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A reflection…sometimes life has no last paragraph…
admin, , Thinking Life, art of living, death, grief, kindness, life, loss, mani pavuluri, purpose, resilience, 0You know, life itself is much like the act of breathing. We don’t need to think of death (let...
RAINBOW Therapy for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
admin, , Helping Parents, bipolar disorder, cbt, cognitive behavior therapy, emotion, mani pavuluri, mood treatment, moody kids, problem solving, programs that work, psychotherapy, resilience, 0Our book is finally published! This is a gift for clinicians across the world who work with moody kids!...
Intimacy: “Capture the moment”
admin, , Thinking Life, adolescent, art of living, grief, intimacy, loss, mani pavuluri, problem solving, resilience, stress, suicide, 0There was a crisis in Oak Park, a suburb right next to Chicago. A 15-year old girl ended her...
Easier Ways to Talk to Your Children: Hop on Stepping-Stones, Avoid Swamps
admin, , Helping Parents, adolescent, anxiety, art of living, awareness, bipolar disorder, brain, child, communication, conduct, discipline, emotion, executive function, feeling, flexibility, frustration tolerance, impulse control, irritability, kindness, learning, mani pavuluri, parenting, parenting tools, positive parenting, problem solving, relationship, resilience, 0A quick tip that is so simple yet barely practiced. It is told in so many ways by so...
Podcast: Executive Function
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, domain, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, emotion, executive function, flexibility, forward planning, mani pavuluri, prefrontal cortex, resilience, thinking, whole brain networks, working memory, 0Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good Brain Science Step by Step: Executive Function Mike and Dr....
Podcast: Impulse Control
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, amygdala, art of living, bipolar disorder, brain, brain function, child, cognitive, conduct, discipline, domain, emotion, executive function, fight, fighting, impulse buying, impulse control, impulse control disorder, impulses, impulsivity, mani pavuluri, medial prefrontal cortex, resilience, sex, substance abuse, teacher training, traumatic brain injury, whole brain networks, 0Tune up with Mike and Mani: Thinking and Feeling Good Brain Science Step by Step: Impulse Control In this...
Brain Plasticity is Enhanced with Music Making
admin, , Explaining Brain, adolescent, child, conduct, emotion, executive function, flexibility, forward planning, information processing, long-term memory, mani pavuluri, music, plasticity, resilience, sensorimotor integration, sustained attention, visuospatial acuity, whole brain networks, working memory, 0# Making music # Brain #Plasticity Did you ever hear that left brain is for language and math and...
Information Processing: Frustration Tolerance in School
admin, , Helping Teachers, adolescent, bipolar disorder, brain, child, conduct, discipline, emotion, executive function, flexibility, frustration tolerance, information processing, learning, mani pavuluri, parent training, resilience, school work, sustained attention, teacher, teacher training, training, whole brain networks, 0A lot of children and adolescents struggle to manage frustration as anger builds up if they are stuck and...
Mindful Life: Peace or Happiness is Not Oasis
admin, , Thinking Life, adolescent, art of living, discipline, happiness, mani pavuluri, peace, problem solving, resilience, sensorimotor integration, stamina, zen, 0There are so many profound writers such as the age-old icons like Jiddu Krishnamurthy who wrote on mindfulness in...