[Adta] Re: Adta Digest, Vol 14, Issue 12
Anne Coltre
acoltre at rochester.rr.com
Sat Dec 9 09:20:55 EST 2006
Hello All,
I have been meaning to ask this since the conference. I was so inspired
by Allegra Fuller Snyder's Marion Chace Foundation Lecture. Is there
any way to acquire that awe inspiring
film/slide show that she showed in the beginning? I felt it captured
the essence of what I often try to express when leading, teaching,
convincing/ marketing authentic movement. How about a transcript of her
lecture ? Was it video taped?
I guess what I found so inspiring were the correlations of her journey
with my own. I plan to resurrect an authentic movement group at my
Unitarian Church this winter.
During this holiday season, may we all find peace and eloquent meaning
led by our hearts.
Anne Coltre
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> 1. Supervision (Rebecca Rachelson)
> 2. shameless self-promotion (Larmeniox)
> 3. RE: shameless self-promotion (skdmt2)
> 4. Fw: BRAIN'S FEAR CENTER SHRINKS IN AUTISM'S MOST SEVERELY
> SOCIALLY-IMPAIRED (Barbara A Busse)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 10:23:22 -0700
>From: Rebecca Rachelson <rlrachelson at comcast.net>
>Subject: [Adta] Supervision
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>Hi,
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>Are there any ADTR's in Denver, CO, that would be willing to
>supervise me? In hopes of obtaining hours for my own ADTR
>certification, I am hoping to begin shortly after the New Year!
>
>Please feel free to give me a call to discuss.
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Rebecca Rachelson
>Mobile - 646.369.6077
>Home - 303.733.0578
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:24:52 -0500
>From: "Larmeniox" <larmeniox at triad.rr.com>
>Subject: [Adta] shameless self-promotion
>To: "ADTA" <adta at adta.org>, <carolina-DMT at yahoogroups.com>
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>Just to let you know I'll be presenting continuing ed workshops for professionals for Cross Country Education Company. You probably get their flyers for local workshops. The presentation is Diagnosing and Treating Binge Eating Disorder and Associated Obesity. The news for DMTs and other CATs is that I'm including a section on CATs as part of treatment!
>All of the content had to be pre-approved for ceus for other professions (nursing, social work, psychology, etc.) and research-based. So kudos to us for inclusion.
>The trainings will be in SC and Georgia in December and in Texas (Austin, Houston, San Anto) in January. If you're in the area, drop on by. Walk-in registrations are welcome.
>Leslie Armeniox
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>From: "skdmt2" <skdmt2 at bellsouth.net>
>Subject: RE: [Adta] shameless self-promotion
>To: "'Larmeniox'" <larmeniox at triad.rr.com>, "'ADTA'" <adta at adta.org>,
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> Hi leslie!
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> This isn't shameless self'-promotion, it's very innovative promotion of
>your skills that will benefit many clinicians- Also, I'm sure you worked
>very hard to develop it.
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>BRAVO & many KUDOS!
>Susan
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>PS I don't get their flyers so how can I get on the list?
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>Larmeniox
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>Subject: [Adta] shameless self-promotion
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>Just to let you know I'll be presenting continuing ed workshops for
>professionals for Cross Country Education Company. You probably get their
>flyers for local workshops. The presentation is Diagnosing and Treating
>Binge Eating Disorder and Associated Obesity. The news for DMTs and other
>CATs is that I'm including a section on CATs as part of treatment!
>
>All of the content had to be pre-approved for ceus for other professions
>(nursing, social work, psychology, etc.) and research-based. So kudos to us
>for inclusion.
>
>The trainings will be in SC and Georgia in December and in Texas (Austin,
>Houston, San Anto) in January. If you're in the area, drop on by. Walk-in
>registrations are welcome.
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>Leslie Armeniox
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>Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 10:55:36 -0500
>From: Barbara A Busse <busse002 at mc.duke.edu>
>Subject: [Adta] Fw: BRAIN'S FEAR CENTER SHRINKS IN AUTISM'S MOST
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>Hello!
> Thougth this looked really interesting. Have not had time to read it
>all myself. I would love to hear any reactions from you all.
>TAKE CARE! Barbara
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>BRAIN'S FEAR CENTER SHRINKS IN AUTISM'S MOST SEVERELY SOCIALLY-IMPAIRED
>Well Siblings Share Some of the Same Behavioral, Neural Features
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>The brain's fear hub Likely becomes abnormally small in the most severely
>socially impaired males with autism spectrum disorders <
>http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/autismmenu.cfm>, researchers
>funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of
>Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute on Child Health and Human
>Development (NICHD) have discovered. Teens and young men who were slowest
>at distinguishing emotional from neutral expressions and gazed at eyes
>least -- indicators of social impairment -- had a smaller than normal
>amygdala, an almond-shaped danger-detector deep in the brain. The
>researchers also linked such amygdala shrinkage to impaired nonverbal
>social behavior in early childhood.
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>The new findings suggest that social fear in autism may initially trigger a
>hyperactive, abnormally enlarged amygdala, which eventually gives way to a
>toxic adaptation that kills amygdala cells and shrinks the structure,
>propose Richard Davidson, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of
>Wisconsin, who report on their magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study in
>the December 2006 "Archives of General Psychiatry."*
>
>In a related study, another research team led by Davidson found that well
>siblings of people with autism share some of the same differences in
>amygdala volume, and in the way they look at faces and activate
>social/emotional brain circuitry, particularly an area critical for face
>processing.
