Tag: addiction
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More Mindfulness
Read more: More MindfulnessMore help via mindfulness, this time for elementary school kids in Watts: Mindfulness has been found beneficial for stress reduction, anxiety and depression, dietary challenges, addiction recovery, and many other conditions. Now it has found its way into a classroom where children as young as three are using its techniques to manage emotions and stay calm. Using…
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Opting Out
Read more: Opting OutInteresting study, by Dr. Carl Hart, written up in the New York Times: At the start of each day, as researchers watched behind a one-way mirror, a nurse would place a certain amount of crack in a pipe — the dose varied daily — and light it. While smoking, the participant was blindfolded so he couldn’t…
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Procrastination and Other Habits
Read more: Procrastination and Other HabitsPower of Habit author Charles Duhigg weighs in on Bloggingheads:
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Might Be the Dopamine
Read more: Might Be the DopamineA study finds a possible explanation why men are twice as likely as women to become alcoholics. Dopamine has multiple functions in the brain, but is important in this context because of its pleasurable effects when it is released by rewarding experiences, such as sex or drugs…Despite similar consumptions of alcohol, the men had greater…
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Rethinking Cravings
Read more: Rethinking CravingsPsychCentral: Train Brain To Reduce Cravings. Smokers who are taught cognitive strategies, such as thinking about the long-term consequences of smoking, show increased activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with cognitive control and rational thought.