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Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 47th Annual Meeting - 0 views

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    Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 47th Annual Meeting is organized by Society for Neuroscience (SFN) and would be held during Nov 11 - 15, 2017 at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, Dis of Col, United States of America. CME Credits: * Symposia - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. * Minisymposia - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. * Basic-Translational-Clinical Roundtables - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. * Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. * Presidential Special Lectures - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. * Special Lectures - SfN designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.
Leigh Newton

Managing with the Brain in Mind - 1 views

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      Leigh Newton on 09 May 15
       
      This explains why children find relationships so difficult. The pain seems to be so profound that it equates with survival.
  • Neural connections can be reformed, new behaviors can be learned, and even the most entrenched behaviors can be modified at any age. The brain will make these shifts only when it is engaged in mindful attention.
  • high status correlates with human longevity and health, even when factors like income and education are controlled for. In short, we are biologically programmed to care about status because it favors our survival.
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  • Understanding the role of status as a core concern can help leaders avoid organizational practices that stir counterproductive threat responses among employees. For example, performance reviews often provoke a threat response; people being reviewed feel that the exercise itself encroaches on their status.
  • Not knowing what will happen next can be profoundly debilitating because it requires extra neural energy.
  • When perceived uncertainty gets out of hand, people panic and make bad decisions.
  • Leaders and managers must thus work to create a perception of certainty to build confident and dedicated teams.
  • Breaking complex projects down into small steps can also help create the feeling of certainty. Although it’s highly unlikely everything will go as planned, people function better because the project now seems less ambiguous. Like the driver on the road who has enough information to calculate his or her response, an employee focused on a single, manageable aspect of a task is unlikely to be overwhelmed by threat responses.
  • A perception of reduced autonomy — for example, because of being micromanaged — can easily generate a threat response. When an employee experiences a lack of control, or agency, his or her perception of uncertainty is also aroused, further raising stress levels. By contrast, the perception of greater autonomy increases the feeling of certainty and reduces stress.
  • In 1977, a well-known study of nursing homes by Judith Rodin and Ellen Langer found that residents who were given more control over decision making lived longer and healthier lives than residents in a control group who had everything selected for them. The choices themselves were insignificant; it was the perception of autonomy that mattered.
  • If you are a leader, every action you take and every decision you make either supports or undermines the perceived levels of status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness in your enterprise. In fact, this is why leading is so difficult. Your every word and glance is freighted with social meaning. Your sentences and gestures are noticed and interpreted, magnified and combed for meanings you may never have intended.
  • Top-down strategic planning is often inimical to SCARF-related reactions. Having a few key leaders come up with a plan and then expecting people to buy into it is a recipe for failure, because it does not take the threat response into account. People rarely support initiatives they had no part in designing; doing so would undermine both autonomy and status. Proactively addressing these concerns by adopting an inclusive planning process can prevent the kind of unconscious sabotage that results when people feel they have played no part in a change that affects them every day.
  • A self-aware leader modulates his or her behavior to alleviate organizational stress and creates an environment in which motivation and creativity flourish. One great advantage of neuroscience is that it provides hard data to vouch for the efficacy and value of so-called soft skills. It also shows the danger of being a hard-charging leader whose best efforts to move people along also set up a threat response that puts others on guard.
Pump Wat

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Michael Manning

Lists « Skeptical Science - 0 views

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    Great list of Wikipedia articles with Lists for Critical Thinking
Maxime Lagacé

Why We Need Silence to Survive | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    Cut off distractions and sound for a moment...
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We Are Social Creatures: The Power of Others to Support Our Habits | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • The implication for personal habits and habit change is clear: Others get used to our habits.
  • What this means for habit change: When you start to change one of your habits, it will be disturbing to those around you. After all, they've come to expect certain behaviors from you and now they can no longer expect them. That will be upsetting to people who are close to you, even if they are expressing their support.
  • Your attempt to change a habit means that others will need to work at their lives too.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 05 Mar 10
     
    To change ourselves, we must change our habits AND peoples' expectations about our habits.
Maxime Lagacé

For many Vancouver Olympics athletes, sports psychology is key / The Christian Science ... - 1 views

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  • They rely on it to build their confidence, their belief in their training and their own capabilities
  • That includes breathing exercises – like yoga, but not, he says – and sessions both with the psychologist and alone. “Also some visualizing,” he adds. “I try to visualize every possible situation – with wind, with fog, with people around me. Sometimes it stresses me when people are around me, when they pass me very fast.”
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Feb 10
     
    Think what you will, but many Vancouver Olympics athletes now rely heavily on sports psychologists to help them focus and perform at their best.
Maxime Lagacé

Cognitive Fun! - 2 views

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    Learn your mind. Play it too. Games for the brain
Maxime Lagacé

The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People | Zen Habits - 4 views

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    "In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone." ~Rollo May
Maxime Lagacé

The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connecte... - 4 views

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  • Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years.
  • Rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents were far lower during the Great Depression, during World War II, during the Cold War, and during the turbulent 1960s and early ‘70s than they are today. The changes seem to have much more to do with the way young people view the world than with the way the world actually is.
  • One thing we know about anxiety and depression is that they correlate significantly with people's sense of control or lack of control over their own lives.
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  • Twenge cites evidence that young people today are, on average, more oriented toward extrinsic goals and less oriented toward intrinsic goals than they were in the past. For example, a poll conducted annually of college freshmen shows that most students today list "being well off financially" as more important to them than "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," while the reverse was true in the 1960s and '70s.
  • Twenge suggests that the shift from intrinsic to extrinsic goals represents a general shift toward a culture of materialism, transmitted through television and other media. Young people are exposed from birth on to advertisements and other messages implying that happiness depends on good looks, popularity, and material goods.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 27 Jan 10
     
