The Flowering Brain
Translating Social Neuroscience into Common Sense
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2018
01.07.18 What’s Newly Crackling in My Brain Synapses?
01.14.18 How Is Your Brain Easily Fooled?
01.21.18 Adding Creativity to Karma: Untangling Restrictive Neural Networks
01.28.18 Five Neural Power Goodies
02.04.18 Recent Neuro-Studies: Five Helping Us Come Alive
02.11.18 This Week’s Neuro-Fiver
02.18.18 Can Increasing Necessity Benefit Your Brain?
02.25.18 Five Stirrings from the Neurosphere
03.04.18 The Drama of the Sensitive Therapist and Other Scrumpy Brain Bits
03.11.18 The Tyranny of Positivity and Other Happy Brain Findings
03.18.18 A Whale of a Tale: Connection is the Cure
04.01.18 Butterflies of the Soul and Other Neural Flutterings
04.08.18 Is Optimism a Neural Force Multiplier?
04.15.18 Virtual Embodiment Let’s You Dream a Little Dream of Your Best Self
05.06.18 Confronting the Stench of Traumatic Loss
05.27.18 Your Brain Decides If You’re a Freezer or a Fighter (or a Lover)!
06.03.18 Your Brain on Altruism
07.01.18 Safety-Proofing Your Brain
07.15.18 Dumb Days: When Your Brain Wakes Up On the Wrong Side of Your Head
07.29.18 Getting a Grip: Self-Restraint and the Good Brain Life
08.12.18 Why We Fear Fear Itself
08.26.18 Does My Brain Makes Me Fat and Dumb?
09.09.18 Training the Brain for Bigger Heart: The Neurobiology of Sacred Relationship
09.23.18 Syndrome E: The Evil Lurkng in All Our Brains
10.07.18 2 Ways Your Everyday Brain Goes Wonky
10.20.18 How to Court a Fruitfly
11.04.18 My Deathbed Neuroscience Teaching
11.18.18 Walking Each Other into Neural Integration
11.25.18 How My Brain Convinced Me I had a Magic Peni$
12.09.18 How to Connect Your Brain to Your Heart
12.23.18 The Three Great Tasks of a Human Life
2019
01.06.18 How Your Brain and Body Try to Kill You
01.13.19 Does Social Safety Science Pick Up Where Jesus, Buddha, Chet Powers and Rumi Left Off?
01.20.19 Threading The Emerging Science of Social Safety Through the Fabric of Our Lives
02.10.19 Your Brain on Friendship
02.17.19 The Myth of Personal Responsibility
02.24.19 Is Your Brain Trauma-Informed?
03.10.19 Crossing Pitch 15: How Answering Yes to The Big Brain Question Can Make the Impossible Possible
03.24.19 Why a Good Man is Becoming Even Harder to Find
04.14.19 The Heart Has Its Reasons – Here Are Two
04.28.19 The Eyes Have It: How Trauma Literally Distorts Our World View and Breaks Our Heart
05.05.19 Are Safe Relationships All That Really Matter?
05.19.19 Your Brain on Bliss and Grit
06.02.19 Your Brain Dancing with the Heart of Trauma
06.16.19 The Neurobiology of Manifestation
06.23.19 Your Brain Wants to Know: Why Did This Simple Video Go Viral?
07.14.19 The Beauty in an Aging Brain
07.21.19 Are You Poor Without Your Brain Knowing It?
08.11.19 How to Set Your *Jesuit Brain* Ablaze
09.01.19 Persuasive Curiosity: Rewiring Your Brain for Prosocial Activism