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Schizophrenic Impairments through Interactive Behavioral Training,” 2001, http://www.

google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT6231344&id=3BQIAAAAEBAJ&oi

=fnd&dq=Merzenich+schizophrenia+research&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q

=Merzenich%20schizophrenia%20research&f=false; Melissa Fisher et al., “Neuroplasticity-Based Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia: An Interim Report on the Effects 6 Months Later,”
Schizophrenia Bulletin
, March 5, 2009, http://schizophreniabulletin.

oxfordjournals.org/content/36/4/869; “Thread: New Therapy Available Now for Cog-

nitive problems in Schizophrenia,” http://www.schizophrenia.com:8080/jiveforums/

thread.jspa?threadID=16719; Sophia Vinogradov, “What’s New in Schizophrenia

Research,” November 28, 2007, http://www.thomastthomas.com/Schizophrenia%20

Research,Vinogradov,112807.pdf.

19. Sarah J. Hart et al., “Altered fronto-limbic activity in children and adolescents with familial high risk for schizophrenia,”
Psychiatry Research
212, no. 1 (2013): 19; Sebastien Parnaudeau et al., “Inhibition of Mediodorsal Thalamus Disrupts Thal-amofrontal Connectivity and Cognition,”
Neuron
77, no. 6 (2013): 1151.

20. “Women Abused as Children More Likely to Have Children With Autism,”
Science
Daily
, March 20, 2013, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130320212818.

htm#.UVCuOUPuaJE.email.

1. Brian A. Primack et al., “Association Between Media Use in Adolescence and

Depression in Young Adulthood,”
Archives of General Psychiatry
66, no. 2 (2009): 181–88, http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=210196.

2. Mark W. Becker, Reem Alzahabi, and Christopher J. Hopwood, “Media Multi-

tasking Is Associated with Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety,”
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
16, no. 2 (2012): 132–35.

3. “Are You a Facebook Addict?”
Science Daily
, May 7, 2012, www.sciencedaily.

com/releases/2012/05/120507102054.htm.

4. Report from the University of Edinburgh Business School, “More Facebook

Friends Means More Stress, Says Report,”
Science Daily
, November 26, 2012, www.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121126131218.htm.

5. Keith Wilcox and Andrew T. Stephen, “Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online

Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control,”
Social Science Research Network
, September 22, 2012, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2155864.

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6. David M. Levy et al., “The Effects of Mindfulness Meditation Training on Multitasking in a High-Stress Information Environment,”
Proceedings of Graphics Interface
, May 2012; University of Washington research referenced in “Mindful Multitasking:

Meditation First Can Calm Stress, Aid Concentration,”
Science Daily
, June 13, 2012, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120614094118.htm.

7. Leaf, “Mind Mapping: A Therapeutic Technique for Closed Head Injury”; Leaf,

“The Mind Mapping Approach.”

8. University of Washington study cited in Konnikova, “The Power of Concentration.”

9. University of Washington and Emory University studies referenced in Konnikova,

“The Power of Concentration”; Michael Merzenich, cited in Schwartz and Begley,
Mind
and the Brain
; Gaëlle Desbordes et al., “Effects of Mindful-Attention and Compassion Meditation Training on Amygdala Response to Emotional Stimuli in an Ordinary, Non-Meditative State,”
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
, November 1, 2012, www.frontiersin.

org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00292/abstract.

10. Michael Merzenich cited in Schwartz and Begley,
Mind and the Brain
.

Desbordes et al., “Effects of Mindful-Attention and Compassion Meditation Training on Amygdala Response to Emotional Stimuli in an Ordinary, Non-Meditative State”;

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston University, “Meditation Appears to Produce Enduring Changes in Emotional Processing in the Brain,”
Science Daily
, www.science daily.com/releases/2012/11/121112150339.htm.

11. Leaf, “Mind Mapping: A Therapeutic Technique for Closed Head Injury.”

12. Eileen Luders et al., “The Unique Brain Anatomy of Meditation Practitioners:

Alterations in Cortical Gyrification,”
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
, February 29, 2012, www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00034/abstract.

13. Eileen Luders et al., “Enhanced Brain Connectivity in Long-Term Meditation

Practitioners,”
NeuroImage
4 (August 15, 2011): 1308–16.

