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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PO Box 10724
Austin, TX 78766

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CURRENT ARTICLES & VIDEOS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jeff Dietz writes about the power of talk therapy to change the brain.

(NY Times 7/1/10)            more...

 

The kindness with which we treat our pets can provide a model for our primary attachment relationships.

(NY Times 6/2/10)            more...

Antagonistic peer relationships may enhance kids' social and emotional development rather than impede it.

(NYTimes 5/17/10)

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Marital research suggests that commitment may be genetically mediated but can also be learned.

(NYTimes 5/10/10)

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Child education expert Ellen Galinsky's new book Mind in the Making identifies seven essential life skills every child needs to know while intentionally working to combat the induction of parental guilt.

(NYTimes 4/29/10)

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A new novel traces early child rearing practices, highlighting Harlow's "wire mother" experiment, the teachings of Dr. Spock and our nation's hidden history of using orphans as "practice babies" to teach female university students how to mother.

(NYTimes 3/25/10)

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New research analyzed physical contact to see whether a rich vocabulary of supportive touch is

related to improved athletic performance.

(NYTImes 2/22/10)         

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A new study suggests that antidepressant medication fights depression most effectively when it first modifies two personality traits, high neuroticism and low extraversion, that predispose people to this mood disorder.

(Science News 2/2/10)

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Recent research points to a biological basis for compassion in humans.

(Greater Good 1/20/10)

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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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OUR 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

Founded in 2007 by three mental health professionals and parents,

Austin IN Connection now has a 12-member board, a growing membership and the same grassroots spirit that energized its initial formation.

 

OUR BOARD

Find out who helps steer our organization!

 

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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SCHORE STUDY GROUP

"Working with Enactments:

Affective Neuroscience in the Clinical Hour"

with Allan Schore, PhD

  

THIS EVENT IS FULL!

Saturday, July 17, 2010

1pm-5pm

3.5 CEUs  

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CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THE ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEW:

AN INTRODUCTION

with Debby Jacobvitz, PhD

THIS EVENT IS FULL!

Friday, July 30, 2010  1pm-4pm

Saturday, July 31, 2010  9am-4pm

9.0 CEUs

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