Professor Nadja Reissland and Professor Jackie Blissett are experts in how mother’s eating changes the faces of foetuses. They are researching and building technology to allow us to see the changes in the facial expressions in utero in response to food, maternal depression on infant cognitive, emotional and social development.

Professor Nadja Reissland is in the Department of Psychology at Durham University her research interests are in early mother-infant interaction starting prenatally from 12 weeks of gestational age. Her expertise is on the effect of maternal stress and depression on infant cognitive, emotional and social development. 

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/n-n-reissland/#research-interests

Professor Jackie Blissett is a Professor of Psychology, in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment. She has been working in the field of children’s eating behaviour for over twenty years. In that time much of my research has focussed on the biological, affective and cognitive factors of parents and their children which influence parent-child interaction, particularly in the context of feeding and eating problems. I have a particular interest in children’s fussy eating including poor fruit and vegetable acceptance, emotional eating, and obesity.

https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/jackie-blissett

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Episodes on food are the most downloaded. We have put together parts of the episodes that are compelling listening with ideas to consider.  

On the Healthyish podcast  Felicity and I discuss sugar addiction and what to do about it.

Dr James Muecke, Lieutenant Governor, South Australia discusses diabetes and the impact of sugar.

Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on processed food has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.a pioneer and advocate, author of "Fat Chance" and "Metabolical". 

Maria Bernard, Director of Nourishmenutrition.nz Promoter and Associate Registered Nutritionist working with Pacific Communities. We discuss techniques for becoming more aware of how much sugar is contained in foods and beverages.

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Imagine knowing that if you get dementia everyone around you knows how to take care of you. This is gift from dementia and care with dignity. 

Did you know the Inuit see dementia as a gift. Judy Cornish does as well. Judy is asking us to become more human. 

People in Idaho have been gifted the intuitive talents of Judy Cornish, an attorney turned dementia care revolutionary. She created the Dawn method that allows people to have dementia with dignity. She worked out how to see past dementia and provide the best care possible for people with dementia.
 
 This is one of the beautiful conversations with a human that I love. 

Judy Cornish is talented in her understanding of people. She calls this intuitive versus rational thinking skills. Not only has she developed a method but has trained many caretakers in how to understand what is going on inside the mind of someone with dementia.

 She's the author and founder of dementia and Alzheimer's wellbeing network and creator of the Dawn method of dementia care, and a retired elder care lawyer attorney.

The two gifts are intuitive thinking and mindlessness.

 Because we value rational cognitive skills and ignore intuitive thinking we lose sight of how to communicate with people that are losing their rational thinking skills and memory skills. 

 Judy sees one the gift is being able to use your intuitive thinking skills, which are your inductive, just receiving of information from the five senses and this is what enables you to experience the present, which is the main purpose of becoming more mindful, and to enjoy the present.  This is what Judy Cornish uncovered taking care of her friends who are experiencing dementia are so good at. 

 Judy discusses the value of mindlessness, when people are losing their ability to use rational thinking or memory skills, then they rely on the tools of mindlessness to function at a higher level. And that would be automatic thinking scripts and muscle memory. 

Judy discovered that when our companions, friends or loved ones, or client are experiencing dementia, they are inviting us to turn it all off and come live in the present. Enjoy beauty and companionship.

 She says: “It exists here in the present, everything that is possibly beautiful to me and of course that's ever so personal, be music, you know, one type of music might bring tears to my eyes of joy and it might bring tears of pain to yours. It's very personal colour, nature, thing, the smells, all of that is beauty. And all of that is available here in the present. So Oh, when the Inuit talk about the gift, I think it truly is”

 Please enjoy this podcast from a beautiful and fabulous Judy Cornish that made me believe that we are good people.

You can find Judy and her method at the following link.
https://thedawnmethod.com/creator-judy-cornish/
From her website:

"The DAWN Method® is a kind, strength-based, person-centered approach to caring for those with dementia and Alzheimer’s. In this article we will cover what dementia is and who it affects, the stages of dementia, and then we will introduce the DAWN Method of strength-based, person-centered dementia care. Our goal is to help you understand dementia as well as give you an introduction to a method of dementia care that will decrease stress for caregivers as well as for those experiencing dementia."