14. University of California, Los Angeles research cited in “Meditation May Increase Gray Matter,”
Science Daily
, May 13, 2009, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05

/090512134655.htm.

Chapter 7 Thinking, God, and the Quantum Physics Brain

1. “Max Planck Quotes,” www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/107032.Max_Planck.

2. Schwartz and Begley,
Mind and the Brain
; Schwartz and Gladding,
You Are Not
Your Brain
; Jeffrey Schwartz, Henry Stapp, and Mario Beauregard, “Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Neurophysical Model of Mind/Brain Interaction,”

www.physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/PTB6.pdf.

3. This intentional mental act and its unpredictability can be represented mathematically by an equation that is one of the key components of quantum theory. It is beyond the scope of this book to explore the equation more deeply, but if you are interested, you can begin exploring further by reading, “Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology: A Neurophysical Model of Mind/Brain Interaction,” by Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Henry P.

Stapp, and Mario Beauregard, http://www.scribd.com/doc/94124369/Quantum-Physics

-in-Neuroscience-by-Jeffrey-M-Schwartz-Henry-P-Stapp-Mario-Beuregard.

4. James Higgo, “A Lazy Layman’s Guide to Quantum Physics,” 1999, www.higgo.

com/quantum/laymans.htm.

5. Schwartz, Stapp, and Beauregard, “Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and

Psychology.”

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6. Schwartz and Begley,
Mind and the Brain
; Schwartz and Gladding,
You Are Not
Your Brain
; Schwartz, Stapp, and Beauregard, “Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology.”

7. Caroline Leaf, “The Mind Mapping Approach: A Model and Framework for Geo-

desic Learning,” unpublished DPhil dissertation, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 1997; Caroline Leaf, “The Mind Mapping Approach: A Technique for Closed Head

Injury,” unpublished master’s dissertation, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 1990.

8. Carol Dweck, “Implicit Theories of Intelligence Predict Achievement Across

Adolescent Transition: A Longitudinal Study and an Intervention,”
Child Development
78
(2007): 246–63.

9. McCraty, “Modulation of DNA Conformation by Heart-Focused Intention,” 4.

10. Church,
Genie in Your Genes
.

11. Giacomo Rizzolatti and L. Craighero,“The Mirror-Neuron System,”
Annual

Review of
Neuroscience
27 (2004): 169–92.

12. Caroline Leaf,
Who Switched Off Your Brain? Solving the Mystery of He Said/

She Said
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011).

13. Dean Radin, “Testing Nonlocal Observation as a Source of Intuitive Knowledge,”

Explore
4, no. 1 (2008): 25.

14. Thomas E. Oxman et al., “Lack of Social Participation or Religious Strength

and Comfort as Risk Factors for Death after Cardiac Surgery in the Elderly,”
Psychosomatic Medicine
57 (1995): 5.

15. Linda H. Powell et al., “Religion and Spirituality: Linkages to Physical Health,”

American Psychologist
58, no. 1 (2003): 36.

16. Larry Dossey,
Prayer Is Good Medicine
(San Francisco: HarperOne, 1997).

17. John A. Astin et al., “The Efficacy of ‘Distant Healing’: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials,”
Annals of Internal Medicine
12 (2000): 903;
Wayne B. Jonas, “The Middle Way: Realistic Randomized Controlled Trials for the Evaluation of Spiritual Healing,”
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
7, no. 1 (2001): 5–7.

18. David Levy and Joel Kilpatrick,
Gray Matter: A Neurosurgeon Discovers the Power
of Prayer . . . One Patient at a Time
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2012); Matt Donnelly, “Faith Boosts Cognitive Management of HIV and Cancer,”
Science & Theology News
(2006): 16.

19. Levy and Kilpatrick,
Gray Matter
, 19.

20. Sundance Bilson-Thompson, Fotini Markopoulou, and Lee Smolin, “Quantum

Gravity and the Standard Model,”
Classical and Quantum Gravity
24, no. 16 (2007): 3975–93.

21. Don Lincoln, “The Universe Is a Complex and Intricate Place,”
Scientific

American
, November 2012, 38–43.

22. This is the terminology of the Heisenberg principle—quantum physics is known

for its weird wording and almost ambiguous statements.

