Feeling big concerns about the outcome of the Presidential election and its influence on the U.S. going forward? Then you’re experiencing the effects of dopamine on your mind and body. Dopamine is a natural narcotic-like neurochemical, instinctively supplied by our brain when we experience fear.
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Having It All!
Serotonin Oxytocin
Dopamine ALL THREE!
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How Positive Media Might Be Good For You
I talk a lot on this site about the dangerous side of media, especially violent media, and how it can jack up our dopamine levels to produce states of dopamania and dopamine addiction. However, nothing is black and white. As Sophia H.
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Beyonce’s Lemonade on the Brain, and Why ‘Visual Albums’ Are the Future of Music
Beyonce’s Lemonade represents a pioneering realization of the medium of the visual album. Though others, including Beyonce herself, have experimented with the concept before, Lemonade’s excellence and influence is sure to set the standard for our expectations around this new medium.
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OUR BRAINS HAVE A SWEET TOOTH
“The entire brain weighs three pounds (1.4 kg) and so is only a small percentage of an adult’s total body weight, typically 2%. But it consumes 20% of all the energy the body uses. Why? The perhaps oversimplified answer is that time is energy.
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TEEN BRAINS, BRILLIANT & INSANE
What IS going on in the teen brain? What causes it to function unlike the brains of children or adults? What can help teens use their brains to be safer, healthy, happier, and more successful adults?
This link offers the power point presentation, “Teen Brains, Brilliant and Insane”, given October 13, 2014
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COUPLES’ NEW BFF: NEUROPLASTICITY The sizzle doesn’t have to fizzle!
Wow! It was hot and heavy for a while. Everything about life was exciting. Conversations were animated. A shared trip to the grocery store was fun. You never knew what would happen next.
If you’re the man in this story, the possibilities of being with a new woman were exhilarating.
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3 Ways Neuroplasticity Could Change the World
If we could just re-wire our brains with 3 concepts to change the world for the benefit of everyone, what would they be?
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3. Less left hemisphere (less mammalian brain), more right hemisphere (more human brain)
