Dr. Allan Schore: How Relationships Shape Your Brain
from Huberman Lab
by Scicomm Media
Published: Mon Nov 11 2024
Show Notes
In this episode, my guest is Dr. Allan Schore, Ph.D., a faculty member in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, a longtime clinical psychotherapist, and a multi-book author. We discuss how early child-parent interactions shape brain circuitry, impacting our ability to form attachments, manage emotions, and navigate conflict and stress. We cover how the development of right-brain circuitry related to emotional processing and the unconscious mind regulates physiological responses, influencing adult friendships and romantic relationships. We also explore how improving your ability to listen to the emotional tone—rather than just the meaning—of words is a vital skill for fostering better relationships with yourself and others, and how it plays a role in reshaping brain circuitry.
Additionally, we explain how circuits in the right brain hemisphere drive creativity and intuition and discuss activities to access the unconscious mind. This episode delves into how the unconscious mind regulates emotions—both your own and others’—and shapes our sense of self. By the end, you’ll have new knowledge and tools to build more secure, meaningful, and impactful connections of all kinds: professional, romantic, familial, friendships, and beyond.
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Timestamps
Dr. Allan Schore
Sponsors: David & Eight Sleep
Thoughts & Unconscious Mind
Right vs Left Brain, Child Development, Attachment
Attachment Styles & Development, Emotions & Physiology
Intuition, Arousal, Emotional Regulation & Attachment
Psychobiological Attunement, Repair; Insecure & Anxious Attachment
Attachment Styles, Regulation Theory; Therapy
Sponsor: AG1
“Surrender,” Therapy, Patient Synchronization
Synchrony, Empathy, Therapy & Developing Autoregulation
Mother vs Father, Child Development; Single Caretakers
MDMA, Right Brain; Fetal Development
Sponsor: Function
Integrating Positive & Negative Emotions, Quiet vs Excited Love
Splitting, Borderline; Therapy & Emotions
Tool: Right Brain, Vulnerability & Repair
Right vs. Left Brain, Attention
Right Brain Synchronization, Eye Connection, Empathy
Music & Dogs, Resonance
Right Brain & Body; Empathic Connection, Body Language
Tool: Text Message, Communication, Relationships
Right Brain Dominance & Activities; Tool: Fostering the Right Brain
Defenses, Blind Spots
Creativity, Accessing the Right Brain, Insight
Paternal Leave, Parent-Child Relationships, Attachment
Zero-Cost Support, YouTube, Spotify & Apple Follow & Reviews, Sponsors, YouTube Feedback, Protocols Book, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter