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11.04.07 The Big Brain Question
11.11.07 Are You There for Me?
11.18.07 The Neuroscience of Irrational Commitment
11.25.07 Building Better Brains for the Long Haul
12.02.07 The Neuropsychology of Joy
12.09.07 On Not Fearing Fear Itself
12.16.07 Dancing with the Dark Side of the Season
12.23.07 Making the Friend of Your Friend, My Friend
12.30.07 Soothing my Death Valley Brain
2008
01.07.08 Growing the Altruistic Heart-Brain-Mind-Body
01.14.08 The Mind-Numbing Cost of Suffering
01.21.08 Opening the Gifts of Love and Death
01.27.08 The Eyes Have It
02.03.08 The Anatomy of an Upset
02.09.08 On Skillfully Speaking Truth to Power
02.17.08 The Neurobiology of Yes and No
02.23.08 This Just In – Science Proves Nothing
03.06.08 The Neurobiology of Parental Forgiveness
03.05.08 The Neurobiology of Parental Forgiveness - Part 2
03.13.08 Effective Neurosomatic Healing Modalities
03.20.08 The Neuroanatomy of Ecstasy
03.27.08 The Ritual Tribal Abandonment of Mothers
04.05.08 Going Gently into that Good Night
04.12.08 The Wisdom in the Palm of Our Hands
04.19.08 Hellfire and Neurodamnation
04.25.08 Taking a Load Off
05.04.08 Edith’s Brain is Different than Archie’s
05.11.08 Transforming the Impaired Ability to Love
05.18.08 The Siren Call of Epigenetics
05.25.08 Getting my Back up Over Polyvagal Theory
06.01.08 Getting Good
06.08.08 The Forgiveness Pill
06.15.08 Getting By on Half a Brain
06.22.08 On Becoming Mentally Tough
06.29.08 The Brains We Were Born With
07.05.08 The Happiness Formula
07.12.08 Honoring Our Own Authority
07.19.08 Vital Engagement
07.27.08 The Neurobiology of Play
08.03.08 Good at the End
08.10.08 The Neurophysiology of Make-Wrong
08.17.08 On Neuro-Gastro Integration
08.24.08 Orchestrating a Seven Brain Symphony
08.31.08 WWIBD? What Would an Integrated Brain Do?
09.07.08 The Making of a Social Retard
09.14.08 The Power of Pillowtalk
09.21.08 They Laughed When I Set About to Integrate
09.28.08 Brain Integration Redux
10.05.08 Would You Sell Your Death?
10.12.08 Six Essential Experiences We Missed as Kids
10.19.08 Developing Strength of Heart
10.26.08 The Science of Hope
11.02.08 Raising Fearless Kids
11.09.08 Easing a Mind that Binds
11.16.08 How a Good Chief Executive Brain Goes Bad
11.23.08 The Tao of Listening
11.30.08 Appreciating Exceptional Brains
12.07.08 Honoring Heroic Hearts and Brains
12.14.08 The Workplace as Moral Testing Ground
12.21.08 Tivo Your Dreams
12.28.08 Treading the Neural Road Less Traveled By
2009
01.04.09 Death of a Dear Heart
01.11.09 Honest at the End
01.18.09 How Our Children Lose Their Smiles
01.25.09 My Name is You
02.01.09 Toxic Parent Brain
02.08.09 Detoxing Toxic Parent Brain
02.15.09 On Parenting a Murderer
02.22.09 Easing the Burden on our Children’s Children
03.01.09 On Raising a Saint
03.08.09 Repairing Ruptured Relationships
03.15.09 Painting an Artist’s Brain
03.22.09 Apoplectic Over Apoptosis
03.29.09 Why Spanking Children is a Bad Idea
04.05.09 The Betrayal of Human Potential
04.12.09 The Power of How
04.19.09 How to Rewire Your Brain’s Wisdom Circuits
04.26.09 The Karmic Benefits of Social Neuroscience
05.03.09 Channeling Hot Emotions
05.10.09 Dancing to the Beat of Your Own Brain's Music
05.17.09 Where in the World is Matt’s Brain?
05.24.09 Taming the Shakti
05.31.09 Is it Best for the Children?
