Charlie Rose

jdeals  07/16/2012 09:10 PM Report

I have consistent problems with the videos posted here. The Flow player never works and almost all the videos do not play on my brand new macbook in chrome or opera. I can only get them to play most of the time in safari which I hate.

Any chance there can be some help from google or a quality IT consultancy that can convert or migrate all these videos to higher resolution and in a format that will work 99% of the time, instead of 30% of the time.

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Thanks

kverkus  05/26/2012 06:37 AM Report

nice ideas

Max83  03/14/2012 05:42 PM Report

I would like to take this opportunity to make your viewers aware of the Near Death Experience research by Dr. Bruce Greyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Greyson

This is a video lecture of Dr. Greyson speaking at the United Nations on this topic on September 11th, 2008

Consciousness Without Brain Activity: Near Death Experiences - Dr. Bruce Greyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qBIw7qyHU

Since you briefly brought up the Dalai Lama in this interview I also would like to recommend to your viewers the brilliant documentary on reincarnation in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition titled ''Unmistaken Child'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmistaken_Child

The full documentary can be viewed for free under this link on youtube, highly recommended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lSb5gRMJxQ

BENEZRAA  03/14/2012 02:53 PM Report

AND THAT'S ALL THE NEWS FROM LAKE WOBEGON....

Sharks... Thanks for the laughs. On a serious note, though, you may be interested in listening to the more extended interview of Dr. Davidson that was broadcast this morning on the Diane Rehm Show via WAMU. It should be clear that Dr. Davidson is not marketing an artsy-phartsy approach to science (nor is the Dalai Lama, though you did crack me up with your humor on the subject). Interesting as well that you should comment on the national divorce rate; the preceding hour of the Diane Rehm Show was devoted to that very subject this morning. As to your comment about stroke victims, the advancement in treatments of stroke victims do include both hard and soft science (no pun intended) including neuroplasticity.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/14/2012 03:49 AM Report

He says our pre-frontal cortex is the most recent of human development and not only provides for thought but is also a place where thought and emotion come together. Much like when we marry a person and thought and emotion are supposed to come together.

Perhaps our divorce rate suggests that the coming together of emotion and thought still has a lot of evolution to go in our "new" pre-frontal cortex?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/14/2012 03:40 AM Report

He says, neuroplasticity is the greatest insight over the last decade.

So stroke victims get Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Speech Therapy but are these enough? Perhaps an intense "The Notebook" type therapy would help too.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/14/2012 03:34 AM Report

In January, new published research shows you can change your brain in 8 weeks working on it 27 minutes every day. So about 25 hours total.

Perhaps our Affordable Health Care Plan should include this as a preventative.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110121144007.htm

SharkswithfrikingLazers  03/14/2012 03:23 AM Report

Sounds like being funded by a drug company:

"At the University of Wisconsin Waisman Laboratory for Brain, Professor Richard Davidson is funded by the 14th Dalai Lama’s personal trust to study the effects of meditation and compassion on the brain. The Dalai Lama has a long-standing interest in Davidson’s work. Over the past decade, the Dalai Lama has supplied Davidson with over a dozen Tibetan Buddhists with over 10,000 hours of meditation. Research suggested that meditation altered the structure and function of the brain. One of the greatest passions of the 14th Dalai Lama is an alliance between Buddhism and science. The Tibetan Monks have been shown to have powerful gamma activity unlike anything researchers had ever seen. Davidson developed a passion for meditation since the 1960s."

http://www.highexistence.com/its-all-in-your-head-how-to-take-advantage-of-neuroplasticity/

CharlieW  03/13/2012 04:00 PM Report

Keillor spells it "Wobegon"

See also --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon#The_Lake_Wobegon_effect

BENEZRAA  03/13/2012 03:54 PM Report

EMPIRICISM V. IDEALISM

REMant, respectfully, your wayward meander through the forest of famous philosophers shall mercifully be attributed to your "long hard day".

