Tune up with Mike and Mani: Brain Science Step by Step

Tune Up with Mike and Mani: Brain Science Step by Step Brain Changes with Mindfulness You’ve likely read or heard about the wonders of mindfulness and meditation. Are they for real? Mike talks to Mani about what research has taught us on brain at work during mindfulness.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Brain Science Step by Step Emotion Processing Mike and Dr. Pavuluri discuss brain mechanisms of emotion processing that include how emotions are captured, stored, retrieved and experienced in day to day life.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good  Brain Science Step by Step: Executive Function Mike and Dr. Pavuluri discuss executive function–our ability to operate in goal-directed behavior with flexibility and adjusting action strategy with changing environmental demands.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good  Brain Science Step by Step: Cognitive Flexibility Domain In this episode, we explore how the brain works to adapt to multiple changing circumstances–how to “think on our feet” and shift.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good Brain Science Step by Step: Impulse Control In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about the brain science behind impulses, and what goes wrong in the circuitry of someone who lacks impulse control.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good Brain Science Step by Step: Impulse Control In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about the brain science behind impulses, and what goes wrong in the circuitry of someone who lacks impulse control.

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about rumination, which she terms “hamster wheel thinking.” It’s a repetitive self-critical thought process that is also known as toxic brooding.  Program note regarding discussion that begins at 12:20 and ends at  13:00: The amygdala has a strong connection with the medial prefrontal cortex […]

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about rumination, which she terms “hamster wheel thinking.” It’s a repetitive self-critical thought process that is also known as toxic brooding.  Program note regarding discussion that begins at 12:20 and ends at  13:00: The amygdala has a strong connection with the medial prefrontal cortex […]

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about how reward circuitry and the emotion circuitry are linked in a region called the nucleus accumbens–and what happens when the circuit goes haywire. Related Post Reward and Emotion Circuits are Linked in the Brain: A Hot Mess If Things Go Wrong

Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good In this episode, Dr. Pavuluri talks with Mike about how reward circuitry and the emotion circuitry are linked in a region called the nucleus accumbens–and what happens when the circuit goes haywire. Related Post Reward and Emotion Circuits are Linked in the Brain: A Hot Mess If Things Go Wrong