BrainThe paradox of a brain trying to study itself presents a conundrum, raising questions about self-reference, consciousness, psychiatric disorders, and the boundaries of scientific inquiry. By which means can this complex organ shift the focus of study towards itself? We aim at unpacking the ...
Note that although we did not conduct an explicit power analysis during study design, the final sample size was similar to that used in similar fMRI studies that examined brain-behavior correlations12,28. Procedure overview At 1–2 days before the experiment, participants completed an online ...
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The study appears in the journal Psychological Science. The researchers, from the University of Waterloo and the University of New Brunswick, asked people with high and low self-esteem to say "I am a lovable person." They then measured the participants' moods and their feelings about themselves...
One study reported no impact,67 and another reported a marginal improvement that was not significant on statistical analysis.59 Three studies studied the effect on conduct disorders and found fewer conduct problems in the intervention groups compared with the control groups (eTable 6 in the ...
The Worry Trick (2016) and Outsmart Your Anxious Brain (2020) are both published by New Harbinger. All four books are available here.Professional WorkshopsHe has taught workshops on the treatment of anxiety disorders to more than 10,000 therapists in the United States at workshops sponsored by...
The present study is the first, to our knowledge, to examine the validity (ie, measurement invariance and construct validity) of the PQ-BC by using data collected from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study (https://abcdstudy.org). Our goals were to test whether PQ-BC...
with conditions that affect neural activity might have a higher incidence of extra sensory experiencing (Thomas, 2023). These findings may also challenge the mainstream idea that the brain is the producer of consciousness. As one child exclaimed in a recent study, "My mind is not in...
Through his years of study and practice, Master Lin discovered a startling and profound truth: “The most powerful is also the simplest.” And he realized that the most powerful aspects of Qigong could be contained within a few precise movements and meditations. Inspired by his great love for...
In the present study, the impact of brain self-regulation on a selected group of severe criminal psychopaths was investigated. For the first time, an extended SCP-neurofeedback-training reveals that offenders scoring high on psychopathy are able to volitionally gain control of their cortical activi...