06.07.09 The Stink of Commerce
06.14.09 Why Men are Such Lousy Listeners
06.21.09 The Two Perilous Questions
06.27.09 Growing Our Gandhi Neurons
07.05.09 Giving Kids Cancer
07.12.09 Learning to Love Learning
07.19.09 Repairing Good Brains Gone Bad
07.26.09 Liar, Liar, Brain on Fire
08.02.09 Food-Rehabbing My Big Fat Brain
08.09.09 Grokking the Gray Side of Social Neuroscience
08.16.09 Our Greatest Human Failing
08.23.09 The Cost of the Cut: Reflections on Circumcision
08.30.09 The Stress of the Unthought Known
09.06.09 The Four Horsemen of Neuro-Annihilation
09.13.09 Growing the Eyes of the Heart
09.20.09 Making the Most of Dropportunities
09.27.09 The Secret Power of a Mother’s Kiss
10.04.09 Lies, Damn Lies and Raising Hearty Children
10.11.09 The End of Kids as We Know Them
10.18.09 How to Beautify Your Disorganized Brain
10.25.09 The High Cost of Kvetching
11.01.09 Invoking the Gravitas of Affirmation
11.08.09 The Perils of Taking Life Sitting Down
11.15.09 The Myth of the Rugged Individualist
11.22.09 Making the Most of the Good
11.29.09 Taking the Brain to Heart
12.06.09 The Pornographic Brain
12.13.09 Sweetening the She-Spot
12.20.09 The Life-Threatening Aspects of Love and Unlearning
12.27.09 Why The Unexamined Neuro-Life is Not Worth Living
2010
01.03.10 What is the Sound of One Brain Crackling?
01.10.10 How America’s Bankers are Rotting Our Children’s Brains
01.17.10 Betrayed by Your Thieving Orchid Brain
01.24.10 Riffing on “The Science of Success.”
01.31.10 Why Our Children Can’t Be Trusted
02.07.10 ZZZZ’s Are Not for Wusses
02.14.10 Brewing the Alchemy of Synergy
02.21.10 The Myth of the Emotionally Unavailable Male
02.28.10 The Golden Rule of Social Neuroscience
03.07.10 How I Struggled to Stop Being a Whack Job
03.14.10 Playing Fast and Loose in Area 10
03.21.10 It’s Harmless to Spank Your Kids…If They’re Black
03.28.10 On Becoming a Pedotrophist
04.04.10 Playing Poorly with Others
04.11.10 Why Love Alone Can’t Do All the Heavy Lifting
04.18.10 The Pain of Living a Short Distance from My Body
04.25.10 Getting Off the Hedonic Treadmill
05.02.10 Dodging Psychology’s Dark Triad
05.09.10 The Trouble with Needing People …
05.16.10 Wiring the Brain for Wisdom
05.23.10 The Unrecognized Power of a Mother’s Voice
05.30.10 My Name is Mark and I’m an Apocaholic
06.06.10 Little Johnny: Unrepentant Sociopath or Moral Giant
06.13.10 How to Grow a Brain to Make your Mother Proud
06.20.10 Treasuring Our Chaotic Money Brain
06.27.10 Protecting Kids from the World’s Choice Architects
07.04.10 Should Therapists Pay Their Clients?
07.11.10 Wild Talents: Why it’s Essential to Follow Their Lead
07.18.10 Raising Kids to Be Clever or Kind
07.25.10 Reducing the Risk of Raising Fast-Twitch Airheads
08.01.10 The Sublime Benefits of Unimpaired Oxygenation
08.08.10 Renaissance Brain: How Nature x Nurture Inspires Genius
08.15.10 Raising Kids to Be Nonconforming Nazis
08.22.10 When Did You Stop Beating Your Kids?
08.29.10 Why Our Kids See Spirits or Souls
09.05.10 NewsFlash! Parenting Tops Maslow’s New Pyramid
09.12.10 I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Spontaneous Trait Transference
09.19.10 Momma, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be … Engineers
09.26.10 Touching the Heart of the Barbeque Question
10.03.10 Raising Kids Wild to Globalize the Greenbeard Gene
10.10.10 Rewire the Shameful Brain Circuitry in Overeating
