http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog Play-How it shapes the Brain... Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:20:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/a-parent-comes-to-believe-in-the-power-of-play/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/a-parent-comes-to-believe-in-the-power-of-play/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:19:15 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/a-parent-comes-to-believe-in-the-power-of-play/ This essay from Time magazine talks about how some parents want lots of drills and rote learning in preschool, but she has come to believe in the power of play.

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]]> http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/tetris-and-forgetting-trauma/feed/ 0 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/desmond-morris-and-play/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/desmond-morris-and-play/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:24:34 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/?p=133 In this short blog post about Desmond Morris (most famous for his book “The Naked Ape”) the writers discuss his work, his art, and the importance of play in all he does. They also discuss neoteny–how the juvenile feature of play is extended and conserved well into adulthood in humans and how this helps us.

]]> http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/desmond-morris-and-play/feed/ 0 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/the-rise-in-anxiety-and-depression-and-the-decline-in-play/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/the-rise-in-anxiety-and-depression-and-the-decline-in-play/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:00:44 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/?p=116 Boston College professor Peter Gray argues that the rise in anxiety and depression among kids is tied to a lack of a sense of control over their fate and a move toward emphasizing external goals over internal ones. A sense of control over one’s life and narrative, and internal rewards are things that play provides.

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]]> http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/learning-and-play/feed/ 0 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/stuart-in-time-magazine-article-on-overprotective-parents/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/stuart-in-time-magazine-article-on-overprotective-parents/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:42:52 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/?p=112 Stuart is quoted in this Time magazine article about helicopter parents. It is currently one of the most popular articles in Time.

]]> http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/stuart-in-time-magazine-article-on-overprotective-parents/feed/ 0 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/everything-in-life-can-be-learned-at-the-playground/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/everything-in-life-can-be-learned-at-the-playground/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:40:18 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/?p=108 Stanton Peele has a nicely personal description of his observations about the benefits of free play.

]]> http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/everything-in-life-can-be-learned-at-the-playground/feed/ 0 http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/ny-times-magazine-article-can-play-teach-self-control/ http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/ny-times-magazine-article-can-play-teach-self-control/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:09:15 +0000 chris http://stuartbrownmd.com/blog/ny-times-magazine-article-can-play-teach-self-control/ How play succeeds while other methods fail in giving kids better planning abilities and emotional modulation. Could work for adults, too.

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