However, you err in insisting that Dr. Davidson must necessarily be an empiricist and not an idealist. Dr. Davidson may or may not even think of himself in those terms of philosophical definition. However, his particular teachings on the subject of neuroplasticity may be argued from either the empirical or the ideal philosophical frameworks. Bishop Berkely might say, "Treat yourself to sufficient tarwater, and you may see things more clearly once again."

I do appreciate your recap of the "six basic emotional styles" and the basic idea that the book may offer some practical instruction, even at the self-help level, towards intentional personal transformation.

It would have been useful, had the program been lengthier, taking the time to show the differences in brain scans according to the six basic emotional styles.

(Written from my own personal cottage on Lake Woebegone, which you may visit anytime, but, none of that touchy-feely stuff....)

REMant  03/13/2012 01:46 PM Report

As I'm sure I've mentioned before neuroplasticity is a quite old concept, as old certainly as Kurt Goldstein and Wilder Penfield, D. O. Hebb and their students. I would add the idea of teaching one to be happy can be found in discussions of religious conversion, child-rearing, T-groups and brainwashing.

Influenced by Daniel Goleman and David McClelland one would presume Davidson is one of the touchy-feely school, like Deepak Chopra, and I'm not sure they'd be wrong, judging from the list of favorable reviewers as well as, the posited emotional "styles," but I'd like to point out that as one opposed to structure, it puts him in the company of empiricists, rather than so-called idealists historically, thus transferring the issue of what we can or cannot do about our predispositions to questions of Nature in general - for it is not possible that something should come from nothing, is it? - and that John Locke and others have managed this position without falling into either primitivism or behaviorism.

The latter is a very, very old issue, which, because I had a long hard day yesterday, I will put off until Brookes arrives again to enthuse on this subject, and simply say it figures in the controversies surrounding Boas and Mead, Drucker and Polanyi, Spock, Watson, Dewey and positive thinking during the '20s and '30s, The Lonely Crowd in the '50s, and narcissism in the '70s, but has antecedents in the Sophists and the Academy in ancient Greece, Greek influence on Rome, the debate over nominalism among the Scholastics, the Reformation, the Whig justification for revolution, and, in the 18th and early 19th c, between rationalism and sentimentalism, etc.

In case you were wondering (and snitched from a review), the six basic emotional styles are: 1. resilience, how quickly or slowly you recover from difficulties; 2. outlook, how long you are able to sustain positive emotions; 3. self-awareness, how well you perceive bodily feelings reflecting emotions; 4. social intuition, how good are you at picking up social signals; 5. context sensitivity, how able are you to regulate your emotional responses to be appropriate to the situation you find yourself in, and 6. attention: how sharp and clear your focus is. Another reviewer says: "He doesn't make absolute value judgments about the extremes of each dimension, but recognizes that almost any place on the continuum can be healthy or unhealthy depending on the individual's specific situation. However, if you should find that any one of these elements is a problem, research has demonstrated that it can be changed. The brain is plastic and its functions can be reworked. To this end, he provides readers with a scale upon which to measure their own emotional style and then after explaining a variety of experiments illustrating how changes have been made, offers a series of do-it-yourself exercises... Davidson supplements his theories with something of a personal narrative of his interest in the brain as a seat of emotions and its effects on his academic career. He doesn't have much good to say about the behavioral school of psychology which dominated the field when he began his studies. He tends to paint himself as a rebel against the establishment as he pursued his ideas, despite a lack of early encouragement and again in his embrace of Eastern meditation. The personal information and snarky remarks about the establishment add some welcome narrative spice to the book..." And from an interview: "[T]his book was also very much motivated by my personal desire to help people lead healthier and more fulfilling lives.' He furthered this goal when he founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), a research center dedicated to the study of positive qualities, at UW-Madison’s Waisman Center in 2008."

Based on my sojourn there, he must feel right at home in Madison, which has certain affinities with Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone.