September

29

Personality and Brain

Dear friends   In the following talk given to Google’s staff, UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, discusses his discoveries into personality. Essentially Nardi argues that people with different personalities use use their brains in fundamentally different ways. In this talk he shares key insights from his lab. This talk is based on renowned Myers-Briggs [...]

September

25

Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Brain!

Dear friends     In this talk Prof Richard J. Davidson author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live–and How You Can Change Them discusses his research on how emotions impact our brain. What Davidson  discovered is that personality is composed of six [...]

May

23

Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

Dear Friends Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions — motion, speech, self-awareness — shut down one by one. An astonishing story.     Amazon.co.uk Widgets   Fascinating! Hope you enjoyed it!   Rona   Dr Rona Hart [...]