Breathing Basics - Part 2: Assessment
Breathing assessment should always precede HRV biofeedback because dysfunctional breathing can frustrate training success. Clinicians may...
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BioSource Faculty
- Mar 19
- 18 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 6: Stress
Recent studies have challenged core stress concepts taught in graduate classes. We cannot turn off our physiological reactions to...
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BioSource Faculty
- Jan 24
- 7 min
Zachary Meehan on Childhood Trauma
Events are traumatic when they involve harm or threat of harm to oneself or others (McLaughlin et al., 2014). Childhood trauma is a...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 28, 2022
- 19 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 5: Depression
Since major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous disorder, researchers study its diverse phenotypes. Heritability ranges from 26%...
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BioSource Faculty
- Dec 7, 2022
- 15 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 2: Addiction
Addiction inevitably involves loss, including executive functions, health, pleasure from everyday life, productivity, and often...
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BioSource Faculty
- Nov 25, 2022
- 13 min
Neuroscience Breakthroughs Since Graduate School - Part 1: Sleep
Behavioral neuroscience discoveries have proceeded at a rapid pace. This series highlights cutting-edge findings and explains their...
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Fred Shaffer
- Jul 27, 2022
- 3 min
Hardiness: Thriving in the Face of Adversity
Some individuals do not experience illness or psychological distress when exposed to adverse life events and hassles. Although they may...
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Fred Shaffer
- Jul 27, 2022
- 1 min
What Voodoo Deaths Reveal About Our Beliefs Regarding Stress
Cannon (1942) studied voodoo deaths in shamanistic cultures and published speculation about how beliefs can produce lethal cascades of...
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