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...series of experiments, for instance, Jeffrey Schwartz and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) can quiet activity in the circuit that underlies obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), just as drugs do. Schwartz had become intrigued with the therapeutic potential of mindfulness meditation, the Buddhist practice of observing one's inner experiences as if they were happening to someone else...
When OCD patients were plagued by an obsessive thought, Schwartz instructed them to think, "My brain is generating another obsessive thought. Don't I know it is just some garbage thrown up by a faulty circuit?" After 10 weeks of mindfulness-based therapy, 12 out of 18 patients improved significantly. Before-and-after brain scans showed that activity in the orbital frontal cortex, the core of the OCD circuit, had fallen dramatically and in exactly the way that drugs effective against OCD affect the brain. Schwartz called it "self-directed neuroplasticity," concluding that "the mind can change the brain...
Wright is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Nonzero and The Moral Animal
...accents, and friendly drinking age. First, indulge your appetite at Les Chenets with classic Québécois poutine—fries, gravy, and juicy cheese curds. Mmm, heart disease. Then head to St-Viateur for soft Montreal bagels and slab on some famous Montreal smoked meats from Schwartz Charcuterie. Never mind the fact that you gained some exam-induced pounds—now is the time to reward yourself for passing them (hopefully). Wander the nocturnal Rue Crescent and admire the fashionable foreign students spilling out of Montreal’s hottest clubs like Electric Avenue and Karina...
...Schwartz said that “the design school is a difficult place for woman designers to succeed.” Getting things done requires “force,” but “it’s damn unladylike to have an opinion to have an ego, it’s antithetical to get things done,” she said. “I’m a bit of a dancing bear...