Category Archives: Mental Health
Exercise reorganizes the brain to be more resilient to stress
Physical activity reorganizes the brain so that its response to stress is reduced and anxiety is less likely to interfere with normal brain function, according to a research team based at Princeton University. The researchers report in the Journal of … Continue reading
Watch: Dacher Keltner on the Evolutionary Roots of Compassion
Dacher Keltner, UC Berkley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, explores the evolutionary roots of compassion and empathy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Faith, psychotherapy link
Whether or not it’s the legacy of Sigmund Freud, the religiously skeptical founder of psychoanalysis, there’s often a disparity in the counseling room. Psychiatrists are less likely to claim a religious affiliation or to practice religion than other doctors, or … Continue reading
Social Connections & Human Relations: Dr. Jennifer Golbeck
Jungian Archetypes
The Archetypes Strictly speaking, Jungian archetypes refer to unclear underlying forms or the archetypes-as-such from which emerge images and motifs such as the mother, the child, the trickster and the flood amongst others. It is history, culture and personal context … Continue reading
The Brain and Emotional Self-Control
Different brain areas are activated when we choose to suppress an emotion, compared to when we are instructed to inhibit an emotion, according a new study from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Ghent University.In this study, published in … Continue reading
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