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Notes from Dr. Weld
Counseling Blog — Brain & Psychology
What the research says about memory, attention, and the mind that carries you.
Accessible notes on neuroscience and psychology — how the brain stores, sorts, and sometimes deceives us, written for readers without a clinical background.
During the turn of the 19th century, a pioneering husband and wife were driving their wagon over the prairie. In the back of the wagon lay their baby boy. As the wagon lurched over the trackless prairie, the baby rolled onto the thick grass. An hour later the...
Do you suffer from the Lake Wobegon effect? Most of us do! Many of you have heard of the fictional Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Humorist Garrison Keillor reports the news from Lake Wobegon on his traveling show “A Prairie Home Companion.” In Lake Wobegon, “all the...
There's no end to what we can learn about the brain. Check out this now basic information: “The brain has the storage capacity of 6 million years of the Wall Street Journal” (Greg Iles, quoted in “A Better Brain at Any Age”). An online article gives similar...
"If you hear hoof beats in Texas, think horses, not zebras" (from "Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science," by Atul Gawande, M.D.). Sometimes it's best to trust our intuition, defying traditional wisdom. If we think that we're seeing something that...
During the turn of the 19th century, a pioneering husband and wife were driving their wagon over the prairie. In the back of the wagon lay their baby boy. As the wagon lurched over the trackless prairie, the baby rolled onto the thick grass. An hour later the...
Do you suffer from the Lake Wobegon effect? Most of us do! Many of you have heard of the fictional Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. Humorist Garrison Keillor reports the news from Lake Wobegon on his traveling show “A Prairie Home Companion.” In Lake Wobegon, “all the...
There's no end to what we can learn about the brain. Check out this now basic information: “The brain has the storage capacity of 6 million years of the Wall Street Journal” (Greg Iles, quoted in “A Better Brain at Any Age”). An online article gives similar...
"If you hear hoof beats in Texas, think horses, not zebras" (from "Complications: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science," by Atul Gawande, M.D.). Sometimes it's best to trust our intuition, defying traditional wisdom. If we think that we're seeing something that...
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