ThinkPrint is a word I made up to describe what I do: help people understand what kind of mind they have. Your ThinkPrint, like your fingerprint, is unique to you, the result of how your brain is wired up. Understanding your mind – your strengths, preferences, tendencies and vulnerabilities – enables you to use it Continue Reading
Month: July 2016
Traumatic Brain Injury
The brain is well protected inside the bony encasement of the skull, cushioned by a surrounding layer of spinal fluid. But sufficient force can cause damage to delicate brain tissue, and even minor injury can result in impairment of cognitive function and disturbance or mood and behavior. The most common causes of traumatic brain injury Continue Reading
How Attention Works (and Why it Often Doesn’t)
Attention is a more complex process than we think. Wait, sorry, I wasn’t paying attention… What were you saying? In this complex modern world of ours, we are very rarely doing only one thing at a time. We read the paper while we eat, we talk on the phone while we drive, and, while we Continue Reading
Autism & Pitocin: Evidence of a Link
Autism, a devasting neurodevelopment disorder of unknown cause, has increased alarmingly in recent decades. A core feature of autism is impairment of social bonding – the ability to connect emotionally with other people. This is a basic drive that supports our survival. Its development is hardwired in the brain from birth, and is controlled by oxytocin. Administration of pitocin in labor may interfere with the function of oxytocin – and the ability to connect to other people – later in life. Continue Reading