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Feed Your Brain with Fun Neuroscience

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We survived. The Digg Tsunami has brought over 40,000 visitors so far...and it continues! We need to thank Andrey for his excellent technical work in helping us ride such a beautiful wave.Let me give you an overview of what you can find in our blog, bridging neuroscience research and brain health/ "brain exercise" practice. First, here you have a few of my favorite quotes from the 10 interviews we have done with neuroscience and psychology experts in cognitive and emotional training in our Neuroscience Interview Series . You can read the in-depth interview notes for each if you want to stimulate those neurons... “Learning ... Read Full Story

MBCT for Active Depression

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Image by ツ خله على كيفه via Flickr MBCT for Active Depression: Major Depressive Disorder is characterized as a relapsing disorder, one in which the typical individual who suffers from one episode will recover, but will very likely relapse into another episode. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was originally developed as a type of relapse-prevention therapy for people who suffer from this pernicious and dangerous cycle. The idea was that mindfulness meditation practice could help them identify and short-circuit the typical process that can take place when a person begins to develop a recurrence of severe symptoms of a major depressive episode . Since the ... Read Full Story

Working Memory Training for Adults

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A very promising cognitive training study was presented last week by Helena Westerberg at the annual meeting of the CNS: Cognitive Neuroscience Society held in San Francisco, and Dr. David Rabiner brings us the highlights. --------------------- The study was conducted with a general adult population, rather than adults diagnosed with ADHD, as was the case in previous published working memory training studies, The study was a randomized, controlled trial of working memory training conducted with 55 younger (20-30 years old) and 45 older (60-70 years old) adults. Participants were randomly assigned to receive 5 weeks of active Cogmed Working Memory Training or a placebo ... Read Full Story

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy For Depression

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When looking for new approaches to depression, especially when medications are unwanted or ineffective, one of the lesser-known options is mindfulness based cognitive therapy. For depression, many approaches deal with the active examination and rejection of thought processes and patterns that are deemed unproductive… but MBCT turns this upside down, taking an entirely different approach. Based on the works of Jon Kabat-Zinn, the purpose of mindfulness based cognitive therapy for depression is not to alter the processes and patterns themselves, but to alter one’s response. Instead of rejecting the way your brain and mind react to the world around you, MBCT accepts this activity, ... Read Full Story

Why we should make a fuss over broken windows

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In 1982, criminologists George Kelling and James Q. Wilson published an article in The Atlantic Monthly called " Broken Windows ." The theory they laid out became known as the Broken Windows Theory. It holds that people are more likely to commit crimes in areas that appear unwatched and uncared for - i.e., "if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken...[because] one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing," as put in the Atlantic article. In other words, perceptions alter ... Read Full Story
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The Neuroscience Of Reading
Stanislas Dehaene, chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, gives his view of the brain: What I am proposing is that the human brain is a much more constrained organ than we think, and that it places...  
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New Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience journal
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/L05_426.cws_home/mainKevin McGrew PhDEducational/School Psych.IAP (www.iapsych.com)Sent from KMcGrew iPhone (IQMobile). (If message includes an image- double click on it to make larger-if hard to see)  
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Visual Object Recognition in Cognitive Neuroscience
Hierarchical Recognition Processing ← Previous revision Revision as of 08:04, 25 November 2009 Line 12: Line 12: == Hierarchical Recognition Processing == == Hierarchical Recognition Processing == - Visual recognition processing has been typically viewed as a bottom-up hierarchy in which information is processed sequentially with increasing complexities where lower-level...  
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Brenda Milner to receive award in New York
Dr. Brenda Milner, an active researcher at the age of 91 at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, is widely recognized as the founder of cognitive neuroscience–the field that brings together brain and behavior and helps explain key aspects of mental illness. Today, Dr. Milner is being awarded the Goldman-Rakic Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience by NARSAD,  
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Novel Research Deconstruct Inner Workings Of The Brain
Findings discuss optogentics, music and the neurobiology of social interactionResearch presented today at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) and the world's largest source of emerging news about brain science and health, provide further insights into brain mechanisms, including those involved in music, social interaction, learning and memory.Specific research released today:    * New findings indicate...  
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