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Amusing Milton Erickson Story - How To Influence Your Daughter's New Boyfriend - 0 views

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    It is a real life incident of famous psychiatrist and psychologist Milton Erickson. What happened when this legendary hypnotist met his daughter's boyfriend for the first time. How he influenced the nervous young man with his trickster nature. To hear this famous story, watch this video where master hypnotist Igor Ledochowski tells the story and talks about Erickson's unique style.
Daly de Gagne

Unsticking Joe's Life!: Hope Glimers Beyond the 101 Day Count Down - 0 views

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    Here's a guy who's dealing with fact he probably has some brain injury from when he's a kid, has major depression, and at best of times couldn't organize himself out of a paper bag - what psychologists call executive dysfunction. Painfully, experimentally, and in public, he's managing to put some of the pieces together. He may find healing for himself, plus a whole lot of good stuff which will help others.
Tero Toivanen

Musicians' brains keep time--With one another: Scientific American Blog - 0 views

  • The researchers found that the guitarists' brain waves were aligned most during three pivotal times: when they were syncing up with a metronome, when they began playing the piece and at points during the composition that demanded the most synchrony.
  • The synchrony was most prominent in the frontal and central parts of the brain that regulate motor function. "Whenever synchrony of behavior was high, synchrony of brain waves were also high,"
  • While brain synchrony during a duet seems like a given, it's a mystery how it happens, says Lindenberger, a psychologist. "One could speculate that this may be related to mirror neurons, the capacity of primates and humans to imagine the action of the other person while performing actions yourself," he says. "The mirror neuron system could be active during synchronized guitar playing."
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    Credit their brain waves: they synchronize before and while musicians play a composition, according to new research.
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How 'negative emotionality' can make you feel sick - 0 views

  • "Negative emotionality" (NE) reflects a tendency toward depression, anxiety, and poor reaction to stress.
  • "Negative emotionality" (NE) is the antithesis of positive thinking.
  • NE refers to a propensity toward depression and anxiety, and a tendency to react to stressful situations with unpleasant emotions.
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  • "Everyone has a degree of negative emotionality," said Duncan B. Clark, a psychiatrist, psychologist, director of the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center, and lead author of the study. "This is not a disorder or a categorical trait; it is the degree to which an individual reports certain emotional characteristics."
  • However, I would not go so far as to say these health problems were 'all in their head.' Anxiety and depression have been shown to cause demonstrable physical changes."
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