I was very pleased when a colleague who heads up the department of psychology at American University in Washington, DC, invited me to talk to his students about seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and the Winter Blues. Having researched the condition, which I described and named back in 1984, and treated hundreds of SAD patients since […]
Botox for Depression? I have always gravitated to research approaches that are off the beaten track, such as the study of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and light therapy that I spearheaded at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) over 30 years ago. At that time, seasonal affective disorder (SAD) had not yet been identified: […]
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a concept that has been around for a few decades, but came into popular awareness following the publication of Daniel Goleman’s 1995 best-seller by the same title. While many people intuitively understand that EI represents an important dimension of personality, it is tricky to define and, as yet, there is no […]
Today, February 17th 2014, at 11am EST I was interviewed by Nancy Redd (@nancyredd), of Huffington Post Live. The topic was Seasonal Affective Disorder and Winter Blues. It was a lot of fun to do this interview, as it was an interactive experience over a Google hangout. The interview was entitled, “Seasonal Sadness: Seasonal Affective […]
Meditation to Boost Business Performance, Morale & Creativity I am so looking forward to joining my friends, Drs. Mehmet Oz and Pamela Peeke on February 11th at The New York Town Hall forum in promoting a cause that I believe is going to be really important — getting Transcendental Meditation into business. I believe that […]
To all those who’ve been congratulating me for predicting that the Seahawks would win the Superbowl (original article: Meditation & Yoga? The Seahawks’ Superbowl Advantage) because their training included Yoga and meditation, let me put the record straight. I made no such prediction. I simply said that the documented effects of meditation on brain and body […]
Recently, a friend asked me if I thought the Seattle Seahawks had a leg up on their Superbowl competition because coach Pete Carroll encourages his team to meditate and do Yoga as part of their routine. Although the news media have responded with curiosity to the Seahawks meditating as part of their Superbowl preparation, emphasizing […]
On the morning of Friday October 25, 2013 Doctor Norman E. Rosenthal will be speaking at the TEDxLowerEastSide event in New York, NY. The theme of this event is called, “The Heroes Journey.” Description of event from – http://www.tedxlowereastside.com We all want to pursue lives of meaning. It is the stories — the ones we […]
Dear Friends, Below is the announcement for the FOUR separate talks in the NYC area this coming weekend. All talks are free and open to the public. I will be talking about The Gift of Adversity and it’s connection to Meditation.
How can we make the best of difficult times? The video below features award-winning pianist Roy Eaton, CEO of Strategic Investments Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg, and physiotherapist and trainer, Stacy King.
