Mindfulness takes practice
The typical student on a standard mindfulness course says they practice for 30 minutes at home every day, and it actually makes a difference, a new study from Aarhus University in Denmark, finds. This is the case, even though teachers ask for more. But can we rely on...
Cannabis reverses ageing processes in the brain
Researchers at the University of Bonn restore the memory performance of Methuselah mice to a juvenile stage.
The brain detects disease in others even before it breaks out
The human brain is much better than previously thought at discovering and avoiding disease, a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden reports. Our sense of vision and smell alone are enough to make us aware that someone has a disease even...
Stem cell transplants may advance ALS treatment by repair of blood-spinal cord barrier
ALS mice improved with stem cell therapy; first step for science in finding better treatment.
A Simple Clinical Action Map to Heal PTSD
Members Download: A Simple Clinical Action Map to Heal PTSD The therapeutic spiral model (TSM) is an innovative and effective model of experiential psychotherapy to treat individual and collective trauma around the world. The TSM is the perfect weaving of...
A Brief Review of the Best Apps
Members Download: TNPTVol5Issue6pp8-13 Smartphone technology has been increasingly used in the medical field and is currently rising in the field of behavioral health. Some behavioral health interventions include addressing substance abuse (Bernhardt et al., 2009;...
It’s Not the Stress You Feel, It’s the Stress You Don’t
Members Download: TNPTVol5Issue6pp34-53 No-one can live without experiencing some type of stress all the time. You may think that only serious disease or intensive physical or mental injury can cause stress. This is false. Crossing a busy intersection, exposure to a...
The Art of the Brain
Members Download: TNPTVol5Issue6pp14-29 M y nontraditional path to art through a doctorate in neuroscience arms me with an outsider’s perspective and gives me the freedom to introduce imagery and concepts derived from a different world than is traditionally...
Abused caregivers have double chance of poor health
Women who become caregivers after experiencing intimate partner violence face a double-whammy hit to their health, University of Queensland research shows.
How the Brain Turns Down the Volume on Your Noisy Body
Every minute of every day, your body makes noise. You inhale and exhale. Your joints creak. Many of your own actions, generate sound, but thanks to your brain, you likely hear little of it. The brain’s ability to recognize and tune out sensory stimuli produced by the...
The Neuropsychotherapist Volume 5 Issue 6
THE NEUROPSYCHOTHERAPIST Volume 5 Issue 6 (June 2017) ISSN 2201-9529 Members Download: TNPTVol5Issue6 Content As the psalmist once said, we are “fearfully and wonderfully made”. How true that is when we consider the immense complexity of the brain—and its...
Short and long sleep, and sleep disturbances associated with increased risk of dementia and lung cancer
Difficulties in initiating or maintaining sleep at middle-age are associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The 20-year follow-up study was conducted among 2,682 men participating the Kuopio...