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Hello! I'm Gregg Swanson. Whether I'm coaching sales professionals, practicing shamanic rituals, or mastering Bujinkan techniques, my focus is on developing mental strength and resilience. Today, I'll share strategies to help you overcome your challenges and achieve your goals by developing unbreakable focus. Table of Contents Toggle The Age of DistractionWhat Is Unbreakable Focus…and Why You Need It NowZanshin – The Samurai's Code of PresenceNeuroscience of Focus – What the Research SaysTrain Like a Warrior – Practices to Build Unbreakable FocusWhen Focus Fails…The Hidden Cost of Mental WeaknessConclusion: Sharpen the Blade of Your Mind The Age of Distraction What if the most lethal weapon in a warrior's arsenal wasn't a blade, but their ability to focus? In today's hyper-distracted world, Unbreakable Focus has become the currency of high performance. For men in high-stakes environments...executives, athletes, entrepreneurs...distraction is a silent assassin. It steals time, clarity, and confidence. But there is a way to reclaim your mental edge. And it doesn't involve productivity hacks or more caffeine. It comes from ancient Samurai wisdom. When I trained in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu...a martial system rooted in the traditions of the ninja and samurai...I discovered a hidden power: Zanshin. The "remaining mind." It's not just a technique. It's a state. And when fused with modern neuroscience, it becomes a framework for building Unbreakable Focus. Let's dive in. What Is Unbreakable Focus...and Why You Need It Now Unbreakable Focus is not just concentration. It's sustained mental presence, even under pressure. It means holding attention like a sword...steady, sharp, and unwavering. Most people don't lose their potential due to lack of skill. They lose it to fragmentation. One email, one scroll, one notification at a time. Neuroscientific studies show that the average attention span has dropped significantly in the digital age. According to a Microsoft study, the human attention span has shrunk to 8 seconds...shorter than a goldfish. That's not a joke. It's a crisis for anyone who wants to lead. Unbreakable Focus reverses that trend. It anchors you. It turns scattered thoughts into targeted action. Key traits of Unbreakable Focus: ->Laser-like attention to the task at hand allows you to eliminate distractions and stay committed to your current mission. -> Emotional regulation under stress ensures that your decisions are made from clarity rather than reaction. -> Rapid refocusing after distractions trains your brain to bounce back with precision and power. -> Consistent presence across mental, physical, and emotional states anchors you in purpose, no matter the external chaos. When cultivated, Unbreakable Focus becomes a force multiplier in business, fitness, relationships, and personal power. Zanshin – The Samurai's Code of Presence In Bujinkan, we practiced more than physical techniques. We trained awareness. Zanshin isn't about action...it's about attention. Zanshin ("the remaining mind") is the Samurai principle of staying mentally engaged before, during, and after an action. It's the sniper's stillness after a shot. The fighter's eyes still scanning after the opponent is down. In modern terms, Zanshin trains Unbreakable Focus by: -> Creating situational awareness in high-stakes environments sharpens your ability to assess threats and opportunities in real time. -> Training the nervous system to stay calm under pressure builds a foundation of internal control when external chaos strikes. -> Helping you respond...not react...to challenges ensures your actions are rooted in clarity and strategy, not impulsive emotion. Think of Zanshin as the operating system behind elite performers. It's what keeps a Navy SEAL calm in combat or a CEO locked in during a crisis. You don't rise to the occasion...you fall back on your training. And Zanshin is that training.

Narcissism is real and is surfacing now more than ever. Listen to this podcast on narcissism where I cover: ​ What narcissism is ​ What NPD is​ The Neuroscientific implications of narcissism​ A practical guide to help you deal with narcissismI hope you find this podcast valuable.

The human tendency to perceive "greener grass" operates as a cosmic sleight-of-hand—a projection of Jungian shadows mistaking lack for destiny. Neuroscientific studies on predictive coding reveal the brain constructs reality through expectation, not objective observation (Clark, 2013).

The human tendency to perceive "greener grass" operates as a cosmic sleight-of-hand—a projection of Jungian shadows mistaking lack for destiny. Neuroscientific studies on predictive coding reveal the brain constructs reality through expectation, not objective observation (Clark, 2013).

Neuroscientific research as well as spiritual experience both agree that, in order for humans to thrive, they must have healthy connection. Unhealthy attachment or lack of proper connection lead to all kinds of emotional and physical problems. Today's episode unpacks Jesus's guidance to stay connected to the "true vine" and why we need to ensure we are attached to the One who alone gives us life and meaning. Visit and subscribe to my blog at: www.graceopens.blogspot.comTwitter: @opentograce2015Instagram: @opentogracealaskaParler: @OpentogracealaskaMeWe: Katherine SingerGrow: @graceopensyou

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024)  “Aggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesn't seek the fight.” With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freud's formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkel's assertion that “Where the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological problems that present to us in life” is broadly summarized in three essential points: 1. The aggressive drive in the human psyche has the aim of reducing stimuli and excitations brought on by internal and external impingements - it is not looking for a fight. 2. What constitutes a threat or impingement is not necessarily objective - in fact it is always filtered through subjective experience and the UCS associations that are revisited repeatedly giving rise to a lens through which experience is filtered. 3. This experience is driven by memory traces of experience that embed themselves in the UCS and are revisited and hence enacted in a repetitive manner. “My argument is that what wraps all those three points together is that you have life drive needs yes but they're often unfulfilled they're often frustrated and then we need a second mechanism which is what Freud called the death drive.” Acknowledging that the death drive is contentious in psychoanalysis “in neuroscience it's not contested.” I knew going into this interview that we would only discuss a few concepts and elaborations from his book. For more of Dr. Perkel's writing and webinar on this book please go here and here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychoanalysis

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024)  “Aggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesn't seek the fight.” With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freud's formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkel's assertion that “Where the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological problems that present to us in life” is broadly summarized in three essential points: 1. The aggressive drive in the human psyche has the aim of reducing stimuli and excitations brought on by internal and external impingements - it is not looking for a fight. 2. What constitutes a threat or impingement is not necessarily objective - in fact it is always filtered through subjective experience and the UCS associations that are revisited repeatedly giving rise to a lens through which experience is filtered. 3. This experience is driven by memory traces of experience that embed themselves in the UCS and are revisited and hence enacted in a repetitive manner. “My argument is that what wraps all those three points together is that you have life drive needs yes but they're often unfulfilled they're often frustrated and then we need a second mechanism which is what Freud called the death drive.” Acknowledging that the death drive is contentious in psychoanalysis “in neuroscience it's not contested.” I knew going into this interview that we would only discuss a few concepts and elaborations from his book. For more of Dr. Perkel's writing and webinar on this book please go here and here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024)  “Aggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesn't seek the fight.” With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freud's formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkel's assertion that “Where the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological problems that present to us in life” is broadly summarized in three essential points: 1. The aggressive drive in the human psyche has the aim of reducing stimuli and excitations brought on by internal and external impingements - it is not looking for a fight. 2. What constitutes a threat or impingement is not necessarily objective - in fact it is always filtered through subjective experience and the UCS associations that are revisited repeatedly giving rise to a lens through which experience is filtered. 3. This experience is driven by memory traces of experience that embed themselves in the UCS and are revisited and hence enacted in a repetitive manner. “My argument is that what wraps all those three points together is that you have life drive needs yes but they're often unfulfilled they're often frustrated and then we need a second mechanism which is what Freud called the death drive.” Acknowledging that the death drive is contentious in psychoanalysis “in neuroscience it's not contested.” I knew going into this interview that we would only discuss a few concepts and elaborations from his book. For more of Dr. Perkel's writing and webinar on this book please go here and here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024)  “Aggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesn't seek the fight.” With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freud's formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkel's assertion that “Where the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological problems that present to us in life” is broadly summarized in three essential points: 1. The aggressive drive in the human psyche has the aim of reducing stimuli and excitations brought on by internal and external impingements - it is not looking for a fight. 2. What constitutes a threat or impingement is not necessarily objective - in fact it is always filtered through subjective experience and the UCS associations that are revisited repeatedly giving rise to a lens through which experience is filtered. 3. This experience is driven by memory traces of experience that embed themselves in the UCS and are revisited and hence enacted in a repetitive manner. “My argument is that what wraps all those three points together is that you have life drive needs yes but they're often unfulfilled they're often frustrated and then we need a second mechanism which is what Freud called the death drive.” Acknowledging that the death drive is contentious in psychoanalysis “in neuroscience it's not contested.” I knew going into this interview that we would only discuss a few concepts and elaborations from his book. For more of Dr. Perkel's writing and webinar on this book please go here and here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

Today I began my discussion with Dr. Adrian Perkel about his new book Unlocking The Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach (Routledge, 2024)  “Aggression is to the mind what the immune system is to the body. It doesn't seek the fight.” With this perfect mind-body analogy Dr. Perkel proposes a clear way to think theoretically and work clinically with aggression. Throughout the book he links Freud's formulations of the psyche with contemporary physics and biochemistry. Perkel's assertion that “Where the aggressive drive goes, so therein lies the solution to many of the psychological problems that present to us in life” is broadly summarized in three essential points: 1. The aggressive drive in the human psyche has the aim of reducing stimuli and excitations brought on by internal and external impingements - it is not looking for a fight. 2. What constitutes a threat or impingement is not necessarily objective - in fact it is always filtered through subjective experience and the UCS associations that are revisited repeatedly giving rise to a lens through which experience is filtered. 3. This experience is driven by memory traces of experience that embed themselves in the UCS and are revisited and hence enacted in a repetitive manner. “My argument is that what wraps all those three points together is that you have life drive needs yes but they're often unfulfilled they're often frustrated and then we need a second mechanism which is what Freud called the death drive.” Acknowledging that the death drive is contentious in psychoanalysis “in neuroscience it's not contested.” I knew going into this interview that we would only discuss a few concepts and elaborations from his book. For more of Dr. Perkel's writing and webinar on this book please go here and here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Want to hack your brain for a better life? In this episode, we're diving into five science-backed psychological "cheat codes" that can help you build better connections, stop overthinking, and boost confidence—all with the power of neuroscience. From the magic of asking for favors to the game-changing 3-second eye contact rule, these simple tricks are backed by your brain's wiring. Tune in to learn how to make your mind work for you instead of against you!Sponsors making this episode possible:PUORI: Right now you get an amazing 20% off their health products, or if you choose their already discounted subscription, you get almost a third off the price! Available when you visit my exclusive URL Puori.com/DRLEAFand use my promo code DRLEAF, or save 20% off when you make a one-time purchase.BIOPTIMIZERS MUSHROOM BREAKTHROUGH: For an exclusive offer for my listeners go to BiOptimizers.com/drleaf and use code DRLEAF10 during checkout to save 10%. The great thing about BlOptimizers is that you can try it risk-free with their 365-day money-back guarantee!

