Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-skm99 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T12:14:55.763Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Chapter 9 - Brain Fitness: Challenge Your Mind and Heart

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2018

Steven M. Southwick  and
Dennis S. Charney
Steven M. Southwick
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine
Dennis S. Charney
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
Get access

Summary

A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Chapter
Information
Resilience
The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
 , pp. 199 - 225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Atchley, R. A., Strayer, D. L. & Atchley, P. (2012). Creativity in the wild: Improving creative reasoning through immersion in natural settings. PLOS One, 7(12), e51474. DOI:10.137/journal.pone.0051474CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barger, L. K., Ayas, N.T., Cade, B.E. et al. (2006). Impact of extended-duration shifts on medical errors, adverse events, and attentional failures. PLoS Medicine, 3(12), e487.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Baxter, L. R., Schwartz, J. M., Bergman, K. S. et al. (1992). Caudate glucose metabolic rate changes with both drug and behavior therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry, 49(9), 681–689.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bezzola, L., Merillat, S., Gaser, C. & Jancke, L. (2011). Training-induced neural plasticity in golf novices. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(35), 12444–12448.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Burkeman, O. (2016). Too busy to focus? Try this. The Guardian, January 29.Google Scholar
Caria, A., Veit, R., Sitaram, R. et al. (2007). Regulation of anterior insular cortex activity using real-time fMRI. NeuroImage, 35(3), 1238–1246.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Castro, C. A. & Adher, A. B. (2011). Military mental health training: building resilience. In Southwick, S., Litz, B., Charney, D. & Friedman, M. (eds.), Resilience and Mental Health: Challenges Across the Life Span. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Choi, U. S., Sung, Y. W., Hong, S., Chung, J. Y. & Ogawa, S. (2015). Structural and functional plasticity specific to musical training with wind instruments. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 597.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Cohn, N. (2008). Concentration camp music. OzArts Review, June 3. Available online at http://ozartsreview.hostingsuccess.com/tag/japanese-internment-camp/Google Scholar
Contie, V. (2007). Lack of sleep disrupts brain’s emotional controls. National Institutes of Health, Research Matters, November 5. Retrieved from www.sleepeducation.com/Article.aspx?id=637Google Scholar
Coyle, D. (2007). How to grow a super-athlete. New York Times, March 5. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/sports/05iht-web.0305prodigy.4805563.htmlGoogle Scholar
Creswell, J. D., Way, B. M., Eisenberger, N. I. & Lieberman, M. D. (2007). Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labeling. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69(6), 560–565.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Doré, B. P., Boccagno, C., Burr, D. et al. (2017a). Finding positive meaning in negative experiences engages ventral striatal and ventromedial prefrontal regions associated with reward valuation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(2), 235–244.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Doré, B. P., Weber, J. & Ochsner, K. N. (2017b). Neural predictors of decisions to cognitively control emotion. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(10), 2580–2588.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Elbert, T., Pantev, C., Wienbruch, C., Rockstroh, B. & Taub, E. (1995). Increased cortical representation of the fingers of the left hand in string players. Science, 270(5234), 305–307.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ericsson, K. A. (2006). The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ericsson, K. A. & Pool, R. (2016). Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Google Scholar
Fackelmann, K. (2006). Study: Long hospital shifts, sleep deprivation can kill. USA Today, December 11. Available at: www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006–12-ll-sleep-study_x.htmGoogle Scholar
Federal Trade Commission (2016). Lumosity to pay $2 million to settle FTC deceptive advertising charges for its “brain training” program. Press release, January 5. Retrieved from https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/01/lumosity-pay-2-million-settle-ftc-deceptive-advertising-chargesGoogle Scholar
Fernandez, A. (2008). ABC reporter Bob Woodruff’s incredible recovery from traumatic brain injury. Huffington Post, September 15. Available at: www.huffingtonpost.com/alvaro-fernandez/abc-reporter-bob-woodruff_b_125863.htmlGoogle Scholar
Gerin, M. I., Fichtenholtz, H., Roy, A. et al. (2016). Real-time fMRI neurofeedback with war veterans with chronic PTSD: A feasibility study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7, 111.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Goleman, D. (2013). Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. New York, NY: HarperCollins.Google Scholar
Gonzalez, A. C. (2007). Prepvolleyball.com. Retrieved from http://prepvolleyball.comGoogle Scholar
