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The Compassionate Brain
How Empathy Creates Intelligence
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity.
- Publications Books
- June 13, 2006
- 160 pages
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Event-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects
To examine electroencephalograms (EEG) in pairs of people to see if event-related potentials evoked in one person's brain are correlated with concurrent responses in the brain of a distant, isolated person.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- April 1, 2004
- 9 pages
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Effects of Healing Intention on Cultured Cells and Truly Random Events
To explore effects of healing intention and intentional space conditioning on the growth of cultured human brain cells and the distribution of truly random events.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2004
- 10 pages
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"The Buddha's Brain" with Rick Hanson
The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were all born with a brain built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-07-14
- 01:06:50
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The Healthy Aging Brain
Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom
A neuroscientifically based account of how our brains age and change over time. More effective than age-defying creams and anti-aging pills is a concrete understanding of how our bodies and our brains age, and what we can do to work with this natural process to make life as long and as fulfilling as possible.
- Publications Books
- October 17, 2008
- 380 pages
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
This presentation centers around two points: 1) The brain processes in-group and out-group experiences differently. Different styles of brain functioning are also seen when considering facts about other paradigms and ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-16
- 00:59:02
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"The Mind's Brain" with Sharon Begley (sample)
In this teleseminar, host Cassandra Vieten discusses fascinating developments in neuroscience with author and Newsweek science columnist Sharon Begley. Many scientists believed the brain loses its plasticity with aging, but Sharon tells us that research now shows we can continue to learn throughout life.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-05-13
- 00:07:21
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"The Labyrinth" with Lauren Artress
An Ancient Tool for Chaotic Times
We live much of our lives in a left-brain oriented world that values knowledge as power. But there’s another way to experience the world—from the reflective, emotionally embodied ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-10
- 00:59:17
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Taking in the Good course (class 1 of 8)
The Enchanted Loom
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Week 1 of the course Taking in the Good: Weaving Peace, Happiness, and Love into Your Brain and Yourself.
This first class addresses brain basics, including how the mind changes the brain, getting on your own side, and self-compassion.
- Audio Taking in the Good
- 2012-03-14
- 01:15:44
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Taking in the Good course (class 2 of 8)
The Power of Mindfulness
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Week 2 of the course Taking in the Good: Weaving Peace, Happiness, and Love into Your Brain and Yourself.
This class looks at the critical role of attention in changing the brain, neurological diversity: from “turtles” to “jackrabbits,” and brain-savvy ways to deepen mindfulness.
- Audio Taking in the Good
- 2012-03-21
- 01:36:02
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Taking in the Good course (class 5 of 8)
Filling the Hole in Your Heart
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Week 5 of the course Taking in the Good: Weaving Peace, Happiness, and Love into Your Brain and Yourself.
This class deals with how losses and wounds affect us. Key “antidote experiences” for disturbances in the brain’s avoiding, approaching, and attaching systems. How to pair positive and negative experiences to heal distress and dysfunction.
- Audio Taking in the Good
- 2012-04-11
- 01:37:18
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The Enchanted Loom
With sensuous and inventive prose, this celebrated author-poet reminds us that the brain is not just a machine to be probed but a phenomenon to be marveled at. A "dream ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2007
- 3 pages
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Our Evolving Global Brain
Rapid advances in media and communication technology are rewiring our brains while challenging our capacity to process a relentless onslaught of new stimuli. More than a “stew of electromagnetic noise ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2007
- 6 pages
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Intention Downloads Interview: Daniel Siegel (sample)
In this dialogue with former IONS President James O’Dea, Dr. Siegel discusses intention in the context of interpersonal neural biology.
- Audio Interviews
- 2007-06-12
- 00:03:00
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Neurotechnology's Shadow
For all the promise of neuroscience, there is plenty of peril. While most attention is focused on its positive applications, other more unsettling purposes are quietly moving forward. Are the ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2007
- 6 pages
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Consciousness
Still A Mystery
The brain is not the mind, argues this eminent UK scholar, despite what the majority of neuroscientists are concluding. In fact, there are still far more questions than answers in ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2007
- 6 pages
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Nurturance
A Biological Imperative
Our emotional life as infants shapes our brains as adults, affecting not only our minds but also the health of our bodies.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
- 4 pages
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