new study that could improve the therapeutic efficacy of deep-brain stimulation (DBS) for psychiatric disorders such as depression, a team of scientists shows that, when DBS is applied to a specific brain region, it improves patients’ cognitive control over their behavior by increasing the power of a specific low-frequency brain rhythm in their prefrontal cortex. The findings, published April 4 in Nature Communications, suggest that the increase in “theta” rhythms, readily detectable in EEG recordings, could provide neurosurgeons and psychiatrists with the reliable, objective and rapid feedback they’ve needed…

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