“Basically, if you can learn to control your own inner experience, then you can fundamentally alter your experience of life,” says cognitive [thought] neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Saksida.

This international calendar of events will guide you to special events happening offline in your community during Brain Awareness Week, March 10-16.

Online, learn more about things like sugar addiction, smoking and schizophrenia, migraines, how stress hormones affect depression (did you think it was all about serotonin?) or the nitty gritty world of astrocytes and axons: I highly recommend the Brain Briefings series offered by the Society for Neuroscience. These two-page publications (download PDFs or get a free subscription by post) are written for a general audience but pack a lot of potent info and are nicely designed.

Here’s a lovely short video of Dr. Saksida doing yoga while explaining why there is no division between mind and body, how both thoughts and chemicals can alter brain structure, and why love is always love no matter how it’s interpreted.

Click here to watch the video…

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Brain Awareness Week 2008 - World of Psychology (3/10/2008)

    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 10 Mar 2008
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