by Evan Dwan | Jun 11, 2021 | News |
The architecture of the brain is built early in life and continues into adulthood. Simple circuits in the brain are built first, with more complex ones developing on top of them later on. Genes provide the basic blueprint for brain development but experience...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The future of every society depends on the healthy development of the next generation. This process can be thrown off kilter by excessive or prolonged activation of the stress response. Toxic stress can have a negative impact on learning, behaviour and health...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
Robert Sapolsky writes that childhood is a time when we make assessments about the nature of the world – assessments that we often keep forever. At the end of WW2 ‘The Dutch hunger winter’ occurred. AS the Nazi’s retreated they cut off all food supplies and for a...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 10, 2021 | News |
The psychiatrist Bruce Perry describes regulation as about being in balance. Stress is what occurs when a challenge takes us out of balance. We become dysregulated where we experience distress and discomfort. Finding balance again – becoming regulated – is rewarding...
by Evan Dwan | Jun 3, 2021 | News |
The convergence of crises in the world are symptoms of a deep malaise within our collective cultures. We have become habituated to a level of dysfunction that we come to think of as normal and that ‘this is just the way the world is’. Humans are by nature selfish,...