"Judy Cornish is an author, founder of the Dementia & Alzheimer’s Wellbeing Network (DAWN®), creator of the DAWN Method® of dementia care, and a retired elder law attorney. Her two books (

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Today we are celebrating 100 episodes of the Thriving minds podcast.
It is being listened to in 99 countries, and 2,251 cities.

The program being produced in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and is across cities in Australia, cities in Canada, France, Norway, Ireland, USA, Serbia, Israel, Balearic Islands, Majorca, Spain to name a few. 

There are 4 main themes that have arisen from examining the data on what people like to listen to.

Theme 1.   Episode 100. The accidental futurists bringing the brain health revolution to the people.

Learn how to tap into the secrets of thriving, health, resilience and grit based in neuroscience from the accidental futurists and how we stumbled into brain health and fitness.

Theme 2.  Episode 102.  Food and mood and its effects on brain health. 

There was an overwhelming interest in how sugar and processed food and stress wire the brain and what we can do about it.

Hope you enjoy a compilation from the Accidental Futurists who are putting the brain health and fitness revolution in motion.

To keep the Thriving Minds podcast free of ads and sponsors. Please support the podcast using Patreon. It is greatly appreciated.

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People  who live to be 100 (and beyond!) have four factors in common that…

Seems to have nothing to do with their:

·      Genetic makeup

·      Family history

·      Lifestyle choices

·      Diet

·      Environment

·      Socioeconomic status

In fact, according to clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Mario Martinez, your genes have only a 20 percent impact on your health and longevity.

The rest is attributed to what you hold in your consciousness — how you view yourself and the experience of aging.

1. Relationship to Time
2. Self-Love
3. Healthy Ageing
4. Meaning

Dr Mario Martinez is a clinical neuropsychologist and proponent of cultural psychoneuroimmunology and is an expert in healthy longevity. 

 Dr. Mario E. Martinez primarily focusing on how biological age can be reversed without medication, looking at epigenetic markers such as environment and cultural beliefs affecting gene expression of health or illness. He specializes in how cultural and transcendental beliefs affect health and longevity. A world expert in this field of anti-aging, he teaches centenarian consciousness.

He developed a theory of  biocognition to suggest how cognition and biology coemerge with their cultural history in a bioinformational field that seeks maximum contextual relevance. Academic science continues to divide mind and body as well as ignore the influence cultural contexts have on the process of health, illness and aging. For example, cultures that support growing older as a positive development associated with increased wisdom and abilities have higher numbers of centenarians living healthier lives than cultures that view aging as a process of inevitable deterioration. This concept of developmental biocognition, assumes that our cognition and our biology are dynamically interwoven with our cultural history and cannot be reduced to their components.


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https://www.biocognitiveculture.com/

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We are joined by Susanne M. Jaeggi, Ph.D discusses how working memory is an essential system that underlies the performance of virtually all complex cognitive activities. People differ in terms of how much information they can hold in working memory, and also, how easily they can hold that information in the face of distraction.

These individual differences are related to the fact that the functioning of the working memory system is highly predictive of scholastic achievement and educational success, and in general, working memory capacity is crucial for our general ability to acquire knowledge and learn new skills.

Given the relevance of working memory to daily life and educational settings, the mission of my research program lies in the development of working memory interventions with the aim that that participants not only improve their working memory skills, but also general skills that go beyond the trained domain. By means of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, I seek to understand the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms that drive training-related changes.
Besides research on training and transfer, my lab also investigates individual differences in working memory capacity and executive control, as well as the nature of working memory limitations across the lifespan.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-brain-training-actually-work/

"To overcome these limitations, our team is currently leveraging the power of citizen science. Similar to a large-scale study in the United Kingdom (Brain Test Britain, promoted by Cambridge University and the BBC), we are seeking to recruit thousands of participants to help us uncover the potential merits of memory training. But unlike Brain Test Britain’s simple question of whether brain training works, we are looking to engage the U.S. population in a new challenge to test why and for whom brain training works, and under which conditions.