    The education system is bases on accumulation of knowledge, tests, grades.  Children are not happy in that system.  There is a dramatic rise in anxiety and depression.  They should play more to learn better.
Maxime Lagacé

This Emotional Life: Why Does Religion Make People Happier? | World of Psychology - 1 views

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  • Many studies find that religious people on average are happier. But since not all religious people are happier, and not all religious beliefs seem to lead to happiness, we have to search for the “active ingredient” in what aspect of religion might increase feelings of well-being.
  • spirituality can focus us on larger causes than our own personal welfare, and this can give us purpose and meaning
  • People meet other like-minded people at church, and in many instances can count on those folks when they need help
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  • religion can help happiness is that it provides a moral compass, rules to live by
  • religion can provide answers to large questions, such as where did the universe come from, why is there evil, etc
  • the common causes of happiness: Having supportive relationships is very important. We found that all happy people have them. Being a supportive person to others is also important. People who help others seem to be better off. Some data show that people who help others a lot are healthier. Having purpose and meaning in life is important, a devotion to people or goals that are larger than ourselves. Finding activities in which one can use one’s talents and strengths, including one’s work
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      Maxime Lagacé on 08 Jan 10
       
      In other words, to be happy, we need to feel important and feel we progress toward something important to us.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 08 Jan 10
     
    Many studies found that religious people are happier.  This article talks about the ingredients of religion that might increase feelings of well-being.
Cammy Torgenrud

Mental Health Disorders Untreated in Many Teens - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNe... - 3 views

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  • Researchers examined data from a nationally representative sample of 6,483 adolescents, aged 13 to 18, and found that only 36.2% of those with any mental disorder received treatment.
  • one in five teens with anxiety, eating or substance abuse disorders received treatment. In addition, Hispanic and black adolescents were less likely than whites to receive treatment for mood and anxiety disorders, even when the disorders caused severe impairment, the researchers noted.
Cammy Torgenrud

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness | Magazine - 3 views

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  • What the battle over DSM-5 should make clear to all of us—professional and layman alike—is that psychiatric diagnosis will probably always be laden with uncertainty, that the labels doctors give us for our suffering will forever be at least as much the product of negotiations around a conference table as investigations at a lab bench
Maxime Lagacé

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance - 2 views

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  • Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • The higher the level of participants' social interaction, researchers found, the better their cognitive functioning.
  • The findings also suggest that social isolation may have a negative effect on intellectual abilities as well as emotional well-being. And for a society characterized by increasing levels of social isolation—a trend sociologist Robert Putnam calls "Bowling Alone"—the effects could be far-reaching.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 21 Feb 10
     
    Talking with friends helps us improve cognitive function. Social isolation do the opposite.
Cammy Torgenrud

Teasing Out the Effects of Environment on the Brain - Dana Foundation - 0 views

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  • Epigenetics is defined as the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Instead, they may be caused by “silencing” a gene, for example, rather than mutating it.
  • These changes remodel the architecture of the chromosomes, opening up a particular gene to the machinery that synthesizes protein, or closing it down, so that the gene is switched off.
Cammy Torgenrud

Educational Leadership:Closing Opportunity Gaps:The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains - 0 views

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  • Few other clear-cut differences between boys' and girls' neural structures, brain activity, or neurochemistry have thus far emerged, even for something as obviously different as self-regulation.
  • Our actual ability differences are quite small. Although psychologists can measure statistically significant distinctions between large groups of men and women or boys and girls, there is much more overlap in the academic and even social-emotional abilities of the genders than there are differences (Hyde, 2005). To put it another way, the range of performance within each gender is wider than the difference between the average boy and girl.
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  • Baby boys are modestly more physically active than girls (Campbell & Eaton, 1999). Toddler girls talk one month earlier, on average, than boys (Fenson et al., 1994). Boys appear more spatially aware (Quinn & Liben, 2008).
  • Avoid stereotyping
  • Appreciate the range of intelligences
  • Strengthen spatial awareness
  • Engage boys with the word
  • Recruit boys into nonathletic extracurricular activities
  • Bring more men into the classroom
  • Treat teacher bias seriously
Maxime Lagacé

The Dynamic Duo: Imagination + Knowledge | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences
  • Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius.
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  • He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  • Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Jan 10
     
    Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • Beth D Johnson on 24 Apr 14
     
    Thinking over things, whether daydreaming or being involved in deep thought over conceptual knowledge or experiences (which can involve both), strengthens connections and builds various domains and connections within our brain, among other things. This results in higher intelligence, memory consolidation, etc. - neural plasticity at its finest.
Maxime Lagacé

Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About - David Disalvo - Brainspin - True... - 1 views

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  • If you have to choose between buying something or spending the money on a memorable experience, go with the experience.
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  • Playing video games could be an unlikely cure for psychological trauma.
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  • If someone is trying to sell you something, be extra careful to keep your psychological distance.
  • Turns out, saying you’re sorry really is important—and not just to you. 
  • If you’re a man and find yourself in an argument with your significant other, choose your words very carefully.
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      Beth D Johnson on 24 Apr 14
       
      Good idea!
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