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The Neuroscience of Emotions

Click Here to Watch the Video: The ability to recognize and work with your emotions is fundamental to your psychological flexibility and well-being. Neuroscience has contributed to the understanding of the neural bases of emotion, emotion regulation, and emotional intelligence, … Continue reading

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Perceptions Are Beliefs That Permeate Every Cell

Click Here to Read the Article: While most of us are aware of the healing influences of the placebo effect, few are aware of its evil twin, the nocebo effect. Just as surely as positive thoughts can heal, negative ones … Continue reading

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Can You Change Your Mind by Changing Your Sensations?

Click Here to Read the Article: Does the body affect the mind, or the mind affect the body? Studies have shown our mind is constantly being shaped by the things we encounter in the physical world. The old concepts of … Continue reading

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Meditation Rapidly Improves Brain Functioning

Click Here to Read the Article: Psychologists investigating the effects mindfulness meditation, found that people can experience an improvement of cognitive (thinking) functions after only four days of meditating for 20 minutes each day!

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Science Explores Meditation’s Effect on the Brain : NPR

Click Here to Read the Article: Hopefully you are one who uses physical exercise to keep your body in shape, but what about reshaping your mind? Some neuroscientists have begun investigating meditation as a way to achieve that goal. People … Continue reading

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7 Brain-Based Ways to Relieve Stock Market Anxiety

Click Here to Read the Article: If you are one of those people whose peace of mind is tied to the degree of fluctuation in financial markets, it is important to recognize that the fears that underlie your mind’s volatility … Continue reading

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The Latest From Behavioral Economics: Being Hungry Makes Traders Take Bigger Risks In The Market

Click Here to Read the Article: A new study in behavioral finance shows that being hungry makes traders more likely to take bigger trading risks.

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Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman on Behavioral Economics

Click Here to Watch the Video: When faced with economic or financial decisions do you act rationally? How does one promote rational decisions in an irrational world?

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3 Strategies to Discipline Emotions in Decision Making

Click Here to Read the Article: How do you use/misuse emotions when making decisions, financial or otherwise?

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Seeing is Believing: The Power of Visualization

Click Here to Read the Article: Brain studies now reveal that thoughts produce the same mental instructions as actions. Mental imagery impacts many cognitive processes in the brain: motor control, attention, perception, planning, and memory. Mental practice can get you … Continue reading

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Brainwave Entrainment And Isochronic Tones – How Do they Work?

Click Here to Read the Article & View the Video: Curious about brainwave entrainment and isochronic tones, perhaps to improve meditation sessions, explore altered states of consciousness, or solve a problem? While you don’t have to know how these technologies … Continue reading

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Neurofeedback Help for Migraines

Click Here to Watch the Video: Video testimonial of a long-time migraine headache sufferer who finally found relief with neurofeedback.

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Food and Addiction:Treating through Emotional Brain Training

Click Here to View the Video: UCSF’s Laurel Mellin is the founder of emotional brain training (EBT), a method of treating obesity and stress symptoms that equips individuals with tools based on an integration of neuroscience and developmental theory to … Continue reading

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Mental Cognition Accelerated by Just 4 x 20 Minutes Meditation

Click Here to Read the Article: How would you like your brain to work faster? Say, a more efficient working memory, greater verbal fluency and improved visuo-spatial processing?

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Jonah Lehrer: Inside My Mind

Click Here to Watch the Video Series: Note: Individual chapters of the series may be watched separately: Scientists are using the latest neuroscience tools to break open the black box of the mind to uncover the secrets of our decision-making … Continue reading

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528 Hz Alpha Binaural Brain Training Beat

Click Here to Listen to the Binaural Beat: Does it work? Try this and other frequencies and you decide! Binaural Beats are a brain entrainment process that slowly started to gain recognition after an article called, Auditory Beats in the … Continue reading

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More Trouble for Brain Training?

Click Here to Read the Article: After reading the study results, I think the expectation, by those performing the study, of an overall ability increase in a variety of mental areas, after performing one specific brain training activity is ludicrous … Continue reading

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How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over

Click Here to Read the Article & Hear the Podcast: We think we see things as they really are, but our vivid visual experience belies a striking mental blindness. As the physicist Richard Feynman famously said: “The first principle is you … Continue reading

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Understanding the Financial Brain: The Goal of Neuroeconomics

Click Here to Read the Article: When confronted with an economic or financial decision, how does our brain function and what makes it react in a particular way? Do we know the real underlying underpinnings of the financial brain? Is … Continue reading

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Humor – The Best Philosophy (for Your Brain)

Click Here to Read the Article: Medical science has been revealing more and more that humor plays a very important part in our lives – helping us to overcome the obstacles of day-to-day existence, helping us make friends, and even … Continue reading

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