Posts Tagged ‘Darwin’
Stress Management Workshop for International Women’s Day
Today is International Women’s Day 2007. Global consulting company Accenture organized a series of events, and I was fortunate to lead a fun workshop on The Neuroscience of Stress and Stress Management in their San Francisco office, helping over 125 accomplished women (and a few men) learn what stress is, its implications for our brain…
Read MoreBest practice for top trading performance: biofeedback (EmWave personal stress reliever)
Brett N. Steenbarger , Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SUNY Upstate Medical University, active trader for over 30 years, former Director of Trader Development for Kingstree Trading, LLC, author of The Psychology of Trading and the new Enhancing Trader Performance, and of the blog TraderFeed: Exploiting the edge from historical market…
Read MoreEmotional self-regulation and test anxiety
We wrote yesterday about Growing Super Athletes (each of our students) and how “Learning” goes beyond what we typically call “Education”. One of the skills needed for success at school and life is emotional self-regulation, and a recent article on SharpBrains in La Opinion (main US-based Spanish-language newspaper) touched precisely on that. Below you have the link, and quotes,…
Read MoreGrowing Super Athletes (each of our students)
(Thanks for the lead, Tom!) David Brooks writes a great column (requires subscription) in the NYT titled A Critique of Pure Reason. He expands the usual restricted understanding of “education” to incorporate a wider sense of “learning”, by discussing 1. Where “The creative ones (politicians) will finally absorb the truth found in decades of research:…
Read MoreEnhancing Cognition and Emotions for Learning — Learning & The Brain Conference
Alvaro and I had the good fortune to attend a great conference last week called Learning & The Brain: Enhancing Cognition and Emotions for Learning.… Some topics were meant to be applied immediately, but many were food for thought — discussions on where science and education are headed.Using dramatic new imaging techniques, such as fMRIs, PET, and SPECT, neuroscientists are gaining valuable information about learning. This pioneering knowledge is leading not only to new pedagogies, but also to new medications, brain enhancement technologies, and therapies. Discover how new adventures could change education, learning disorder interventions, and even society itself in the future.
Read MoreMindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and other stress management techniques
We have explained before how mental stimulation is important if done in the right supportive and engaging environment. Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky and others’ have shown that chronic stress and cortical inhibition, which may be aggravated due to imposed mental stimulation, may prove counterproductive. Having the right motivation is essential. A promising area of scientific inquiry…
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