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Learning Engineering Applies the Learning Sciences
Published in Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, Learning Engineering Toolkit, 2023
Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, Aaron Kessler
Likewise, learning experiences can be engineered to approximate what’s going on inside the learner’s mind and respond accordingly. Platforms like Duolingo use data about the difficulty of a task in combination with learner model data to predict the likelihood of a learner answering the next prompt correctly.
Transformation of human traits and being
Published in Antonella Sansone, Cultivating Mindfulness to Raise Children Who Thrive, 2020
Epigenetics has become a frontier of genome studies (Goleman & Davidson, 2017). Davidson showed that a mental exercise, meditation, could have beneficial effects at the genetic level. The mind can be trained to affect the body and its physiology. Pilot studies have found that meditation seem to “down-regulate” the genes responsible for the inflammatory response; mindfulness practice can not only lower the levels of pro-inflammatory genes but also lessen the feeling of being lonely, as loneliness spurs those levels (Creswell et al., 2012). An epigenetic boost was found in research using two other meditation methods. One is the relaxation response induced by silently repeating a chosen word such as peace as a mantra (Dusek et al., 2008). The other is “yogic meditation”, where the meditator recites a Sankrit mantra, at first aloud and then in a whisper, and finally silently, ending with a short deep-breathing relaxation technique (Lavretsky et al., 2013).
Overcoming verbal-emotional abuse
Published in Patricia A. Murphy, A Career and Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors:, 2020
This method has all the necessary ingredients. There is the mind/body connection. With written or keyboard listings of the affirmations, both the mind and the hands participate. With the recording method, both the mind and voice participate. What is not present is the response column. I do not recommend interrupting the rhythm of spoken affirmations by stopping to record the response to each affirmation. The power of the spoken affirmation is diminished somehow by interrupting the rhythm. The method, however, is highly effective. If you feel a need to record your responses, you could make verbal notes on the tape at the end of your session, or take notes of your responses in a journal kept for this purpose. You may wish to keep your recorded tapes, but many people use the same tape over and over. Either method is correct.
Artificial Consciousness is Unlikely to Possess a Moral Capacity
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2023
To have a brain is to have a bodily organ; to have a mind is to interact with self, others, and the environment, natural as well as social. The critical boundary between what we are as individual human beings, on the one hand, and our physical, social, and political environments, on the other, cannot be found in our brains. We humans are in part what we do, where we are, and the interactions we have with our environments by means of collective practices, deploying language and other tools. Consciousness is an achievement; it does not begin and end with the brain. And even if AC were equated with an artificial brain—an organ—it cannot be equated with mind, which involves a relationship among brain, body, and environment. If the advent one day of artificial life brings with it artificial consciousness, capable of acting upon itself, then we humans will have discovered that consciousness cannot be explained entirely in terms of neurons firing in the brain.
A practical guide to recognize, assess, treat and evaluate (RATE) primary care patients with chronic pain
Published in Postgraduate Medicine, 2023
Kevin B Gebke, Bill McCarberg, Erik Shaw, Dennis C Turk, Wendy L Wright, David Semel
Experienced practitioners can deliver a range of noninvasive nonpharmacological treatments, many of which have been shown to reduce pain and restore physical function in patients with diverse chronic pan conditions. For example, a recent comparative effectiveness review of 233 randomized controlled trials by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality demonstrated that exercise, cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness practices, massage and multidisciplinary rehabilitation consistently improved physical function and pain in primarily musculoskeletal and nociplastic chronic pain conditions [58]. Specifically, exercise was shown to be beneficial for patients with LBP, neck pain, OA of the hip or knee and fibromyalgia [58]. Additionally, at least one of cognitive-behavioral therapy, mindfulness, psychological therapy, or mind-body practices were shown to be effective for each of these conditions [58]. Several reviews of non-pharmacological therapies for patients with neuropathic pain conditions concluded that the evidence for these interventions was weak, limited, or insufficient, suggesting that further research is required for patients with these conditions [15,59–61].
Onward: The future orientation of constructive memory
Published in American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2021
Mittner, Hawkins, Boekel, and Forstmann (2016) studied neurochemical aspects of mind-wandering and proposed a model that attempted to explain how dynamic changes in brain systems give rise to changes in subjective experiences. Similarly, Stevens (2014) posited that investigations into neurological activities related to internally focused imagination promoted benefits by creating linkages wherein inter-hemispheric activities can be learned, practiced, and become critical to creativity. Neither of the investigations looked specifically at hypnosis. Both their reports are congruent with conceptual support of the idea that hypnosis may elicit changes to enhance opportunity for neurobiological changes including the release of proteins and hormones that Rossi (2004) referred to in his comments focused on the central role that numinous experiences play in genomic expressions.