The Neurology of Academic Mindfulness

The human brain is a biological organism that has been studied from outside the body for centuries but only recently from the inside. Psychologists, sociologists, and educators observed from the outside and sought to adjust what could be controlled. But today neurologists and medical doctors are now able to study the brain from images of its inside. BurstTutors blends social and medical sciences about the brain/mind to engage students, mindfully, in the learning process.

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What Happened to my Middle-schooler??!?

Take a deep breath…He’s completely normal. You might say, “but he’s smoking pot”…normal. You might say, “but she is cutting.” Again…normal. “But she has never been like this.” -Normal. “But, but, but…” The point? This is not to minimize the seriousness of dangerous adolescent behavior, but to acknowledge what most of us who have been adolescents at one time all know—it is a volatile time of unpredictability for the child and the parents.

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Dr. Troy Wathen