Show NotesThis episode of Talking Technology with ATLIS features Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, a neuroscientist and educator, who provides insights into the intersection of neuroscience and learning. Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa discusses the impact of technology on the brain, emphasizing the importance of handwriting for learning and the potential downsides of constant social media engagement. She introduces the concept of "mental frameworks" and "holonic thinking" as tools for problem-solving and advocates for a more personalized and effective approach to teacher professional development. The episode concludes with a fascinating discussion about sleep, dreaming, and how to better understand our own brains.ResourcesTCPressBooks by Tracey Takuhama-Espinosa Connect with Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa More books by Tracey Takuhma-EspinosaThe Learning Sciences

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., explores how autistic individuals perceive and process sensory experiences, focusing on internal sensations of the body, known as interoception, and their impact on emotions, anxiety, and sleep. Cascio highlights the challenges of heightened sensory awareness, including how it can disrupt rest, and underscores the importance of understanding these experiences to improve therapy and overall well-being. Cascio shares personal anecdotes and challenges myths about autism, emphasizing the rich internal worlds of autistic individuals. Series: "Autism Tree Project Annual Neuroscience Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40215]

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., explores how autistic individuals perceive and process sensory experiences, focusing on internal sensations of the body, known as interoception, and their impact on emotions, anxiety, and sleep. Cascio highlights the challenges of heightened sensory awareness, including how it can disrupt rest, and underscores the importance of understanding these experiences to improve therapy and overall well-being. Cascio shares personal anecdotes and challenges myths about autism, emphasizing the rich internal worlds of autistic individuals. Series: "Autism Tree Project Annual Neuroscience Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40215]

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., explores how autistic individuals perceive and process sensory experiences, focusing on internal sensations of the body, known as interoception, and their impact on emotions, anxiety, and sleep. Cascio highlights the challenges of heightened sensory awareness, including how it can disrupt rest, and underscores the importance of understanding these experiences to improve therapy and overall well-being. Cascio shares personal anecdotes and challenges myths about autism, emphasizing the rich internal worlds of autistic individuals. Series: "Autism Tree Project Annual Neuroscience Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40215]

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., explores how autistic individuals perceive and process sensory experiences, focusing on internal sensations of the body, known as interoception, and their impact on emotions, anxiety, and sleep. Cascio highlights the challenges of heightened sensory awareness, including how it can disrupt rest, and underscores the importance of understanding these experiences to improve therapy and overall well-being. Cascio shares personal anecdotes and challenges myths about autism, emphasizing the rich internal worlds of autistic individuals. Series: "Autism Tree Project Annual Neuroscience Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40215]

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., explores how autistic individuals perceive and process sensory experiences, focusing on internal sensations of the body, known as interoception, and their impact on emotions, anxiety, and sleep. Cascio highlights the challenges of heightened sensory awareness, including how it can disrupt rest, and underscores the importance of understanding these experiences to improve therapy and overall well-being. Cascio shares personal anecdotes and challenges myths about autism, emphasizing the rich internal worlds of autistic individuals. Series: "Autism Tree Project Annual Neuroscience Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40215]

In this episode, we have a privilege to talk with Dr. Roxanne Lofredi, a prominent researcher investigating movement disorders and deep brain stimulation (DBS). Dr. Lofredi is based at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and is widely recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to understanding how basal ganglia networks drive motor symptoms in conditions such as dystonia and Parkinson's disease. Today, we'll explore two fascinating studies led by Dr. Lofredi. The first focuses on how subthalamic nucleus stimulation impairs stopping of ongoing movements in Parkinson's disease. This work, published in Brain, was inspired by a foundational basic science study from Aron and Poldrack (2006), which first implicated the subthalamic nucleus as a critical node for motor inhibition within the hyperdirect pathway of the basal ganglia. We'll discuss how these findings translated to her DBS study and how they may impact DBS therapy. The second part of our conversation will cover her recent publication in Nature Communications, where Dr. Lofredi and her team demonstrate a clear link between striato-pallidal oscillatory connectivity and symptom severity in dystonia. This work highlights the pathophysiological role of the direct pathway within the basal ganglia and opens up new possibilities for targeted therapeutic approaches. In conclusion, Dr. Lofredi shares key insights from her research, bridging the gap between basic neuroscience and clinical application. From understanding motor inhibition in Parkinson's disease to exploring striato-pallidal connectivity in dystonia, her work advances our knowledge and paves the way for more effective DBS therapies.

Hope is a choice rooted in God's unchanging Word. As you choose hope, you will see life through the eyes of faith, recognizing the possibilities God has prepared for you. Neuroscientific research on hope and positive expectation involves exploring how the brain processes these concepts and the impact they have on mental health, physical well-being, and faith. Join us today as we do a deep dive into how to cultivate hope in the heart.

Send us a Text Message.Fear of the unknown is rooted in our evolutionary survival instincts, as our ancestors needed to be cautious of unfamiliar situations to avoid danger. This fear is amplified by a desire for control and predictability, as well as cognitive biases that favor familiar scenarios. Neuroscientific research shows that the amygdala, our brain's fear center, becomes highly active in uncertain situations, triggering the fight-or-flight response and releasing stress hormones like cortisol. Previous negative experiences can also reinforce this fear. However, techniques like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help reframe our thoughts and gradually reduce anxiety by exposing us to uncertainty in a controlled way, ultimately enabling us to handle the unknown with more confidence!Thank you for spending your valuable time with us. We truly appreciate your attention and support. Stay connected with us everywhere! Click the link below to access all our platforms in one place:https://linktr.ee/yourthoughtlifeRemember, you are enough, you can do it, and you are uniquely equipped to realize your goals. Let's continue this journey together!

This episode will be a game changer for you when it comes to studying, learning, prepping for an exam and also for working. I give 9 actionable steps and tools that you can put into practise TODAY to notice changes ASAP. Brain Fact : CTE - Chronic Traumatic EncephalopathySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neuroscientific research supports the idea that positive affirmations can influence brain pathways and enhance better problem-solving performance under stress. In this episode, you will learn: The top 5 ways that words of affirmation can skyrocket your confidence Practical tips for incorporating affirmations to harness their full power How to harness the right words to turn self-doubt on its head You have the power to rewire your brain so that you can lead with confidence and ease. Why not try the simple and free tool of words of affirmation starting today? Episode Mentions: I Am Enough (book)We Can Do Hard Things (podcast) Share the pod love: If you like what you're hearing on Heart Glow CEO™, the best way to support the show is to take just a few seconds to leave a rating and/or comment over on www.lovethepodcast.com/brilliance. About Kc: Kc Rossi is obsessed with transformation, especially helping entrepreneurs and leaders level up. She's been named One of the Top 13 Business Coaches today and One of the Top 500 Influential Leaders Making a Difference. After running her confection manufacturing business for 17 years, she ventured off to support other solopreneurs build, grow, and thrive. When she's not coaching or keeping up with personal development, she's out for a walk around the Finger Lakes, cooking up plant-based eats, or trying to lean into downward-facing dog. Fun fact: Kc is a manifesting generator who has been scuba diving with sharks! Connect with Kc: Business & Leadership Coach - Kc Rossi LinkedIn

Rapha, Ênio e Guilherme Kenzzo conversam sobre Transtorno de Ansiedade Generalizada (TAG): - Quais são os diagnósticos diferenciais? - Como diagnosticar e acompanhar TAG? - Como tratar TAG? Tudo isso nesse episódio! Referências: 1. Szuhany KL, Simon NM. Anxiety Disorders: A Review. JAMA. 2022 Dec 27;328(24):2431-2445. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.22744. PMID: 36573969. 2. Penninx BW, Pine DS, Holmes EA, Reif A. Anxiety disorders. Lancet. 2021 Mar 6;397(10277):914-927. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00359-7. Epub 2021 Feb 11. Erratum in: Lancet. 2021 Mar 6;397(10277):880. PMID: 33581801; PMCID: PMC9248771. 3. Stein MB, Sareen J. CLINICAL PRACTICE. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. N Engl J Med. 2015 Nov 19;373(21):2059-68. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcp1502514. PMID: 26580998. 4. Stahl, S. M. (2021). Stahl's essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (5th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - Jeremy DeMartini, Gayatri Patel, Tonya L Fancher. Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Ann Intern Med. 2019 Apr 2;170(7):ITC49-ITC64. doi: 10.7326/AITC201904020. 5. American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.) 6. Slee, April et al. “Pharmacological treatments for generalised anxiety disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.” Lancet (London, England) vol. 393,10173 (2019): 768-777. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31793-8 7. Brawman-Mintzer, Olga et al. “Sertraline treatment for generalized anxiety disorder: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.” The Journal of clinical psychiatry vol. 67,6 (2006): 874-81. doi:10.4088/jcp.v67n0603 8. Guaiana, Giuseppe et al. “Hydroxyzine for generalised anxiety disorder.” The Cochrane database of systematic reviews ,12 CD006815. 8 Dec. 2010, doi:10.1002/14651858.CD006815.pub2

Today's guest, Jacqueline Heller, encapsulates the podcast's exploration of the intricate relationship between emotional pain, neuroscience, and the remarkable resilience of Holocaust survivors. It suggests a deep dive into the science behind our feelings, offering insights from neuroscience to help listeners understand and navigate their own emotional landscapes. The inclusion of Holocaust survival highlights the profound impact of trauma and the extraordinary capacity for healing and overcoming adversity. If you still struggle with discover what and where you can be by accepting your first FREE individual session at https://calendly.com/ejwcoaching/timewithedna. Feel free to reach out to J. Heller or buy her book Yesterday Never Sleeps at CS Lewis & Co Publicists 631-845-679-2188. www.cslewispublicity.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/keepingitrealonpurpose/message

If you're a therapist in 2024, odds are you have given a client a neuroscientific explanation for a symptom they're experiencing or an intervention you're using. You've probably done it sometime in the last week. So have I. Neuroscience-based language is the lingua franca of our field nowadays.As a field, we have largely abandoned the languages of behaviorism or psychoanalysis, though there are still therapists who use those frameworks. But if you asked most therapists right now why they think what they do works, you would get an answer about the brain and nervous system.This would be fine, except that at this moment, as our scientific knowledge rapidly grows, so do our claims about what that knowledge means, sometimes outpacing real understanding of the emerging research and its practical implications.So when I encountered an article in The Washington Post titled “The Body Keeps the Score offers uncertain science in the name of self-help. It's not alone” by writer and cultural critic Kristen Martin, I was intrigued by the way she shed light on some of the neuroscience that we increasingly use to justify what we do as therapists. I invited Kristen to join me to unpack some of the all-too-common misrepresentations and over-interpretations and the wide-ranging implications for our field and the people we treat.Kristen Martin is a writer and cultural critic. Her debut narrative nonfiction book, The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow, will be published in winter 2025.Listen to the full episode to hear:Why we are so compelled to seek out neurobiological explanations for human experiencesThe significant limitations of the research that routinely gets cited to justify neuroscientific models of mental illness and traumaHow poor communication, low science literacy, and social media exacerbate the spread of “folk neuroscience.”How neuroscientific explanations for mental health struggles are being co-opted and exploited by bad-faith actors and systemsHow biologically-based explanations for mental health issues can increase stigmaHow neurobiological models let us bypass our collective responsibilities to mitigate systemic issues associated with traumaLearn more about Kristen Martin:WebsiteTwitter: @kwistentLearn more about Riva Stoudt:Into the Woods CounselingThe Kiln SchoolInstagram: @atherapistcantsaythatResources:‘The Body Keeps the Score' offers uncertain science in the name of self-help. It's not alone.Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings | WIREDCaitlin Shure, PhD Fundamental challenges and likely refutations of the five basic premises of the polyvagal theory, Paul GrossmanHow Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett

Explore the science of confidence with Lucy Antrobus, as she unveils neuroscience-backed strategies to build and boost confidence through practice, positive energy, and the power of laughter. An essential listen for fostering unshakable self-assurance. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/770 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Visit passionfroot.me/superdatascience for sponsorship information.

