Brain2brain: Enacting Client Change Through the Persuasive Power of Neuroscience (Paperback)

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xxi

1 Applying Neuroscience 1

Teaching Practical Neuroscience 2

2 Promoting Brain Health 33

First S of Planting SEEDS 33

First E of SEEDS 36

Education 39

D of SEEDS 40

Second S of Planting SEEDS 50

3 Developing Memory Systems 63

Memory Systems 63

4 Autostress Disorders 91

Top Down and Bottom Up 91

5 When Anxiety Is Generalized 113

Balancing the Autonomic Nervous System 114

6 Focalized Anxiety 129

Facing Fear and Avoidance 129

Phobias 141

Panic Disorder 143

7 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 149

Phase 1: Stabilization 150

Phase 2: Memory Integration 157

Phase 3: Posttraumatic Growth 177

8 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 183

Describing the OCD Circuit 185

ORDER 192

Health Obsessions 198

9 Depression 201

Gender and Depression 201

Role of Infl ammation 202

Anxiety with Depression 205

Shifting to Action 211

Social Lift 216

Default Mode and Rumination 218

Orchestrating a Broad Approach 220

References 225

Author Index 247

Subject Index 255