Today’s Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind

Click Here to Read: Today’s Biggest Threat: The Polarized Mind/ To counter  it, we call for a mobilization of mindfulness practices and dialogue groups on the scale of a public works program for human civility By Kirk J. Schneider, Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi on the Scientific American website on April 16, 2019.

CT scan of patient with brain trauma.  Author:  Rehman T, Ali R, Tawil I, Yonas H.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs

Click Here to Read:  ‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs: In a study that upends assumptions about brain death, researchers brought some cells back to life — or something like it By Gina Kolata in the New York Times on April 17, 2019.

Culture of rat brain cells stained with antibody to MAP2 (green), Neurofilament (red) and DNA (blue) Image courtesy of EnCor Biotechnology.  Image: Gerry Shaw.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

Mind and Consciousness: with Terence Rogers, Ph.D. at NYPSI

WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR Mind and Consciousness: with Terence Rogers, Ph.D.

Terence Rogers, Ph.D. Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 8:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $20 – General Admission $15 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students Register 
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With the larger aim of formulating a model of the human mind that acts as a bridge between clinicians and neuroscientists, we suggest that it is possible to clarify some of the questions that have vexed psychodynamic Continue reading Mind and Consciousness: with Terence Rogers, Ph.D. at NYPSI

Why Trump’s ‘grandiose paranoid character’ appeals to his  supporters — despite his broken promise

Click Here to Read: Why Trump’s ‘grandiose paranoid character’ appeals to his  supporters — despite his broken promises: Harvard psychoanalyst by Tana Ganeva on the Raw Story website on March 5, 2019.

Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. Photo: Gage Skidmore. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.