Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an American award-winning journalist and speaker whose work explores the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how the brain and immune system evolve throughout life.
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A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.
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https://www.eeglearn.com/bir Emerging research shows that how safe we feel in the world has a profound impact on our mental, physical, and immune health. When we at last emerge from the pandemic, we are poised for a mental health crisis of epic proportions.
Over the course of one year, Nakazawa researches and tests a variety of therapies including meditation, yoga, and acupuncture to find out what works.
Cutting-edge research tells us that experiencing childhood emotional trauma can play a large role in whether we develop physical disease in adulthood. In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the growing scientific link between childhood adversity and adult physical disease.
Interview with Donna Jackson Nakazawa about how childhood adversity and trauma not only adversely affect our emotional lives but our physical well being as adults, and how we can reset our biology and help ourselves and our loved ones to heal.
With the help of leading experts, Nakazawa explores revolutionary preventions, treatments, and cures emerging around the world and offers practical advice for protecting your immune system and reducing your risk of autoimmune disease in the future.
Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Microglial Cells and Nature's "Neat Evolutionary Trick".
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
How can we stop being caught up in other people’s thoughts? How can we stop thinking about a person or situation—what we should have or could have done differently—when the same thoughts keep looping back, rewinding, and playing through our minds again and again?
On Saturday, February 15, 2020, the Midtown Scholar Bookstore welcomed bestselling science author Donna Jackson Nakazawa to Harrisburg to discuss her new book, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine.
