In this video, Dr Mike discusses how alcohol changes our brain and the specific neurotransmitters involved in dependence and withdrawal.
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Dr. Ruth Ross describes what happens in the brain when introduced to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the primary ingredients in cannabis.
In this episode, Anat Baniel and Donna Jackson Nakazawa discuss: • the smallest cell in the brain—microglia—how it works and its function as an immune system; • groundbreaking discoveries about the brain and how microglia link mental and physical health; • how chronic stressors and trauma...
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion.
It's one of most paradigm-shifting and powerful stories in the history of medicine, writes Donna Jackson Nakazawa. From MS to Parkinson's to Lupus and depression and schizophrenia the microglia, a tiny brain cell, is changing how we understand physical and psychiatric illness.
In my keynote for the 2019 New Jersey Prevention Network Annual Conference in Atlantic City, I explain how childhood adversity can change body and brain, triggering epigenetic shifts that affect physical and mental health later in life; why girls are at higher risk for Adverse Childhood Experiences...
Hank explains why EVERYONE is capable of hallucinating.
In his work with trauma patients, Dr. Rigg has observed how the brain is constantly reacting to sensory information, generating non-thinking reactions before our intelligent individual human brains are able to process the event and formulate a self-driven response.
In this engaging talk, Jolene Park shares her experience of gray area drinking—the kind of drinking where there’s no rock bottom, but you drink as a way to manage anxiety and then regret how much and how often you drink.
For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.