SoP 37: PANS / PANDAS Part 2
Micaela Monteiro-Haig The second part of our conversation about PANS/PANDAS with Micaela Monteiro-Haig. Part 2 of our discussion with naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist and eating psychology coach with a special interest in mental health - Micaela Monteiro-Haig. She...
It’s so much easier being yourself
The following session took place one year, 4 months into my therapy with “Clay”. Clay is a very attractive, always well-coiffed, intelligent, articulate man in his mid-50s who originally sought therapy to determine if he “had ADHD”. However, we quickly focused on...
Where To Now?
Members PDF Download Members Text Only Members Audio Not a subcriber? I introduced this feature in the Editorial, but perhaps it needs more description. This feature is comprised of the responses of 20 authors, all friends and colleagues, to a simple question –...
The Dark Side of Social Media with Irish Psychologist Ciarán McMahon
Toward the end of my interview with today’s guest, , I asked if there were any surprises as he did the research for his book, The Pyschology of Social Media.
New compounds could be used to treat autoimmune disorders
Newly-developed molecules bind to a key enzyme pocket to inhibit its activity, and possibly prevent autoimmune responses.
Receptive Presence
When Richard asked me for some thoughts about important directions, about what comes next, I began thinking with the sense of how much relational neuroscience has offered us in the last few decades.
Prince Charming’s kiss unlocking brain’s regenerative potential?
Kyoto University identifies ‘wake-up’ signal for deep-sleeping neural stem cells.
Getting Unstuck with Personal Coach Shira Taylor Gura – A Dr. Dave Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAn0as75bJg When I asked my recent guest, transformational coach and author Shira Gura, what has most surprised her about the method she’s developed for getting herself emotionally unstuck, she said she’s been shocked by how quickly...
From Pro-being shame and depression to pro-being pride: Transforming disappointment in being
Hank is in his mid-40s, married, with two latency aged children. Hank is bright, articulate, personable and works in a technical profession where he has achieved considerable success. About 12 years prior to this session, Hank, with several co-developers, created a...
SoP 36: PANS / PANDAS
Micaela Monteiro-Haig We talk to Micaela Monteiro-Haig about PANS/PANDAS - an autoimmune disorder of the brain. Micaela Monteiro-Haig is a naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist and eating psychology coach with a special interest in mental health. She talks with us today...
Where To Next?
Photo by Taylor Nicole Where to next? This question spurs my curiosity. Like explorers searching for new frontiers, the counseling and psychotherapy field is at a critical moment in its history. We have moved from narrative descriptions of client scenarios to inform...
Volume 7 Issue 6 Reading Course
Where To Now? (1.5 hours) In this course you will learn: Where are we going next? From applied neuroscience to the broader science of you! (This course is for Standard subscribers only) ...
Innovation in Psychotherapy, Challenges, and Opportunities: An Opinion Paper
Members PDF Download Members Text Only Members Audio Not a subscriber? Psychotherapy as a field tends toward conservativism, and the rate of innovation and development of new evidence-based effective treatments has been slow. This paper explores important...
Researchers Take A Step Towards Light-Based, Brain-Like Computing Chip
New light-based hardware which can store and process information in a similar way to the human brain.
SoP 35: Single Session and Brief Psychotherapy
We interview Flavio Cannistra from Rome about brief and single session therapy. Flavio Cannistra is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist (PsyD). After five years at university, initially focusing on Jungian, he oriented his studies toward brief therapies. He...
Future of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is currently burdened with fragmentation of models, theories, and interventions. Psychotherapy requires an integrative framework rooted in the expanding sciences of developmental psychology, neurobiology, medicine, and medical illness. The future of...
The Neuropsychotherapist Volume 7 Issue 6
Welcome to the beginning of something exciting for all of us at The Neuropsychotherapist. We are at a “phase shift”. You will have noticed that we have been quietly broadening our scope of articles and authors over the past 6 months or so to reflect the importance of...
Room for Thought: Brain Region That Watches for Walls Identified
Advanced imaging technologies observe one brain area’s ability to rapidly sense our surroundings; lays groundwork for improvements to machine learning and robotics.
Broccoli Sprout Compound May Restore Brain Chemistry Imbalance Linked to Schizophrenia
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they’ve further characterized a set of chemical imbalances in the brains of people with schizophrenia.
SoP 34: Name Change!
Richard and Matt talk about changing names from The Neuropsychotherapist to The Science of Psychotherapy For many years our flagship magazine has been The Neuropsychotherapist and this has served us well. But we are finding that the science informing psychotherapy is...
John Arden talks about neural networks and feedback loops
A discussion about neural networks and feedback loops with Matthew Dahlitz and John Arden
A Moody Gut Often Accompanies Depression—New Study Helps Explain Why
A new study suggests that depression and GI trouble sometimes spring from the same source — low serotonin — and identifies a potential treatment that could ease both conditions simultaneously.
Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-Gopala Anumanchipalli, PhD, holding an example array of intracranial electrodes of the type used to record brain activity in the current study © UCSF-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END- -AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-New technology is a stepping...
How Blindness Shapes Sound Processing
Research uses functional MRI to identify two differences in the brains of blind individuals — differences that might be responsible for their abilities to make better use of auditory information.