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“Never stop wondering” — Sharon Begley, science journalist, RIP

January 21, 2021 by Alvaro Fernandez

We are deeply sad­dened to hear that Sharon Beg­ley, one of the most exem­plary sci­ence jour­nal­ist of our times, died on Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 16th.

She was always full of curios­i­ty, high stan­dards and excel­lent writ­ing about all things sci­ence, with a long­stand­ing inter­est in brain and mind research. May she rest in peace, and may her mind­ful­ness remain with us all. [Read more…] about “Nev­er stop won­der­ing” — Sharon Beg­ley, sci­ence jour­nal­ist, RIP

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: books on brain, brain-functions, Courtney Nobile, emotional style, Emotions, neuroplasticity, relationships, Resiliency, Richard-Davidson, Sharon-Begley

The State of Mindfulness Science: 10 Key Research Findings to Encourage and Guide your Meditation Practice in 2018

January 3, 2018 by Greater Good Science Center

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Dur­ing the past two decades, more and more sci­en­tists have stud­ied mindfulness—a Bud­dhist-inspired col­lec­tion of prac­tices aimed at help­ing us to cul­ti­vate moment-to-moment aware­ness of our­selves and our envi­ron­ment. Their ear­ly find­ings trig­gered an enor­mous amount of enthu­si­asm for meditation.

Some­times, how­ev­er, jour­nal­ists and even sci­en­tists (who should know bet­ter) have over­stat­ed the phys­i­cal and men­tal health ben­e­fits, which has fed grow­ing skep­ti­cism about mind­ful­ness. [Read more…] about The State of Mind­ful­ness Sci­ence: 10 Key Research Find­ings to Encour­age and Guide your Med­i­ta­tion Prac­tice in 2018

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: attention, bias, meditation, Mental-Health, mindfulness, mindfulness science, neuroscience, physical-health, relationships, Resiliency, science, Stress

Study: Mindfulness can modify stress-related brain behavior

May 23, 2014 by SharpBrains

Stress Marine study exam­ines stress, brain behav­ior (Lemoore Navy News):

“A recent study led by Naval Health Research Cen­ter shows that brain behav­ior, or mech­a­nisms relat­ed to stress, can be mod­i­fied in Marines pri­or to deploy­ment [Read more…] about Study: Mind­ful­ness can mod­i­fy stress-relat­ed brain behavior

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: behavior, behavioral intervention, brain, brain-function, brain-teaser, Marines, mindfulness, psychiatry, Resiliency, Stress

Maximizing brain fitness and mental well-being improves both public health and individual quality of life

December 14, 2012 by Alvaro Fernandez

 We’re hav­ing a good con­ver­sa­tion among Sharp­Brains Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants, prompt­ed by the blog post Life­long brain well­ness and performance–not med­ical disease–drives grow­ing demand for dig­i­tal brain health solu­tions. In what is a beau­ti­ful exam­ple of the need to see both the for­est and the trees [Read more…] about Max­i­miz­ing brain fit­ness and men­tal well-being improves both pub­lic health and indi­vid­ual qual­i­ty of life

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: brain training programs, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Training, meditation, mental well being, mental-stimulation, NIMH, Physical-Exercise, public-health, Resiliency, Stress, UCLA

Understanding, and Nurturing, Resilience and Adaptability

July 12, 2012 by Andrew Zolli

Over and over again—in nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, after the SARS epi­dem­ic, fol­low­ing the loss of a child or spouse—Bonanno’s lon­gi­tu­di­nal stud­ies on loss and trau­ma revealed the exact same pat­tern at the pop­u­la­tion lev­el. No mat­ter how bad the trau­ma, rates of PTSD nev­er exceed­ed one-third, and rates of resilience were always found in at least one-third and nev­er more than two-thirds of the population.

“This pat­tern of response is so ubiq­ui­tous, and so con­sis­tent, it begs the ques­tion: Why are we, as a species, designed this way?” asks Bonanno.

One pos­si­ble answer is that the design ensures that there is always at least a siz­able minor­i­ty, or even a major­i­ty, to take care of those deeply affect­ed by a trau­ma. [Read more…] about Under­stand­ing, and Nur­tur­ing, Resilience and Adaptability

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Peak Performance Tagged With: cognitive, cooperation, Emotions, gratification, Hispanic, PTSD, purpose, regulate, resilience, Resiliency, trauma

The Emotional Life of Your Brain: One Brain Does Not Fit All

March 2, 2012 by SharpBrains

If you believe most self-help books, pop-psy­chol­o­gy arti­cles, and tele­vi­sion ther­a­pists, then you prob­a­bly assume that how peo­ple respond to sig­nif­i­cant life events is pret­ty pre­dictable.  Most of us, accord­ing to the “experts,” are affect­ed in just about the same way by a giv­en experience—there is a griev­ing process that every­one goes through, there is a sequence of events that hap­pens when we fall in love, there is a stan­dard response to being jilt­ed, and there are fair­ly stan­dard ways almost every nor­mal per­son reacts to the birth of a child, to being unap­pre­ci­at­ed at one’s job, to hav­ing an unbear­able work­load, to the chal­lenges of rais­ing teenagers, and to the inevitable changes that occur with aging.

[Read more…] about The Emo­tion­al Life of Your Brain: One Brain Does Not Fit All

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: books on brain, brain-functions, Courtney Nobile, emotional style, Emotions, relationships, Resiliency, Richard-Davidson

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