Subscriber-only episodeScientific research reveals that self-reflection is a powerful tool for personal growth and emotional well-being. Neuroscientific studies have shown that engaging in self-reflection activates specific regions of the brain associated with introspection and self-awareness, leading to enhanced emotional regulation and problem-solving skills. Through self-reflection, individuals gain greater self-understanding and empathy, enabling them to navigate relationships and challenges with greater insight and resilience. Furthermore, regular self-reflection is associated with long-term personal growth and development, as it allows individuals to continually assess their goals, values, and priorities, and make informed decisions aligned with their authentic selves. In this episode, I'll be sharing a range of self-reflection techniques, including journaling, meditation, feedback evaluation, and visualization, all backed by scientific evidence. Additionally, I'll be introducing a special tip that I personally use to enhance self-reflection in my own life, which has had a profound impact on my personal growth journey. To apply for a FREE Consultation, please fill out this formhttps://forms.gle/1QhTHFUtStvtGAPz9To send a DM, visit Allison's profiles on Instagram and Facebookhttps://www.instagram.com/allisonkdagney/https://www.facebook.com/allisonkdagney/To learn more about my Programs visit the websitewww.whentearsleavescars.comFormerly (The Emotional Abuse Recovery Podcast)

Culture is increasingly interested in psychedelic drugs. Whether it's Silicon Valley execs micro-dosing LSD to turbocharge their meetings, Americans doing ayahuasca weekends in Mexico, or rafts of studies suggesting ketamine can really help in treating depression, we're all taking drugs much more seriously than any time since the 1960s counterculture. But what does this all mean? Should we welcome this as simply another frontier in medical science, or is it occultic and anti-Christian? Have believers been wrong all along in their traditional hostility to mind-altering substances? What is at stake with our spiritual lives when we start to fiddle around with chemicals in the brain? • Subscribe to the Matters of Life and Death podcast: https://pod.link/1509923173 • If you want to go deeper into some of the topics we discuss, visit John's website: http://www.johnwyatt.com • For more resources to help you explore faith and the big questions, visit: http://www.premierunbelievable.com

Papers referenced: Female Strength Training: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37948036/#:~:text=These%20studies%20indicated%20that%20concurrent,were%20reported%20in%20individual%20studies.Achilles RCT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36095045/NOI group - https://www.noigroup.com/We feature two prominent speakers: Luke Bongiorno, Director of Noigroup, and Brendan Mouatt, Accredited Exercise Physiologist. The speakers delve into profound questions about pain, the purpose of the NOI group, and the challenges clinicians face. They explore the evolving landscape of pain neuroscience, factors influencing treatment outcomes, and the difficulty in conveying the complex nature of persistent pain to patients. The conversation extends to the empowering aspects of understanding pain's multifactorial nature and the role of the neuroimmune system. The episode promises insights into addressing pain comprehensively, bridging research and practice, and enhancing patient understanding. Tune in to unravel the mysteries of pain science and its practical applications in healthcare. Luke acquired the directorship of Noigroup in March 2021 from the founders David Butler and Juliet Gore. His degree from The University of Melbourne, Australia, followed by a move into clinical practice in New York. In NYC, Luke co-founded New York Sports Medicine.Luke's extensive experience in the management of acute and chronic pain and sports injuries demands that he travel extensively to manage professional and Olympic athletes, as well as touring performing arts/dance company members. He currently serves as a consultant with the NBA League as well as European soccer professional teams. Luke is also affiliated with the clinical education programs of Columbia University and Touro College.He has taught advanced skills courses in Manual Therapy internationally since 2004 and has been on the NOI faculty since 2015. He is currently involved in clinical research focused on injury management and is developing guidelines for injury prevention in sports medicine and in the workplace.Brendan MouattBrendan is a practising Accredited Exercise Physiologist in Adelaide, Australia. For over ten years, Brendan has been a director of multiple private practices in Melbourne and has delivered continuing education internationally since 2016. More recently, in 2023, Brendan joined the team at Noigroup.Brendan's master's research (exploring how visual sensory information influences the perception of effort during exercise) and his clinical experience working as an Exercise Physiologist in the musculoskeletal injury and pain field inspired him to pursue a PhD. His doctoral research focuses on how beliefs, behaviours, and perceptions (especially during clinical interactions) impact patients' recovery from painClinical content to help you day to day:https://patreon.com/SportsMedicineProject?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkSign up for a free weekly Research review about topics related to Sports Medicine straight to your email: https://gmail.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c3dca95db0740390c605a128e&id=b41f1293caRead through our already written blogs:https://achievepodiatry.com.au

In this episode, we explore AI's past, present, and future with neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski. We discuss his unique insights into AI's role in advancing neuroscience and the potential it holds for the future. Invest in AI Box: https://Republic.com/ai-box Get on the AI Box Waitlist: ⁠⁠https://AIBox.ai/⁠⁠ AI Facebook Community Learn more about AI in Video Learn more about Open AI

What if every win in your life, big or small, became a cause for celebration? Imagine how that would transform your experiences, your mindset, and even your relationships. This episode digs into the science and spirituality behind celebrating wins. Neuroscience reveals that acknowledging our accomplishments not only triggers the release of dopamine but also reinforces positive behaviors, reduces stress, and boosts resilience.  Let's talk about victories, not just the monumental ones, but the everyday wins that often go unnoticed. Let's acknowledge them, relive them, and most importantly, celebrate them. I introduce you to a powerful strategy using the acronym ARC (Acknowledge, Relive, Celebrate), designed to keep you anchored in positivity and progress. But what does it mean to become a champion in life? It's not just about mindset; it's also about relationships and financial management. We explore how these three pillars can lead to unparalleled success in all spheres. Remember, winning is not just a result; it's a lifestyle. So, join me on this journey and keep pursuing that life of champions. In this episode, you will hear: Importance of acknowledging and celebrating personal and professional wins. Neuroscientific basis of celebrating achievements: release of dopamine, reinforcement of positive behaviors, stress reduction, and cognitive function enhancement. Spiritual aspect of celebrating victories: teachings from the Bible emphasizing gratitude, joy, and community. Strategy for celebrating wins before goal setting using the acronym ARC (Acknowledge, Relive, Celebrate). The power of positivity and the concept of winning as a lifestyle, not just an end result. Importance of mastering mindset, relationships, and finances for future success. Connect with J.R.  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamesJRreid  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesjrreid/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesjrreid/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesJRreid Website: jamesreid.com Check out The Clutch Club™️: jamesreid.com/club (For Men Only) Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com. Let them know we sent you.

---------------- SHOW NOTES ---------------- Episode Title: Episode 315: Unlocking Happiness – Week 1 Of The Gratitude Experiment - 7 Weeks Of Gratitude Introduction: Welcome to Episode 315 of the Everyday Life Balance Show! I'm Pascale Gibon, your host, and we Are diving into an exciting journey—Week 1 of The Gratitude Experiment: 7 Weeks of Gratitude. In this episode, we explore the transformative power of gratitude, inspired by insights from Oprah Winfrey and the "Happy Money Mentor" Ken Honda. If you are seeking an interactive experience, join our private Facebook group, "Awaken Your Authentic Self Community," to share your thoughts and gratitude moments with like-minded community members. Key points: Importance of gratitude: Gratitude is integral to my life and spiritual practice. Emphasizing the acknowledgement of something greater than us and the presence of angels in our lives. Intent of "The Gratitude Experiment:" To help you integrate gratitude into your daily life, aligning with the principles of love as expressed in Pascale's book, "Yes! To Love." Gratitude positively impacts our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. Proven benefits of gratitude: Numerous studies show that gratitude reduces depression and anxiety, promoting overall psychological well-being. Emotional well-being improves by activating positive emotions like joy, happiness, and contentment. Regular gratitude practice is associated with greater life satisfaction and a positive outlook. Gratitude aids in coping with stress, and building resilience to bounce back from negative experiences. Neuroscientific research reveals positive effects on brain regions related to social bonding, empathy, and emotional processing. Strengthens social bonds, and relationships, and fosters a positive cycle of reciprocity. It is linked to higher levels of self-esteem, contributing to a positive self-image. In the workplace, gratitude improves relationships, job satisfaction, and overall well-being. Longitudinal studies indicate enduring positive effects of regular gratitude practice over time. Gratitude practices: Recommendations include adopting the gratitude practice that suits you, such as journaling, prayer, meditation, or verbal expressions of gratitude. Pascale's personal example: Journaling involves gratitude reflections, self-care goals, and daily affirmations for a positive mindset. Week 1 Mission: Dive into the seven weeks of gratitude with a mission to be consciously grateful for simple things and little daily miracles. High-value action: List ten simple things daily that you are grateful for, enhancing well-being and positivity. Expressing grace: Formulate gratitude expressions like "I am so happy and grateful for..." to deepen the experience. Refrain from taking things for granted, remembering the love received every day. Closing thoughts: Gratitude is the starting point of happiness, opening hearts to God's grace and love from others. Encouragement to commit fully to the Gratitude Experiment, aligning thoughts with abundance. The episode concludes with an invitation to share the journey with others, emphasizing love and light. Next week's preview: Excitement for Week 2 of The Gratitude Experiment and a call to share the episode with those who would benefit. Wishing you a fantastic week of gratitude, take care, and embrace love and light.   --------------------- TIME STAMP --------------------- [00:54] - Introduction and welcome to Episode 315 [01:39] - Invitation to join the private Facebook group for an interactive experience [01:57] - Importance of gratitude in Pascale's life and spiritual practice [02:17] - Intent of “The Gratitude Experiment” and the positive impact of gratitude on overall well-being [02:50] - Proven benefits of gratitude on mental, physical, and spiritual well-being [04:57] - Discussion on gratitude practices and recommendations [05:54] - Mission for Week 1 and high-value action for cultivating gratitude [07:33] - Despite moments of dissatisfaction remembering the daily love we receive [07:47] - Closing thoughts on gratitude as the starting point of happiness [08:38] - Encouragement to commit fully to “The Gratitude Experiment” and align thoughts with abundance [09:07] - Preview for Week 2 and a call to share the episode with others [09:20 - End: closing wishes for a fantastic week of gratitude and embracing love and light.   ………………………. 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Embark on a life-transforming journey with The Freedom Coach and unlock the limitless potential within you. As a visionary and creative, her life's purpose is to guide you to happiness through love and joy in the context of understanding and compassion. Meet Pascale at pascalegibon.com. ……………………………………………………………... ABOUT THE EVERYDAY LIFE BALANCE SHOW ……………………………………………………………... Welcome to the Everyday Life Balance Show, the podcast dedicated to men and women who want to cultivate greater harmony and balance in every aspect of their lives on a mental, physical and spiritual level. Every Monday, you will gain exclusive access to invaluable insights, practical tools and strategies shared by esteemed experts in various fields ranging from wellness and personal development to life fulfilment, happiness and success. And, of course, your trusted host Pascale Gibon, an authority in her own right as a #1 Amazon bestselling author and “Freedom Coach”. Pascale's unwavering mission is to serve and guide you towards happiness, leading you to discover profound joy, inner peace and balance. With every episode, she invites you to embark on a transformative journey, one step at a time, as you weave a tapestry of a life truly well-lived. For more information go to: https://www.pascalegibon.com/ ………………................ SUBSCRIBE + REVIEW! ………………................ Be the first to know when a new episode is released. Leave a review so that more people can access the Everyday Life Balance Show. Subscribe to Pascale's iTunes podcast: http://bit.ly/id1247430885 Subscribe to Pascale's YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/pascalegibon Read Pascale's latest articles and receive inspirational, transformational and motivational content: pascalegibon.com. Many thanks for your support. With love and gratitude. Pascale  --------------------- FULL TRANSCRIPT --------------------- I listened to a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey on her latest book on happiness: “Build The Life You Want” and, in the interview, she said that the first thing she does in the morning is to say thank you.   The Japanese “Happy Money Mentor”, Ken Honda, swears by setting the intention of saying thank you each time we spend and receive money to improve our relationship with it.   I am so excited to begin week 1 of The Gratitude Experiment - 7 weeks of gratitude. Hi, I'm your host Pascale Gibon. Welcome to episode 315 of the Everyday Life Balance Show.    If you want an interactive experience, please join my private group on Facebook: “Awaken Your Authentic Self Community” to share your experiences, thoughts and gratitude moments with like-minded community members.   Gratitude is part of my life and my spiritual practice. I cannot stress enough the importance of gratitude in our lives. We acknowledge something bigger than us, operating all the time for our highest good, as well as the people in our lives we can call our angels.   My intention with The Gratitude Experiment is to help you make gratitude a daily habit.  As you know, I am the author of the Amazon bestseller Yes! To Love and gratitude is an expression of love. A gratitude practice aligns with living a life of love.  It is a valuable tool to improve your overall quality of life due to its positive effects on your mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.   If you wonder why gratitude matters so much, here are the invaluable and proven benefits of gratitude on our mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.    Numerous studies have shown that practising gratitude reduces depression and anxiety, promoting overall psychological well-being.  You can enhance your emotional well-being with gratitude since you activate and optimize positive emotions like joy, happiness and contentment. Do you know that a regular gratitude practice is associated with greater life satisfaction, fostering a positive outlook? Gratitude helps you cope with stress and buffers the impact of life's challenges.  So, next time, what is the first thing you will do when faced with a challenge? Gratitude builds resilience, enabling us to bounce back from negative experiences.  Neuroscientific research indicates measurable positive effects on the brain regions related to social bonding, empathy, and emotional processing. Gratitude strengthens social bonds and relationships, creating a positive cycle of reciprocity.  Another key benefit is the link between gratitude and higher levels of self-esteem. Recognizing and appreciating your strengths contributes to a positive self-image.   What about the effect of gratitude in the workplace? Gratitude improves workplace relationships, job satisfaction, and overall well-being.    It is also worth noting the long-term effect of gratitude. Longitudinal studies suggest enduring positive effects with regular gratitude practice over time.    Let's talk now about the gratitude practices: There are various ways we can express gratitude, and here are my recommendations: I recommend adopting the gratitude practice that works best for you. ·      Journaling is a common gratitude practice. I hold a gratitude journal. It works best for people who find writing down their thoughts therapeutic.  For example, in my gratitude journal, I do four things:  I write down three things I am grateful for,  Reflect on yesterday,  Define my self-care goals and  Create an affirmation for the day.  My Gratitude Journal assists me in maintaining a positive attitude throughout the day. ·      Gratitude could be in the form of a prayer or during your meditation.  ·      Or you could say out loud what you are grateful for.   So let's do this! Let's increase our gratitude this week by deepening our love and faith.   As we go through together the seven weeks of gratitude, I will share each week: 1.    A focused idea related to gratitude,  2.    A high-value action step you need to take to apply that idea and  3.    A quote on gratitude for reflection.   Gratitude is the starting point of happiness.  As we acknowledge God's grace and the love given by others, we open our hearts.   For the success of the Gratitude Experiment, I invite you to drop into your heart and open your heart to love. Love is our salvation, and in times of doubt, disappointment, anger and despair, this is the place you need to go back to. Love could be for you, the Source, the Creator, God or a Higher Power.   Commit today to play full-on as you take part in the experiment.  Take a deep breath into your heart centre, in the middle of your chest, and your physical heart, and align your thinking with abundance as you say thank you from the depth of your heart over seven weeks. The way you express grace is as follows: “I am so happy and grateful for … For example: “I am so happy and grateful for my family.” “I am so happy and grateful for the breath of life.” “I am so happy and grateful for my health.”   There may be things in your life you are dissatisfied with. However, it matters too not to take things for granted and to remember all the love you receive every day.    Your mission this week is to be consciously grateful for the simple things in life. Your gratefulness includes the little miracles that occur daily.    As a starting point on your gratitude journey, your high-value action this week is to list every day ten simple things in your life you are grateful for.   You can write them in your journal or notes every day.   For example, it could be the food you eat, someone smiling at you on the street, a stroll in the park, the sun shining brightly, or the breath of life. As you are thankful for the simple things in life, you uplift your energy to one of appreciation and positivity and look at life with fondness.    Enhance your well-being and relationships by cultivating gratitude daily.   Remember: “When you say yes! to love, you say yes! to life.” Gratitude is a notable well-being enhancer. The more grateful you are, the more blessings you attract when you align with the energy of appreciation.    What are the ten simple things you are most grateful for?   I am excited to connect with you next Monday to share Week 2 of The Gratitude Experiment. Please do share this episode with the person in your life who would greatly benefit from it. Have a fantastic week of gratitude, take care and lots of love and light.

