ANTs - Automatic Negative Thoughts

Dr. Amen talks about ANTs in this video.  This is the seventh video of his speech, you need to go about 1:07 seconds into video to get to the ANTs part. Great video series! Watch it!

My Child is constantly making noises.

Last week I saw a student who's mom reported that her son is constantly making noises.

Squirrellies and Inhibition - A deeper look.

Wonderful question from a mom today (Nov of 2009 actually - when I began this post.) She had stayed during IM and watched her son in the squirrellies. He was swaying, moving his body non stop, looking out the window, etc - simply following every thought his brain had - NO INHIBITION what so ever.

Inhibition - Think about people you know who have good inhibition, versus those that don't inhibit anything.  What behavior is more 'mature' ? Take a few minutes and just think about this.

Here's a picture of a 7 yr old boy with in house 'squirrellies.' Today about every 1 to 10 seconds, this lad gave into some random sensory impulse, an overwhelming urge to move, much like an itch you just have to scratch.

Impulsiveness as a timing disturbance: neurocognitive abnormalities in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

This paper, published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Biological Sciences Journal sites impulsiveness as a timing disturbance.

Impulsitivy linked to specific region of the brain

This article  and the orginal research in the Oxford Journal suggests that the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex has less volumn in impulsive boys.  Could it be that we build neuronal pathways, build volumn, in the right ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)  during IM, and could that be the reason why many IM students see gains in impulsivity after IM training? The Anterior Cygulate Cortex (ACC) and the amygdala also seem to be a piece of the puzzle too.