[Buddha-l] neuroscience: neural plasticity

[Franz Metcalf]

Michael et al.,

Some months ago, Michael Paris sent us a favorable review of Begley's 
_Change Your Mind, Train Your Brain_. In it Michael wrote,

> Moving to a close, chapter Eight focuses on the work of social
> psychologist Philip Shaver in some detail. Shaver searches for means
> "to enhance compassion and altruism in the real world." In support of
> Shaver, sociology's Attachment Theory is surveyed in some detail.

Do you mean *psychology's* attachment theory, Michael? I'm familiar 
with attachment theory, arising out of John Bowlby's work and 
continuing with the work of Mary Ainsworth and various others. Folks 
like Peter Fonagy are now working to link attachment theory with 
neuropsychology and neurophysiology. I believe such work provides 
perhaps the only current scientifically significant (meaning 
falsifiable) linking of depth psychology and neurology. But perhaps 
there's something called "attachment theory" in sociology as well.

Franz