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How Are The Mind & The Brain Different? A Neuroscientist Explains

By Caroline Leaf — 2021

So what exactly is the difference between the mind and the brain? Well, the mind is separate, yet inseparable from, the brain. The mind uses the brain, and the brain responds to the mind.

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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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Harvard Psychologist to Parents: Do These 7 Things If You Want to Raise Kids with Flexible, Resilient Brains

Based on years of research in neuroscience and psychology, here are seven parenting rules to help your kid build a brain that is flexible and therefore resilient.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2020
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Neurosculpting: Mapping the Mindscape

It is now widely accepted, and empirically proven, that our brains are elastic and regenerative. Here are ten practical tips to help mitigate stress, and map a new mindscape.

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Lisa Wimberger
2011
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Can Ketamine Treat Depression? the Answer May Lie in a Mysterious Brain Cell

To treat depression, the neurons which control the hormones serotonin and dopamine in our brains seem to get all the attention.

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Sophie Putka
2021
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Mind Molding Psychedelic Drugs Could Treat Depression, and Other Mental Illnesses

It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my colleagues and me, they change the structures of neurons themselves.

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David E. Olson
2018
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Buried by Bad Decisions

Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.

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Daniel Gilbert
2011
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Why Your Brain Loves Kindness

If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.

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Stephany Tlalka
2019
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Stroke of Genius: An Interview with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

It’s an understatement to say that for nearly all stroke survivors, a stroke is a negative experience. So what kind of person could survive a massive stroke in her left hemisphere, struggle through eight years of rehabilitation, and end up being glad it happened?

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Andy Hunter
2020
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A Superhighway to Bliss

Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana.

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Leslie Kaufman
2008
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Consciousness: Eight Questions Science Must Answer

The brain mechanisms of consciousness are being unravelled at a startling pace, with researchers focusing on eight key areas

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Anil Seth
2012
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