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Commonly referred to as floating, floatation therapy or sensory deprivation has taken the world by storm, praised by celebrities and clinical professionals alike for its relaxing effects on both mind and body. Dr. Justin Feinstein is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Director of the Float Clinic and Research Centre at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. His laboratory investigates the effects of floatation therapy on both the body and the brain, while also exploring its potential as a treatment for promoting mental health and healing in patients who suffer from anxiety and stress-related disorders. Justin’s research has been published in a number of top scientific journals and has been featured in press around the world, including the New York Times, TIME magazine, and Australia’s Sunday Night.
If you missed the Float Conference this year, you missed a fascinating presentation by MC Flux, but fear not! He’s here with us to talk about his research at the Float Clinic and Research Center, where he has been working with Dr. Feinstein. His thesis work explores the intersection of basic molecular neuroscience and mental health treatment. This ever-creative individual even designed today's show cover image!
Justin Feinstein is the head researcher the Float Clinic and Research Center, a float specific research lab housed in the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Justin and Ashkahn chat about the current research Justin is doing, and about his path forward towards publication and funding future studies. This episode is brought to you by the […] The post 117: Justin Feinstein – Float Clinic and Research Center updates appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Sahib Khalsa is a researcher at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research which houses the Float Clinic and Research Center, the world’s premiere float tank research facility. Sahib presents new data showing floating’s effect on increasing interoception, the brain’s sense of the internal body. He also shows some early information from a study on floating […] The post 087: Sahib Khalsa (Conference Talk) appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Colleen Wohlrab is the lab manager at the Float Clinic and Research Center, a state of the art float tank research facility housed within the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Colleen discusses the different devices and sensors they use to take physiological measurements while people are floating, and presents some of the initial data they’ve […] The post 086: Colleen Wohlrab (Conference Talk) appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Justin Feinstein is the head researcher of the Float Clinic and Research Center, a state of the art floatation research facility housed in the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. In this talk, Justin presents the results from the first fMRI study ever done on floatation. Watch his talk from the 2016 Float Conference: https://youtu.be/kACzQUO0uVo The post 081: Justin Feinstein (Conference Talk) appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Colin Stanwell-Smith is the manufacturer of the Floataway tanks. In 2013 he was asked to make custom float tanks for the Float Clinic and Research Center, a state of the art float research facility that is part of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Colin presents on the custom requirements the research center needed for […] The post 080: Colin Stanwell-Smith (Conference Talk) appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Justin Feinstein is the head researcher at the Float Clinic and Research Center, a float research facility that is part of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. He joins the podcast with his newest team member, Pan Lin, who just moved to the US from China to analyze the fMRI data that is coming out of […] The post 077: Justin Feinstein & Pan Lin – LIBR Research appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Dr. Sahib Khalsa is a researcher at the Float Clinic and Research Center, which is a part of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. Sahib is an expert on interoception, which is the brain’s sensing of the internal body. Sahib chats with Ashkahn about the significance of interoception for floating, and some of the research […] The post 073: Sahib Khalsa explains interoception in relation to floating appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Colleen Wohlrab is the lab manager for the Float Clinic and Research Center, a research lab run by Justin Feinstein that is entirely focused on researching floatation. Colleen chats about what it takes to keep the lab running and generate data. This episode is brought to you by Urban Float. You can listen to Joe […] The post 066: Colleen Wohlrab about keeping the Float Clinic & Research Center running appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
Colin Stanwell-Smith is the founder of Floataway, a float tank manufacturing company that has been operating out of the UK since 1999. Colin’s most recent project was to develop the float tanks that are being used at the Float Clinic and Research Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Colin joins to podcast to talk a little bit […] The post 058: Developing research oriented float tanks with Colin Stanwell-Smith appeared first on Float Conference 2020.
We take our first plunge into the world of float tanks. Float Clinic in Torrance, California showed us what its like to experience ultimate relaxation inside of a pitch black chamber for 90 minutes.
Dr. Sahib Khalsa is a researcher at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research, where he works with Justin Feinstein at the Float Clinic and Research Center that is housed within it. Sahib is an expert in the heart-brain connection, and has recently started turning some of his attention to what that means for people in […] The post 050: Dr. Sahib Khalsa discusses the heart-brain connection appeared first on Float Conference 2020.