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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.
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.
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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.
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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      In other words, to be happy, we need to feel important and feel we progress toward something important to us.
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    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

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 Monkey Cage: Headscarves - 0 views

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  • In this study, subjects were randomly assigned to view a picture of a woman or a picture of this same woman wearing a headscarf in the style of some Islamic women.
  • (First percentage: uncovered; second percentage: covered.) Age 36 or older: 15% vs. 30% Marital status is single: 59% vs. 25% Assuming woman is married, she is not working outside the home: 12% vs. 47% A good mother: 33% vs. 45% A devoted wife: 26% vs. 51% Lively: 60% vs. 40% Has a sense of humor: 61% vs. 37% Always looks on the bright side: 60% vs. 43% Might be the life of the party: 26% vs. 6% Sticks to a tight circle of people: 24% vs. 43% Keeps to herself: 8% vs. 22% Strict: 2% vs. 23%
  • Maxime Lagacé on 05 Jan 10
     
    What we appear to be externally is perhaps more important than we think.
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.
Maxime Lagacé

Focus On Fun Gets Teens Active - British Psychological Society - 0 views

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  • Emphasising the emotional benefits of exercise is more effective at increasing levels of physical activity than highlighting traditional health benefits. This is the finding of research published online today, 17th February 2010, in the British Journal of Health Psychology.
  • Some teens received text messages that highlighted either the emotional benefits of exercise - such as 'Physical activity can make you feel cheerful. What activity will you do today?' , a second group received texts that highlighted the physical benefits, such as - 'Physical activity can keep your heart healthy. What activity will you do today?'
  • Maxime Lagacé on 18 Feb 10
     
    "Physical activity can make you feel cheerful" vs "Physical activity can keep your heart healthy"
Cammy Torgenrud

Zapping the brain sparks bright ideas - life - 03 February 2011 - New Scientist - 5 views

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  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe and non-invasive method of temporarily altering the activity of neurons by passing weak currents through electrodes on the scalp
  • Excitation of the right hemisphere and inhibition of the left made the participants three times more likely to figure out the correct answer within 6 minutes compared with those who received the sham treatment.
  • right ATL is associated with insight and novel meaning. It also backs up previous findings that the left ATL is involved in processing routine strategies and the maintenance of existing hypotheses
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

Nature Boosts Self-Evaluation of Vitality: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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    People report that spending time in nature increases their feelings of energy and vitality. And it looks like nature is the key, not just the physical activity one often engages in when outside. Karen Hopkin reports
Leigh Newton

The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind - Fireside Learning: Conversat... - 1 views

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    Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Cammy Torgenrud

Brain Scans Spot Effective Bluffers - 0 views

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  • The brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
  • he brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
Cammy Torgenrud

Sins of the Grandfathers - Newsweek - Sharon Begley - 0 views

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  • the life experiences of grandparents and even great-grandparents alter their eggs and sperm so indelibly that the change is passed on to their children, grandchildren, and beyond. It’s called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  • the phenomenon in which something in the environment alters the health not only of the individual exposed to it, but also of that individual’s descendants.
  • Other labs, too, are finding that experiences—everything from a lab animal being exposed to a toxic chemical to a person smoking, being malnourished in childhood, or overeating—leaves an imprint on eggs or sperm, an imprint so tenacious that it affects not only those individuals’ children but their grandchildren as well.
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  • The result raises the intriguing possibility that the childhood-obesity epidemic is at least in part due to alterations in sperm caused by fathers-to-be eating a high-fat diet. After all, while it’s fine to blame kids’ couch-potato ways and fattening diets, that does not explain why obesity in babies has risen 73 percent since 1980.
  • how good your memory is during adolescence “can be influenced by environmental stimulation experienced by one’s mother during her youth
Maxime Lagacé

Observations: Surprised? How the brain records memories of the unexpected - 0 views

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  • human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
  • Only relevant information receives a 'memory boost' by the reward system, which includes the nucleus accumbens," he noted, so people are more inclined to remember incidents from which they might learn something new
  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10
     
    The human brain is specially tuned to remember things that are out of the ordinary
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

Soren Gordhamer: The Rise and Benefits of Mindfulness - 3 views

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    Benefits of meditation. Good examples
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

Differences in brain development between males and females may hold clues to mental hea... - 1 views

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  • female rats have about 30 to 50 percent more glial cells in the amygdala region of the temporal lobe of the brain than their male litter mates
  • females had lower amounts of endocannabinoids, which have been dubbed the brain's own marijuana because they activate cannabinoid receptors that are also stimulated by THC
  • female rats also played 30 to 40 percent less than male rats
Maxime Lagacé

Everyday noise is killing us | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • What is less well known is that our noisy Western way of life is harming each and every one of us, not only by damaging our hearing, but by boosting stress levels to the point where our general physical and psychological health is affected.
  • can boost stress hormones, blood pressure, arterial hypertension, and heart rates
  • all of us need, to some extent, to create a personal silence
  • Maxime Lagacé on 02 Mar 10
     
    Everyday noise increases your stress.  Learn to create personal silence and relax.
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