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My thoughts exactly Mark. I was suprised though to see the remarks by the National Phobics Society that implied this was all new. "We very much hope that the discovery that the amygdala is involved in unlearning in addition to learning fear will herald the development of new treatments for those aff...

Haven't we learned something like this already?

- Looks like they'll be wanting us to take and pill and then experience our phobias in a relaxed state with all the fear removed!!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3653176.stm


Simon

From BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3849727.stm Hypnosis 'doubles IVF success' By Caroline Ryan BBC News Online health staff in Berlin Hypnosis can double the success of IVF treatment, researchers have claimed. A team from Soroka University, Israel found 28% of women in the group who were hy...

Think I'd agree with Roger, in that most research doesn't really show much negative biochemical/physical effect on the brain. However, it is widely acknowledged that for some people it can lead to psychological problems and some quite serious at that. However, unless the client is experiencing these...

"How do we do it given that language and images are processed by different areas? " I've just been reading "Seeing Voices" by Oliver Sacks who makes various observations along the lines that langauge is not just verbal/written words. Images can be/are language too. The pre-lingually deaf think in te...

From the Observer Doctors/scientists "....have discovered that a drug on the market for tuberculosis helps phobics to overcome their worst fears within a week. They believe it could be the anti-phobia pill which scientists have been searching for...." http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6...

from the BBC... Being snubbed socially provokes exactly the same brain response as being physically hurt, say US researchers. Volunteers were asked to play a computer game designed to fool them into feeling excluded, while brain scans were taken at the same time. After the computerised snub, the sca...

I must say that I really enjoyed being 30 (and it's anticipation), and by my maths being 40 should be 33% better!

Simon

From the Guardian 25th September The ease might be illusory. Or even ilosruly. Never mind what the web loggers tell you, scrambled words can be hard to read. Not so, says Martin Turner of the Dyslexia Institute. "There is a spectrum of truth here, and that is towards the lower end, because actually ...

Don't know if anyone saw this in the Guardian last week, but it's quite interesting: "There's a young student at this university," neurologist Professor John Lorber of Sheffield University told Science magazine in December 1980, "who has an IQ of 126, has gained a first-class honours degree in mathe...

Following her re-orientation to the room etc yesterday, my client opened her eyes and after a few seconds said "Sorry, but I think I fell alseep". She said she only remembered up until a certain point (quite early in the session) and thought she'd been alseep for the rest. I don't think she did fall...

I know each person is different and all that, but in general what are good tasks to set smokers? I know you can get them to use an anchor, or 7-11 breathing or something if they have an urge or craving etc, but doesn't this imply that they will get a craving? Is this being a bit pessimistic about th...