Mechanisms of Change
How the brain changesEpigenetics
Epigenetics Definition Epigenetics (from the Greek: επί - over, outside of, or around the genome) is the study of trait variations caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes. Epigenetic research seeks...
Permissible Curiosity
Permissible Curiosity Gail Noppe-Brandon Members Download: TNPTVol4Issue10pp18-31 What follows in this article is an attempt to explore the importance of bringing creativity into clinical practice. To that end, it is my great hope to marry style and content, since it...
2016 Childhood Trauma Conference (Part 2)
Report On The 2016 Childhood Trauma Conference (Part 2) Haley Peckham Members Download TNPTVol4Issue8pp32-45 In Part 1 of my report on the Childhood Trauma Conference, I talked about Dan Siegel’s thoughts on integration and connection between brain regions, brain...
Childhood Trauma Conference 2016 Part 1
Report on the Childhood Trauma Conference 2016 (Part 1) Members Download TNPTVol4Issue7pp28-37 The second Childhood Trauma Conference took place in Melbourne in early June, 2016. The impressive array of speakers included Dan Hughes, Jonathan Baylin, Allan Schore, Pat...
Society For Neuroscience 2014
Society For Neuroscience 2014 Report by Haley Peckham In 1969, the Committee of Brain Sciences in the US wanted to set up a formal society for scientists studying the brain with a goal to “help direct attention to the importance of neurosciences for the future...
An Important Process for Psychotherapy
Memory reconsolidation is a central part of the mechanism of change in psychotherapy. Here Matthew Dahlitz gives a very brief snapshot of what it’s all about. Check out more about the clinical application of memory reconsolidation by going to the following posts...
Depression, Anxiety and Telomeres
Telomeres are the protective cap at the end of chromosomes that protect the integrity of the chromosome end. You might think of it like a band at the end of a plait of hair that stops the plait from unravelling during the activity of the day. Telomeres are more like a...
Annals of Memory Reconsolidation: Lagging Accounts Cause Confusion
Annals of Memory Reconsolidation: Lagging Accounts Cause Confusion Bruce Ecker Interest in memory reconsolidation and in the researchers who study it have been surging in popular media. In science journalism, the writer’s task is to make complex,...
The Unexpected Interdependence of Heart and Mind
Subscribers Download Article: The Unexpected Interdependence of Heart and Mind The nature of the relationship between our hearts and minds, our passion and our reason, has occupied us for centuries. In the 17th century, the theologian Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet captured...
Memory Reconsolidation Video
Memory Reconsolidation: Key To Transformational Change in Psychotherapy Here is your “quick start” guide to memory reconsolidation, the brain’s innate process of deep, lasting change. This video captures a 20-minute flow of live presentation to an...