Awarding winning scientist, Richard Davidson, PhD, has done truly interesting research into the effects of meditation on the brain. Google brought him in to give one of their “tech talks,” It’s long, but well worth watching — fascinating as well as educational and useful. Davidson talks about a new neuroscience sub-field called contemplative neuroscience, including his […]
Comments Off on Richard Davidson Google Tech Talk Continue Reading...We know without a doubt that the adult brain can change. What we don’t yet know a lot about is just what that means physiologically, and how to best use that knowledge. In July, 2014, Scientific American published an interesting article titled Neuroplasticity: New Clues to Just How Much the Adult Brain can Change. The […]
Comments Off on Neuroplasticity in the Adult Brain Continue Reading...Forbes Magazine recently published an interesting article titled Study: To The Human Brain, Me Is We. Here’s the heart of the article: A new study from University of Virginia researchers supports a finding that’s been gaining science-fueled momentum in recent years: the human brain is wired to connect with others so strongly that it experiences what […]
Comments Off on Our Brains are Wired for Connection to Others Continue Reading...Here is a short quote from a very interesting KU Leuven article titled ‘Brain waves’ challenge area-specific view of brain activty. (KU Leuven is a Belgian research-oriented university founded in 1425.) Our understanding of brain activity has traditionally been linked to brain areas – when we speak, the speech area of the brain is active. […]
Comments Off on The Brain is not as Simple as We Thought Continue Reading...You can teach an old dog new tricks. How the Adult Brain Learns This fascinating article, Learning Mechanism of the Adult Brain Revealed, was published last year in Science Daily. The whole article is well worth reading (and not long). I’ll just summarize the results from research conducted by the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. Learning new […]
2 Comments. Continue Reading...Great TED video on body language by Harvard Associate Professor Amy Cuddy. We all use our right hemispheres to read body language and derive information from it. Some of what is covered in this fascinating talk is: Many familiar body language expressions are universal and have persisted across thousands and thousands of years. Power dynamics […]
Comments Off on The Importance of Body Language Continue Reading...Award winning positive psychology speaker and consultant Shawn Achor delivers a funny and informative 12-minute TED talk called The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance. He knows whereof he speaks. He applied to Harvard on a dare and went on to win awards there as a lecturer. He’s also very funny. And he gives simple, straightforward […]
Comments Off on Positive Brains and Peak Performance Continue Reading...Sharon Begley, one of my favorite science writers, wrote an article earlier this year for Newsweek, called Buff your Brain. Sharon always does a great job of summarizing current research – and the recommendations that come out of it – in language that is understandable for non-scientists. Good news for many is that games like Words with Friends […]
Comments Off on 31 Ways to Buff Your Brain Continue Reading...NYU neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki talks at a TEDx conference about exercise, the brain, learning and memory. One of the teachers who inspired Dr. Suzuki is Marian Diamond of the University of Berkeley Department of Integrative Biology. Dr. Diamond’s research into the differences in the brains of rats living in enriched or impoverished environments (including those […]
Comments Off on Tedx Talk on Exercise and the Brain Continue Reading...People who are interested in neurofeedback are often fascinated by how our brains function. If that’s you, you’re in for a treat. Watch London psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist’s animation about the two hemispheres of the brain. You’ll hear that much of popular understanding of left and right hemisphere functions is incorrect. Language, for example, does not reside solely […]
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