Phoenix, AZ -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/16/2015 -- Dr. David H. Hubel who won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system made a remark in 1984, "The Mind is Obsolete." He was referring to the conclusion of Newtonian mechanical researchers who equate their brain scans and neuronal circuit diagrams with a full understanding of mental processes.

There is an overbearing debate coursing through the neuroscience community about the mind. Our guest Jeffery M. Schwartz, M.D.who is a leading Neuroplasticity Researcher, Neuroscientist and Research Psychiatrist stated " Some neuroscientists are embarrassed by the word, 'mind'."

It's alarming to find out that not too long ago, science believed that the capacity of the brain was fixed. Science assumed that the brain that we were born with until early adulthood was all that we had, and from there it was all down hill. The new science of neuroplasticity has completely changed all of that. Our brain is like a muscle – our mind can be trained to achieve what we would like to achieve.

Brain lock is a term coined by Jeffery M. Schwartz M.D. to describe OCD obsessive-compulsive behavior and to describe a treatment plan he published in his 1997. Tune in and learn about his ground breaking genius self directed Neuroplasticity.

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Our compassionate, passionate, humanitarian and brilliant guest is Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D. He is Research Psychiatrist at UCLA School of Medicine and a seminal thinker and researcher in the field of self-directed neuroplasticity. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry, and several popular books including You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life co-authored with Rebecca Gladding, M.D. (2011), as well as The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force (2002), and Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior (1997). Dr. Schwartz has been featured nationally on prominent TV shows, including Oprah, 20/20, Today Show, Donahue and Leeza. He was a consultant to Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio on The Aviator (and appears with them on the bonus DVD extras of that film) and appeared in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

Dr Schwartz's primary research interest over the past two decades has been brain imaging and cognitive-behavioral therapy, with a focus on the brain mechanisms and psychological treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Schwartz's most recent academic writing has been in the field of philosophy of mind, specifically on the role of volition in human neurobiology. He has also applied his approach of "mind over brain" to the fields of business leadership and organizational behavior, as featured in two articles in Strategy+Business magazine in 2006 and 2011.

After receiving an honors degree in philosophy from the University of Rochester, Dr. Schwartz began to devote a substantial amount of time to Buddhist philosophy --- in particular to the philosophy of mindfulness, or conscious awareness, which revolves around the central idea that the mind is an active participant in the world and that its actions have a physical effect on the workings of the brain. He thus set out to find a scientific underpinning for the belief that mindfulness affects how the brain functions, and in the 1990s finally made his key discovery at UCLA. As shown on PET scans, a four-step cognitive behavioral therapy that he has pioneered is capable of actually changing the activity in a specific brain circuit of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Dr Schwartz's current passions include the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, classic jazz, and the role of Christian meditation in enhancing mindful awareness and it's effects on mind-brain relations.

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