10.17.10 Babies Just Want Ta Have Fun
10.24.10 Firing Kids Up to Make Things Happen
10.31.10 The Neural Downside of Noise
11.07.10 Learning to Love a Good Fight
11.14.10 Eight Tasty Ways to Insure Your Kids Die Young
11.21.10 Protecting Kids from Our Resentment
11.28.10 The ACC: Six Seductive Reasons Why Bigger is Better
12.05.10 How I Failed to Protect My Daughter from the Ludic Fallacy
12.12.10 Teaching Kids to See What isn’t There
12.19.10 The Bittersweet Pursuit of Eudaimonia
12.26.10 Why Neatness Counts
2011
01.02.11 237 Reasons Why Kids Have Sex
01.09.11 One Righteous Reason for Embracing The Dark Night
01.16.11 Wrongology: Why it’s Sexy and Right!
01.23.11 How to Raise a Terrorist
01.30.11 Struggling with the Auschwitz in My Heart
02.06.11 Four Factors in Raising Kids to be Formidable Operatives
02.13.11 The Awesome Power of ADHD!
02.20.11 Why Lake Wobegon Kids are Fat, Dumb and Dangerous
02.27.11 Teaching Kids the Big Lie About Truth
03.06.11 Why Sex Offenders Offend: An Unorthodox Perspective
03.13.11 Opening the Gifts of Love and Suffering
03.20.11 How to Liberate Kids from the Burden of Memory
03.26.11 Getting Over Oneself as a Spiritual Practice
04.03.11 On Being Emotionally Unfaithful
04.10.11 Why Parents are Charged with the Work of the World
04.17.11 Why Our Kids Won’t Live as Long as Us
04.25.11 Four Ways to Raise Mean-Spirited Kids
05.01.11 Teaching Kids to Scorn Math and Science
05.08.11 Why Does the Universe Bait and Switch?
05.15.11 What Grows Strength of Heart
05.22.11 Why I Disagree with The Four Agreements
05.29.11 4 Reasons to Radically Embrace Your Outer Psychopomp
06.05.11 237 Habits of Highly Effective Mothers
06.12.11 How to Insure Our Sons Never Need Viagra
06.19.11 Why Puppies are Harder to Raise than Children
06.26.11 Three Tips for Avoiding a Sexless Marriage
07.03.11 How Our Ordo Amorum Can Guide Great Healing
07.10.11 Raising Kids to Embrace the Reaper
07.17.11 Why We Fight So Much on Vacations
07.24.11 8 Ways 4 U 2 B the Boss of U
07.31.11 13 Ways Casey Anthony’s Brain “Failed” Her as a Parent
08.07.11 Fortifying the Neurology of Now
08.14.11 Guess Who’s Rolling to Dinner
08.21.11 How to Be More Body-Wise than Bound and Foolish
08.28.11 The Most Ambitious Blog Post Ever Written
09.04.11 Ruptured Relationships: The Importance of Repair
09.11.11 Why Relationship Repair is Wide Open for Innovation
09.18.11 Why Abandonment and Neglect are the Hardest Wounds to Heal
09.25.11 How Movie Stars and Ursa Major People Have Helped Heal My World
10.02.11 Why Some Children Choose a Celibate Life
10.09.11 11 Little Known Brain Changing Secrets
10.16.11 A Death in My Co-Created Family
10.23.11 If the Sex is Ho-Hum, Can the Relationship be Brobingdangian
10.30.11 The Neurobiology of Fascism
11.06.11 The Pain We Are All Trying to Heal
11.13.11 How to Topple Our Inner Dictator?
11.20.11 Ten Unexpected Benefits from Knowing How Your Brain Works
11.27.11 Skillful Male Organ Management: Some Parental Guidelines
12.04.11 8 Brain Lessons from the Life and Death of Steve Jobs
12.11.11 Childhood Sexual Abuse: How Not to Heal From It
12.18.11 The Challenges of a Generous Heart
12.25.11 Six Guidelines for Repairing Betrayals of Trust
2012
01.01.12 How to Child Molest a 40 Year Old Woman
01.08.12 Correcting Attribution Errors of the Heart
01.15.12 Journeying Down the Erotic Road Less Traveled By
