References and resources are listed by Quarter as well as in General Resources.
General Resources
Power Versus Force, David Hawkins – The original research on levels of consciousness. A must read.
Mindsight, Daniel Siegel — True stories of real profound changes and healing. I can’t recommend this book highly enough.
The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Louis Cozolino — in my opinion, probably the best book for coaches out there, although he focuses on therapists.
Coaching with the Brain in Mind, David Rock and Linda Page — I use this for reference. It’s very detailed and complex and perhaps not an easy cover to cover read, but I find it very helpful for looking things up.
Incognito, David Eagleman — also an easy to read book, lots of true stories about how we know what we know.
Your Brain at Work, David Rock — good for leaders, very business focused.
The Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson with Richard Mendius — a great introductory book on the brain that weaves in mindfulness and Buddhist wisdom and includes practical tools for personal development.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Mate — fabulous work on the neuroscience of addiction.
Integration, Betz and Kimsey-House – comprehensive overview of the importance of integration, and the neuroscience of the Co-Active coaching model.
Recker, Gary; Peacock, Edward; Wong, Paul. “Meaning and Purpose in Life and Well- Being.” Oxford: Journal of Gerontology, Volume 42, Issue 1, 1985
Quarter One
Neuroplasticity
The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge — wonderful true stories of “neuroplasticity” and astonishing ways the brain can find new ways to do things.
The Art of Changing the Brain, James Zull — this may be the best book on learning and the brain for educators.
Brain Plasticity and Behavior, https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/Kolb.cfm
The Five Keys
Healthy Heart equals Healthy Brain – Journal of the American Heart Association http://newsroom.heart.org/news/healthy-heart-equals-healthy-brain
Sleep
https://www.med.upenn.edu/uep/user_documents/dfd3.pdf
How sleep can heal our brains https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/healing-sleep/
Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Neurons are pruned during sleep https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/science/sleep-memory-brain-forgetting.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170204&nlid=65920631&tntemail0=y
Deep sleep and learning http://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-learning-efficiency-6741/
How sleep clears the brain https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sleep-clears-brain
Trash removal during deep sleep http://sciencemission.com/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=health-science%2Ftrash-removal-during
Don’t Be a Light Sleeper https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202209/dont-be-a-light-sleeper
Sleep Enhances Complex Memory Integration https://neurosciencenews.com/sleep-memory-25645/?fbclid=IwAR0e4YEOqYuXIipqs4RMoHXsdYdsWxhnLcB4_zmG9LnlTmDVB9K5uH5JH8E
Exercise
Why Doing Squats Might be Good for your Brain http://news.health.com/2015/11/11/strong-legs-linked-to-strong-mind
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/np/2012/516364/fig2/
Different Types of Exercise Affect Different Parts of Your Brain http://consciouslifenews.com/new-finding-different-types-exercise-affect-different-parts-brain/11121031/
Nutrition
Western diet is associated with a smaller hippocampus: a longitudinal investigation http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/215
Sugary Drinks Tied to Accelerated Brain Aging
Great overall video on the gut-brain connection — The Broken Brain
Novelty
http://lifehacker.com/novelty-and-the-brain-why-new-things-make-us-feel-so-g-508983802
Focus and Attention
Meditation and Neuroplasticity: Using Mindfulness to Change the Brain https://goo.gl/yl6YAG
http://neurosciencenews.com/stress-social-competence-7678/
Enhancers
Neuroscience Backs What Great Leaders Know: To Succeed, Embrace Your Mistakes
Humour, Neuroplasticity and the Power to Change Your Mind: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/10/20/humor-neuroplasticity-and-the-power-to-change-your-mind/
Three Decades Investigating Humor and Laughter: An Interview With Professor Rod Martin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991054/
The Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games http://www.raisesmartkid.com/3-to-6-years-old/4-articles/34-the-good-and-bad-effects-of-video-games
Personality, Humor Styles and Happiness: Happy People Have Positive Humor Styles http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/1160/html
Sense of Humor, Stable Affect, and Psychological Well-Being http://ejop.psychopen.eu/article/view/746/html
Examining the Energizing Effects of Humor: The Influence of Humor on Persistence Behavior http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-014-9396-z
The Neurology of Humour http://www.acnr.co.uk/2014/02/the-neurology-of-humour/
