The Interpersonal Neurobiology Behind Making Habits Stick. Compassion Is Weaved Throughout Our Nervous System, Researchers Have Found. Since the earliest days of philosophy, a question has been pondered and debated, with many of our greatest minds weighing in.
What is humanity’s essential nature? Learning Sciences of Change. A General Theory of Love A General Theory of Love draws on the latest scientific research to demonstrate that our nervous systems are not self-contained: from earliest childhood, our brains actually link with those of the people close to us, in a silent rhythm that alters the very structure of our brains, establishes life-long emotional patterns, and makes us, in large part, who we are.
Explaining how relationships function, how parents shape their child’s developing self, how psychotherapy really works, and how our society dangerously flouts essential emotional laws, this is a work of rare passion and eloquence that will forever change the way you think about human intimacy. Drawing comparisons to the most eloquent science writing of our day, three eminent psychiatrists tackle the difficult task of reconciling what artists and thinkers have known for thousands of years about the human heart with what has only recently been learned about the primitive functions of the human brain. Dr. Allan Schore - Modern Attachment Theory. Whatever you think, you don’t necessarily know your own mind. Do you think racial stereotypes are false?
Are you sure? I’m not asking if you’re sure whether or not the stereotypes are false, but if you’re sure whether or not you think that they are. That might seem like a strange question. We all know what we think, don’t we? Most philosophers of mind would agree, holding that we have privileged access to our own thoughts, which is largely immune from error. Evidence for this comes from experimental work in social psychology. Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will. Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness, Culture, and Free Will In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system.
He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the center of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for neurologists, cognitive scientists, and anthropologists alike.
HeartMath Considered Incoherent. [Note: all opinions expressed here are my own.
Nothing to be taken as medical advice.] The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease. Why boarding schools produce bad leaders. In Britain, the link between private boarding education and leadership is gold-plated.
If their parents can afford it, children are sent away from home to walk a well-trodden path that leads straight from boarding school through Oxbridge to high office in institutions such as the judiciary, the army, the City and, especially, government. Our prime minister was only seven when he was sent away to board at Heatherdown preparatory school in Berkshire. Like so many of the men who hold leadership roles in Britain, he learned to adapt his young character to survive both the loss of his family and the demands of boarding school culture. La Révolution Altruiste / The Altruism Revolution - vidéo dailymotion.
The weird science of love. Now playing Do our smells make us sexy?
Popular science suggests yes — pheromones send chemical signals about sex and attraction from our armpits to potential mates. Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other's minds. Entanglement : Invisibilia. David Brooks: The social animal. Daniel Reisel at TED2013: Training the brains of psychopaths. Photos: James Duncan Davidson Daniel Reisel is here to talk about our brains.
In particular, how we might change them–and how this kind of thinking might just change the tenor of society as a whole. He introduces us to Joe, who’s 32, and a murderer. Reisel met Joe in Wormwood Scrubs, a high-security prison that houses England’s most dangerous prisoners. On a grant from the UK Department of Health, Reisel visited the jail to study inmates’ brains and try to find out what lay at the root of their behavior. Initial research showed that psychopaths like Joe indeed had a different physiological response to emotions such as distress or sadness. Why We Cry: The Science of Sobbing and Emotional Tearing. By Maria Popova Why it’s easier to prevent a crying spell than to stop one already underway.
Why do we cry? The three types of tears - Alex Gendler. The lacrimal apparatus works to produce tears that are needed to wet the front of the eye and flush debris from the ocular surface.
Many animals yelp or cry out when they're in pain. But as far as scientists can tell, we humans seem to be the only species that shed tears for emotional reasons. Scientists who study evolution say crying probably conferred some benefit and did something to advance our species — because it's stayed with us. What God does to your brain. A Natural History of Love. By Maria Popova “A one-syllable word heavy as a heartbeat … a sort of traffic accident of the heart.” Limbic Revision: How Love Rewires the Brain. No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts: A Holistic Theory of Love and the Emotional Mind. The Science of Why We Kiss. Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Babies. Song of the New Earth - Official Trailer. What Happened When I Allowed Myself To Be Vulnerable In Public. When I was asked to present a TEDx Talk, my immediate reaction was pure terror.
I had been inspired by many TEDx and TED Talks. I knew they were well organized and often distilled many important ideas into one overarching message. I thought about how vulnerable I’d be up on that stage, trying to share my life lessons and my most heartfelt messages within a 15-minute time limit. 10 facts about infidelity, as divulged by Helen Fisher. Synesthesia and the Poetry of Numbers: Autistic Savant Daniel Tammet on Literature, Math, and Empathy, by Way of Borges. By Maria Popova. Drawing Autism: A Visual Tour of the Autistic Mind from Kids and Celebrated Artists on the Spectrum. By Maria Popova.