Building a tree-house
I spent much of the last two weekends working with my two sons-in-law constructing a tree-house for their children (Diane and my grandchildren). It’s a beauty. You enter tree-house paradise via a...
View ArticleBrain fitness training: measuring psycho-social dimensions of brain health
Dr. William Bailey’s comments about a study that he and his colleague Jean Turner are conducting on the impacts of BrainHQ training on symptoms of depression, self-efficacy and related psycho-social...
View ArticleThe “computer game syndrome”!
You may have heard that the AMA recently decided that a child’s “addiction” to computer games should, in the extreme, be recognized as a medical disorder. You probably understand that the AMA has two...
View ArticleTherapeutically reliving and elaborating your traumatic experiences CAN be...
In the June 18th, 2007 issue of Newsweek, Sharon Begley wrote an opinion column that must have raised a few hackles in the psychotherapy community. In her words, “…(for) patients seeking...
View ArticleImportant update on risk factors contributing to PTSD onset!
In our last entry on this subject, we summarized risk factors for PTSD onset as follows: “You just DON’T want to be a) an ambidextrous b) Latino c) who has a history of cognitive or learning impairment...
View ArticleMarsupials and Beavers and Gliders, Oh My!
I’m in Evans Head, a beautiful small town on the north coast of New South Wales in Australia this morning, visiting an old friend Lindsay Aitkin, a retired research comrade. Professor Aitkin is still...
View ArticleSpecial Challenges Of Adolescence
We haven’t spent much time at this site discussing the neurological parallels of human adolescence. Let’s begin by reflecting on some basic aspects of its neurology and sociology. Think of life in the...
View ArticleWhen brain injury hits home
Because my research has focused on the neuroscience of rehabilitation for several decades, I have received hundreds of email messages, letters and telephone calls from parents and grand-parents...
View ArticleHow long-lived was your dad?
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences led by a UCSF scientist Wen-Chi Hsueh has very interestingly revisited the subject of the genetics of human longevity. As...
View ArticleRed red wine
One of the most interesting efforts targeting the development of anti-aging drugs stems from research conducted at Harvard that led to the identication of the compound in red wine (resveratrol) that...
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