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Promoting your own site - 5 views

Hi everyone Just a quick note to inform members not to use this group to promote their own sites. I am happy for people to link to their overall site (e.g., bookmark the home page), but bookmarkin...

started by Gareth Furber on 03 Apr 09 1 follow-up, last by anonymous on 03 Apr 09
Tero Toivanen

Creativity and the Aging Brain | Psychology Today Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09 - Cached
  • So instead of promoting retirement at age 65, perhaps we as a society should be promoting transition at age 65: transition into a creative field where our growing resource of individuals with aging brains can preserve their wisdom in culturally-valued works of art, music, or writing.
  • Numerous studies suggest that highly creative individuals also employ a broadened rather than focused state of attention. This state of widened attention allows the individual to have disparate bits of information in mind at the same time. Combining remote bits of information is the hallmark of the creative idea.
  • Other studies show that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in self-conscious awareness and emotions are thinner in the aging brain. This may correlate with the diminished need to please and impress others, which is a notable characteristic of both aging individuals and creative luminaries.
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  • Finally, intelligence studies indicate that older individuals have access to an increasing store of knowledge gained over a lifetime of learning and experience. Combining bits of knowledge into novel and original ideas is what the creative brain is all about.
  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09
     
    The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).
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Dalai Lama Discovers How Self-Hypnosis Relieves Pain In Cancer Patients - 0 views

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shared by Hypnosis Training Academy on 16 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • Hypnosis Training Academy on 16 Aug 17
     
    In this exciting video, Dr. David Spiegel - Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences & Director of the Center on Stress and Health at Stanford University - shares with the Dalai Lama some invaluable insights on how self-hypnosis relieves pain and depression in cancer patients. In this video, you'll discover the power of group support, tricks to manage stress responses, the role our mind plays in our health and the power of self-hypnosis. Curious to discover more about how self-hypnosis relieves pain and depression in cancer patients? Watch this exclusive video on HypnosisTrainingAcademy.com right now….
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