Posts Tagged ‘anger’
General Chiarelli: “We have a totally dysfunctional research system (for brain and mental health)”
— General Chiarelli’s Brain Crusade (Politico): “Soon after Peter Chiarelli became vice chief of staff of the Army in 2008, a subordinate showed him a bar graph depicting the number of soldiers determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs to be at least 30 percent disabled. The tallest column was on the far left.
Read MoreCan biofeedback-based videogames help kids regulate anger and emotions?
Video Game With Biofeedback Teaches Children to Curb Their Anger (Science Daily): “Children with serious anger problems can be helped by a simple video game that hones their ability to regulate their emotions, finds a pilot study at Boston Children’s Hospital. Results were published online October 24 in the journal Adolescent Psychiatry
Read MoreLie to Me, Paul Ekman and Biofeedback
Biofeedback can be a very effective training tool for emotional self-regulation and stress management, precisely because it enables a faster feedback-based learning loop.
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence and Faces
Paul Ekman has conducted extensive research on identifying emotions through facial expressions. As part of that research, and as part of the power of discipline and training, he learned how to consciously manipulate 42 facial muscles, including many that in most of us are beyond our control, and even awareness. In the 60s and 70s…
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.
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