Sounds True Presents: The Neuroscience Training Summit

Neuro sculpting gives first responders, law enforcement, and veterans tools to regulate stress and trauma. Meditation and mental entrainment spark a generational ripple, safeguarding marriages and saved lives.

This lecture explains balancing intuition and pragmatism, showing how to execute on intuition with research, because life is not a dress rehearsal.

Explore practical neuro sculpting meditations to cultivate self-compassion, self-love, and self-worth by priming the brain, guiding a new story, and alternating between analytical and symbolic thinking.

Investigate neuroscience and neural sculpting to regulate arousal, move from freeze toward fight or flight, and apply shaking practices guided by polyvagal theory and Brain Body Balance concepts.

Learn a simple neuro sculpting exercise to calm social anxiety by recognizing basic safety needs are met, down-regulating contraction responses through grounding and breath.

Neural sculpting reshapes our library of stories by re-filing memories with new labels, not deleting them, while creating new stories through effort to reduce trauma, fear, and contraction charges.

Explore how neuroplasticity underpins associative learning, with neurons firing together to form lasting connections per Hebb's law, shaping responses and memories in daily life and therapy.

Explore how neural sculpting can help you set healthy boundaries and navigate difficult conversations by re scripting relational patterns, using meditation, and noticing somatic cues in real time.

Explore how neuro sculpting can empower daily life and emotional regulation, with applications from trauma care to spinal cord injury recovery. Envision teaching these skills from childhood in schools.

Explore the contrast between the body's aging curve and the mind's path, and learn neuroscience-informed strategies for elegant aging that keep the mind brilliant even as the body changes.

Identify and address chronic stressors like unproductive worry, procrastination, fearfulness, negative rumination, and decision fatigue; learn practical habits, planning, and body relaxation to improve quality of life.

Learn how aging slows processing speed and memory retrieval, while wiser choices emerge from life experience and cognitive stamina. Reframe resilience as reserves using the perennial plant metaphor.

Practice a 30-second breath exercise to build reserves: in-breath for presence, out-breath with may I meet this moment fully. Add hydration, sleep, gap moments, body scan, and tea with yourself.

Boost resilience by staying hydrated, sleeping well, and seizing gap moments for breath practice or body scans. Practice tea with yourself to listen to inner voices and address unmet needs.

Engage in aerobic exercise for 20–25 minutes, three times weekly, with deep breathing and interval cycling. Regular activity feeds glycogen to astrocytes around the hippocampus, supporting memory and peak performance.

Explore the default network, a large brain system governing inner thought and mind wandering, and learn to quiet it with deep sleep, acupuncture, outer focus, and meditation.

The switching network connects inner insight with external input, toggling between wide open, half open, and shut states in the default network, influencing creativity, alert to danger, and schizophrenia-related rumination.

Explore the sameness network, a system that fires when inputs match and works with sight, sound, movement. Learn how stress narrows behavior to rigidity, while calm enhances nuance and practice.

Cultivate mindful engagement across the default network, left central creativity site, and switching network by curiosity, nuanced attention, and mindful practice of daily chores.

Explore brain wave patterns and the brain-as-radio model, highlighting alpha, beta, delta, theta, and gamma bands, and how stress management unlocks the beneficial fm channels.

Learn practical theta exercises across entry, intermediate, and advanced levels that bring unconscious thoughts to consciousness, synchronize with motion paths, and steady the theta rhythm to deepen mindful perception.

Explore how high gamma (55–100 Hz) waves synchronize with theta to weave memory, perception, and action into a coherent rhythm, enhancing working memory and dynamic present-moment thinking.

Explore how the newborn brain constructs perception from motion, light, and basic form, highlighting theta states and sensory integration as babies and observers connect with the world.

Let the world come to you and sense wave patterns and energy instead of rushing to meet it; shift between energy fields and forms as events become form.

Incorporate theta practice into daily life by cultivating gap moments, deconstructing your surroundings, and pairing breath work with an open heart to trigger theta experiences and highs.

Practice the body scan to stay present while driving, relax the shoulders, and shift from tense rushing to a flow state.

