Posts Tagged ‘neural networks’
Understand Brain Maps | Change a Habit | Change Your Life
Understand brain maps and you can learn how to change a habit, change your life. Now that’s a bold, somewhat bizarre statement. Nonetheless, it holds the key to the power each of us can wield over the health of our brain and therefore the quality of our life. Here is a very basic explanation. How…
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.”…
Read MoreAddiction and Brain Circuits | The Society for Neuroscience Explains
Addiction and brain circuits and the impacts of mind-altering substances on the brain – just one of the BrainFacts from BrainFacts.org. The Society for Neuroscience has joined forces with The Kavli Foundation and GATSBY to create “a public information initiative,” BrainFacts.org. To give you an idea of its website’s contents, the navigation tabs are: About…
Read MoreHere’s to Neural Networks and Neurotransmitters: Keys to Brain (and Therefore Emotional/Physical) Health!
Neural networks, aka electro-chemical signaling process – are the brain and body’s communication system. The health of these networks is important to normal brain functioning and therefore emotional and physical health. ___________________ This new brain research is truly amazing and goes a long way to helping clinicians, medical professionals, addicts/alcoholics, family member & friends and…
Read MoreThe Brain and the First Years of Life
The Brain and the First Years of Life – one of the key messages I share in a number of my talks is the role early childhood trauma plays as one of the risk factors for developing the disease of alcoholism and/or an ongoing problem with alcohol abuse. And here is why. We are born…
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