To accomplish our goal, we have launched a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health that aims to recruit 30,000 volunteers to participate in a memory training study that compares multiple approaches to train working memory. The study will use a common set of assessment measures to evaluate potential training gains, and it will focus on individual differences. Anyone older than 18 can join our study and help generate the data required to change the debate and move forward with a new paradigm of precision brain training. If you might be interested in joining our trial, go to the registration site at the University of California, Riverside"


https://braingamecenter.ucr.edu/train-my-memory/

Susanne M. Jaeggi, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator
[email protected]
949-824-5896

Susanne Jaeggi  (read: /ˈyakee/) grew up in a tiny village 5,407 ft above sea level in the mountains of Switzerland. She found her way down to Bern, where she completed her Ph.D.s in Psychology and Neuroscience. She later moved to Ann Arbor to expand her horizon as a Post-Doc at the University of Michigan, before joining the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) at the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor.  She is now a Professor at the UCI School of Education where she directs the Working Memory and Plasticity Laboratory. She also has a courtesy appointment in the Department of

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Kerry and I have more in common than we realised. Our siblings, Francesca and Randall, were both made ward of the state at Wolston Park in 1970's and 1980's.  This interview is for them. Their wish is that others do not suffer the same fate.  

Kerry Lyn Carrington FASSA (born 1962) is an Australian criminologist, and an adjunct professor at the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). She formerly served as head of the QUT School of Justice for 11 years from 2009 to 2021. She was editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. She is known for her work on gender and violence, feminist criminology, southern criminology, youth justice and girls' violence, and global justice and human rights.[1]

Carrington earned her PhD in sociology at Macquarie University[2] in 1985. She received the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Society of Criminology in 2014. Her publication Resource Boom Underbelly: The criminological impact of mining won the 2012 Allen Austin Bartholomew Award. She co-edited the Palgrave Handbook in Criminology and the Global South (2018).

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Jeremy is using film, animation, and photography to break the silence about child abuse.

He is helping break the unspeakable. How does someone that was about to become the mechanical engineer designing aircraft and then supercars. He was going to work on a Formula One team. He worked at McLaren team. 

Things started to change, and he noticed more about his childhood. His story is not an outlier story. 

People don’t know why things in their life start to change. It is confusing for people that are not involved in trauma and child abuse. It takes about 20 years until they say something. He first spoke about it when he was 27 yrs old and his abuse happened between the ages of 8-10 years old.

 They said when something horrific happens when you are a child you have no chance or capacity to understand- you put it in a box until you can remember it. Then it opens and you start to be able to process the memories.

 Jeremy decided to change his purpose when an 80-year-old woman told him she never spoke about her trauma and abuse and held her back as speaking out was not possible and that she would go to the grave with the hurt. This is the moment he started to speak out. 

 He started speaking out to close friends and started researching it and discovered that their thousands of people in chat rooms discussing the same hurt.

 He started talking about his story.  This is not a story about violence. His message is to speak more about sex and the realisation that grooming and coercive control are built up over time and it is often by someone the child knows. It is slow and gradual process; the child feels like they are in a relationship.

www.jeremyindika.com

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Have you wondered what your brain's potential can be?  Imagine working out the brain health of the globe.

Dr Julie Fratantoni, Center for Brain Health at University of Texas, Dallas is the Head of Operations, for the Brain Health Project, a 10-year longitudinal study to help people see the potential of the brain. They have developed a brain health index. Cognitive, social interactions, well-being and daily life. 

Study has already identified 3 important factors for brain health.

Clarity

Connectedness

Emotional balance. 

Everything is bi-directional. Social connectedness- if you have few social connections, then this affects brain health. You against you. How can you be better tomorrow? 

Questions for the brain health project are to define, measure, and maintain and improve brain health across the life span.

During her clinical fellowship, she discovered brain health through cognitive training and understanding the potential of neuroplasticity. It is the functional changes that shocked her.

More efficient

Less stressed

More calm

Greater ability of showing up to achieve

It is a generation shift with access to new information and understanding about how the brain works.

 How is brain health viewed by the general public? We have established a new category of health. Rather than just mental health and problems.

 People are not worried about their brain. When young, wait until they are older. We often assume your brain is there for you. We only notice when things go wrong.  The pandemic has opened the window to see that the brain is not always there for us.  The brain health project is about teaching cognitive strategies, here are some questions to ask yourself?

Within day to day- how can you shift the way you are taking in information. Homing in on the executive functions. The frontal lobe- organisation, planning, judgement, saying no to yourself, innovation and creativity, perspective taking.

Skills that can be taught and strengthened. How am I going to approach the situation and what is my mental energy reserves. 
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