Transform anxiety about world issues by becoming part of the solution through energy, time, and money donations, and by offering blessings that bring higher energy to heal the world.

Explore neuroscience insights on reframing aging as wisdom and opportunity, leveraging life experience and contagious elder wisdom to inspire a hopeful vision of tomorrow.

Explore how mirror neurons support empathy, along with matching energy, tone, and gestures to read emotions; cultivate mindful intention to exchange self for other and activate inner wisdom.

Explore how the sameness network underpins habit forming and skill developing, and how stress and openness shape automatic versus nuanced practice.

Explore how an environment supports healthy deep delta sleep, early-night delta activity for memory embedding and immune function, and how later REM and theta patterns shape ideas and motor memory.

Explore how nutrition supports longevity through personalized eating, timing, supplements, no single formula, and hydration. Track when you are sharp to tailor meals to your brain, body signals, and vitality.

Discover the single best practical tool for elegant aging: cultivate a theta-state through theater-inspired mental imagery and gratitude. Practice heart-opening moments of kindness to meet the moment as a friend.

Dr. Amen presents a war for brain health and describes the Daniel Plan, a church program that helped 15,000 people lose weight and improve energy, focus, sleep, and mood.

Explore how the standard American diet, processed foods, pesticides, and chronic stress threaten brain health, promoting inflammation, dementia, and depression, with strategies from the Brain Warrior's Way.

Explore how brain imaging reshapes psychiatry, using SPECT imaging to inform diagnosis and brain-directed treatment, illustrated by cases of stroke, Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, and drug abuse.

Imaging acts as a map for psychiatric care, revealing how depression relates to brain activity and guiding healthier choices. Scans of my own family illustrate this.

Explore how brain health can be improved through habits and imaging. Learn to view mental health as brain health, reducing stigma and guiding better psychiatric outcomes.

Explore advances in brain imaging that distinguish PTSD from traumatic brain injury with over 90 percent accuracy, revealing long-term brain damage in NFL players and implications for diagnosis.

Explore the Amen clinics' four-step brain optimization program to boost mood, focus, and memory while lowering Alzheimer's risk.

Assess your brain baselines using the Brain Fit Life portal or a scan, with Web Neuro assessing 17 cognitive domains, including processing speed, memory, executive function, mood, and social perception.

Know and optimize your health numbers to protect brain function and vitality by tracking body mass index, blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin a1c, cholesterol, c-reactive protein, and vitamin d.

Assess your brain and track key numbers, then pursue healing through a multiple mechanism approach using omega-3s, ginkgo, B vitamins, L-carnitine, and alpha-lipoic acid to boost mood and blood flow.

Know, reduce, and treat Alzheimer's risk factors by addressing obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, sleep quality, stress, smoking, alcohol, and lifelong learning for brain health.

practice loving food that loves you back by choosing brain-healthy, nutrient-dense foods and avoiding simple carbohydrates; a high sugar, processed diet raises Alzheimer’s risk and mood disorders.

Explore risk factors for brain health and learn steps to protect and improve brain function by avoiding harmful habits and adopting mind health practices for energy, memory, and longevity.

Explore how a rehabilitation program can improve memory, attention, mood, and sleep, proving you are not stuck with the brain you have through real NFL and other success stories.

Learn how to read SPECT scans by assessing brain activity and perfusion, distinguishing normal, low, or no activity and stroke patterns, for complex psychiatric problems when other options haven't helped.

learn practical rules for a healthy night’s sleep, including naps counting toward seven to eight hours, avoiding caffeine and alcohol, and maintaining a cool, dark room with a bedtime meditation.

Caffeine constricts brain blood flow and blocks a chemical called the dance scene, may dehydrate you; green tea contains thinning with cognitive benefits, and moderation may not protect brain health.

Explore how diabetes drives cardiovascular disease through elevated blood sugar that damages vessels, increasing risks of heart attack, stroke, impaired healing, and mercury exposure concerns.

Explore why the teenage brain requires different health criteria due to ongoing development, including better nutrition and avoiding activities that could damage brain, as frontal lobes mature into the mid-20s.

Explores diet considerations for children on the autism spectrum with an elimination-style plan removing wheat, corn, soy, dairy, sugar, artificial preservatives and colors to improve behavior.