The Prefrontal Cortex
Arnsten, Amy. “The Mental Sketchpad: Why Thinking has Limits.” NeuroLeadership Summit Lecture, 2008
Creative Minds: making sense of stress on the brain https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2014/03/18/creative-minds-making-sense-of-stress-and-the-brain/
http://www.medicineatyale.org/janfeb2010/people/peoplearticles/55147/
The Goldilocks of the Brain (Your Pre-Frontal Cortex)
Rock, David. “SCARF: a brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others,”NeuroLeadership Journal, Issue One 2008 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2907136/
Stress
Stress Management
https://jamesclear.com/
Impact of our stress on others
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-brain-cells-contact-stressed-individual.html
Naming the Emotion
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sweet-emotion/201408/why-labeling-emotions-matters
http://dana.org/BrainWork/2013/When_Labeling_an_Emotion_Quiets_It/
Controlling the Environment
Values and Purpose
https://hbr.org/2015/09/manage-stress-by-knowing-what-you-value
Reframing or Reappraisal
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-00163-011
Mindfulness
Luders, Eileen; Clark, Kristi; Narr, Katherine; Toga, Arthur. “Enhanced Brain Connectivity in Long-term Meditation Practitioners.” NeuroImage, 2011
Activating the Parasympathetic Nervous System (recovery from stress)
Quarter Two
The Right and Left Hemisphere
My Stroke of Insight, Jill Bolte Taylor — a wonderful book about right brain/left brain, written by a neuroscientist who had a stroke. Also TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist — amazing, powerful work on the right and left brain. The RSA video is also fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI)
Attention and the Hemispheres, Iain McGilchrist — https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-brain/201012/attention-and-the-hemispheres
Bloom and Hynd. “The Role of the Corpus Callosum in Interhemispheric Transfer of Information: Excitation or Inhibition?” Neuropsychology Review, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2005
Holt, Jim. “Of Two Minds.” New York Times, May 2005
“Right Left Right Wrong,” Luke Mastin — a rigorous look at right and left handedness and brain research.
http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/brain.html
Neuroscience and the Link Between Inspirational Leadership and Resonant Relationships https://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/neuroscience-and-the-link-between-inspirational-leadership-and-resonant-relationships-2/
The Default Mode Network and Task Positive Network
The Power of Dreaming, The Power of Action
http://www.princeton.edu/~njclub/2007-10-10_papers/Fox+etal_2005.pdf
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/75923
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941086/
https://weatherhead.case.edu/departments/organizational-behavior/workingPapers/WP-13-04.pdf
Antagonistic neural networks underlying differentiated leadership roles
Quarter Three
Constructed Emotions/Prediction
https://restoringbalance.life/
The Body/Somatics
Cuddy, Amy. “Your body language shapes who you are.” TEDGlobal, June 2012
Embodied cognition: thinking with your body
Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations
Porges, Stephen, The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), 2011
Embodiment of metaphor — why escalators bring out the best in people
The Surprising And Powerful Links Between Posture and Mood
Metaphor
Metaphors are Lint Catchers for the Brain
Quarter Four
The Human Intuition System
Bradley; McCraty; Tomasino. “The Resonant Heart.” Institute of HeartMath, 2005
BRAIN
Contextual Intuition (Note, most of the research/articles I have seen over the years on contextual intuition make an argument that this is ALL intuition is. I would strenuously argue otherwise.) https://neurosciencenews.com/gut-feelings-9082/
Right Hemisphere https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218761/
Left Hemisphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter
Mirror neurons for empathy https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324974
Default Mode Network and Insight https://yourcoachingbrain.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/putting-the-wizards-to-work/
BODY
Heart and Gut Neurons, Heart’s Resonant Field
Heartmath Instititute https://www.heartmath.org/research/
https://neurosciencenews.com/gut-emotion-behavior-8682/
Vagus Nerve
https://www.stephenporges.com/
Sensory Information
https://www.livescience.com/24578-humans-smell-fear.html and https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/04/smell-fear-research-pheromone
The Collective Consciousness
Quantum Entanglement and Accessing the “Wormhole”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/feb/09/psychology-science-morphic-sheldrake
Wounds and Healing Fields
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-2016-by-mark-wolynn/
Epigenetics
The Collective Consciousness
Lieberman, Matthew. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. Crown, 2013