Click Here to Read: Treating depression with electrodes inside the brain By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andy Segal on the CNN website on April 14, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Neural Responses Reveal Our Optimistic Bent. Why adjusting our expectations to reality is so difficult By Andrea Anderson  in the  Scientific American on April 10, 2012.

 Areas in the prefrontal cortex spring to action when we learn our risk of misfortune is lower than we thought. If the risk is higher, the right inferior frontal gyrus responds. Image: From “How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality,” by Tali Sharot, Christoph W. Korn and Raymond J. Dolan, in Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 14; 2011

Click Here to Read: Study Links Autism to Maternal Obesity. A new study suggests that obese mothers have a heightened risk of having an autistic child By Abby Ohlheiser  on the Slate website on April 9, 2012.

A new study has linked obesity before pregnancy to a heightened risk for autism in the child

Click Here to Read: Brain activity gives scientists clues about eating disorders by Dawn Turner Trice in the Chicago Tribune on April 11, 2012. 

Dawn Turner Trice

Click Here to Read:  The Unconscious and the Silent Brain on the Costa Rica News website on April 8th, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Nobel Winner Eric Kandel: ‘The Age of Insight,’ Memory, the Holocaust, and the Art of Vienna on this website.

Click Here to Read: Eric Kandel’s Vision on this website.

Click Here to Read: A Conversation With Eric R. Kandel: A Quest to Understand How Memory Works on this website.

Click Here to Read: How girls and boys differ when it comes to autism By Peter Szatmari on  CNN website on April 4, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  Scientists Link Gene Mutation to Autism Risk by Benedick Carey in the New York Times on April 4, 2012. 

Members of a team conducting autism studies: from left, Dr. Evan E. Eichler, Jay A. Shendure and Brian O’Roak of the University of Washington.

Click Here to Read: Neuro Smackdown: Scientists Debate How to Solve the Mystery of the Brain by Casey Schwartz on the Daily Beast website on  April 4, 2012.

Casey Schwartz

Click Here to Read:  Changes in Prefrontal-Limbic Function in Major
Depression after 15 Months of Long-Term Psychotherapy by Anna Buchheim, Roberto Viviani1, Henrik Kessler, Horst Kachele4, Manfred Cierpka, Gerhard Roth, Carol George, Otto F. Kernberg1, Georg Bruns, and Svenja Taubner on the PLSO one website.

Click Here to To Read:  Changes of brain activation pre- post short-term psychodynamic inpatient psychotherapy: An fMRI study of panic disorder patients by Manfred E. Beutela, Rudolf Starkb, Hong Panc, David Silbersweigd, Sylvia Dietricha in the Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging Journal 2010 issue.’ 

Click Here to Read:  Multimodal psychodynamic psychotherapy induces normalization of reward related activity in somatoform disorder byMoritz De Greck, Lisa Scheidt, Annette F. B Ö Lter, J Ö Rg Frommer, Cornelia Ulrich, Eva Stockum , Bj Ö Rn Enzi5 , Claus Tempelmann, Thilo Hoffmann, & Georg Northoff in the The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry 2010 , 00: 1-13.