23. Henry Stapp, “Philosophy of Mind and the Problem of Free Will in the Light

of Quantum Mechanics,” www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/Philosophy.pdf; Henry Stapp,

Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer
(London: Springer, 2007).

24. Don Lincoln, “The Inner Life of Quarks,”
Scientific American
, November 2012, 38.

1. Leaf, “Mind Mapping”; Leaf, “Mind Mapping Approach”; Leaf, Louw, and Uys,

“Development of a Model for Geodesic Learning,” 44, 53–70.

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2. Thomas More,
Utopia
, updated edition (London: Penguin Classics, 2003), 81.

3. Leaf,
Switch On Your Brain 5-Step Learning Process
; Leaf,
Who Switched Off My
Brain?
; Caroline M. Leaf, “Who Switched Off My Brain? Controlling Toxic Thoughts and Emotions,” DVD series (Johannesburg, South Africa: Switch On Your Brain, 2007).

4. Schwartz and Begley,
Mind and the Brain
.

5. Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Aquili, and Vince Rause,
Why God Won’t Go Away:

Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
(New York: Ballantine, 2001).

6. Schwartz and Begley,
Mind and the Brain
; Schwartz and Gladding,
You Are Not
Your Brain
; Schwartz, Stapp, and Beauregard, “Quantum Physics in Neuroscience and Psychology.”

7. Leaf, “Mind Mapping”; Leaf, “The Mind Mapping Approach”; Leaf, Louw, and

Uys, “Development of a Model for Geodesic Learning,” 44, 53–70.

8. Ibid.

9. “Blue Brain Project Accurately Predicts Connections between Neurons,”
Science
Daily
, September 17, 2012, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917152043.htm.

Chapter 9 What Is the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan?

1. Leaf, “Mind Mapping”; Leaf, “The Mind Mapping Approach”; Leaf, Louw, and

Uys, “Development of a Model for Geodesic Learning,” 44, 53–70.

2. Leaf, “Mind Mapping Approach: Technique for Closed Head Injury.”

3. Karim Nader, http://blogs.mcgill.ca/science/2009/04/30/karim-nader-on-memory

-reconsolidation; Karim Nader, Glenn E. Schafe, and Joseph E. Le Doux, “Fear Memories Require Protein Synthesis in the Amygdala for Reconsolidation after Retrieval,”

Nature
406, no. 6797 (2000): 722–26; A. H. Maslow,
Motivation and Personality
(New York: Harper & Row, 1970).

4. Shawn Achor,
The Happiness Advantage
(New York: Crown Business, 2010).

5.
Harvard Crimson
poll, 2004, cited in ibid.

Chapter 10 How and Why the 21-Day Brain Detox Plan Works

1. This is 365 days in a year divided by 21 days in a cycle, which gives you 17 cycles per year.

2. Kandel,
In Search of Memory
.

3. Church,
Genie in Your Genes
.

4. Ibid.

5. Rodolfo Llinas, “Rodolfo Llinas’s Fearless Approach to Neurophysiology Has

Redefined Our Thinking about Individual Neurons and How They Create Movement

and Consciousness,” U. S. Columbian Medical Association, http://uscma.org/2010/09/12/

rodolfo-llinas’s-fearless-approach-to-neurophysiology-has-redefined-our-thinking-

about-individual-neurons-and-how-they-create-movement-and-consciousness; Rodolfo

Llinas,
I of the Vortex
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

6. Michael Merzenich as cited in Doidge,
Brain That Changes Itself
.

7. Phillippa Lally et al., “How Are Habits Formed: Modelling Habit Formation in

the Real World,”
European Journal of Social Psychology
40, no. 6 (2010): 998–1009.

8. Ibid.

9. See K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely, “The Mak-

ing of an Expert,”
Harvard Business Review
, July 2007, http://hbr.org/2007/07/the

-making-of-an-expert/ar/1.

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Notes

1. Jennifer Wiley and Andrew F. Jarosz, “Working Memory Capacity, Attentional

Focus, and Problem Solving,”
Current Directions in Psychological Science
21, no. 4

(2012): 258. See also, “Greater Working Memory Benefits Analytic, Not Creative,

Problem-Solving,”
Science Daily
, August 7, 2012, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08

/120807132209.htm.

1. “Mindfulness Meditation May Relieve Chronic Inflammation,”
Science Daily
, January 16, 2013, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130116163536.htm.