Grant, J. A., Courtemanche, J., Duerden, E. G., Duncan, G. H. & Rainville, P. (2010). Cortical thickness and pain sensitivity in Zen meditators. Emotion, 10(1), 43–53.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Grossman, P., Niemann, L., Schmidt, S. & Walach, H. (2004). Mindfulness-based stress reduction and health benefits. A meta-analysis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 57(1), 35–43.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hambrick, D. Z. (2014). Brain training doesn’t make you smarter: Scientists doubt claims from brain training companies. Scientific American, December 2. Retrieved online from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doesn-t-make-you-smarter/Google Scholar
Hamilton, J. (2009). Music News: Say what?! Musicians hear better. National Public Radio, October 19. Available at: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113938566Google Scholar
Hamilton, J. P., Glover, G. H., Hsu, J. J. & Gotlib, I. H. (2011). Modulation of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex activity with real-time neurofeedback. Human Brain Mapping, 32(1), 22–31.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Hammond, C. (2004). Impacts of lifelong learning upon emotional resilience, psychological and mental health: Fieldwork evidence. Oxford Review of Education, 30(4), 551–568.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holzel, B. K., Carmody, J., Vangel, M. et al. (2011). Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Psychiatry Research, 191(1), 36–43.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iacoviello, B. M. & Charney, D. S. (2014). Developing cognitive-emotional training exercises as interventions for mood and anxiety disorders. European Psychiatry, 30, 75–81.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Iacoviello, B. M., Wu, G., Alvarez, E. et al. (2014). Cognitive-emotional training as an intervention ofr major depressive disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 31, 699–706.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., Jonides, J. & Perrig, W. J. (2008). Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. DOI:10.1073/pnas.0801268105CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Johnson., D. C., Thom, N. J., Stanley, E. A. et al. (2014). Modifying resilience mechanisms in at-risk individuals: A controlled study of mindfulness training in Marines preparing for deployment. American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(8), 844–853.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Johnston, S. J., Boehm, S. G., Healy, D., Goebel, R. & Linden, D. E. J. (2009). Neurofeedback: A promising tool for the self-regulation of emotion networks, Neurolmage, 49, 1066–1072.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Kabat-Zinn, J. (1990). Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. New York, NY: Delacorte.Google Scholar
Kabat-Zinn, S. (1994). Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. New York, NY: Hyperion.Google Scholar
Kaplan, S. (2001). Meditation, restoration, and the management of mental fatigue. Environment and Behavior, 33(4), 480–505. Retrieved from http://eab.sagepub.com/content/33/4/480CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karl, A., Birbaumer, N., Lutzenberger, W., Cohen, L. G. & Flor, H. (2001). Reorganization of motor and somatosensory cortex in upper extremity amputees and phantom limb pain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 21(10), 3609–3618.Google Scholar
Katz, L. C. & Rubin, M. (2014). Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness. New York, NY: Workman Publishing.Google Scholar
Keller, H. (1903). The Story of My Life, Chapter 20. New York, NY: Doubleday.Google Scholar
Kolditz, T. A. (2007). In Extremis Leadership: Leading as If Your Life Depended on It. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.Google Scholar
Kuehl, K., Kuehl, J. & Tefertiller, C. (2005). Mental Toughness: A Champion’s State of Mind. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee.Google Scholar
Lustig, C., Shah, P., Seidler, R. & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (2009). Aging, training, and the brain: A review and future directions. Neuropsychology Reviews, 19(4), 504–522.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lutz, A., Greischar, L. L., Rawlings, N. B., Ricard, M. & Davidson, R. J. (2004). Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 101(46), 16369–16373.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Maas, J. B. (1998). Power Sleep: The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance. New York, NY: Harper Paperbacks.Google Scholar
Morran, C. (2016). LearningRx to pay $200k for allegedly unproven claims that brain training can improve income, treat autism & ADHD. Consumerist, May 18.Google Scholar
Nash, W. P. (2011). US Marine Corps and Navy combat and operational stress continuum model: A tool for leaders. In Ritchie, E. C. (ed.), Operational Behavioral Health, pp. 193–204. Washington, DC: Borden Institute.Google Scholar
Newberg, A. B. (2011). Spirituality and the aging brain. Generations, 35(2), 83–91.Google Scholar
New York Times (2009). Times Topics: US Airways Flight 1549. New York Times, June 9. Available at: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/airplane_accidents_and_incidents/us_airways_flight_1549/index.html?scp=2&sq=Sullenberger&st=cseGoogle Scholar
Nowak, D. (2007). Mother of Russian Tennis. The Moscow Times, November 12. Available at: www.themoscowtimes.com/sitemap/paid/2007/11/article/mother-of-russian-tennis/193046.htmlGoogle Scholar
Ochsner, K. N. & Gross, J. J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(5), 242–249.Google Scholar
