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Neurobiology and Psychology
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Image by ツ خله على كيفه via FlickrMBCT 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...
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Image via WikipediaThe Uses of Distraction: I have held a question in my mind for some time about the usefulness (or not) of distraction techniques for people who are prone to anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and so forth. In my clinical practice, I use mindfulness-based methods, and teach folks to "stay with" the chosen focus point, even if or when it is not pleasurable. This has been a mainstay of meditation teaching for centuries: for example, when you are sitting meditation, with a...
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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.
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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...
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Image from Flickr After I get moved into my new office space next month, I'll be offering Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in my psychotherapy practice. What is MBCT? Very much like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR; see the page about MBSR, here), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is usually conducted in a group format, with 8 weekly sessions, each lasting 1.5 or 2 hours. There is also an all-day retreat, about half-way through the course of sessions...
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Image via WikipediaFear Extinction: The NYT has a good article about the causes of and treatments for anxiety-related disorders, including PTSD. There is some interesting work being done with a couple of medications that might enhance our contemporary therapies for PTSD. The author provides a nice synopsis of the brain mechanisms that underlie fearful responses: "When mammals sense threat, at least two important brain circuits swing into action. One pathway runs through the frontal lobe of...
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Dr. Michael Gazzaniga is considered to be the father of cognitive neuroscience. He’s puzzled by why so many people become agitated at the suggestion that ...
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The researchers then looked at whether those nine metabolites might be important in human brain evolution. When they measured the concentrations in the same ...
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Once believed to be produced exclusively in the gonads, it is now known that some hormones are being made in the synapses of the brain. ...
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According to Khaitovich, "Our new research suggests that schizophrenia is a by-product of the increased metabolic demands brought about during human brain ...
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Those same nerve cell pathways are all present in the human brain, where they are thought to play a role in controlling behaviors, learning and memory, ...
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The second part provides an excellent review of work concerning the neurobiology of trauma and dissociation. Perhaps not surprisingly the first two parts ...
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It is well established that the VTA DA neurons can express plasticity of excitatory glutamate synapses in the form of long-term potentiation (LTP), ...
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Omega 3 fatty acids are quite beneficial as they also help in keeping the synapses in the brain healthy. Synapses have the crucial function to join neurons ...
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Synapses in the brain connect neurons and provide critical functions; much learning and memory occurs at the synapses, Gómez-Pinilla said. ...
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