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Get Ready, Marie Kondo is Coming to Help You Declutter your Office

If you are like many Americans, you’ve already binged the first season of Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix and started decluttering your house. You might want to hold off, though, and skip straight to another, arguably greater, source of stress in your life: your office. This month on Instagram, Marie Kondo released a sneak peak of her forthcoming book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life . Kondo has co-authored this book with Scott Sonenshein, a management professor at Rice University and author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined . “As a business professor, I know too many emails, wasteful meetings and team conflict take the joy out of work.” Sonenshein told Forbes this month. “I’m excited to pair my research as an organizational psychologist with the KonMari method to give people the techniques, advice and inspiration to experience joy in all parts of their careers.” With some of the highest rates of burnout in the m

Mild cognitive impairment and dementia in motor manifest Huntington’s disease: Classification and prevalence

Congratulations Drs. Parunyou Julayanont, Nikolaus R. McFarland , and Kenneth M. Heilman on the publication of “Mild cognitive impairment and dementia in motor manifest Huntington’s disease: Classification and prevalence,” which was published in the October issue of  the J ournal of the Neurological Sciences.   Abstract Objectives To identify the characteristics and prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in patients with motor-manifest Huntington’s disease (HD) and to propose a new mild cognitive impairment (HD-MCI) classification for HD. Methods We included 307 motor-manifest HD participants from the ENROLL-HD study who completed the evaluation in four neurocognitive domains including executive functions, processing speed, language, and memory. Cognitive impairment in each domain was determined by age- and education-adjusted cutoffs (> 1.5 standard deviations below the mean). HD-MCI was defined as an impairment in at least one cognitive domain without a loss of function