Assess cell phone radiation and its links to brain and cranial nerve tumors, noting inconclusive evidence. Mention potential Alzheimer's risk reduction and suggest corded headsets to limit exposure.

This lecture discusses electroconvulsive therapy and brain scans for depression and suicidality, showing how imaging guides treatment from supplements, exercise, and diet to medications, transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine, or ECT.

Explore non-medicinal remedies for PTSD, including MDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing), tapping solutions, and other forms of psychotherapy, plus sleep, eating right, and nutrients like 5-HTP.

Understand your partner’s brain patterns, including ADHD and frontal-lobe differences, to optimize relationships with strategies that feed them and reduce conflicts.

Spark a revolution in brain health by building an army of brain warriors through a free six-month class, changing societal norms to protect health and national security.

Explore the psycho biological approach to couples therapy (PACT) integrating attachment theory, body and psychoanalytic techniques, neuroscience, family systems, and social justice to foster safety, security, and secure relationships.

Explore the three domains of PACT—attachment, arousal regulation, and developmental neurobiology—and how prenatal to 18 months and postnatal to 24 months periods shape social-emotional capacity, brain integration, and reading faces.

Prioritize secure functioning in therapy, emphasizing capacity through psycho-biological processes, and using body cues and narrative coherence to gauge development and affect.

Learn to read micro expressions and body language using the facial action coding system, assess shifts in arousal, and stage evidence-based therapeutic experiences to guide couples through conflict.

PACT therapy differentiates itself by evoking real-time, in-session psycho-biological states between two nervous systems, guiding rapid relief through dysregulation and regulation strategies, not mere content.

Explore how ambassadors (higher cortical areas) down-regulate under stress, leaving primitive systems to drive real-time relationship dynamics, recognition-based pair bonding, and memory confabulation.

Explore attachment theory with anchor, island, and wave types—secure, avoidant, and anxious patterns—and how regulation strategies shape relationships.

Examine arousal regulation via the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamus, and vagal systems, and learn four strategies: auto regulation, external regulation, interactive regulation, and self-regulation that expand the window of tolerance.

Secure functioning centers on partners prioritizing the relationship through collaborative, transparent care, quick repair, and mutual regulation to maintain safety, memory maintenance, and a resilient dyadic bond.

Explore bottom-up interventions that bypass higher cortical areas, using show me psychotherapy to trigger semantic systems, corroborate evidence, and cultivate secure functioning in couples through real-time arousal regulation.

Learn how to regulate arousal and avoid codependency by fostering secure functioning and interactive regulation with a partner, recognizing mutual support beyond self-regulation.

Explore how 99 percent of our day runs automatically, guided by memory and the idea of free will versus free won't, with a glass of water chosen before conscious thought.

Examine how any attachment style can move toward a secure functioning relationship, and how secure bonds reduce allostatic load while islands and waves converge toward anchor.

Explore how attachment styles shape relationship dynamics, with waves and islands illustrating dependence, fear of abandonment, and strategies to move toward secure, caring connections.

Explore how introversion and extroversion relate to island and wave attachment types. Understand energy recovery from stress and why proximity seeking reveals attachment dynamics.

Develop a secure functioning relationship by recognizing how islands' distress activates threat systems and distorted perceptions driven by memory; understand that jealousy or dissatisfaction often reflects self, not the other.

Study your partner's face and eyes to cultivate interactive regulation; stay face-to-face at a close distance to engage the ventral visual system and fusiform facial area.

Explore how eye contact is interpreted differently across cultures—from northern and southern China to Southeast Asia and Japan—and adapt therapy to honor these nuances in both social and intimate relationships.

Explore how shared meaning making supports secure functioning in couples, arguing that two partners align their dreams, fears, and values to build a fair, collaborative unit—the smallest unit of society.

Recognize that brains guided by neuroscience drive relationships through reflexes, and we can fix them for healthier bonds. Accept memory flaws and imperfect communication as natural, guiding relationship growth.

Explore how rupture and repair operate in relationships through neuroscience, emphasizing timely relief and repair before explanation to counter negativity bias, protect attachment, and lead with relief.