Can We Program Creativity?
Each time we learn something we create a neurological map embedded with the information from our experience. We then store this for reference throughout our lives. Each time we reference it in a new...
View ArticleCould Walking Upstairs Prevent Alzheimers?
Many view aging as a predestined journey towards senility, dementia or Alzheimers…or at least that’s what current American statistics would have us believe. Those with Alzheimers have no ability to...
View ArticleWait Until Your Father Gets Home!
Remember that statement, and how it filled you with a sense of dread when you were in trouble? The insula is important in our social brains. It’s involved with processing events in the future based on...
View ArticleYour Outdated Treasure Map
What if that one imaginary treasure map you drew as a child was the only map you were ever allowed to follow for the rest of your life? Could you get to all of the many places you’d need to go as you...
View ArticleGerms in Your Mind
What if your behaviors were like a groove in a record and once you got locked into it you played the same song, over and over? What if you could simply pick up the needle and play a different song?...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Excuse?
Recent research this century has shown that meditation is applicable to, and effective for, depression, anxiety, panic disorder, stress, emotional regulation, addictions, psychosis, neurogenesis,...
View ArticleWant to Get Younger…Try Something New!
“The world is full of endless possibilities, and just by exploring them, you will increase your brain functioning. By trying a new game, task, book, television show, food, or activity, you are...
View ArticleCompassion Meditation Rewires Brain’s Emotion Circuitry
What if meditation and thoughts of compassion could rewire our reactions to others? If you could heighten your empathic abilities and connection to others, would you? A recent neuroscience abstract...
View ArticlePhysiological effects of Transcendental Meditation
It seems like it should almost be common knowledge that meditation has direct and beneficial physiological effects and vast health benefits, yet there are still many who either don’t know this, pretend...
View ArticleWho’s Writing YOUR Stories?
Wake up! Our prefrontal cortex regulates attention and thoughts with vast amounts of neural connections and a system of arousal and neurotransmitters. If we take no action, our default system can favor...
View ArticleA Little Coconut Oil for Your Brain
What if we had the power to stimulate our own brain growth-hormones for deep neurological healing and regeneration? What if we had the power to charge up our own mitochondria and enhance our body’s...
View ArticlePay Attention to Your Life, Your Memory Depends on It
The mystics say to “be present”, and now science gives us a good reason why. The basics of neuroplasticity explain that focused attention combined with experience enable us to create neural maps....
View ArticleConflicting Truths
“David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, says in his book Incognito: Secret Lives of the Brain that the brain functions like a democracy–where different factions make overlapping...
View ArticleHow’s Your Hippocampus?
The hippocampus–and area of the brain instrumental, among other things, in learning and the consolidation of memory–becomes active in its ability to grow new neural pathways during the process of...
View ArticleCan Learning NOW Prevent Alzheimers?
Alzheimers is a feared and dignity-stripping blight on many of our images of old age. Recent research in neuroscience notes that those with Alzheimers have a shrunken hippocamus–inhibiting their...
View ArticleBrain Training Beats Depression
It actually seems like it should be a no-brainer (pardon the pun) at this point, but science is still experimenting with using positive imagery to beat depression. Fortunately, they are still finding...
View ArticleRejection Physically Hurts
fMRI studies show that when individuals feel left-out, rejected, or isolated their dACC (Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex) activates in exactly the same way it does when one feels physical pain. Our...
View ArticleGetting Rid of Unwanted Memories
There is likely an ethical debate that could ensue around the art of removing or rewriting unwanted memories. Perhaps words like denial or delusion come to mind. But let’s pretend for a moment that...
View ArticleHow Close is that Looming Spider…Really?
The things we fear tend to appear larger, closer, and perhaps more ready to pounce than they really are. A recent study published in Current Biology notes that in controlled studies individuals rated...
View ArticleSeeing in Black and White…Not Just a Metaphor
We sometimes refer to perspectives as “black and white” where there’s little room for moral negotiation. This is actually more than just a metaphor. Recent studies show that when one reads...
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