Status of Women committee  I want the government to teach parents and educators what self-regulation is. I want them to teach it so that they do it for themselves, and so that they recognize the need for their kids, whatever their age, to learn how to self-regulate in healthy ways.

Status of Women committee  I can do it in eight seconds. Just look south of the border, Michelle.

Status of Women committee  Let me just say to the committee that what Michelle is saying needs to be processed very carefully. This is important. Right now we are doing big projects with the armed forces. We do projects with hospitals, pediatricians and nurses, etc. They are burned out. They are overstress

Status of Women committee  Leah, you had a good professor. Yes, we do. We distinguish among three levels of the brain. We call them blue brain, red brain and grey brain. The red brain is the part below the surface, the part that has the limbic system—our emotions and things like that. All of those stresse

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We do an awful lot of work in the far north. The basic thing we've learned is that we cannot have this kind of individualistic focus. We can't look at the mind as this solitary thing. We're seeing entire communities that are in red brain. In fact, if we look south of

Status of Women committee  I agree.

Status of Women committee  One of the questions we have to be asking is why these young or older males are doing it. One of the problems we see is, again, that there is a system very deep inside the brain. It's called a seeking system, and when it becomes aggressive, it's called predatory aggression, and i

Status of Women committee  Of course it does, but the problem is that, as data coming out of the U.S. tells us, at least 50% of adolescents are having these problems, and it's probably considerably more, so we need to be thinking in terms of a universal model. Our problem is that they are living at a time

Status of Women committee  You're exactly right. My older son is on the spectrum. The very first thing we did was get him a service dog. We now know that what the dog does is trigger oxytocin. Oxytocin shuts down the stress response. The problem with PTSD is that the victim has what's called a kindled or

Status of Women committee  You've done your homework, Anna. What the medication does is suppress the physical symptoms of an anxiety attack. It slows the heart. It slows galvanic responses. It does nothing to stop the mental side. It does nothing to stop the stress itself. The dog does. Here what we fi

Status of Women committee  We need more dogs.

Status of Women committee  The problem they have is that, in isolation, they cannot reduce their stress, and here is a very interesting phenomenon. When stress is very high, it shuts down our self-awareness. It shuts down our feelings. Now we have the compound problem that they're feeling anxious but they

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. I don't understand.

Status of Women committee  That's why I didn't understand. I haven't done that.

Status of Women committee  Forgive me for answering in English. I couldn't find my translation button. Both Debbie and Jaime have identified something very important. We know the data tells us that these pride centres have this beneficial effect. As neuroscientists, we're always asking why. Here, the “why