Resources on Mind, Mood, and Stress

The Placebo Effect
PHO #14

Although dismissed as not real, the placebo effect shows our capacity to heal without drugs and technology.

The Multitasking Myth
PHO #13

Our biology can interfere with performing several tasks at the same time—such as driving while talking on a cellphone.

An Unhealthy Future
PHO #12

An Unhealthy Future: The biology of stress tells us why abandoning the social safety net will deliver a huge medical bill in the future.

A Good Night’s Sleep
PHO #6

A Good Night’s Sleep: If stress causes illness, sleep and rest are the antidote.

Depression and Suicide
PHO #6

Depression and Suicide: For adults taking antidepressants, suicide is only one of the many risks from these grossly overused drugs.

Antidepressants
PHO #1

What If They Gave An Antidepressant and No One Came? Drugging our kids and ourselves into submission

Doing the Simplest Things First

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, Phd discuss simple self care techniques for identifying and caring for developing illness. Resources: Resources on food, nutrition, and diet, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, resources on environmental health, resources on exercise and resources on mind, mood, and stress

Living Like an Immortal

Health educator Layna Berman contests the major myth of aging: that degeneration is inevitable. And she offers suggestions for healthy longevity from the inside out. Resources: Resources on aging, resources on food, diet, and nutrition, resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health, resources on environmental health, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, and resources on mind, mood, and stress.

Longevity and Socio-Economic Stress

Tony Iton, MD, MPH, Alameda County Public Health Department Director and Health Officer discusses the lessons of the California Newsreel documentary and PBS series Unnatural Causes. Resources: Unnatural Causes www.unnaturalcauses.org; Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative www.barhii.org; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health and resources on stress

Hormone Intersect

Health educator Layna Berman discusses the inter-relationship between sex hormones, thyroid, and stress hormones. Resources: Resources on hormones

Growing Food

Wendy Johnson, author of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate. Buddhist meditation teacher, and organic gardening mentor, discusses gardening practices that cultivate healthful food, the gardener, and the consumer.. Resources: Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate website www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com; resources on food and on mind and mood.

Autism and ADHD: Nutrient Therapies

Julie Matthews, CNC and author of Nourishing Hope discusses nutrient approaches for treatment of autism and ADHD. Resources: Nourishing Hope by Julie Matthews; Resources on nutrition, children, chronic illness, and mind, mood, and stress

Dependencies: Solutions

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD the attachments that create health risks from food to drugs, how to start the change process, and how to support the body in making changes. Resources: Resources on addiction and detoxification, mind, mood, and stress, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn, End Your Addiction Now by Charles Gant,, and Changing for Good by James Prochaska

Exercise and Disease Prevention

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease including specific recommendations on forms of exercise and training regimes. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; also resources on aging, cancer, heart health, insulin resistance, hormones, and stress

Stress Related Illness

Health Educator Layna Berman covers principles for the avoidance and healing of stress related illness. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress, resources on environmental health, and resources on hormones

Addiction Free Eating

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the interaction between food sensitivities/addictions and substance abuse. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress and resources on food, diet, and nutrition

Stress, Grace, and The Inner Predator

Leslie Acoca, MFT, Director National Girls Health Screen Project, describes her journey to reconcile with her brother's murderer, a process that taught her how people face down their own inner and outer predators in order to heal from trauma. Includes extended discussion on self-care not available on the broadcast version. Resources: Leslie Acoca, MFT blckswans@aol.comResources on mind, mood, and stress

Healing the Mind

Journalist Sharon Begley, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain discusses the science confirming the Buddhist belief in neuroplasticity. Resources: Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves by Sharon Begley; Resources on mind, mood, and stress

Depression: Under-Examined Imbalances

Health educator Layna Berman explores overlooked imbalances that trigger depression and discusses strategies for treatment without drugs. Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress, resources on hormones, resources on allergies, and resources on the hunter-gatherer diet; The Anti-Depressant Fact Book by Peter Breggin; Calm Energy by Robert Thayer; The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen

A Unique Approach to Addictions

Patt Denning, PhD discusses Harm Reduction Therapy from her book Over the Influence, an approach based on the belief that people have a complex relationship with drugs and alcohol and that addiction needs to be addressed simultaneously with social, psychological and emotional issues. Resources: The Harm Reduction Therapy Center www.harmreductiontherapy.org; Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol by Patt Denning, Jeannie Little, and Adina Glickman; resources on addiction

Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 1

Health integrationist Layna Berman and health educator Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Should I Be Tested For Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch; Resources on cancer; Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity

Antidepressants: Bad Medicine

Peter Breggin, MD, whose long career has been spent fighting the pharmaceutical industry in the courts over the dangers of psychiatric medications, discusses the risks of antidepressants. Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

Protect Yourself Against Stress-related Illness
An event presented on March 4, 2007

Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how stress affects health and illness. Topics include
how stress is at the core of common diagnoses such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases;
how your body responds to stress and the cascade of metabolic events that lead to illness;
how to protect yourself from sources of stress;
how to increase your body's resilience in responding to stressors.
Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on immunity;

Food and Mood

Journalist Jack Challem discusses how food affects mood, including neuronutrients and anger, anxiety, depression, and addiction Resources: The Food-Mood Solution by Jack Challem; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet; Resources on mind, mood, and stress.

Loss: Healing Through Transition

Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of grief in making health care decisions during transitions. Resources: The Feeling of What Happens by Antonio Damasio; Changing for Good by James Prochaska; The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff

Hidden Stressors: Avoiding a Diagnosis

Health educator Layna Berman discusses the less obvious stressors that lead to a diagnosis like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including how to avoid and treat symptoms without pharmaceuticals. Resources: Resources on stress, diabetes, and cardiovascular health.

Neurofeedback

Julian Isaacs, PhD discusses normalizing the brain with neurofeedback. Resources: EEG Spectrum International www.eegspectrum.com; International Society for Neurofeedback and Research www.isnr.org; Applied Neuroscience www.appliedneuroscience.com; Futurehealth www.futurehealth.org; Emotional Freedom Technique www.emofree.com

Oppression and Healing

A discussion of how people of color and political progressives can counter the damaging health effects of social stress and the threat of violence. Layna Berman will be joined by long time African-American activist and radio producer Lewis Sawyer and Ana-Marie Jones, disaster preparedness expert and executive director of CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters). Resources: Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD) www.firstvictims.org; The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen; Resources on stress

Navigating Anger and Fear

Harriet Lerner, PhD discusses how to respond to old emotions in new ways. Resources: The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Fear by Harriet Lerner

Feed Your Genes Right

Nutrional journalist Jack Challem discusses his new book about a nutritional approach to turning off disease-causing genes Resources: Feed Your Genes Right by Jack Challem

Genetics, Folate, and Disease

Orthomolecular physician Dr. Richard Kunin, MD discusses how treating genetically based nutrient deficiencies prevents disease. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

Reducing Violent Behavior and Depression with Nutrients

Dr. William Walsh from the Pfeiffer Treatment Center. discusses testing and nutrient treatment for psychiatric symptoms. Resources: Pfeiffer Treatment Center www.hriptc.org

Finding Balance in an Unbalanced World: Zen Koans

Zen teacher and psychologist John Tarrant, PhD discusses his new book about the use of Zen koans as a tool for change.. Resources: Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant, PhD and Pacific Zen Institute www.pacificzen.org

When Things Don't Go Our Way: Zen and Helplessness

Zen teacher Michael Wenger from San Francisco Zen Center discusses strategies for staying engaged without being attached. Resources: San Francisco Zen Center www.sfzc.org

Healing the Whole Addict

Medical journalist Stephanie Marohn discusses where traditional addiction treatments fall short. Resources: The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction by Stephanie Marohn www.stephaniemarohn.com

Depressing News About Anti-Depressants

Dr. Peter Breggin, MD discusses why anti-depressants should not be used, especially on children. Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

Health and Economic Status

Bruce McEwen PhD from Rockefeller University and Nancy E. Adler PhD from the MacArthur Network for Socioeconomic Health and the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, discuss the effect of socioeconomic status on health. Resources: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways edited by Bruce McEwen and Nancy Adler www.macses.ucsf.edu and The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen

Understanding Stress

Researcher Bruce McEwen discusses the biology and social causes of stress. Resources: The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwen

Insomnia

Health educator Layna Berman discusses causes of and solutions for insomnia.

