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Tero Toivanen

Brain scan replaces job interview in 5 years - 0 views

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    Brain scan replaces job interview in 5 years
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Nose Jobs and Personality Disorders - Psych Central News - 0 views

  • A new obervational study suggests many individuals who seek cosmetic rhinoplasty (”nose jobs”) often exhibit personality abnormalities
  • including obsessiveness
  • hypochondriasis
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  • making false statements that make them look better compared with others (”good faking”).
Hypnosis Training Academy

Want To Be A Great Conversational Hypnotist? Be Merlin, Not Arthur - 0 views

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    According to the Arthurian legend, Merlin was the wise wizard that engineered the birth of King Arthur through magic and intrigue. Once born, Merlin carefully coached and prepared Arthur to take center stage and become the legendary figure that he did. But without Merlin's wise teachings and magic - Arthur never would have existed - let alone become king. In order to become a great hypnotist, you have to adopt the same approach. This is because your job is to transform your subjects into becoming the heroes of their own stories… which can only be done if you empower them to take center stage. Check out the Hypnosis Training Academy's latest video blog post to hear master hypnotist Igor Ledochowski explain more on this.
Tero Toivanen

Growing evidence of the brain's plasticity could benefit stroke victims or those suffer... - 1 views

  • With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
  • Therapies that exploit the brain's power to adapt have helped people overcome damage caused by strokes, depression, anxiety and learning disabilities, and may one day replace drugs for some of these conditions.
  • Children with language difficulties have been shown to make significant progress using computer training tools that are the equivalent of cerebral cross-training.
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  • Neuroplasticity does not see the different regions of the brain as completely versatile and certainly not interchangeable. But it recognises that if part of the brain is damaged, it can be possible to train other areas to take on, at least to some extent, the job of the lost brain matter.
  • Doidge says he is not anti-medication, but wonders if therapies that tap into neuro-plasticity will soon replace drug treatments for certain conditions. "We can change our brains by sensing, imagining and acting in the world. It's economical and mostly low-tech, and I'm very, very hopeful"
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    With the right training, scientists now know the brain can reshape itself to work around dead and damaged areas, often with dramatic benefits.
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