Brain Research | Brain Development
The One Key Fact About Addiction You’ll Most Want to Know
There is one key fact about addiction that can help both the addict | alcoholic and their family members and friends. This fact is the 21st century definition of addiction, namely: Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. Addiction has long been referred to as a disease, but the addition of the words, “chronic,…
Read MoreScreening for Mental Illnesses | Depression – Anxiety – PTSD – Bipolar
Screening for mental illnesses, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD and bipolar, just might give someone the insight they’ve needed to believe that what they’re experiencing is beyond their control. It may also save someone’s life from death by suicide. One in four Americans or nearly 60 million people are affected by mental illness every year.…
Read MoreHow to Feel Better About Another Stint in Rehab
Seriously? Feel better about another stint in rehab – impossible! I agree – it is impossible – UNLESS you have a solid understanding of some key facts about addiction (whether to drugs or alcohol) discovered in the past 10-15 years. These discoveries are the result of advances in imaging technologies (SPECT, fMRI, PET, as examples)…
Read MoreYouth Alcohol Abuse Prevention Programs From a Different Angle | 21st Century Brain Research and SECONDHAND DRINKING
Youth Alcohol Abuse Prevention Programs in schools, when conducted from a different angle – that of 21st Century Brain Research and SECONDHAND DRINKING (SHD) – opens a host of opportunities for the information to be heard differently and to spread the information beyond just the student. How? Three Key Reasons To Use 21st Century Brain…
Read MoreWant to Get Through to Teens – Talk to Their Brain
Want to Get Through to Teens – Talk to Their Brain – really! In my decade of research and writing on brain development and the brain disease of addiction, understanding the whole story about puberty and the brain’s evolution [see Image 2 below] gave me the pieces that finally completed the puzzle on how/why teens…
Read More21st Century Brain Research – Empowering!
21st Century Brain Research – you won’t believe it! I had the incredible opportunity to attend a roundtable, titled: “GRAY MATTERS, Your brain, your life, and brain science in the 21st century,” at Stanford University on October 6, 2012. I’ve included the link to the taped show below – the discussion starts at 9:02. But…
Read MoreAddiction a Brain Disease? But How?
Addiction a brain disease? “No way,” or some variation thereof, is the typical reaction, I hear. Followed by something along the lines of, “Cancer is a disease. All they have to do is put down the bottle [or stop using the drug]!” Recent Research Identifies Why/How Addiction is a Brain Disease Thanks in large part…
Read MoreIt’s Just Marijuana – It’s Still a Drug; It Still Affects the Brain
“It’s just marijuana!” I can’t tell you how many times I hear this in my work with individuals and families. Many go on to defend using marijuana as safer, less harmful to self and others than drinking alcohol. Of course the legalization of prescription marijuana confuses the issue because people think that makes it “safe.”…
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