Brain Imaging and Innovation: “Iconoclast” is Must Read

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-Strongly urge you to get this book- Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns, MD PhD – as soon as I got half way through I added to my list of personal favorites at the CorePsych Books [It's down on the shelf of Parker Personal Favorites…]

Def: "Iconoclast: a person who does something others say can't be done." Now that I have your attention…

Why this book is so very cool:
Iconoclast discusses brain imaging evidence applied to the process of creative thinking… and more than that, creative application in groups. Berns actually takes out-of-the-box-creative-thinking and applies it to social networking!

You know how devoted I am to brain evidence in the context of the abundant medication madness , – and if you are a regular reader here, I know this one needs to become tops on your reading list. My partner, Jeff Schlichter, PhD, and I think Iconoclast is so significant we gave it as a gift to all of our outpatient team in Va Beach at Parker, Schlichter and Associates.

Some additional points that are quite memorable –

Try these few thoughts on for size:

"Familiarity quiets the amygdala!" Evidence shows that fear, PTSD, and isolation can be clearly modified and improved through the process of socialization, and social networking. These studies from fMRI brain imaging work.

Vincent van Gogh died broke and Pablo Picasso died rich, because Picasso published, connected, and became a node of information – what Malcolm Gladwell calls a connector.

Berns covers Henry Ford, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and many other luminaries with a range of interesting discussion from computers to brain science, to six degrees of separation, management, personal evolution, the prefrontal cortex and attentional issues.

Must read!

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