Parbery-Clark, A., Skoe, E. & Kraus, N. (2009). Biological Bases for the Musician Advantage for Speech-In-Noise. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Neuroscience, October 2009, Chicago.Google Scholar
Pascual-Leone, A. (2001). The brain that plays music and is changed by it. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, 930 (June), 315–329.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Plumb, J. C. (1973). I’m No Hero: A POW Story as Told to Glen Dewerff. Calabasas, CA.Google Scholar
Posit Science (n.d.). Brain training program design. Accessed October 22, 2010 at www.positscience.com/science/teams-and-approach/design-approachGoogle Scholar
Ricard, M., Lutz, A. & Davidson, R. J. (2014). Mind of the mediator: Contemplative practices that extent back thousands of years show a multitude of benefits for both body and mind. Scientific American, 3(11), 39–45.Google Scholar
Russia Today (2009). All-Russian tennis final: Recipe for success. June 6. Available at: http://rt.com/Sport/2009–06–06/All-Russian_tennis_final__recipe_for_success.htmlGoogle Scholar
Rochman, B. (2010). Workouts for your brain. Time magazine, January 18. Accessed July 2, 2010 at www.positscience.com/news/workouts-your-brain.Google Scholar
Scholz, J., Klein, M. C., Behrens, T. E. & Johansen-Berg, H. (2009). Training induces changes in white-matter architecture. Nature Neuroscience, 12(11), 1370–1371.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Schwartz, J. M. & Begley, S. (2002). The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force. New York, NY: Harper.Google Scholar
Science 2.0 News Staff (2007). Sleep deprivation and the brain’s emotional “disconnect”. [Web log post, October 22]. Retrieved from www.science20.com/news_account/sleep_deprivation_and_the_brains_emotional_disconnectGoogle Scholar
Simons, D. J., Boot, W. R., Charness, N. et al. (2016). Do “brain-training” programs work? Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 17, 103–186.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Singer, T., Seymour, B., O’Doherty, J. et al. (2004). Empathy for pain involves the affective but not sensory components of pain. Science, 303(5661), 1157–1162.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Small, G. & Vorgen, G. (2016). 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain: An Innovative Program for a Better Memory and Sharper Mind. West Palm Beach, FL: Humanix Books.Google Scholar
Smith, G. E., Housen, P., Yaffe, K. et al. (2009). A cognitive training program based on principles of brain plasticity: Results from the Improvement in Memory with Plasticity-based Adaptive Cognitive Training (IMPACT) study. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 57(4), 594–603.Google Scholar
Song, J., Skoe, E., Banai, K. & Kraus, N. (2009). Enhancement of Brainstem Encoding of the Fundamental Frequency in Listeners with Good Speech Perception in Noise. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Neuroscience, October 2009, Chicago.Google Scholar
Southern Methodist University (2008). Turner Construction Student Forum: Roadside bomb explosion changed their lives. News and communications, March 5. Available at: http://smu.edu/newsinfo/stories/bob-woodruff-4march2008.aspGoogle Scholar
Stelter, B. (2009). TV journalist wounded in Iraq returns to the war. New York Times, July 13. Available at: www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/arts/television/14woodruff.htmlGoogle Scholar
Strait, D. L., Kraus, N. & Ashley, R. (2009). Musical Experience Shapes Top-down Auditory Mechanisms: Evidence from Masking and Auditory Attention Performance. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Neuroscience, October 2009, Chicago.Google ScholarPubMed
Sullenberger, C. B. III, with Zaslow, J. (2009). Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters. New York, NY: HarperCollins.Google Scholar
Tang, Y. Y., Hölzel, B. K. & Posner, M. I. (2015). The neuroscience of mindfulness meditation. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience, 16(4), 213–225.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
University of Southern California (2009). Computer exercises improve memory and attention, study suggests. Science Daily, February 11. Retrieved July 2, 2010, from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211161932.htm.Google Scholar
Urry, H. L., Nitschke, J. B., Dolski, I. et al. (2004). Making a life worth living: Neural correlates of well-being. Psychological Science, 15(6), 367–372.Google Scholar
Willis, S. L., Tennstedt, S. L., Marsiske, M. et al. (2006). Long-term effects of cognitive training on everyday functional outcomes in older adults. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296(23), 2805–2814.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wittenburg, G. F. (2010). Experience, cortical remapping, and recovery in brain disease. Neurobiology of Disease, 37(2), 252–258.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Woodruff, B. (2009). Why I’ve gone back to Iraq. [Web log post at The World Newser: World News’ Daily Blog, July 13, 8:40 AM]. Accessed June 22, 2010 at http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/07/bob-woodruff-why-ive-gone-back-to-iraq.htmlGoogle Scholar
Yoo, S., Gujar, N., Hu, P., Jolesz, F. A. & Walker, M. P. (2007). The human emotional brain without sleep – a prefrontal amygdala disconnect. Current Biology, 17(20), R877–R878.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Zarakhovich, Y (2003). Tennis, everyone? Time magazine, August 24. Available at: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901030901–477901–3,00.html#ixzz0YeVMDwURGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×