Welcome back to another episode of "Lust for Life," the podcast that explores the many facets of living life to the fullest. we're diving deep into the transformative power of putting pen to paper, from journaling to organizing your calendar. Join us as we uncover the myriad benefits of writing it down, backed by scientific research, and how it can nourish our spiritual and mental well-being. Our journey begins with the age-old practice of journaling, now backed by compelling scientific insights that highlight its profound impact on our mental health and well-being. Neuroscientific studies even suggest that the brain undergoes unique changes during the act of journaling. Essentially, by clearly articulating our goals in writing, we signal to our brain what's most important to us. Recent advancements in neuroscience have unveiled some remarkable findings about how the brain functions during the act of writing, particularly by hand. These insights help us understand why writing is more than just putting thoughts on paper—it's a holistic experience. Journaling has become my daily ritual, a practice that brings clarity to my mind, order to my goals, and a sense of purpose to my days. It's not just about ink on paper; it's a transformative journey within myself.

Ever wonder how the science behind alcohol consumption can influence your own relationship with drinking? Get ready to uncover the complexities of your brain's reward system, as we welcome neuroscientist TJ Power, a man on a unique journey of discovery and personal redemption. From youthful party animal to respected researcher, TJ's fascinating story is a testament to the human spirit's capacity for change. Learn about the powerful role of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin in our lives and how they are affected by alcohol. We'll take you on an intriguing journey as we decode the dopamine curve, delve into the 'hacking' of dopamine and its resulting burnout, and reveal the surprising influence of serotonin on our happiness. TJ's insights, backed by his personal experiences and professional expertise, make for a riveting conversation that will change the way you view your own behaviours and coping mechanisms. Our episode concludes with a rewarding exploration of endorphins and their connection to stress relief, physical exertion, and motivation. Learn why modern living often skews this balance, and how alcohol consumption can further exacerbate this. TJ's inspiring journey will encourage you to reevaluate your approach to well-being, and his unique methods will provide you with the tools to build a healthier relationship with alcohol. Brace yourself for an episode that promises to be as educational as it is empowering. Learn more about OYNB and how it could help change your relationship with alcohol - https://go.oneyearnobeer.com/complete-control-program/?el=podcast If you are ready to take a challenge and join our alcohol-free community, you can test it for 28, 90 or 365 days through one of our programmes: https://go.oneyearnobeer.com/challenges-uk/?el=podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you enjoy the shamelessly fringe? How about this podcast? We want to hear your voice in all it's weirdo glory! Go to ratethispodcast.com/openloopsJourney with Greg to the insights of esteemed hypnotist, coach, teacher, healer, sacred medicine practitioner, and NLP and HNLP Maestro, Jess Marion. Picture yourself stepping into the realm of storytelling, intricately woven narratives, and the transformative potential of hypnosis.As your guide, Jess, paints a vivid scene, you can perceive your brain akin to an eager audience, naturally receptive to stories. These tales are not just stories, they're vessels carrying ideas, subtly reshaping your experiences and subtly demonstrating perspectives you hadn't considered before.In this realm, you'll stumble upon nested loops, a fascinating technique reminiscent of Russian dolls. Story within story, each loop is like a path leading you further into a captivating narrative landscape, a unique kind of maze designed to foster unconscious rapport and a sense of linguistic intrigue that stirs your intellect.At this point, you may find yourself recalling an old tale, perhaps one told by your grandmother, where one narrative seamlessly cascades into another. Isn't it fascinating how similar this is to exploring the ethics of hypnosis? The focus is on the delicate balance between suggestion and your commitment. You can almost hear the city's hustle and bustle, a backdrop that served as Jess's training ground, where she fine-tuned her skills in the midst of urban chaos.As you navigate this narrative labyrinth, imagine yourself stepping into an enigmatic room filled with the mystique of Rasputin. Jess unravels her own experience of channeling him, a tale that engrosses you and underscores the intricate dance between your conscious and unconscious mind.You soon find yourself at a thought-provoking crossroad where hypnosis meets mysticism. Jess, like a trusted guide, shares her insights on hypnosis's potential to mirror a psychedelic journey, but without any substances involved. Intriguing, isn't it?Continuing this winding path, neuroscience appears on the horizon, its metaphors serving as lighthouses illuminating the complex terrain of your unconscious and super-conscious mind.As this enlightening conversation winds down, you find yourself back where you started, at the entrance of the narrative labyrinth. Just like a skilled hypnotist bridging conscious states, you've embarked on a journey through a maze of stories and ideas, discovering the transformative potential of hypnosis. By stepping into this intricate dance of narratives, you uncover a deeper understanding of the vast capabilities of your own mind."There's no such thing as hypnosis. Everything is hypnosis."Jess's Links: The Intelligent HypnotistAmazon Author PageSacred Medicine Journeys

E309– Inner Voice – a Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan. In this episode, Dr. Foojan Zeine chats with Dr. Marcello (Giuseppe) Tanca. He has a Ph.D. In Neuroscience and is a Clinical Psychologist. He joins us from the Italian island of Sardinia, where he currently lives and works in his private practice performing: Psychodiagnosis, Psychotherapy, and Neuroscientific research. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, before going back to Italy to teach “Neuroscience and Psychodiagnosis” at the Psychotherapy Specialization School in Cagliari-Italy. As a researcher, he studies, in particular, the relationship between inflammatory processes and psychological/psychiatric symptoms. With research groups in the biomedical field that use cutting-edge approaches (such as Metabolomics and Artificial Neural Networks), he published research in international scientific journals, focused on “PANS”: "Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome". PANS is a syndrome supported by the presence of an immune pathogenetic, based on dysregulation of the immune system, with its inflammatory correlates. Today we will be talking about his latest book, written in Italian, "Neuro-Inflammation and Dysfunction of Mental Processes - an introduction to the Importance of a new study perspective in Neuroscience". You may contact him at marcellotanca@hotmail.it Check out my website: www.FoojanZeine.com. Remember to Subscribe, Listen, Review, and Share! Find me on these sites: *iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i...) *Google Play (https://play.google.com/music/m/Inpl5...) *Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=185544...) *YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DrFoojanZeine ) Platforms to Like and Follow: *Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrFoojanZeine/) *Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/Dr.FoojanZe...) *Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/DrZeine/) *LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrFoojanZ...)

Today we're talking to Adam Gazzaley, Founder & Executive Director of Neuroscape at UCSF. We discuss the intersection of video games and neuroscience, Adam's thinking behind the first FDA approved video game for treating ADHD, and the subtle significance of separating diagnosis from treatment. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!  Check out Adam's work and sign up for his newsletter here: https://neuroscape.ucsf.edu/ To see Adam's work in action, visit: https://www.endeavorrx.com/testimonials/ Have feedback about the show? Let us know here Produced by ProSeries Media.

What is the relationship between the mind and the body, and how does it shape our understanding of the self? In this episode, Rosa Spagnolo presents her reflections on the topic, published in her recent book, written with Georg Northoff. In the book, she delves into how out-of-body experiences can shed light on the complex dynamics between the self and the world.  She examines  the relationship between the body and the brain, the role of time and space in shaping our experience of the self, and the intersection between psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Along the way, she touches on the potential implications of virtual reality on our sense of self.   Rosa Spagnolo, MD, Child Neuropsychiatrist; Developmental Psychotherapist; Psychoanalyst, Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI), IPA Member. She is Co-Chair and co-founder of the Italian Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IPD) association, which organizes annual Rome Conferences, on  psychoanalytic and neuroscientific issues. She is a member of NPSA and chair of the "Italian Group of NPSA". She is chair of the IPAWEB page: the Psychoanalysis in the Age of Neuroscience and chair of the SPIWEB page of Neuroscience. Teaches "Psychology of Nutrition" and "Treatment of Eating Disorders" at the University   - Tor Vergata -, Rome, Master II level in "Diagnosis and Treatment of Eating and Weight Disorders". Teaches "Psychoanalysis and Culture" at the Graduate School of Psychoanalytic and Group Analytic Psychotherapy. Works in Rome at the Filippo Smaldone Institute for the rehabilitation of deafness, learning and speech disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the author of numerous publications as well as a conference speaker and lecturer on neuropsychiatric developmental disorders and psychoanalytical topics.   Books Spagnolo R. (2012): La forza delle immagini attraverso la catena associativa dell'analista. In: Domenico Chianese e Andreina Fontana (Eds), Per un sapere dei sensi. Immagini ed estetica psicoanalitica. Roma: Edizione Alpes, 2012 Spagnolo R.(2016) : La ricerca empirica sul sogno, in:  Antonello Colli.  Psicoterapia Psicodiamica (pp. 232-234). Roma : Carrocci Editore, 2016 Spagnolo, R. (2017). An unexpected Pathway for Interpsychic Exchange: Music in the analysis of Young Adult. In B.N. Seitler & K.S. Kleinman (Eds.), Essays from Cradle to Couch (pp. 341-357). IPBooks, Astoria: NY. Spagnolo R. (ED) (2018): Building Bridges, The impact of Neuropsychoanalysis on Psychoanalytic Clinical Sessions. Routledge, London and New York. Nominato al Gradiva Awards, New York, 2019 Spagnolo R. & Northoff G.(2021): The Dynamic Self in Psychoanalysis. Neuroscientific foundations and clinical cases. Routledge, London and New York Spagnolo R. & Northoff G (2022):  Il Sè dinamico in psicoanalisi. Fondamenti Neuroscientifici e clinica Psicoanalitica. Franco Angeli Editore. Spagnolo R. (2007)  "Chantal" - Maremmi Editore, Firenze.   This episode is available also in Italian   This episode was read by Eleonora Maruca. Editing and Post-Production: Massimiliano Guerrieri.  