The Mood Cure

Julia Ross discusses her newest book about improving your outlook without pharmaceuticals. Resources: The Mood Cure by Julia Ross

Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

Neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio, PhD, discusses his newest book about the role of emotions in human survival and culture. Resources: Looking for Spinoza, The Feeling of What Happens, and Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio; resources on mind and mood

Becoming a Dream Expert

Dr. Gayle Delaney, PhD discusses dream analysis. Resources: Living Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney

Nutrient Therapy for Psychiatric Symptoms

Dr. William J. Walsh, PhD, chief science and biomedical researcher at the Health Research Institute-Pfeiffer Treatment Center discusses psychiatric treatment using nutrition.

Autism: A Natural Approach

Journalist Stephanie Marohn discusses her book, a compilation of natural approaches for treating autism. Resources: The Natural Medicine Guide to Autism by Stephanie Marohn

Shocked and Awed: Survival Support

Health educator Layna Berman discusses survival support for those affected by the war on Iraq; listeners call in

Feeling-based Therapy in the Prevention of Stress-related Illness

Psychotherapists Miriam Redstone and David Dillman discuss the role of therapy in decreasing stress related illness.

Turning Suffering Inside Out

Darlene Cohen, MA, pain specialist, body worker, and Zen teacher discusses her book Resources: Turning Suffering Inside Out: A Zen Approach to Living with Physical and Emotional Pain by Darlene Cohen

Stress and Illness

Dr. Peter Madill, MD, discusses the development, prevention, and treatment of stress induced illness

Reducing Fight or Flight

Health educator Layna Berman discusses stress, illness, and the nervous system

Destructive Emotions

Dr. Daniel Goleman, journalist discusses his new book written from dialogues with Tibet's Dalai Lama Resources: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Healing Trauma with Dual Brain Psychology

Dr. Fredric Schiffer, MD, psychiatrist discusses new research that supports the effectiveness of using dual brain psychology for healing past trauma Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Dual-Brain Psychology: An Update

Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses the latest research in dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Childhood Autism: A Nutritional Approach

Bernard Rimland, PhD, a research psychologist and founcer of the Autism Research Institute discusses the biological foundation for neurological disorders Resources: Autism Research Institute www.autismwebsite.com/ari/

How Can I Get Through to You?

Therapist Terrence Real discusses his book on reconnecting men and women Resources: How Can I Get Through to You? by Terrence Real

How Food and Exercise Regulate Mood

Professor of Psychology Dr. Robert Thayer discusses research on the relationship between food, physical activity, and mood Resources: Calm Energy by Robert Thayer; resources on food, on exercise, and on mind and mood

Orthomolecular Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies (two hour special)

Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin MD compares conventional medicine to nutrient based medicine. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

Sleep

Pioneer sleep researcher, Dr. William Dement, MD, PhD Resources: The Promise of Sleep by William Dement

Surviving the Holidays

Health integrationist Layna Berman discusses trategies for preserving immunity, and for avoiding weight gain and burnout

Healing: Bridging Body and Mind

Health Integrationist Layna Berman

Releasing the Tiger

Psychologist Dr. Peter Levine PhD discusses healing trauma through the body. Resources: Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Kitchen Table Wisdom

Dr. Rachel Remen, MD Resources: Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings by Rachel Remen

The Biological Consequences of Stress

Stanford Professor and neurobiologist Dr. Robert Sapolsky Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

Strategies for Stress

Health Educator Layna Berman discusses health preservation during stress

I Only Say This Because I Love You

Psychologist Deborah Tannen discusses her book on communication in families Resources: I Only Say This Because I Love You by Deborah Tannen

A General Theory of Love

Dr. Thomas Lewis MD discusses the physiology of love and how it heals us

Healing Stress Through the Body

Dr. Peter Levine PhD Resources: Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Natural Healing For Mental Disorders

Dr. Eva Edelman N.D. Resources: Natural Healing For Schizophrenia by Eva Edelman

Obscure Diagnoses - Often missed ailments and their treatments

Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns

Nutritional Effects on Behavior in Schools and Prisons

Sociologist Stephen Schoenthaler, PhD discusses his long study showing a decrease in violent behavior and increase of IQ with the elimination of junk foods and the addition of a daily multi vitamin.

