The Heart-Brain Connection: The Neuroscience of Social, Emotional Learning: Richard Davidson

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Health, Lessons, Science

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Heart-Brain Connection, Neuroplasticity, Neuropsychology, Neuroscience

I never posted this video; but I think some of my readers will love it.

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This is not a directly person-centred take on the subject – but that’s just about viewpoint.

The content is massively relevant for any therapist (or anyone interested in how we heal, learn, grow and change).

This takes you directly to the You Tube movie.

Favourite bit: The question at the end, to which the answer is there is NO age limit to neuroplasticity. So you don’t get to sit this one out if you are over …..[insert your age].

Thanks to Monica Cassani for her post today about this. Monica’s blog is a treasure house of resources and interesting material. Here is the link to this post and her blog:-

http://beyondmeds.com/2014/03/14/the-heart-brain-connection/

Edutopia is a U.S. site run by the George Lucas Educational Foundation (yes, as in ‘Star Wars’, light sabres and the force being with us). Its purpose is to enhance public education in the U.S. Clearly many of the…

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mirroring compassion

09 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by Hunt 4 Truth in Consciousness, Culture, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Memory, Philosophy, Science, Self-improvement, Spirituality

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altruism and identity, Brain Chemistry, Brain Function, communication, Conscious Awareness, consciousness, Davidson, Evolution, mirror neurons, neural systems, Neurological, Neurology, Neuroplasticity, neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, Philosophical, philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychological, psychology, Richard J. Davidson, social dynamics, Sociology

A study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, recently published online in the Journal Psychological Science, is the first to investigate whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion.