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Your Brain on Altered States: On the Origin of Altering Consciousness

July 19, 2019

When you think of altered states of consciousness (ASC), what are some of the first things that come to mind? If you’re like most of us — and not a neuroscientist or anthropologist — you’ll probably think of 1960s counterculture; of school buses decorated with psychedelic colors and images, crazed rock concerts and the popular use of LSD

Chronic Stress … And How It Can Harm You

July 18, 2019

From an engineering standpoint, stress can be defined as the amount of resistance a material offers to being reshaped and reformed. When you place a load on a steel beam, the beam resists, keeping the building from collapsing. If the load is great enough, the beam gives way, and the structure suffers damage or collapses.

What Buddha Can Do For Your Brain

July 17, 2019

“Just try to pay attention to 10 breaths in a row, and that’s it. You’ve succeeded right there. Or just walk slowly back and forth across your room and make each step coincide with one breath. That’s a powerful practice, with enough stimulation in it to keep your head in the game if you’re distractible,” says Rick Hanson.

Turn Off Autopilot: Helping Kids Quiet Their Minds and Change Their Brains

July 12, 2019

With so many balls in the air, we end up on autopilot. Kids are different. They’re born knowing how to be in the moment. With a curiosity for the world and how things work, they’re concerned only with what’s in front of them — the Lego blocks, building forts, coloring books and monkey bars.

To Combat the Opioid Epidemic We Need Better Ways to Manage Pain

July 11, 2019

The rate of overdoses due to opioid addiction has become the leading cause of death for Americans under 55. A 2018 National Vital Statistics System report showed that the epidemic has killed more people than the Vietnam and Iraq wars combined. Some people are more susceptible to becoming addicted than others

Thinking Of Waiting A Year To Enroll Your Child In Kindergarten?

July 2, 2019

It’s a dilemma faced by many parents of children born close to the kindergarten entry cutoff date: Should they send a 4-year-old to school with older, bigger kids, or delay that start one year to allow the child to mature physically, intellectually, and emotionally?

Unjunk Your Junk Food: Consider “Thirst Quenching”

June 29, 2019

When we hear the phrase “junk food” — we know it means the calorie and fat filled chips and sugar-laden candies, cookies, and goodies that fill store shelves and vending machines. But there’s been a rapid rise in a new wave of junk for quite some time.

Exploring Where Your Food Travels (In You)

June 28, 2019

“Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal” explores some of the taboos and controversies related to our inner world of guts and mucus, such as academic disagreements on what the ideal standards for excrement frequency, consistency, and shape ought to be. However, author Mary Roach also

“Sorry.” (Brain Freeze) “Oops.” — What Happens During A “Retrieval Failure”

June 27, 2019

We’ve all been there before. Tennis players can relate when the match is on their racquet and they feel frozen in space like they’ve never swung before. Their feet don’t move, their arms are like blocks of stone and the object they’re holding feels as foreign to them as a cell phone would to a caveman.

What is Consciousness? Dr. Michael Graziano on Attention Schema Theory

June 22, 2019

“To approach consciousness scientifically, we can’t start with an assumption of magic,” Dr. Michael Graziano claims. The brain’s knowledge of itself is too biased and sketchy to rely on intuition. Instead, he suggests a purely rationalist approach looking at how the brain attributes awareness to itself

New Values, New Culture, New World: An Interview with Ilchi Lee

June 19, 2019

“We must change our way of thinking about these beliefs and the values that we are pursuing in our lives, because our culture and civilization is based upon our life’s values and beliefs. Now, we must choose hope to overcome the obstacles

Change Yourself, Change The World

June 17, 2019

Every year, young people from all over the world come together in New York City to participate in the International Brain Education Association’s World Peace Leadership Program. They meet with many officials from various organizations and country missions associated with the United Nations

5 Steps to Banish Disease From Your Mind

June 12, 2019

Did you know that you can manage your disease better than anyone else can, even better than your doctor? (I am a doctor: this is a doctor saying this!) Yes, you can take charge of your disease and help banish it from your mind. How? Begin by having a positive approach to the illness

Can We Trust Our Intuition? An Interview with Dr. Daniel Kahneman

June 8, 2019

Daniel Kahneman is the world’s pre-eminent investigator of the ways in which the limits of our cognitive abilities shape our judgments. Since the late 1960s, his work, much of which was carried out in close collaboration with the late Amos Tversky (1937–1996), has focused on our intuitive judgments. One of Kahneman and Tversky’s

Earth-Friendly Behavior From A to Z

June 5, 2019

Here’s some ecologically friendly behavior for Earth Day and World Environment Day as suggested by the United Nations Environment Program. (We discussed their work here.) It takes only few simple steps to easily green your daily routine and make good eco-behavior into a habit.

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