ARTICLE

Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain

By Kelly McGonigal — 2020

Moving your body is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your mind.

Read on greatergood.berkeley.edu

FindCenter Post-Image

Hacking Your Brain for Happiness - James Doty - TEDxSacramento

Dr. James Doty explains the neurological benefits of Compassion. “Project Compassion” has now turned into a leading research and educational institution and the only institution solely focused on the study of Compassion, Altruism and Empathy.

FindCenter Post-Image

Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.

Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson

FindCenter Post-Image

You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions—Your Brain Creates Them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...

Lisa Feldman Barrett

10

FindCenter Post-Image

Missing Each Other: How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections

The ability to connect with another person's physical and emotional state is one of the most elusive interpersonal skills to develop, but this book shows you just how approachable it can be. In our fast-paced, tech-obsessed lives, rarely do we pay genuine, close attention to one another.

Edward Brodkin, Ashley Pallathra

FindCenter Post-Image

Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine

Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? In her groundbreaking book Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert provides startling and decisive...

Candace B. Pert

FindCenter Post-Image

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.

FindCenter Post-Image

The Neuroscience of Disconnection

With a neuroscience lens, Erica Peng, Faculty at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, explains what's happening in our brain and body in moments of conflict and disconnection, and one strategy for how we can make our way back to connection.

FindCenter Post-Image

Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy

Neuroscience and couples therapy come together to help couples break patterns of bad behavior, break disconnection and find connection.

Marion F. Solomon, Stan Tatkin

1

FindCenter Post-Image

Neurosculpting: A Whole-Brain Approach to Heal Trauma, Rewrite Limiting Beliefs, and Find Wholeness

The synthesis of meditation and modern neuroscience has sparked a revolution―more than ever, we can use specific practices to create positive, lasting changes in our brains. Lisa Wimberger experienced the power of neuroplasticity firsthand.

2

FindCenter Post-Image

Sanjay Gupta’s Prescription for Fighting Off Dementia

The neurosurgeon, CNN commentator and author of “Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age” has long studied the brain and the onset of Alzheimer’s. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr.

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
...
6
Next

EXPLORE TOPIC

Exercise