Living Skillfully: Your Mind and Health

I’ve just had a guest post published at Brain Blogger if you want to hop over and take a look.

It talks about experiments with mice showing that conditioned “safety” responses can have a similar effect to antidepressants, and suggests a non-drug alternative for humans as well.

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