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#253 – Creativity and The Brain with Shelly Carson, PhD
Shelley Carson, PhD is a researcher and instructor of creativity, psychopathology and resilience. She is the author of Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity and Innovation in Your Life (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). Based on scientific findings from studies involving brain imaging, brain injury cases, neuropsychological testing and interviews with hundreds of highly creative individuals, [...]
#253 – Creativity and The Brain with Shelly Carson, PhD [1:00:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download#228 – Positive Psychology Coaching with John Schinnerer
John Schinnerer, Ph.D. is in private practice helping individuals learn happiness by mitigating destructive emotions and fostering constructive emotions. Using positive psychology, he helps clients achieve happy, thriving, meaningful lives.
#188 – Technology and The Evolving Brain with Gary Small, M.D.
Gary Small, M.D. is co-author (along with his wife, Gigi Vorgan) of the 2008 book, iBrain: Surviving The Technological Alteration of The Modern Mind. In addition, Dr. Small is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and directs the Memory and Aging Research Center and the UCLA Center on Aging.
#182 – Effects of Meditation and CBT on The Brain with Philippe Goldin
Philippe Goldin, Ph.D. is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University. He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter for various Tibetan Buddhist [...]
#180 – Consciousness and Technology with Nova Spivack
Nova Spivack is one of the leading voices of the emerging Semantic Web, what is sometimes referred to as Web 3.0. Nova founded Radar Networks to develop the next-evolution of social software, Twine, based on the Semantic Web. Twine is a unique, Semantic Web application that that helps users organize, share and discover information around [...]
#176 – The Dave and Jerry Show #13
sleep and speech recognition areas in the monkey brain, the universal human propensity for storytelling.
#172 – The Dave and Jerry Show #12: Tweets for Twits?
Jerry Trumbule and me. For the moment, I’ve decided to back off from calling these episodes Shrink Rap Radio LIVE, since we are no longer doing the in the call-in format. So, rejecting the few renaming suggestions I’ve received, I think I like The Dave and Jerry show.
#163 – Exercise and The Brain with John Ratey, MD
John J.Ratey, M.D. is author of the new book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and The Brain. Dr. Ratey is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has a private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
#161 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #10
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I get together on blogtalkradio to discuss psychology. I later put the show up here. In this show, the discussion focuses on whether Google and the Internet are making us stupid. In the course of the discussion, we refer to three different articles. The a recent Atlantic article by Nicholas [...]
#149 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE #8
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., A.B.D. and Dr. Dave do a live session, discussing issues relating to their longstanding interests in psychology and technology. In particular, the discussion focuses on the Internet as a prosthesis for the brain, memory, elephants that paint, and other delights. The photo above is Jerry as a young scientist of 9 years [...]
#147 – Nirvana and The Brain with Jill Bolte Taylor PhD
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the author of the extraordinary book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey which tells the story of a stroke which essentially knocked out her left hemisphere and enhanced [...]
#143 – Shrink Rap Radio LIVE! #7
Jerry Trumbule, M.A., ABD and I speak on a live episode about the brain, communication, autism, animal intelligence, and Second Life. In particular. We comment on this video on YouTube. We also talk about an amazing presentation by Here is a link to her “must see” video. (Psychology podcast by David Van Nuys, Ph.D.)




