February 2012
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Valentine's Day Pamper Tips!
Dispatch from Dr. Stephani Sutherland for Ageless Bodies….
Avoid Hostile Interactions. Reduce Inflammation: This Valentine’s Day, Americans will spend millions on heart-shaped boxes of chocolates, diamonds, and roses. As an alternative, let new body-mind research guide you to create an experience-based dream date. The healing power of touch, the magic of our breath, the gift of moving...
January 2012
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Be Nosey, Be Here Now!
Image Credit: Steve Jobs at Home in Cupertino California, December 15 1982.”
Dispatch from Dr. G., 01.23.2012…
If you’ve had the chance to read Walter Issacson’s bio of Steve Jobs this past holiday, you may have found yourself nodding knowingly at a developmental journey marked by familiar American Baby Boom motifs: 1) Grow up in a surburn home designed by a...
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Stressed Kids? Not!
Image Credit: Slate, 2003
Wendy Swire reporting on Better Brains…. This past November, active Neuro-Education discussion took place in downtown Washington, DC at the Society of Neuroscience Annual convention. I was joined at the conference by over 20,000 of the world’s top neuroscientists, who carefully clutched their laptops and poster displays of their cutting-edge brain science...
December 2011
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Biased against Creativity -- Really?
Image Credit: METROPOLIS directed by Fritz Lang, 1927…………………..
Dr. G. reporting on Spacious Minds….
In a soon to be published study in the journal PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, university researchers of organizational behavior found that despite all of the ROI talk on valuing creativity — — how many times have you forwarded a link...
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Happiness and the Brain
Dr. G. reporting on Better Brains…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the suicidal death rate around the world has risen 60 percent in the past 45 years, and suicide has become one of the top three causes for death of young adults (ages 15-44). Common sense alone should be enough to read the signs. Media brings faces to the raising stats and stories of...
July 2011
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Supreme Court Rules on Video Games
Dr G reporting on Better Brains….
On June 27, the US Supreme Court ruled against a ban on violent video game sales to minors in the state of California. The ruling struck down a California law that would have issued fines of up to $1,000 to video game retailers found to be selling such games to individuals under 18. Surely there’s another way to dig the Golden State out of debt...
Hack Your Default Settings!
American Buddhist monk meditating with electrodes attached in PBS’s the New Medicine (photo courtesy of Middlemarch Films/TPT)
Dr. G. reporting…. In the last year, I’ve noticed a big push to bring mindfulness into education at all levels — corporate, K-12 and even the narrow, hallowed halls of academe. Thanks to the efforts of John Kabat Zinn at Mass General in Boston and more...
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