I think Mirror Neurons are one of the most exciting and important discoveries in neuroscience, and I have a feeling they could turn out to be the fundamental building blocks of consciousness itself. Marco Iacaboni has been involved in this area of research since they were first discovered and fascinatingly details the discoveries since and […]
Kluge
This book’s subtitle is ‘The haphazard construction of the human mind’, and the author builds his case brilliantly well. In the first few pages he demolishes the idea of Intelligent Design by his simple demonstration that our brain is anything but designed intelligently. The word Kluge is an engineering term for a makeshift solution – […]
Emotions Revealed
Paul Ekman is probably the world’s leading researcher into emotions and their relationship to expression. It was he who discovered that all humans non-verbally express seven basic emotions using the same facial muscles; they’re hard-wired in our brain, not taught culturally. What he has to say in this area is interesting enough, but his findings […]
Fake it so you can make it (or, why Chelsea should hire me)
If you’re reading this then it’s likely that you’ve got an interest in the science of the mind/body connection. An interesting thing you may have noticed, and it might be because of the way the term is constructed, is that most attention is paid to how the mind affects our body. Whole books are devoted […]
Genetic memory: A Scientific Basis for Past Life Regression?
Strange fact number 1: Scientists trained flat worms to curl up when exposed to light by electrocuting them every time the light was turned on. A pure Pavlovian, conditioned response. Even more unfortunate for the flat worms is their ability to regenerate themselves if cut in half . An amazing thing in itself; cut them […]
Cognitive Hypnotherapy as part of CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an umbrella term that covers a number of different therapies that share common elements, such as Cognitive Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Enhancement Therapy. Cognitive Hypnotherapy is another approach that fits under this umbrella, which is pleasing having heard the news that the Government is going to spend £170 […]
Watch Yourself!
In Cognitive Hypnotherapy it’s taken as read that the way we imagine our future will influence the future we get. When we visualise, the same parts of the visual cortex become active as when we’re processing something we’re seeing in front of us. Our eyes and our mind’s eye share the same equipment. One of […]
Why Choose This Book
Read Montague explores the new field of Computational Neuroscience. Does that sound like it’s going to be easy? You’re right, it’s not, but Read Montague writes well, and with a light touch. There are definitely useful things to come out of this book for us therapists, and my small brain needs to read it again […]
Gut Feelings: The intelligence of the unconscious
I have a feeling that this will turn out to be one of the most important books I’ve read, Gerd Gigarenzer provided much of the research material the Malcolm Gladwell used when writing his brilliant book, Blink. GG lays out rules of thumb the brain uses as short cuts to make decisions and create beliefs. […]
Quirkology
Richard Wiseman is one of my favourite authors. He writes in a really engaging way and always brings interesting things to the table. In Quirkology he excels himself in the range of weird and wonderful experiments he’s conducted or reports on that shed a fascinating light on the vagaries of being human. Entertaining and educational, […]
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