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Trauma, Stress, and Restorative Sleep
We have recently been exposed to some very stressful and traumatic events that have affected a significant number of people in our country (e.g., Hurricane Sandy, the Presidential election, talk of a...
View ArticleArtists Aren’t Afraid Of Doing Things Badly
Back when I was teaching yoga, a new student wandered into my class and plunked her mat down in the front row. That’s not the unusual part.Within the first few minutes, it became clear that she wasn’t...
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Bridge the Fiscal Cliff Through Brain Science
History is often made when adversaries with well-established biases overcome expectations to find common ground: Ronald Reagan negotiating arms reduction with Mikhail Gorbachev, Anwar Sadat and...
View ArticleAre You a Brain Porn Addict?
Fascinated by those news stories with the flashy red, yellow and blue pictures of brains as they process everything from fear-producing stimuli to sex? Then you might be a brain porn addict. You don’t...
View ArticleHoliday Entertaining Without Xanax
Most people love to attend a good holiday party, but far fewer men and women yearn to throw their own. The primary reason is simple: Who really wants to deal with the stress? Well, the truth is that...
View ArticleKilling Wolves Ruins Research in Yellowstone
Wolves are amazing social carnivores who have been targeted and wantonly killed for years on end because they supposedly are dangerous to humans and to livestock, despite the fact that there have been...
View ArticleTherapist By Day, Crime Writer By Night
I must admit, I’ve had an interesting career journey. For many years I was a Hollywood screenwriter, after which I became a licensed psychotherapist specializing in treating creative types in the...
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Is Your Caregiver Self-Absorbed and Manipulative?
Do any of the following sound familiar? At first your caregiver is amazing. He or she seems truly devoted to giving you the best care possible. But then this person to whom you’ve entrusted your care...
View ArticleGender and Depression
How would you respond to this scenario?For the past two weeks, Kate has been feeling really down. She wakes up in the morning with a flat, heavy feeling that sticks with her all day. She isn't enjoying...
View ArticleCrows Have Opinions
Many of our beliefs are built upon faith in unseen causal agents. Whether you believe God, a raven, or natural selection created humans you do so without having actually seen the creator sculpt a...
View ArticleStressed Out Teen Girls: Cutting to Cope
Meet Molly:Molly is a high-performing 16-year-old teen girl in her junior year of high school. She has a nice group of friends, works hard in school and gets excellent grades. Molly also has multiple...
View ArticleA Recipe for Working Memory and Brain Health
Consider the apparently simple task of cooking two fried eggs, over easy. First, obtain two eggs. Then have some oil or butter ready to fry them in, and salt and pepper handy to apply when the eggs...
View ArticleA New Pharaoh and the Fiscal Cliff
Whatever you think of the current standoff between President Barak Obama and the Republican-led Congress over the budget, what you are witnessing is raw, messy democracy in action.Democrats may rail...
View ArticleReforming the Tort System, Part 1: Freeing the Patient
A reformed tort system is one that is governed by the ten principles of a rational tort system. This is the default system, and all cases of malpractice will be tried in this system unless patients and...
View ArticleBeware of Self-Fascism
Fascist governments are autocratic, dictatorial and often use force and brutality. Severe punishments and cruel condemnations, even for minor infractions, are typical fascistic reactions. When...
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Is Social Media to Blame For the Rise In Narcissism?
Studies are now showing what many of you may have suspected: We are living in an increasingly narcissistic society.In a world where primetime television is dominated by a "reality" as false as the...
View ArticleWhy Cultural Determinism Is Not Science
The leading theory in the social sciences is cultural determinism. Yet, it lacks plausibility as a scientific theory. It is often untestable. When tested, it frequently fails. Such failures are widely...
View ArticleAre You Parenting Like Your Parent?
Have you ever had one of those moments when something comes out of your mouth that doesn't sound anything like you? You snap at your partner or scold your child, using words you never use or threats...
View ArticleAn End to the Middle East Conflict
You can’t effectively deal with a situation that requires transformation with a transactional approachPsychoanalyst Wilfred Bion said that the purest form of listening is to listen without memory or...
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Using Only 10 Percent of Your Brain? Think Again!
One of the most enduring myths about the brain is that we use only 10 percent of it. Presumably the other 90 percent just sits idly by, or perhaps it serves for spare parts—the originators of this myth...
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