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Brain Scans and Hypnosis
Scans Show How Hypnosis Affects Brain Activity Scientific American By Sarah Graham | June 28, 2005 The word “hypnosis” tends to conjure up images of subjects partaking in silly activities they might not otherwise agree to. But over the past few decades, scientific study of hypnosis has begun to identify how the approach can work to alter processes such a... -
Controlling Parents = Depressed Kids ?
Tame Your Inner Tiger Controlling parents tend to have children who are academically above average but depressed. Scientific American By Charles Q. Choi | April 15, 2011 | 6 All parents struggle to find the right balance between encouragement and discipline when it comes to raising their kids. This past winter Yale University law professor Amy Chua drew roars of prot... -
Why Addictions Are Hard to Forget
Mouse Study Suggests Why Addictions Are Hard to Forget A new study finds that alcoholic mice more readily form Pavlovian associations with addictive substances. Similar subconscious memories may haunt recovering addicts By Nina Bai | April 27, 2011 | 11 Scientific American Memory Maker: Long-term alcohol abuse can increase the “plasticity of synaptic plasticity...
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