Did you know that we can only hold 7±2 pieces of information in our short-term memory?  Yet, in our technology-driven world, we are bombarded with information from all over the place.  We’re also encouraged to “multitask” to be more efficient.  Everything I have ever learned as a psychologist tells me the expectations around managing this level of information [...]

Most of us take our minds and bodies for granted.  So did Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (http://drjilltaylor.com/about.html), a Harvard trained neuroanatomist…until she suddenly suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1996.  Listen to the fascinating story of how this brain scientist describes her experience of stroke.  You’ll never think of your brain in quite the same way again.

A friend told me a story this morning that is still bothering me as I write this post.  She told me of a couple with a young baby that had been crying and screaming loudly in the middle of the night.  Apparently the parents, who are proponents of the “cry it out” method of sleep training, chose to ignore the [...]