Drugs and Mental Health

Elliot Valenstein PhD argues against the use of psychiatric medications Resources: Blaming the Brain by Elliot Valenstein

Dual Brain Pychology Update

Dr. Fredric Schiffer MD discusses dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Multiple Intelligence for the 21st Century

Howard Gardner PhD discusses research on multiple intelligences Resources: Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner

Preventing and Treating Prenatal and Infant Trauma

Dr.William Emerson, PhD, pychologist - Emerson Training Seminars

Strategies for a Healthy Winter Season

Layna Berman, Health Integrationist

Natural Healing for Schizophrenia

Health Educator and Journalist Eva Edelman discusses a nutritional and orthomolecular approach

7 Weeks to Emotional Healing

Joan Mathews Larson PhD Using natural supplements to treat psychiatric symptoms

Nutritional and Hormonal Strategies for Handling Stress

Layna Berman, health integration specialist

Your Drug May Be Your Problem

Peter Breggin MD, Psychiatrist discusses the dangers of psychiatric medications Resources: The Anti-Depressant Fact Book and Your Drug May Be Your Problem by Peter Breggin www.breggin.com

The Dance of Anger

Harriet Lerner, PhD Resources: The Dance of Anger and The Dance of Fear by Harriet Lerner

Coping with Appropriate Paranoia

Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses paranoia and dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

Dual Brain Psychology

Psychiatrist Fredric Schiffer, MD, discusses dual-brain psychology Resources: Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology by Fredric Schiffer

The Promise of Sleep

Dr. William Dement, MD, PhD - pioneer in sleep medicine discusses his book Resources: The Promise of Sleep by William Dement

Childhood Autism

Bernard Rimland, PhD, research psychologist and founder of the Autism Research Institute Resources: Autism Research Institute www.autismwebsite.com/ari/

Depression: A Non-pharmaceutical Approach

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Meditation Made Easy

Meditation Trainer Lorin Roche, PhD Resources: Meditation Made Easy by Lorin Roche

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Dr. Ian Osborn, MD Resources: Tormenting Thoughts And Secret Rituals by Ian Osborn

Should You Leave? Intimacy and autonomy

Psychologist Dr. Peter Kramer Resources: Should You Leave? Intimacy and Autonomy by Peter Kramer

Potatoes not Prozac Overcoming sugar addiction

Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD Resources: Potatoes Not Prozac: Overcoming Sugar Addiction by Kathleen DesMaisons

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Celeste Peters Resources: Don't Be SAD by Celeste Peters

Achieving Emotional Literacy

Psychologist Claude Steiner, PhD Resources: Emotional Literacy by Claude Steiner

The Biology of the Human Predicament,

Robert Sapolsky PhD Stanford Prof., MacArthur Grant Receipt. Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

The Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel

Candace Pert PhD

The Biology of Stress

Robert Sapolsky PhD Resources: Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers and The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert Sapolsky

Dealing with Depression Naturally

Syd Baumel Resources: Dealing with Depression Naturally by Syd Baumel

Why Women Fall Apart and How They can Recreate Their Lives

Martha Beck PhD, psychologist Resources: Breaking Point by Martha Beck

Awakenings

Neurologist Oliver Sacks, MD Resources: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Brain Health Update

Dr. Parris Kidd PhD

The Highly Sensitive Person

PsychologistDr. Elaine Aron Resources: The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

The Art of Self-Care

Layna Berman, Health Integration Specialist

Panic Free

Lynne Freeman PhD Resources: Panic Free by Lynne Freeman

Sleep Thieves

Stanley Coren PhD Resources: Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren

It’s Not all in Your Head

Susan Swedo, MD and Henrietta Leonard, MD Resources: It's Not All in Your Head by Susan Swedo and Henrietta Leonard

Zen And Psychotherapy

Steven Weintraub, Psychologist and Zen Buddhist

The Good Marriage

Judith Wallerstein, Clinical Psychologist Resources: The Good Marriage by Judith Wallerstein

The Dark Side of Love: The Positive Role of Our Negative Feelings

Jane Goldberg PhD Resources: The Dark Side of Love by Jane Goldberg

A Balanced Approach to Improved Brain Function

Parris Kidd PhD, Biochemist, Researcher in Product Development

Halloween: When Healthy People Hear Voices

Myrtle Heery PhD