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How Psychotherapy Affects the Brain

Psychotherapy, also known as "talk therapy," can help people identify and change harmful thinking and behaviors, and it can produce changes in the brain. One of our videos in partnership with Everwell.
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Harnessing Imagination to Calm Fears

“We know that imagery and visualization techniques can be helpful but this really is the first step to understanding why scientifically,” says researcher Tor Wager.
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A Patient’s Choice in Treatment Affects PTSD Outcomes

Patients given their treatment of choice stayed in the program longer and showed fewer symptoms at the end of one study than those randomly assigned to treatment that they did not prefer.
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Robots for ASD Therapy? Maybe as Partners

Researchers test machine learning and social gaming to find new ways to help children on the autism spectrum focus and learn skills to connect with other people.

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