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Great Courses volume 5
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English
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Turn from the brain's structure to its activity. After reviewing how we study brain function via fMRI, Professor Polk shows you how brain activity changes as we age-and how these changes impact our memory, our ability to multitask, and more. Then, learn some good news about how the brain compensates for these changes.
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Great Courses volume 6
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English
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Mindfulness meditation is based in the use of an anchor or focus of attention, allowing the mind to calm itself. Using breathing as the focus, learn in detail about the fundamental elements of sitting meditation, focusing attention on the breath and returning to it when the mind strays, without judgment.
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Great Courses volume 15
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English
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Whether you want to lose weight, quit smoking, or exercise more, learn the secrets to creating habits that stick. Identify and define core concepts, such as self-control, self-discipline, motivation, and willpower, and see how each of these can be affected by the CBT skills you've learned in previous lectures.
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Great Courses volume 10
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English
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Walking meditation, another core element of the mindfulness tradition, allows practicing mindfulness in any place and at any time. Learn walking meditation in detail, including beneficial conditions for practice, the method of mindful walking, where to focus attention, and advanced variations on the practice.
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Great Courses volume 7
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English
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Identify the nine hallmark symptoms of depression, then use the CBT triangle to describe the three downward spirals that contribute to a depressive episode. Observe as Dr. Satterfield walks Maria through tools to help her alleviate her depression, and learn how you can apply these same techniques to lift your mood.
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Great Courses volume 2
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English
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Explore the notion of mindfulness: nonjudgmental attention to experience, as it occurs in everyday life and as a deliberate practice. Note the many benefits of mindfulness practice, from the freedom to choose how to respond to life, to releasing detrimental emotions and patterns of thinking, to its effects on physical health.
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Great Courses volume 5
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English
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Bioenergetics, the process of converting food into a usable form of energy, is directly related to overall metabolism. Learn about the chemical work of the body's three energy-producing systems, the fuel each uses, when each is activated-and how your fitness level significantly impacts your body's use of fat as a fuel source.
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Great Courses volume 6
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English
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The first of two episodes on stress and child development takes you inside prenatal and postnatal life. Using two extraordinary examples, Professor Sapolsky reveals the ways a fetus can respond to the environmental stressors of its mother, and how different parenting styles can affect the stress levels of young children.
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Great Courses volume 9
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English
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Despite being simpler than its female counterpart, the male reproductive system is just as vulnerable to chronic stress. Here, discover how stress leads not to a major decrease in testosterone so much as an increase in erectile dysfunction (with a focus on two of the most common symptoms: impotency and premature ejaculation).
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Great Courses volume 19
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English
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Turn to the realm of mental health with this close look at the ties between stress and major depression: one of the leading causes of disability in the world. Start with an overview of the disorder's symptoms before delving into the particulars of its neurochemistry and neuroanatomy.
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Great Courses volume 15
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English
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Your body is in energy balance when your daily energy output is exactly balanced by the energy of the food you consume. In this lecture, you will learn about the caloric content of food and how to choose specific foods to help you adjust your energy balance for desired body composition.
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Great Courses volume 2
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English
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Every time you have a thought or emotion, things change in your body. Here, explore the two factors responsible for these changes: the nervous system and hormones. Learn how these systems work, how they're regulated, and: most important: what happens to them during moments of stress.
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Great Courses volume 1
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English
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Do people control their minds, or do their minds control them? Investigate how the mind operates and the condition of mindlessness: the pervasive swirl of thoughts and judgments that separate people from the world around them. Viewers can consider the possibility of cultivating the mind in ways conducive to deep well-being for themselves and others.
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Great Courses volume 9
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English
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The mindfulness tradition has much to say on the nature of thoughts and their power to shape personality and character. Here, learn specific ways to identify detrimental thoughts and a variety of methods to work with them, demonstrating that people can influence the conditioned mind through conscious and deliberate response to their own thoughts.
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Great Courses volume 16
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English
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Many people are greatly challenged to find compassion for themselves. Consider the complex of beliefs, attitudes, and conditioning that underlie this; in particular, the thorny phenomenon of perfectionism. Learn how to embrace and accept both imperfection and perfectionism itself as an opening to freedom and deeper humanity.
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Great Courses volume 16
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English
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As you age, your ability to deal with stress decreases. What's more: Lots of stress throughout your lifetime can accelerate aspects of aging. Here, examine a series of intriguing experiments and studies that explain the science behind these two views about the intersection between stress and aging.
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Great Courses volume 9
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English
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Continue your study of age-related brain diseases with an investigation of Parkinson's disease and stroke. What are they? How do they affect a person's behavior? And can they be treated? Examinations of these questions and more take you through neurochemistry, stem cell research, and strategies you can use to reduce your risk.
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Great Courses volume 17
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English
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Review the basics of substance use disorders-alcohol, prescription drugs, and illegal drugs-and what second- or third-wave CBT therapies can offer people who suffer with addiction. Add community reinforcement approach (CRA) to your CBT toolkit and see how it can be more successful than 12-step recovery programs.
19) Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation: Expectations - Relinquishing Preconceptions
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Great Courses volume 3
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English
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This episode introduces the practice of meditation as a tool for developing mindfulness. Here, distinguish the true nature of mindfulness meditation from common preconceptions about it, revealing its capacity to instill a deeper connection to reality, as well as cultivating a wisdom based in empathy and compassion.
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Great Courses volume 7
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English
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How does memory work? Can aspects of it be improved? This eye-opening lecture offers a test of two different strategies for memorization: sheer repetition on the one hand, and visual-spatial storytelling on the other. Once you understand how memory works, you'll investigate four key principles that you can apply to improve your own memory.
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