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Seven and a half lessons about the brain

The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast

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Artistic Spectrum Disorders and Drug Ind Juice States

One of the main sources of suffering in individuals who are on the spectrum is that they are highly anxious. And really what's happening is that their brains aren't predicting particularly well, and they have high levels of arousal a lot of the time,. But we don't see evidence of that. We're always guessing am. So we can guess wrong, and we often do am. And those are mispredictions. You end up having much more ampathy for people in the predicament. Your own behaviour may actually change with respect to them. That's one thing i learned from manfon: even when there are misunderstandings between two people with no typical brains, often what's happening was that

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