All posts tagged "Brain"
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Daniel Levitin | November 4, 2015
How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed
You’re not at your best when you’re stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release...
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Keith Barry | June 17, 2015
Brain Magic
Keith shows us how our brains can fool our bodies – in a trick that works via podcast...
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Bruce Grierson | November 14, 2014
Is Age Just a Mindset?
One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in...
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Mark Manson | April 12, 2014
The Rise and Fall of Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber is the smartest man you’ve never heard of. He’s a philosopher and mystic whose work attempts...
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Michelle Somerday | April 1, 2014
Neuroscience of Mindfulness
The positive effects of mindfulness, such as improved mental and physical well-being, have been documented in research-based studies...
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Siddharthan Chandran | March 10, 2014
Can the Brain Repair Itself?
After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells...
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Robert Dilts | March 6, 2014
Darwin’s “Thinking Path”
NLP has long acknowledged the influence of our physiology on our thinking processes. Micro behavioral “accessing cues,” such...
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Sarah Nanclares | February 20, 2014
Brain Fit
5 Secret weapons for getting your child brain fit this year. 1. Protein is brain food Even though...
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel | December 31, 2013
Is the Human Brain Special?
The human brain is puzzling — it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a...
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Gary Drevitch | November 15, 2013
Grain Brain
It’s tempting to call David Perlmutter’s dietary advice radical. The neurologist and president of the Perlmutter Health Center...
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Grant and Oka Soosalu and Oka | October 17, 2013
Head, Heart, Gut
The key is getting people into communication with their three brains, getting them aligned around the particular issue,...
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Russell Foster | September 10, 2013
Why Do We Sleep?
Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What...
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Dr Angus McLeod | May 11, 2013
Neuro Plasticity & Coaching
The CNS (Central Nervous System) comprises the brain and spinal cord which together are the command and control...
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David Anderson | March 25, 2013
Brain More Than Chemicals
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more...
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Sarah Nanclares | November 14, 2012
Our Second Brain
Searching for fulfillment and contentment in our lives is on most people’s life agenda. Many have found support...
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Jon Ronson | August 26, 2012
Psychopath Test
At TED – Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon...
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Megan Erickson | June 1, 2012
Brain Wired for God?
What’s the Big Idea? Our Lady of Lourdes appears 18 times to a miller’s daughter collecting firewood in a small...
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley | March 18, 2012
Self-Nudging
Choice architecture for the mind Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein propose that those of us who have a...
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Mary Jane Gore Duke | June 1, 2011
Religion and your Brain
All human brains shrink with age, but people who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience have more...
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Parenting Help Me | March 20, 2011
Unborn Child Intelligence
Medical studies show that the development of the brain starts during the course of pregnancy. For this reason,...
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Kim Gorgens | December 1, 2010
Protecting the Brain
In a lively talk from TEDxDU, neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens makes the case for better protecting our brains against...
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Heribert Watzke | November 23, 2010
The Brain in Your Gut
Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines — about a hundred million of them? Food...
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Vilayanur Ramachandran | November 7, 2010
Your Mind, Nature or Nurture
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind,...
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Edward de Bono | May 25, 2010
Right Brain/Left Brain Passages Of The Day
The simple geography of right brain/left brain has made it very appealing – to the point that there...
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Richard Bolstad | April 10, 2010
Re-Programming The Brain
Imagine being able to sit down with someone who has suffered serious brain trauma and guide them not...
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Helen Fisher | February 4, 2010
The Brain in Love
Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To...
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Henry Markram | November 22, 2009
Brain in a Super Computer
Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved — soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they’re...
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Rebecca Saxe | September 23, 2009
How We Read Each Other’s Minds
Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do...
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley | August 2, 2008
Symbolic Modelling
“The inability to distinguish either behaviourally or cognitively the consequences and applications of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) from core...
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Jill Bolte Taylor | March 27, 2008
My Stroke of Insight
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realised she...
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Bobby Bodenhamer | February 24, 2008
Can hypnotherapy assist people who block and stammer (PWS)?
Can hypnotherapy assist people who block and stammer (PWS)? Why is it that most PWS speak consistently fluent...
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Michelle Duval | July 2, 2007
Voices From the Edge – Professor Tony Attwood
Fascinating facts on Aspergers Syndrome and the autism spectrum in this enlightening interview by Michelle Duval with Professor...