Nearly everyone will experience thoughts of suicide at some point in their lives. The problem isn't that we sometimes feel this way. The problem is that we suffer in silence when what we need most is to connect with non-judgmental and caring others. Neuroscientific findings suggest that humans are hard-wired to connect and that healing takes place in the context of human relationships. What this means is that supportive bonds can help us cultivate resiliency during difficult times. Stigma about suicide and mental health can get in the way of our natural ability to heal through connection. That is why we at Spotlight on Suicide (SOS) have made it our mission to shine a light on suicide by providing education about how to coexist with suffering. Stigma, like shame, can't live in the light. Our Suicidal Ideation Toolbox (SIT) contains accessible skills for helping professionals and all people who experience deep suffering (which is everyone!). These skills are intended to increase resilience by fostering connection— with ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and our values— at times when we feel most disconnected.

Nearly everyone will experience thoughts of suicide at some point in their lives. The problem isn't that we sometimes feel this way. The problem is that we suffer in silence when what we need most is to connect with non-judgmental and caring others. Neuroscientific findings suggest that humans are hard-wired to connect and that healing takes place in the context of human relationships. What this means is that supportive bonds can help us cultivate resiliency during difficult times. Stigma about suicide and mental health can get in the way of our natural ability to heal through connection. That is why we at Spotlight on Suicide (SOS) have made it our mission to shine a light on suicide by providing education about how to coexist with suffering. Stigma, like shame, can't live in the light. Our Suicidal Ideation Toolbox (SIT) contains accessible skills for helping professionals and all people who experience deep suffering (which is everyone!). These skills are intended to increase resilience by fostering connection— with ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and our values— at times when we feel most disconnected.

Nearly everyone will experience thoughts of suicide at some point in their lives. The problem isn't that we sometimes feel this way. The problem is that we suffer in silence when what we need most is to connect with non-judgmental and caring others. Neuroscientific findings suggest that humans are hard-wired to connect and that healing takes place in the context of human relationships. What this means is that supportive bonds can help us cultivate resiliency during difficult times. Stigma about suicide and mental health can get in the way of our natural ability to heal through connection. That is why we at Spotlight on Suicide (SOS) have made it our mission to shine a light on suicide by providing education about how to coexist with suffering. Stigma, like shame, can't live in the light. Our Suicidal Ideation Toolbox (SIT) contains accessible skills for helping professionals and all people who experience deep suffering (which is everyone!). These skills are intended to increase resilience by fostering connection— with ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and our values— at times when we feel most disconnected.

Get ready to dive into the inner workings of swallowing on the latest episode of Neurocareers: Doing the Impossible! Our guest, Corinne Jones, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a speech and language pathologist and neurotechnology expert who is making a big splash in the field of swallowing disorders. As the head of the Swallowing Modulation Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, she is working to improve our understanding of motor control of swallowing, objective assessment techniques, and therapeutic methods for treating dysphagia in neurodegenerative diseases. Whether you're a neuroscience enthusiast or just looking to learn more about this intriguing topic, this episode is sure to be a feast for the mind. So grab a drink (but not too quickly!) and join us as we explore the brain and swallow with Dr. Jones. About the podcast guest: Corinne Jones, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a speech and language pathologist specializing in swallowing disorders and highly knowledgeable in the neuroscience and neurotechnologies behind these topics. She is the head of the Swallowing Modulation Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, where she is working to improve our understanding of motor control of swallowing, objective assessment techniques, and therapeutic methods for treating dysphagia in neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. You can learn more about Corinne and her work by visiting her faculty bio page at https://slhs.utexas.edu/faculty/corinne-jones or by checking out her research spotlight published by UT at https://moody.utexas.edu/news/research-spotlight-corinne-jones. You can also watch her TEDx talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKckwirsFA or her Dance Your PhD entry at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er6hjdlh6oY. You can contact Corinne directly via email at corinne.jones@austin.utexas.edu. About the podcast host: The Neurocareers podcast is brought to you by The Institute of Neuroapproaches (https://www.neuroapproaches.org/) and its founder, Milena Korostenskaja, Ph.D. (Dr. K), a neuroscience educator, research consultant, and career coach for students and recent graduates in neuroscience and neurotechnologies. As a professional coach with a background in the field, Dr. K understands the unique challenges and opportunities facing students in this field and can provide personalized coaching and support to help you succeed. Here's what you'll get with one-on-one coaching sessions from Dr. K: Identification and pursuit of career goals Guidance on job search strategies, resume and cover letter development, and interview preparation Access to a network of professionals in the field of neuroscience and neurotechnologies Ongoing support and guidance to help you stay on track and achieve your goals You can always schedule a free neurocareer consultation/coaching session with Dr. K at https://neuroapproaches.as.me/free-neurocareer-consultation. You can also find additional support in the Your Support Station podcast with Dr. K at https://www.neuroapproaches.org/podcast-2.

What is YOUR definition of Spirituality? In this episode (part one), Dr. Jack Perkins and I talk about the power of Spirituality. The power of finding meaning in our childhood suffering. Dr. Perkins tells his personal story of suffering first. His story of childhood suffering touched me deeply. I know it will touch you deeply as well. My guest today is Dr. Jack Perkins. Jack is the founder of Psuche Education, Counseling & Coaching Services in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. Jack is an ordained minister, conference speaker, licensed counselor, certified life coach, and sexual addiction counselor. Spirituality has been a huge part of my inner & outer healing. Spirituality has been a huge part of my Long-COVID healing. Spirituality has deepened my connection with my friends and family, and my connection with clients. Spirituality led me to discover my inner worthiness and love for myself I was never taught in childhood. Evidence-based research shows integrating spirituality decreases anxiety and depression symptoms. Neuroscientific research shows the practice of mindfulness, the brain's cortex literally grows, with an increase in grey matter and more gyrification (Spencer, 2012). https://howcoronavirussavedmylife.com Connect with Christine: Twitter | Instagram | website | Youtube | FB Check out Christine's other podcast with her sister The Family Burrito Resources: Integrating Spirituality Into Recovery Requires Ethical Approach What is Spirituality? A Personal Exploration by Dr. Maya Spencer Disclaimer: The information and recommendations in this Podcast are only opinions of the host and guests of How Coronavirus Saved My Life Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howcoronavirussavedmylife/message

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.11.14.516174v1?rss=1 Authors: Müller-Axt, C., Kauffmann, L., Eichner, C., von Kriegstein, K. Abstract: Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a reading disorder with a prevalence of 5-10%. Neuroscientific research has typically focused on explaining DD symptoms based on pathophysiological changes in the cerebral cortex. However, DD might also be associated with alterations in sensory thalami - central subcortical stations of sensory pathways. A post-mortem study on the visual sensory thalamus (lateral geniculate nucleus, LGN) showed histopathological changes in the magnocellular (M-LGN), but not in the parvocellular (P-LGN), subdivisions. M-LGN and P-LGN have different functional properties and belong to two different visual systems. Whether M-LGN alterations also exist in DD in-vivo is unclear. Also, the potential relevance of M-LGN alterations to DD symptoms is unknown. This lack of knowledge is partly due to considerable technical challenges in investigating LGN subdivisions non-invasively in humans. Here, we employed recent advances in high-field 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map the M- and P-LGN in-vivo in DD adults (n=26) and matched controls (n=28). We show that (i) M-LGN responses differ between DD and control participants, (ii) these differences are more pronounced in male than in female DD participants, and (iii) M-LGN alterations predict a core symptom of DD in male DD participants only, i.e., rapid naming ability. Our results provide a first functional interpretation of M-LGN changes in DD and support DD theories that propose a direct relevance of sensory thalamus alterations for DD symptoms. In addition, the sex-specific behavioral relevance of M-LGN alterations within DD calls for taking sex differences into account when planning brain-based therapeutic interventions. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

People are more satisfied by explanations that contain neuroscientific jargon and images. Why? Because dopamine fires up the hippocampus, and that's a fact! (Warning: It's not.)  This week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Owen and Ross G are separating fact from fiction as we discuss neuroscience with Amy Brann, author of Make Your Brain Work.  We discuss:  The meaning of neuroscience (as a discipline vs in popular media)  The relevance of neuroscience for HR and L&D  Practical insights from neuroscience.    During the discussion, Owen referenced two papers:    Weisberg, D. S., Keil, F. C., Goodstein, J., Rawson, E., & Gray, J. R. (2008). The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 20(3), 470-477. Online at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778755/    Farah, M. J., & Hook, C. J. (2013). The seductive allure of “seductive allure”. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(1), 88-90. Online at: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26172255/     In ‘What I Learned This Week', Owen discussed Wordle (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html), Heardle (https://www.spotify.com/heardle/) and Framed (https://framed.wtf/)    Ross discussed the Freakonomics series ‘What Can Blockchain Do for You?': https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/what-can-blockchain-do-for-you/     For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtoolsbusiness.com. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.     To find out more about Amy, see https://amybrann.com/ and https://synapticpotential.com/   Connect with our speakers   If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter:   Ross G - @RossGarnerMT   Owen Ferguson - @OwenFerguson  Amy Brann – @Amy_Brann  

Building on evidence from neuroscience and psychology, prolonged exposure to high volatility causes market participants to subsequently underestimate volatility (and vice versa), leading to predictability in stock returns. Distortions in the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) are consistent with this finding, and investors can construct a trading strategy which exploits the effect. Applied to S&P 500 exchange-traded funds and VIX futures contracts, such a strategy significantly outperforms a buy-and-hold index portfolio, with higher annualised performance, lower volatility, and alphas exceeding 4%. - Elise Payzan-LeNestour and James Doran, UNSW. Earn 0.50 CE/CPD hrs on Portfolio Construction Forum

Tasshin talks with Kathryn Devaney (@kathryndevaney) about neuroscientific research, meditation, sangha, the Berkeley Alembic, awakening, and more. Kathryn on Twitter The Berkeley Alembic on Twitter Sara Lazar paper (Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness) Gaelle's paper (Effects of mindful-attention and compassion meditation training on amygdala response to emotional stimuli in an ordinary, non-meditative state) If you enjoyed this episode, consider supporting Tasshin and the Reach Truth Podcast on Patreon.

