Sympathetic Intelligence and the call to action of a Montessori School By Stephanie Ortiz and Jim Stellar Ten years ago, Stephanie and I wrote a blog about her starting a non-profit as an undergraduate at Queens College, CUNY, and then … Continued
Mindfulness and Emotional Regulation in Patients: Lessons Learned for Experiential Education in College Rachel Dolowich UA ‘22, Kathleen Laursen UA ‘21, Jim Stellar Consider a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other patient with a serious fear reaction whose prefrontal cortex … Continued
The Music of Thought and Emotion: clinical interaction in social work Haley Amering UA’20 and Jim Stellar What do you want to do after graduation? I want to do many things, and luckily they can all be tied into practices … Continued
Unfaced Youth: Art, Mind, Brain by Erin Conner UA’24, Antonella Mason, Jim Stellar This blog began when EC worked on an independent study under JS and AM that was centered on a neuroscience paper about how the brain reacts … Continued
Birth of an Internet Salesman: The Role of Anxiety and Social Media in Experience by Andrew Keating UA’22 and Jim Stellar Let us start with three questions from the student experience: How can social media be re-evaluated through the lens … Continued
Senior Honors Undergraduate Research Interrupted by Covid: Lessons learned. Anna Port UA ’20 and Jim Stellar AP had a senior honors thesis project running in a Psychology Professor’s lab at UAlbany on adolescent alcohol exposure and maternal behavior in rats. … Continued
Brain Networks Blog 3: What they can teach us about experiential education by Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar As mentioned in a previous blog, the default mode network (DMN) is a network of interacting brain regions, … Continued
Brain Networks: Blog 2: Skill-Learning Networks by Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar In a prior blog on the default mode network, we talked about how this network comes online when you do not have a task … Continued
Brain Networks: Blog 1 – The Default Mode Network By Brandon Ascencio UA ‘23, Brandy Eggan, and Jim Stellar When someone says the word “daydreaming”, what do you think? If you take a moment to pause and look away from … Continued
Reflection and the Brain: A potential Connection between Limbic and Cortical processing circuitry By Kathleen Larsen UA ’21 and Jim Stellar In our last blog, we discussed a conventional model developed by Kolb of the way reflection on experience could … Continued