Philippe Goldin, PhD, Head of Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Group, Stanford University discusses what research on the brain shows us about individual responses to specific therapies. Included is a discussion of how we change and the healing influences of meditation-, cognitive-, and emotion-focused therapies.

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SHOW INTRODUCTION Have you ever thought that you might be able to change your brain? Not alter it, but actually retrain it? If you suffer from anxiety or depression you may think your only path out is by taking medications, but what if you knew a way to influence your thoughts and feelings without denying or obliterating them? Honestly, methods for achieving this have been around for longer than you know. Mindfulness training and meditation have been recently rediscovered as a brilliantly effective method for helping people with difficult mind/body states, by scientists. So did we need research to know this, well, yes, because now we actually know how it occurs and what sorts of practices or therapies will work. After all, we’re different. Stay tuned for an hour on how we change?