Austin IN (interpersonal neurobiology) Connection

is a multidisciplinary group of professionals dedicated to promoting healthy attachments and positive emotional development in individuals, families and the community

"If we find a way to facilitate neural integration within the minds of individuals across the lifespan, we may be able to promote a more compassionate world of human connection."

-Daniel Siegel, MD

 

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Austin IN Connection

PO Box 10724
Austin, TX 78766

The 2010 Year of Conversations schedule is now posted! 

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CURRENT ARTICLES & VIDEOS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE

A new study finds that psychological trauma creates changes in children's brains.

(CNN Health 12/9/2009)

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Inside an actor's brain - British actor Fiona Shaw performs parts of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land while in an MRI scanner.

(VIDEO on THE GUARDIAN 11/24/09)

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How blind people "see" the actions of others - more on mirror neurons.

(Scientific American 11/10/09)

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Two recently published studies suggest that older people have

difficulty suppressing stereotypes.

(Truthout 9/30/09)

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"Nurture Shock" says that most of what parents have been told is good for kids is wrong.

(Salon 9/18/09)

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TEST MY BRAIN website - take part in online cognitive tests to advance brain research!

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Recent studies have shown that moving our body in certain ways can improve our ability to think.

(Scientific American Podcast 6/1/09)

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Forget about erasing bad memories. Researchers have located the receptor that enables our brain to override or "unlearn" traumatic past experiences.

(SEED Magazine 4/1/09)

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Brain scans show how the brain's organization changes from childhood to adulthood.

(Video on LIVE SCIENCE)

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A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory.

The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life.

(WiredMag 3/30/09)       

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Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests. Analysis of brain tissue from adults who had committed suicide found key genetic changes in those who had suffered abuse as a child. It affects the production of a receptor known to be involved in stress responses. (BBC2/23/09)                      

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WHO ARE

AUSTIN IN CONNECTION MEMBERS?

 

AINC members are a diverse group of mental health and health care professionals, teachers, professors,

researchers, policy makers, parents and families brought together by a shared interest in further understanding and applying attachment theory and concepts from interpersonal neurobiology to enhance all human relationships.

 

OUR STORY

How We Began

 

 

OUR BOARD

How We're Organized

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OUR AFFILIATE ORGANIZATION

GAINS

The Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies

Check out the article

"The Embodied Interpersonal Neurobiologist"

by

GAINS Board Member

Bonnie Badenoch, PhD, LMFT

 

 

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with Efrain Bleiberg, MD

The training on January 30th

was a smashing success!

Stay tuned for dates for the

two-day follow-up training.

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EMBODIED NEUROBIOLOGY

with Kalila Homann, LPC-S, ADTR

May 28-30, 2010

Friday & Saturday 9am-5pm

Sunday 9am-3pm

18 CEUs

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THE ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW: LISTENING PERSPECTIVES

with Debby Jacobvitz, PhD

Saturday, July 31, 2010

9am-5pm

6.0 CEUs

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SCHORE STUDY GROUP

with Allan Schore, PhD

  

Stay tuned

for group dates for 2010!

3.0 CEUs  

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YEAR OF CONVERSATIONS

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LOCAL STUDY GROUPS

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NATIONAL CONFERENCES

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