Neha is joined by Master coach Dr Colleen Lightbody, who brings her neuroscience expertise and years of coaching experience to help us understand Trauma and grief and how do they align with each other How do we identify grief within ourselvesValidation, Emotions & their importanceWhat would we say to our client Positive realismHow to move towards healing and how to know its timeHow supporting others help ourselvesNeuroscience and traumaHow to take care of ourselvesThis episode was recorded on 02 March 2022, as part of the Being a Coach seriesYou can see the recording on our YouTube channel.  If you like this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and connect with us on the links below.  Thank you for your support!Contact Us https://coacharya.com/contactWebsite https://coacharya.comWebinars https://coacharya.com/events/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/coacharyaYouTube https://youtube.com/c/coacharyaFacebook https://www.facebook.com/CoacharyaTwitter https://twitter.com/coacharyaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/coacharya

Dr. Laura Vater is a writer, lecturer, and hematological oncologist. As a physician writer, she writes narrative medicine articles and is currently working on her first novel. In 2017, she created a program to assist patients and professionals in organizing and prioritizing their health information (the SMILE Scale), which is now used in schools and clinics across the U.S. and the U.K. She got her master's degree in public health from the University of Pittsburgh, and completed her doctorate in medicine and Internal Medicine residency from Indiana University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on breast and lung cancer, as well as disparities in cancer prevention. If you want to keep up to date on her written articles and posts where she highlights useful tactics to navigate through the rough terrain that is medicine, you can follow Dr. Vater on instagram at doclauravater or her website at www.lauravater.com. If you want to support Doctor's Inn, here are some easy ways: 1. Leave a rating! We welcome all feedback! 2. Visit our website at www.doctorsinnpodcast.com to gain access to in-depth resources and our YouTube channel at Doctor's Inn Podcast to watch short engaging animated videos 3. Follow our socials @doctorsinnpodcast

Sign up to Patreon to get exclusive bonus content like ad-free podcasts (the most recent one on managing emotional reactivity levels is out now!), digital downloads (like my favorite brain-boosting recipes!), live Q&As with me and more: https://www.patreon.com/drcarolineleaf EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk about New Year's resolutions, including the neuroscience of resolutions, how to think about and make New Year's resolutions, and how to use resolutions to bring about sustainable change in your life. Read the show blog here: https://drleaf.com/blogs/news/a-neuroscientific-approach-to-setting-sustainable-attainable-new-year-resolutions *Correction to the audio: You will be able to do around 5-6, NOT 11, cycles a year to create a new habit Get my new book Cleaning up Your Mental Mess here: https://www.cleaningupyourmentalmess.com Download my new and improved brain detox app here: https://neurocycle.app Sign up to join my free text program and receive mental health care tips. Just text DRLEAF to US: 1 (833) 285 3747 UK: +447908679035 Canada: 18336032953 Get a free Cleaning up Your Mental Mess workbook when you subscribe to my weekly email at drleaf.com! OFFERS FROM OUR SPONSORS: -Chime: Sign up takes only two minutes and doesn't affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/drleaf -NOOM: Sign up for your trial and get psychology-based support and motivation to reach your goals at noom.com/DRLEAF PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS: 3:47 What is a New Year's resolution? 5:00, 14:30 The neuroscience behind setting goals & resolutions 10:00 Why you should celebrate your past achievements while making new goals & resolutions 12:00, 41:20 Using mind management to work on your resolutions ever day 22:00 Why all resolutions take time! 32:00 The importance of making changes in 63 day cycles 46:00 Why you should have a theme & mantra for the year ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: -Visit my website at https://drleaf.com for more free resources Follow me on social media for daily mental health tips & strategies: -Instagram: @drcarolineleaf: https://www.instagram.com/drcarolineleaf/- -Facebook: Dr. Caroline Leaf: https://www.facebook.com/drleaf -Twitter: @drcarolineleaf: https://twitter.com/DrCarolineLeaf -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/drcarolineleaf --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Steve delves into A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins, which holds immediate implications for the teaching of critical thinking as understood through the literal functions of neurons!  But contrary to the title, teaching critical thinking doesn't become easier through thousands of things; it actually becomes easier, and more successful, through very few.

Goal-setting is an important aspect of every business. Unfortunately, many brokers often set goals in a thoughtless and careless manner. This leads them to eventually abandon them (as with many New Year's Resolutions). Or they stubbornly insist on sticking to an old goal long after it becomes counterproductive.In this episode of Mortgage Broker Acceleration, James Veigli and Ash Playsted talk about goal-setting. They explain why brokers need a new approach to goal-setting. Tune in to learn why this is crucial for your long-term business success. You'll also discover practical tips on setting effective goals, sticking to them, and pivoting when necessary.The Key QuestionsWhy is the common approach to New Year's Resolutions problematic? (1:44)Is a dogmatic approach to goal-setting dangerous? (3:23)Does the wrong approach to goal-setting achieve anything? (4:49)What happens if we don't achieve the goals we set? (6:46)What You'll DiscoverHow our limiting beliefs influence our goal-setting process (6:14)The main challenge in implementing the one-touch system (10:06)Neuroscientific tips on brain training (13:08)The transformative impact of setting a vision for your business (18:18)Learn MoreVisit Mortgage Broker Acceleration to grow your business faster.Get deep-dive training from James and Ash at www.BrokerWorkshop.com.

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Stuart Shanker about the neuroscience and philosophical underpinnings of self-regulation. They discuss his clinical and research background in working with children and why he emphasizes a just society with self-reg. They discuss the 5-step method of self-reg and why stress management is important. They talk about infant development and the "4th trimester." They expound upon the evolutionary development of the triune brain and the current critiques of this concept. They talk about the complexities of the cortical and subcortical systems of the limbic system and prefrontal cortex in brain development. They discuss the interbrain and the importance of Allan Schore's work on attachment and the developing brain. They engage about Wittgenstein's concepts around aspects shifts and first person psychological utterances and how we understand temperament and personality in development. They mention the vagus nerve and his ideas about virtue. Stuart Shanker is the Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Psychology at York University. He is also the CEO of MEHRIT Centre, Ltd. He is the author of many books including, Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Society. You can purchase his books here. You can find his work, research, and resources at his website. Twitter: @stuartshanker

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In this episode, philosophy and neuroscience meet to complement each other. Professor Levy drew inspiration and knowledge from his experience in both fields as he created a framework called neural holism. This episode is filled with interesting and thought provoking material so sit down, relax and get ready for a neuroscientific explanation of the concept of free will.

In this solo episode of Success That Lasts, Jared Siegel explores the concept of classical conditioning and talks about how bridging neuroscience and economics can enhance financial decision-making.  Here are a few highlights:  Jared explains classical conditioning and its origins. “Researchers have been able to pair these insights with new technologies to dig even deeper and identify new insights in how we make decisions. I believe these insights, if applied to our lives, offer an opportunity to make more profitable financial decisions,” he remarks. Even though we are 99.9% unaware of dopamine release, we are 99.9% driven by the information it conveys to the other parts of our brains, research says. Neuroscientific studies have shown that human emotions are rooted in the predictions of highly flexible brain cells, which continuously adjust their connections to reflect our newest reality. There is a striking similarity between the brains of gamblers and the brains of cocaine addicts and morphine users. Neuroeconomics suggests that the first step to gaining better control of our financial decisions is realizing how little control we actually have. “Understanding how dopamine influences our financial decisions is an important first step to becoming a more predictable and profitable financial decision-maker,” Jared advises. Resources Jared Siegel on LinkedIn | Twitter DelapCPA.com Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig JasonZweig.com Inflation, Higher Taxes, and National Debt Webinar, Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

What is Neurofeedback?Research has emerged showing that the brain is not fixed but is instead very plastic and adaptable. After serious injury, people are able to relearn how to walk, talk, and reason. Brain scans show that neighboring regions of the injured brain have assumed new roles formerly performed by the injured regions. Neuroscientific research has proven that the brain can change.Many neurological disorders of the brain are indicative of brain dysregulation, and similar research into Neurofeedback has shown that brain activity can be modified to alleviate symptoms of these and other disorders in a safe, accessible, and cost effective way.Neurofeedback is a proven, non-invasive, non-medicated and permanent solution for ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, and more. Neurofeedback works to dramatically reduce the symptoms of these disorders, leading to more consistent, focused, and successful work, school, and social performance. Working with their physicians, many of my clients have dramatically reduced and even stopped taking medications. SHOWNOTES:•  I'm a registered nurse with a Master's degree in psychology, and so to me, I was like, Well yeah, we go to the medication, let's go do the stimulants, and we did that. It took three, maybe four different medications because each one of them made him so sick, we finally found one and it did the job, he could focus, he was able to function in school, and then we went to the yearly physical and found out that he'd stopped growing, so one of the side effects of stimulants can be a decreased appetite, and in his case, it severely impacted his ability to grow normally. (4:32)•  I'm not at all anti-medication, but I just felt like I was empowering people to go and accomplish what their life dreams were, it's like if I can help them get their brain working well, then they can do the hard work and accomplish what they want, so that kind of jumped me into it. (6:21)•  Neurofeedback, at its core is a learning process, so it is based on operant conditioning, which is the idea that if you reward behavior, then that behavior is likely to continue. And so the neuro-feedback we are able to track brain waves in real time, and we are able to essentially give your brain a cookie every time it's doing something that we want it to do. We have different parameters based on what we see in a brain map, which I'll talk about in a second, but we are able to reward your brain when it is doing what we want it to do.  (12:49)•   I just feel for people, I just feel for them because this has been an overwhelmingly stressful event and it's been essentially a chronic event that has gone on a year. And all changes all the time, there's no consistency, it's that lack of control and appropriate concern on all different levels, whether it's your own health, whether it's your job, this is a profound experience, and certainly people are having different levels of that experience. (17:24)•  We see a lot of kids who, with the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of behavior issues that are cropping back up. Some of the behaviors were done and gone, then they had improved with training, and now there's a little bit of a regression because of all the stress, but in general, we do tend to see a lot of improvement with kids with our feedback training at a base level. Whatever they're coming in with, usually ADHD or a learning disability of some kind, often they respond better to neuro feedback.  (23:07) LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CONTENT DISCUSSED...• Kristina's Website: https://kristinasjolund.com• Unleashed Facebook Group: http://unleashedinsiders.com• Kristina’s Instagram: @kristinaunleashed LEARN MORE ABOUT TODAY'S GUESTS:• Website: https://www.neurosolutioncenter.com WHEN DOES IT AIR...MARCH 10, 2021

Have you ever wondered why you have a brain? Let renowned neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett demystify that big grey blob between your ears. Barrett joined us for a presentation with revelations of mind-expanding lessons from the front lines of neuroscience research, with support from her book Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain. She shared where brains come from, how they’re structured (and why it matters), and how yours works in tandem with other brains to create everything you experience. She also tackled popular myths such as the idea of a “lizard brain” and the alleged battle between thoughts and emotions, or event between nature and nurture, to determine your behavior. Join us for an evening full of surprises, humor, and important implications for human nature. Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a professor of psychology.She is a University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She has received numerous scientific awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship and an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, and is the author of How Emotions are Made. Buy the Book: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9780358157144  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.09.18.304436v1?rss=1 Authors: Fereidooni, S., Mocz, V., Radev, D., Chun, M. Abstract: Despite the success of models making use of word embeddings on many natural language tasks, these models often perform significantly worse than humans on several natural language understanding tasks. This difference in performance motivates us to ask: (1) if existing word vector representations have any basis in the brain's representational structure for individual words, and (2) whether features from the brain can be used to improve word embedding model performance, defined as their correlation with human semantic judgements. To answer the first question, we compare the representational spaces of existing word embedding models with that of brain imaging data through representational similarity analysis. We answer the second question by using regression-based learning to constrain word vectors to the features of the brain imaging data, thereby determining if these modified word vectors exhibit increased performance over their unmodified counterparts. To collect semantic judgements as a measure of performance, we employed a novel multi-arrangement method. Our results show that there is variance in the representational space of the brain imaging data that remains uncaptured by word embedding models, and that brain imaging data can be used to increase their coherence with human performance. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

In this episode, we talk to Ingra du Buisson-Narsai, the co-founder and Director of NeuroCapital Coaching and Consulting, which consults to some of South Africa's leading and most admired companies. She has 20 years of executive-level experience in corporate South Africa and is a Registered Organisational Psychologist in private practice.She is also the author of the best-selling book “Fight, Flight or Flourish: How neuroscience can unlock human potential”. Ingra actively pursues the increasing visibility of neuroscientific methods and diagnostics in the study of organisational behaviour.To get your copy of Fight, Flight or Flourish or #chooseFlourish resources visit the website www.neurocapital.co To buy the book locally:http://bit.ly/2QkrhOEOr on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/FIGHT-FLIGHT-FLOURISH-NEUROSCIENCE-POTENTIAL-ebook/dp/B085QM4LN2/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fight+flight+flourish&qid=1594555259&sr

