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InnerTalk® -InTouchTM Newsletter News Briefs /Further Explorations Into the Mind Vol. 2 No. 1 Turn Off that Television A new study released this month shows that decreasing the amount of television and video game use among grade-school children substantially reduces aggression. The study used third and fourth grade children in two different schools in San Jose, California. Researchers reporting in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine challenged the children to abstain from television and video games for ten days. At the outset of the study, the children reported that on average, the amount of time spent weekly with television, video games and videotapes was 23 1/2 hours. By the end of the study, the time spent in front of these forms of entertainment had diminished between 30 and 50%. Aggressiveness ratings were compared on a pre and post study basis revealing a decrease in aggressiveness by approximately 25%. Dr. Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, according to CNBC resources, a researcher specializing in child violence and not one of those conducting the study, stated that, "the notion that there is a relationship between media exposure and childhood behavior and that it is modifiable" is praiseworthy. See http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/d/news_menu.asp Also see our link for more information on semantic distortions and systematic desensitization of arousal thresholds brought about by media exposure. Go to http://www.innertalk.com/newsletter/vol1no1.html Try our Freedom from Television Program it works. Violence still an issue in Schools The U.S. Department of Education just released its annual report on crime in schools. While overall crime is down, kids are still being victimized by violence on and off school grounds. Read the full report. http://sociology.about.com/library/weekly/aa011001a.htm Rethinking the Auditory Cortex A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Dec. 5) shows that the brain processes language along multiple pathways and that the specialization of areas of the cortex are not exclusive to the production of language. Lead researcher, Laura Ann Petitto of McGill University in Montreal, used positron-emission tomography (PET) to evaluate brain activity in 11 adults who were born deaf. A frontal area of the left brain showed marked increases in activity for both deaf and hearing volunteers when they generated verbs. The new brain scan study suggests that the traditional view of the auditory cortex with respect to language may only be partially correct. Animating the Minds Eye Neuroscientists using brain scans have demonstrated that the same brain regions involved in visual perception generate at least some of the visions orchestrated in the so-called mindsÉ eye, or television of the mind. This finding supports the commonly held belief that visual images seen in the mind are the result of inspiration from a variety of sources viewed in the external world. (Bruce Bower reporting in Science News, Vol 158, p. 376). Brains Wiring must be Restructured According to a growing consensus of researchers, changing a habit requires rewiring the brain. Repetition of a new behavior seems to manage the rewiring process over time. The dislodging of old behaviors is often best accomplished by distraction and substitution. According to a study published in the November issue of the Journal of Science, substituting behaviors and focusing on the benefit of the new, not the loss of the old, is still the best way to rewire the brain. (1999). Focusing on the benefits, offering up the alternatives, setting a path for action in a new direction, affording a new "outlook" while minimizing and/or eliminating compulsive fixations, are all thought related/driven functions. Changing self-talk is still the best way to alter the way one acts and reacts. Indeed, it may be at least a required prerequisite to change. |
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