Word: neural
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...Rewires Itself" on my office wall. It's further encouragement that you can stop your brain from rewiring itself into depression, anxiety and addiction. As a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist, I've had great success training people to emerge from depression using simple mind exercises to switch their neural activity from the feeling part of the brain to the thinking part. Biology is not destiny. Will is destiny. Arline B. Curtiss Escondido, California...
Concluding that neural firings are the only reality denies a more transcendent meaning. We all grow old, and like Woody Allen, we wish we would not. Our soul is an immortal, stationary bedrock, evidenced by our acute perception of time passing. We perceive time because it is separate from us. If we were caught up in it, we would not perceive it. Time takes bits and pieces of what lies on the bedrock--our health, our looks, our energy--but the bedrock of our soul, with its desire for life, joy, meaning and immortality, is only shaped and smoothed...
...Brain Rewires Itself" on my office wall. It's further encouragement that you can stop your brain from rewiring itself into depression, anxiety and addiction. As a board-certified cognitive behavioral therapist, I've had great success training people to emerge from depression using simple exercises to switch their neural activity from the feeling part of the brain to the thinking part of the brain. Biology is not destiny. Will is destiny...
...sentience becomes ludicrous. "Hath not a Jew eyes?" asked Shylock. Today the question is more pointed: Hath not a Jew--or an Arab, or an African, or a baby, or a dog--a cerebral cortex and a thalamus? The undeniable fact that we are all made of the same neural flesh makes it impossible to deny our common capacity to suffer...
Indeed, there are multiple if still tenuous lines of evidence to suggest that neural networks with mirror properties may be responsible for the empathetic response that forms the root of social behavior. They may also help explain how human language emerged from the more primitive communication systems of monkeys and apes. Almost seven years ago, Vilayanur Ramachandran, head of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego, went so far as to declare that "mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology: they will provide a unifying framework and help explain...