This podcast is a conversation with Albert Lin, probably best known for his work as a presenter on National Geographic TV. Most recently he has appeared on Lost Cities with Albert Lin. In that series, Albert used drone-mounted Laser scanning which can punch through the vegetation to reveal ancient archaeological features on the landscape. I was fortunate to work with with Albert on two programmes in the series: one on Petra in Jordan and the other on Macchu Picchu in Peru Albert describes himself as an Explorer, a Scientist and a Communicator and his work testifies to that. He led an incredible project to try and find the lost tomb of Genghis Khan, which used crowd-sourced data to make new discoveries in a remote Mongolian sacred area, where few had ever travelled. However, what makes Albert unique for me is his incredible optimism and positivity towards life in general. He is someone who grabs life as it rushes by and holds on for the ride. A fantastic musician, he would often be picking away at a guitar or some other stringed instrument he had just picked up as we bounced around rough roads on our way to location. And the second part of the conversation really expresses everything about Albert. How he took a deeply traumatic experience and transformed it into an opportunity for learning and understanding. Experiencing horrific phantom pain after the loss of his leg in a car accident, Albert set out to try and find a solution that wasn't based on the addictive and truly dangerous opioids available. That led him to using psychedelic drugs, along with Neuroscientific expertise, to reset his brain and end the pain. Now Albert researches how to use psychoactive substances to treat pain, but he also leads a research project which uses cellphones to create prosthetic limbs for some of the world's 40 million amputees, many of whom are immobilised by their condition. Alberts energy certainly inspires me and I believe it will inspire you too. Support this podcast

Chiropractic Neurologist Dr. Erik Reis. We will be jumping into some amazing topics about Neurological Function, Neuro pathways, Conginitive Behavior, Functional Neurology and the overall Neurological approach to changing your life. We will be taking a deeper look as to why your mind and brain are so limitless, how we can create new neuro pathways, learn a better understanding in to the impact of the decisions we make, and how important our food consumption is on the overall health of our brains.Visit https://patrickreveira.com for updates on new episodes.Please do NOT hesitate to reach out to me for any reason on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook or via email insightyourself@patrickreveira.comConnect On Social Media:https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-kawika-reveira/https://www.instagram.com/therealpkr/https://www.facebook.com/patrickreveira

On Episode 13, I had my younger sister on the show, Minasa Kasai. She is a fourth year Undergraduate student in Hokkaido University, specializing in Comparative Neuroanatomy. We discuss some ways in which physical exercise can effect our mental health raising neurochemical, physiological and psychological point of view. We also talk about how quarantine caused by COVID-19 may be affecting our mental health. Hope you enjoy the episode! バーベルラジオ第13回は、北海道大学理学部生物科学科４年生の河西美南沙さんとお話をしました。彼女は、比較神経解剖学を専攻し勉強を行っています。　このトークでは、運動がどのように私たちのメンタルヘルスに影響を与えているのかというトピックを取り上げ、神経科学的、生理学的、心理学的の観点から一緒に考えてみました。そしてコロナウイルスの感染予防対策として行われている「自粛」の精神的な影響についても軽くディスカッションを行いました。 Timeline 1:03 Introduction/ 紹介 03:45 Cultural Difficulties living in Japan/帰国後のカルチャーショック 07:40 What is Comparative Neuroanatomy/ 比較神経解剖学とは？ 13:40 What is mood?/ 「ムード」ってなに？ 16:25 Theories about mood regulation/ ムードはどのようにできるの？３つの仮説 25:20 Why is it important? / ムードに関して勉強する意味なんてあるの？ 33:23 Depression/ feeling "depressed" differences/ うつ病と、「うつ状態」の違いについて 37:30 Mental health and exercise/ メンタルヘルスと運動のつながり 53:00 Exercise modes, frequencies, intensities/ 運動モード、頻度、強度について 55:10 Coronavirus nd psychological effects/ 「自粛」が及ぼす精神的な影響 01:10:13 Where can people reach you?/ SNS Minasa's SNS Instagram : @min.neuro Email: minasa@ammax.co.jp References The Benefits of Exercise for the Clinically Depressed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC474733/ Exercise and Depression: A Review of Reviews https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19104978 Neuroscience of Exercise: From Neurobiology Mechanisms to Mental Health https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/350946 Behavioral neuroscience of emotion and exercise https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpfsm/1/3/1_363/_article/-char/en How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldmann Barrett A cognitive neuroscience hypothesis of mood and depression https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2767460/

In times like these, we are all seeking assurance and peace. That’s why Gregg Braden is here to share the incredible power of words, affirmations, and mantras to give us exactly that. His years of research into the intuitive wisdom of our ancestors, combined with modern neuroscientific discoveries, has led to the Wisdom Codes, or powerful combinations of words that allow us to truly feel and process our emotions.

Neuroscientific research and the bible are hand-in-hand on this: you can deal with worry by being thankful. Give your whirring brain 10 minutes off, and let the spirit do his thing.

Episode 9:  Influencer Marketing – The Emergence of it’s own Marketing Channel & How can Micro-Influencers & Nano Influencers can Help Grow your Brand with me – your host Carey Sperry Data is showing that Influencer Marketing is gaining sig more spend from marketing budgets.  I was shocked to read that Estee Lauder recently announced that they plan to allocate 75% of their entire  marketing budget to influencer marketing in 2020.  Some of them are big names such as Kendall Jenner and others are what we are going to break down later in this episode, what are Micro-Influencers like on YouTube and Instagram.  You might be saying, yah well, that’s a HUGE company and that isn’t relevant to us.  With this announcement and data, it is a definite sign of what works today in social media marketing so I thought the subject deserving of some attention so you can consider what it means to you and your business.  SMBs have some distinct advantages and brands large and small are changing the way that they work with Influencers.  Bigger isn’t always better in 2020!  As my kids say, “Facts” This is going to be a shorter episode as I decided to let you know about this shift if you hadn’t already realized how stark it is and second kindof lay the ground work for next weeks episode where I interview a Micro-Influencer. In this episode I’m going to go over what could miss out on if you don’t at least think about partnering with a Micro or Nano Influencer and I’ll break down what those are for you also. 1 – Influencers have Large & Often Engaged Followers You can see right in their bio how many followers they have and when you click on their posts, you can assess the engagement and number of comments.  So this may seem obvious but for those of you who haven’t really put much thought into what Influencers really DO – when they post about your brand, you could get noticed by their followers. 2 – Influencers are more trusted by Millennials than are advertisements       With the Drive to Authenticity & Trust – this is important data.  If Millennials are in your customer base or will be soon, then think about it – the speed to conversion will be faster via an Influencer because they already trust them or they wouldn’t be following them most likely. Unless they’re a hater! 3 – Neuroscientific studies by firms such as Whalar,  show that Influencers content measurably has shown higher levels of emotion and memorability compared to television, Facebook in general or YouTube.  Additionally, in many instances people go from doing nothing in response to content to a “yes” after they consume content promoting a product or service when promoted by an Influencer. The Whalar study demonstrates that Creativity, Authenticity and Values Driven are key components that prove to drive the success of the Influencer’s results so when you determine these components are present in an Influencer’s content, you can more confidently expect they will gain the attention about your product with their followers 4- There’s opportunities to give product or a free service in exchange for promotion by Influencers Not all of them require to be paid or be paid big!  It’s just a matter of finding them and striking an  arrangement that makes sense for both parties. Some brands create affiliate programs where the Influencers get a link to post in their bio or in specific posts – such as a blog post with the link where people can click thru to buy and they are transparent about the factg that they are an affiliate and they may be compensated if they are, if that’s the case.  Side note! 5 – Tracking conversion or results related to that Influencer can also be done if you give promo codes like JOGINJANUARY for a jogging pant or COOKING42 for a pregnancy cookbook let’s say.   Alternatively, you can use referral links which are URLs to a landing page.  You give one of these to the Influencer while they include your brand in their posts organically. 6 – Brand Ambassadors use your product ongoing for typically long periods of time. It’s called Brand Ambassadors.  They use your product,  occasionally urge others to use it too and they are a reflection of your brand.  You can then also then repost their posts, acting as like a testimonial for your brand or product.  In Episode 4 with Heather Cox of @Aglowpresets she talks about how she’s built a very successful Brand Ambassador program and it’s growing every week pretty much, by she gaining university students to represent her brand and preset products.   7 – Some influencers are also bloggers and you can ask them to include a link or two in a blog taking readers to your offer(s)!  Bloggers post social media posts directing followers to go read their blog.  See how this works?!   Now how do you find Influencers if you choose to go it on your own without an agency’s help – first you can start with who already follows you today!  So go to your followers - Then dig into their followers and comments they get on their posts.  Then you can search by hashtags #.  So go into the search field, click a hashtag relevant to your business or service, then click thru to their presence to see you know, how many followers they have and what kind of engagement they have. You look specifically and I know it’s time consuming but it could be worth it.  Look for people in your niche or who are interested in your niche with the number of followers between 5,000 and 25,000.  Those are what most brands consider the Micro-Influencers.  Influencers will collaborate sometimes too, so you can ask an influencer that you already know, who you know and trust and are well aligned to your brand – who do you know that is also an Influencer who might be interested in collaborating with you around our brand?!  Ask that of the Influencer you like working with.  Add hashtags to that collaboration or collab. campaign and your reach could really blow up!  In these show notes you can find a couple of message to Influencer outreach templates. Ok? They are email or message templates you can use to get started. It goes like this: Hi Betsy,  I came across your Instagram when I searched by #___________ and I was really impressed with your content.  I saw you also have a blog and are really passionate about _______.  We are a _________ and _______ company.  My role here is _____.  Our IG handle is __________ and you can visit our website at www._______.com.  We would love to see if you would be interested in partnering up with us to promote our _______ next month, in _____.  If so would you be available later this week or next for a call to talk through and see if our synergies align? Best, Carey That’s just one example.  I’ll have one more in there for you to try. Now Conferences are a really great way to meet Influencers too.  Face to face is always the fastest way to detect chemistry and start to form a relationship. No onto this next term.  Nano Influencer.  Have you heard of it?  These are people with over 1,000 followers but not yet reached Micro levels of 5-10k Next week we feature a microinfluencer.  I interview this microinfluencer so you can hear specifically of what some of them do, how personality plays a role and considerations that will help convert people into being your customer.  Don’t miss it! Influencer Outreach Template 2 go to www.allsocialyall.com

Matthew Liddelow, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals (ASX:NSB) was interviewed by Morgans Senior Analyst Scott Power. Matthew detailed NSB as a company as well as their position heading into the next 12 months.

Matthew Liddelow, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals (ASX:NSB) was interviewed by Morgans Senior Analyst Scott Power. Matthew detailed NSB as a company as well as their position heading into the next 12 months.

Today’s interview topic is neuroscientific strategies for greater energy, resilience, and focus and to help me take a deep dive into this topic I am joined by Lisa Wimberger.Lisa Wimberger is the creator of the Neurosculpting method and founder of the Neurosculpting® Institute in Denver Colorado. Her journey into this line of work was catalyzed by her own trauma and desperate need to overcome a life-threatening seizure disorder that arose from it.As the Founder of the Neurosculpting® modality, Lisa runs a private meditation practice in Colorado teaching clients who suffer from stress disorders, and she is a faculty member of Kripalu Yoga and Meditation Center, the Law Enforcement Survival Institute, Omega Institute, and 1440 Multiversity.Additionally, Lisa’s services are sought on a national level by individuals in law enforcement looking to find a new way to navigate through their stress patterns.Her mission to share practical and powerful stress management techniques to those in need caused Lisa to develop her Neurosculpting® programs combining neuroscience principles with mindfulness and energetic modalities.In this interview, you will learn the following:-How Lisa suffered from a seizure disorder that was triggered by trauma and how it ultimately served as her catalyst to create the Neurosculpting®modality!-Need-to-know brain science basics-Initial warning signs that one's brain is in trouble-The most common factors that damage the brain-The link between brain health, energy levels, and chronic fatigue-Why genetics are NOT our destiny and what is!-What our brains need from us on a daily basis to be healthy and support optimal energy, stress resilience, and focus-The role that Neurosculpting® can play in supporting brain health-Practical neuroscientific strategies that people can implement into their daily routines to support brain health-And much more!This is a fantastic interview filled with pearls of need-to-wisdom for ALL of us!

