Neuroscience & Brain-based Practices
This category brings together writings on how neural systems, body states, and personal experiences interact to shape human experience and impact mental health. These pieces range from Dan Siegel's work in interpersonal neurobiology to accessible explanations of negativity bias and how we can apply the findings of brain science to the everyday practice of therapy. They explore neurofeedback, brainspotting, the "overwriting" of traumatic memories, and strategies for helping anxious or angry clients regulate in session. Learn more about these expanding, nuanced topics from experts in the field as they dive into their triumphs, limitations, and ethical considerations.
As genomic science is increasingly able to map our future, therapists must help families make difficult decisions. Read more
As neuroscience was becoming the topic du jour of the therapy field, we sent Senior Editor Katy Butler to MIT on a mission. The result was, literally, a... Read more
Increasingly, neuroscience is making it clear that therapists rely too much on the consulting room drama of insight and not enough on good, old-fashioned... Read more
Neurofeedback is one of a group of new technologies that promises not only to treat the symptoms of mood, attention, and learning disorders, but to address the... Read more
Increasingly, therapists are trying to make sense of the cavalcade of neuroscientific discoveries regularly trumpeted in the research literature and the... Read more
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