>
>"Together, these results provide the first evidence linking objective
>measures of social impairment and amygdala structure and related brain
>function in autism," explained Davidson. "Finding many of the same
>differences, albeit more moderate, in well siblings helps to confirm that
>autism is likely the most severe expression of a broad spectrum of
>genetically-influenced characteristics."
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>While SOME people with minimal expression of these traits might be
>perceived as aloof or loners, those at the more severe end of the spectrum
>are unable to engage in give-and-take interactions and fail to develop
>age-appropriate peer relationships. Notably, they shy away from looking at
>eyes. Davidson's research team had reported last year linked such
>eye-gazing with hyperactivation of their fear hub.** Yet different studies
>have found the amygdala in autism to be variously enlarged, shrunken or
>even normal in size.
>
>Davidson, Kim Dalton and colleagues suspected that these seemingly
>inconsistent findings resulted from the wide variability of the autism
>spectrum, which masked amygdala changes - that a clearer picture would
>emerge if the length and severity of hypersensitivity to social
>interactions were factored in. They brought to bear eye-tracking and other
>measures of facial emotion processing in combination with MRI to find out
>if degree of non-verbal social impairment might predict amygdala volume in
>49 males, aged 8-25, including 25 with autism spectrum disorders.
>
>Those in the autism group who had a small amygdala were significantly
>slower at identifying happy, angry, or sad facial expressions and spent the
>least time looking at eyes relative to other facial regions. Autistic
>subjects with the smallest amygdalae took 40 percent longer than those with
>the largest fear hubs to recognize such emotional facial expressions, and
>those with the largest amygdalae spent about four times longer looking at
>eyes than those with the smallest. Eye fixation did not correlate with
>amygdala volume among 24 control subjects. The size of the amygdala
>increased early in autism group subjects with normal eye fixation, while it
>increased little in those with low eye fixation. Moreover, autism group
>subjects with small amygdalae had the most non-verbal social impairment as
>children.
>
>The researchers suggest that the amygdala in autism fits a model in which a
>brain structure adapts to chronic stress -- in this case, fear of people --
>by first becoming hyperactive, but over time succumbing to a process of
>toxic cell death and atrophy, as has been proposed occurs in the
>hippocampus for some forms of depression.*** Children with autism who are
>least hypersensitive to interaction with people would thus show slower
>amygdala shrinkage while those who were most hypersensitive would begin to
>show amygdala changes early in life. Such amygdala adaptations likely
>affect most people with autism by adulthood, according to the researchers.
>However, they caution that these changes do not explain all autistic
>behavior, but account for slightly more than half of the variability in
>nonverbal social impairment.
>
>In the related study, published online in Biological Psychiatry, October
>24, 2006,**** Davidson, Kim Dalton, Ph.D. and colleagues at the University
>of Wisconsin employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as well
>as many of the same measures used in the above study in 21 subjects with
>autism, 12 siblings and 19 healthy controls. Notably, they found that
>unaffected siblings of people with autism showed a similar pattern of
>smaller amygdalae, and decreased eye fixation as their autistic siblings
>when looking at faces.
>
>However, while the autism group showed reduced activation of a
>face-processing area, the fusiform gyrus, on both sides of their brains
>while performing a face-processing task, the well siblings showed this
>difference only on the right side. This suggested an "intermediate
>pattern" - that the well siblings were using circuitry similar to healthy
>controls, but with some slight changes reminiscent of their autistic
>siblings, but not as pervasive.
>
>Similarly, eye fixation time did not predict amygdala activation in the
>well siblings as it did in their autistic relatives. This suggested that
>looking at faces did not boost activation of emotion-related circuitry in
>the well siblings. Looking at eyes may not be a negative experience for
>them, again suggesting an intermediate pattern. Nonetheless, their
>amygdalae were about the same size as those in the autism group.
>
>The findings of both studies, taken together, suggest that measures such as
>eye gazing time may prove useful in clarifying the relationship between
>genes, brain and behavior in the autism spectrum, say the researchers.
>
>Also participating in the Archives of General Psychiatry study were: Kim
>Dalton, Ph.D., Tom Johnstone, Ph.D., Micah Long, Emelia McAuliff, Terrence
>Oakes, Ph.D., Andrew Alexander, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
>
>Also participating in the Biological Psychiatry study were: Brendon
>Nacewicz, Andrew Alexander, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin.
>
>The Archives study was also funded by NARSAD. The Biological Psychiatry
>study was also funded by NARSAD and NAAR.
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>* Nacewicz BM, Dalton KM, Johnstone T, Long MT, McAuliff EM, Oakes TR,
>Alexander AL, Davidson RJ. Amygdala volume and nonverbal social impairment
>in adolescent and adult males with autism. "Arch Gen Psychiatry". 2006
>Dec;63(12).
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>** Dalton KM, Nacewicz BM, Johnstone T, Schaefer HS, Gernsbacher MA,
>Goldsmith HH, Alexander AL, Davidson RJ. Gaze fixation and the neural
>circuitry of face processing in autism. "Nat Neurosci". 2005
>Apr;8(4):519-26. Epub 2005 Mar 6.
>
>*** McEwen BS. Mood disorders and allostatic load."Biol Psychiatry". 2003
>Aug 1;54(3):200-7. Review.
>
>**** Dalton KM, Nacewicz BM, Alexander AL, Davidson RJ. Dalton KM, Nacewicz
>BM, Alexander AL, Davidson RJ. Gaze-Fixation, Brain Activation, and
>Amygdala Volume in Unaffected Siblings of Individuals with Autism.
>"Biol Psychiatry". 2006 Oct 24; [Epub ahead of print]
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