Altering Traumatic Memories
Texas A&M researchers have found that they can indirectly retrieve and weaken fear memories. The discovery has therapeutic implications for treating trauma. Scientists could be a step closer to finding a way to reduce the impact of traumatic memories, according to...Gut Microbiome Plays Role in Autism
A new study has demonstrated that autism spectrum disorder is related to changes in the gut microbiome. The findings are published in mSystems, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. “Longitudinally, we were able to see that within an...Tracking receptor proteins can unveil molecular basis of memory and learning
The neurons in our nervous system “talk” to each other by sending and receiving chemical messages called neurotransmitters. This communication is facilitated by cell membrane proteins called receptors, which pick up neurotransmitters and relay them across...Outside factors may help children develop internal control
The ability to control your own behavior, known as executive function, might not exist all in your head. A new theory proposes that it develops with many influences from outside the mind. The theory, detailed in Perspectives on Psychological Science, draws on dynamic...Key Brain Molecule May Play Role in Many Brain Disorders
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists discovered microRNA-29 is an important cellular switch controlling late-stage brain development, a foundational discovery that will help researchers explore new therapeutic approaches for neurodevelopmental conditions. A team led by...The Science of Psychotherapy April 2021
The pleasure of curating this magazine never wanes. There is always fascinating material coming in from around the globe. In this vein, we continue our series of international Last Words with Flavio Cannistra from Italy. He begins with a famous quote which produces...Michael Yapko talks about Process-Orientated Hypnosis
Michael D. Yapko, PhD, is a clinical psychologist residing in southern California. The author of fifteen books, including Mindfulness and Hypnosis, which won the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) Arthur Shapiro Award for Best Book on Hypnosis,...Your Amazing Brain – The Final Episode
Reviewing and integrating the entire series of videos to understand how to create a wonderful life, better health and ongoing wellbeing. The key: creating a STATE of CURIOSITY to stimulate gene expression, protein synthesis and brain pasticity that enables the...Your Amazing Brain – Genes and You
An insight into the way experience effects gene expression and the proteins that are made to create you as a physical being. Information and exploration about the brain and how to use that information in daily life and psychotherapeutic practice.Your Amazing Brain – Vitamin D
How is Vitamin D important for health and especially brain health? Information and exploration about the brain and how to use that information in daily life and psychotherapeutic practice.Your Amazing Brain – The Dartboard – a theapeutic visualization
The Dartboard, a therapeutic visualization application that comes from the Curiosity Approach. Opening up the connection between outer and inner mind to promote natural problem solving.Your Amazing Brain – Marijuana, the brain, medicine and fabric.
What are some of the various uses for marijuana? What can be done… and what shouldn’t be done. There is a relationship between cannabis and mental health, but what do we know from research? Information and exploration about the brain and how to use that...Your Amazing Brain – The ways our brain changes under the impact of power, winning and losing.
The brain is not a constant. The way our brain deals with information and how it flows through the billions of neuronal pathways changes in response to the environment, both external and internal. A winner/loser world mindset changes everything. Information and...Your Amazing Brain – Mummy Brain
Mummy Brain – in response to a request we talk about some facts, not myths, about the brain during pregnancy and after birth. There are changes, but the reasons are for something very important – which is obvious to anyone who is pregnant or has a child....Your Amazing Brain – Interplay between the hemispheres
The hemispheres and the interplay between them. We’ve heard a lot about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, but how do they work together? How do they compete? What’s the best way to create harmony between the hemispheres?Your Amazing Brain – Being Within
Being Within – Leaning into the Future. “When you ‘read the book new’ you can create the springboard on which you can believe and entertain and sometimes grasp POSSIBILITIES that are not otherwise knowable, when stable and settled. Lean into...Your Amazing Brain – The 9 Wellness Voices
The 9 Wellness Voices. We know that relationship is the key factor in therapy, but in all other areas of life, too. By just noticing these 9 wellness factors, you can quickly get a sense of another person, how they are feeling and how to make a connection.Your Amazing Brain Brain – Lifestyle and the brain
Lifestyle and the Brain. What is the environment that our biology has organized itself around? Well, not the one we live in today! So, how do we reconcile this lifestyle “dissonance”? What is the “right” lifestyle for today? You may be...Your Amazing Brain – Stress and Robert Sapolsky
Retelling the story of Robert Sapolsky’s baboons and the sudden death of all the alpha males. Then a comparison to Jane Elliott’s “blue eye/brown eye” experiment. Why do we live the way we do in society? Information and exploration about the...Latest Podcasts
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