EPISODE PREVIEW: In this episode of the Open Sky Wilderness Therapy podcast, Family Wellness Counselor Norman Elizondo will guide you through 20 minutes of meditation. The premise of meditation is learning to have a healthy mind, and research shows that this happens. Neuroscientific studies have documented anatomical and physiological changes in the brain and cell structure as a result of meditation, including studies on neuroplasticity, showing restoration of gray matter and the healing of the brain.  Mediation gives one the capacity to respond to situations in a way that lines up with one’s values. As one develops mental strength, he or she may be better able to resist an addiction craving down the road. Ultimately, this non-reactivity and awareness are what lead people to live fulfilled lives. GUEST PROFILES: Norman Elizondo, BS  Norman earned his BS in Business Management from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Following the death of his mother, he considered her parting advice about doing work that really helps people and began his career in wilderness therapy as a field instructor. As an immigrant from the Philippines, becoming educated and assimilating into American society has driven Norman to work hard, adapt, and feel a tremendous sense of gratitude for being a U.S. citizen. As such, he has enjoyed tremendous opportunities; one of the most meaningful was to help found Open Sky. Norman takes great pride and pleasure in helping Open Sky parents understand their child’s work. He assists parents in developing the same basic skill sets including emotional regulation, assertive communication, and effective boundary holding, all of which are crucial in parenting. Norman facilitates Open Sky’s Wellness Weekends, parent support calls, graduations, meditation instruction, and field guide training. Meditation has been a cornerstone of Norman’s life. With prior study and practice in the Southeast Asian Theravada tradition beginning in 1995, Norman has been studying and training as a meditation instructor in the Tibetan tradition since 2001. Norman is a certified meditation teacher with the Dharma Ocean Foundation. TOPICS COVERED: Wilderness Therapy, coping skills, emotional and spiritual growth, self-confidence, emotional support, healing, young adults, recovery support, empowerment, destructive relationships, substance use, personal trauma, family dynamics, oppositional defiance, adoption/attachment issues, treatment resistance, navigating non-traditional and complex family systems, substance abuse, substance addiction, depression, anxiety, meditation, mindfulness

Growing up with the shame and trauma of purity culture is a form of spiritual abuse. It damages the core of a person and emotionally cuts them off from the healing love of the Divine. In this episode (part 2 of 2), I dive into how to understand the neuroscience of chronic shame perpetuated by purity culture and how to fuse together spirituality and sexuality to heal your spirit. Here’s what I jammed on: Purity is a form of spiritual trauma because it inhibits a person’s full human expression and fractures their relationship with God. Shame has a profound effect on people’s sense of themselves and thus on their ability to receive and accept God’s love. This effect touches every aspect of their lives and most centrally their most intimate and personal relationships. Learning about sex through the lens of purity culture is a form of chronic stress. When a girl’s only understanding of sex is that she is responsible for keeping herself pure, and if she does not she is dirty, the pressure of remaining “pure” will feel intense. Neuroscientific research indicates that the fear and shame a woman experiences through purity culture remains deeply embedded in her brain and heart wiring, which prevents her from experiencing a fulfilling sex life. Rewiring the brain to experience love and pleasure during sex requires an authentic felt experience through the body. To truly heal from the chronic shame and trauma, one must use somatic embodiment and expression to release trauma from the body. Tools and practices to begin joining spirituality and sexuality in your life to heal, integrate and feel safe with sex, pleasure and your body. Learn more about the RECLAIM Mastermind HERE. It’s a 3-month group container for women who are ready to shed all the patriarchal, religious disempowering beliefs around being a woman and reclaim who they authentically are on their own terms through energetic reprogramming, sacred embodiment, shadow work and feminine mastery. Enrollment closes in less than a week! I have two spots available for 1:1 coaching, email me at hello@sarahbrockman.net for more information. Join my FREE community, Vibrant Souls Collective. Say hello to me on Instagram @sarahbrockman. Intro & Outro Music by Ikson: https://www.soundcloud.com/ikson

The Neuroscientific A-ha of Empathy & How We Do Justice to Ourselves, One Another & Our World with very special guest, author and international speaker Sarah Peyton. Key Points: How empathy changes the brain How our brains retain neuroplasticity no matter our age Left-Right Hemispheres Shifting out of a punitive mindset Receiving ourselves and others […] The post The Neuroscientific A-ha of Empathy & How We Do Justice with Sarah Peyton appeared first on Restorative Justice On The Rise.

We talk to Cody about how his Neuroscientific training influences his conceptualization of consciousness. We share some of our college dorm stories, to always/never be remembered. And we discuss the benefits of therapy for personal growth. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shane-lemaster/support

We are happy  to welcome journalist and author Paul Tough on the show to discuss how we can help children from adverse backgrounds flourish. Paul began his deep dive into this topic 13 years ago for a New York Times piece, and he has been fascinated with the neuroscientific, psychological, political and sociological research ever since. This episode is a look at practical recommendations for how children can transcend difficult circumstances and cultivate well-being. We cover some of the challenges facing impoverished children and the effects of these environments on how children develop. We discuss constructs like grit, conscientiousness, character strengths, and "non-cognitive capacities". We ask important philosophical questions like “are the skills associated with doing well in school really the same as doing well in life?” We look at how pursuing well-being can actually fuel academic success, the importance of creativity and autonomy in school, and much more!

In this episode, Dr. Dawna Markova, a neuroscientist and author of over a dozen books, talks about the research supporting her latest book with co-author Angie McArthur titled Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently. Dr. Markova elaborates on some of the key concepts in this latest book and shares practical approaches and tips to harness the power of collaboration for innovation and problem-solving. == Subscribe to the Quadrant II newsletter at http://www.fulcrumconnection.com to get a free white paper on 5 ways to improve creativity for innovation and bi-monthly social secrets to help you succeed in work and life.

Have you ever heard of nomofobia, a fear of not being able to check your phone regularly? Are you going crazy when forget your charger home? Have you ever freaked out because you reached an area without reception? Would you return and go home immediately because you left your phone home? You know what we are talking about. But is there an evidence for tools that we use regularly "grow" on us, furthermore, become the part of our body schema?The way we perceive our body is crucial for knowing our place in the world. Literally speaking, the information from our joints and muscles provide the baseline to coordinate our movements and actions. The so called proprioceptive set of stimuli arriving to the central nervous system is often not conscious, but always stored in comparison with other modalities such as visual information (looking in the mirror for eg.). This purely perceptive, on-line, plastic representation of our body is often referred to as 'body scheme' in neurology. The body schema is actually a working model, a helpful one, that can help anchor motor commands to the current position and state of the body. It is transient in nature, and its disturbance can lead extreme cases as described by Oliver Sacks (read on Oliver Sacks's terminal disease here):In that instant, that very first encounter, I knew not my leg. It was utterly strange, notmine unfamiliar. I gazed upon it with absolute non-recognition […] The more I gazed at that cylinder of chalk, the more alien and incomprehensible it appeared to me. I could no longer feel it as mine, as part of me. It seemed to bear no relation whatever to me. It was absolutely not-me – and yet, impossibly, it was attached to me – and even more impossibly, continuous with me .Oliver Sacks: A Leg to Stand On (1991)Body image, however, is the conscious concept about our body, that is "on the surface", it is the summation of the attitudes towards our body, thats one object of the environment. This knowledge is highly semantic and is closely related to our cognitive (I am fat), affective (I am ugly) and behavioural (self-punishing behaviours) interactions with our own self. In fact, as Mahler claims, having a body image is one of the first steps of having a self by differentiating ourselves from our mother.  (Longo et al, 2000). But how can we connect all this concepts to what is actually happening in the brain? Neuroscientific research is mostly focused on the body scheme, since it is much easier to operationalize in primates. The concept of body map and somatotopic representation (A.K.A humunculus) is one of the first main findings of neuroscience, as it proves the premise of functional localisation in the brain. As Maravita and Iriki describes, the action-specificity of the body scheme (the fact that we fine-tune our movements compared to our position and previous movements) is pinned down to the frontoparietal network. More precisely, the receptive field of the neurons is "bimodal". For example, in a way that they respond with elevated firing rate to sensory and proprioceptive stimuli if it comes from the same "gestalt", the movement of the same limb or body part (interestingly that is not the case with fine movements, finger movement is encoded in a different way).Macaque selfie - strangely relevant to this post How can we answer body schema-related questions in primates? One clever way of doing it is via tool use: the macaques were put in cages where it was impossible to reach the food that was put outside of the cage, unless they used a rake to pull the food towards themselves. After several days, the neurons of the frontoparietal network, that initially responded to the hand-related visual or proprioceptive information expanded to the rake, but only if the rake was used to grabbing food (only if the ACTION was functional). source : http://tinyurl.com/oa4x8mzIf you want to know how macaques and rakes can explain how you get anxious when your phone dies please listen to our podcast here  !Characteristic neglect-bias in a drawing task.See the podcast for further information

Prof. Margaret Boden (Philosophy, Sussex) delivers a lecture as part of the Keble College Creativity series. Creativity is likely to remain a neuroscientific mystery for many years. Of the three types of creativity (combinational, exploratory, and transformational), only the first has been significantly illuminated by neuroscience. And even that is not fully understood in neural terms. The other two are even more recalcitrant. This is due to difficulty in defining thinking styles in art or science, and in identifying the various computational processes that are involved in using them. Without doing that, helpful neuroscientific questions simply cannot arise. One key problem is that hierarchical systems -- including many creative "styles"-- cannot yet be effectively represented by (connectionist) computer models inspired by the neural networks in the brain. Another is the difficulty of explaining the recognition of relevance in computational/theoretical terms.

Perspectives on Emotion

We continue our Modern Rock 91.5 format with a show that is fitting for the debauchery in which college students engage during Spring Break. Dr. Michael Sandstrom, of the CMU neuroscience department, will join the discussion about the neuroscientific dimensions of partying. Among the questions to be addressed will be the neuroscientfic definition of "addiction", and the relationship between the "drunken self" and the "true self." Our objective is to arm you with enabling knowledge in order make your Spring Break memorable, rather than something that you cannot even remember.

Ethics Talk welcomes Dr. Michael Sandstrom, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Central Michigan University. Dr. Sandstrom will discuss how, if at all, findings in neuroscience shed light on the debate about free will and responsibility. Dr. Sandstrom earned his doctorate in Neuroscience from Ohio State University in 1998. He has focused his career on understanding the mechanisms of plasticity and compensation in the brain, and how brain function modifies itself to continue to support important goals even in circumstances of disease and damage.

Guest: Jonah Lehrer Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD “Proust Was a Neuroscientist” is about artists who anticipated the discoveries of neuroscience. Such unlikely bedfellows as Walt Whitman, Marcel Proust, and George Eliot are discussed as host Dr. Leslie Lundt interviews the author, Jonah Lehrer.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.10.036244v1?rss=1 Authors: Sachdeva, P. S., Livezey, J. A., Dougherty, M. E., Gu, B.-M., Berke, J. D., Bouchard, K. E. Abstract: A central goal of systems neuroscience is to understand the relationships amongst constituent units in neural populations and their modulation by external factors using high-dimensional and stochastic neural recordings. Statistical models, particularly parametric models, play an instrumental role in accomplishing this goal, because their fitted parameters can provide insight into the underlying biological processes that generated the data. However, extracting conclusions from a parametric model requires that it is fit using an inference procedure capable of selecting the correct parameters and properly estimating their values. Traditional approaches to parameter inference have been shown to suffer from failures in both selection and estimation. Recent development of algorithms that ameliorate these deficiencies raises the question of whether past work relying on such inference procedures have produced inaccurate systems neuroscience models, thereby impairing their interpretation. Here, we used the Union of Intersections, a statistical inference framework capable of state-of-the-art selection and estimation performance, to fit functional coupling, encoding, and decoding models across a battery of neural datasets. We found that, compared to baseline procedures, UoI inferred models with increased sparsity, improved stability, and qualitatively different parameter distributions, while maintaining predictive performance across recording modality, brain region, and task. Specifically, we obtained highly sparse functional coupling networks with substantially different community structure, more parsimonious encoding models, and decoding models that rely on fewer single-units. Together, these results demonstrate that accurate parameter inference reshapes interpretation in diverse neuroscience contexts. The ubiquity of model-based data-driven discovery in biology suggests that analogous results would be seen in other fields. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info