Rethinking Risk Taking in Youth
In training I always make the distinction that what is termed risk taking behavior in young people is really them trialing out adult...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20172 min read
Male and Female Brains Differ: Suggests Largest Brain Scan Project Ever.
In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20171 min read
Third Person Perspective Reduces Anxiety
More research has emerge regarding self-perception and anxiety. In lecturers I demonstrate how anxiety can be reduced by taking a...
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Phil Harris
Aug 17, 20171 min read
LSD: A Treatment for Mental Health Disorder?
Psychedelic drugs are making a psychiatric comeback. After a lull of half a century, researchers are once again investigating the...
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Phil Harris
Jul 27, 20171 min read
Talk to Yourself to Reduce Anxiety
In lectures I discuss how it is possible to reduce anxiety by shifting perspective from the emotional / immediate self to a detached /...
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Phil Harris
Jul 27, 20172 min read
Why People are Convinced Their Right Even When They are Wrong
In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Love and Lust: The Eyes Have It
Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Synchronicity: The Deep Impact of Communication
How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...
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Phil Harris
Jul 24, 20171 min read
Conduct Disorder: Gender Differences Identified
A recent study at Bath University of 200 teenagers has revealed interesting gender differences between teenage males and females with...
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Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20172 min read
Laughter & the Evolution of Power
In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...
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Phil Harris
Jul 12, 20171 min read
Mood Over Mind: Overcoming Rejection
In training and lectures I discuss how depression can be side-stepped. Rather than over thinking, which is strongly related t depressive...
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Phil Harris
Jul 11, 20171 min read
What is Right with Kids Growing Up Under Stress?
Studies of children growing in stressful environments always views them from a deficit lens. However, many of the behaviors that are...
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Phil Harris
Jun 7, 20171 min read
Schizophrenia: A Disease of the Immune System?
Recent developments in the area of immuno-psychiatry have begun to identify that prenatal viral infection may be responsible for the...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
The Dark Side of Empathy
In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...
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Phil Harris
May 17, 20171 min read
Prescribed Morality
Drugs have a wide range of side effects. However, one side effect that is rarely discussed and little known is the effect drugs can have...
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Phil Harris
May 16, 20171 min read
Reality Check Yourself: A Free Wallchart
Biases are very important to the human brain. They spare us the time and effort from having to think too much about everything all the...
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Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Is Attachment Theory Over-Rated?
There is always a great deal of discussion in my training and lectures on child and adolescent development regarding attachment theory. ...
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Phil Harris
Apr 6, 20171 min read
Poverty: A Brain Changer?
The effects of poverty on human psychology is an under-researched area. However, new insights from brain scanning and cognitive testing...
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Phil Harris
Jan 12, 20171 min read
What would you sell out for? Sacred Values and the Brain
Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...
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Phil Harris
Jan 8, 20171 min read
Getting High on God?
A new study using fMRI brain scanning has revealed that religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much...
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