Neuroplasticity: Brain and Heart Interaction. Modern science is progressing in its ability to understand the human brain and the way it functions in relation to the human being.
Prior to Neuroplasticity, science assumed that the brain is the primary operating organ that determines everything about human behavior and action. Our brain is one of the most complex biological structures known to man, but science assumes that the brain drives thought, behavior, perception, emotion, disease and health. New discoveries within the field of neuroscience are starting to illustrate how the brain is taking instruction from something else. Neuroplasticity is the idea that the brain is adaptable and changeable. Mark Hyman, MD: Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants. It's the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent disease -- yet you've probably never heard of it.
It's the secret to prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and more, and necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer's disease. There are more than 89,000 medical articles about it -- but your doctor doesn't know how address the epidemic deficiency of this critical life-giving molecule ... Grumpy Granola Heads – How Organic Food Puts You in a Bad Mood. If you really are what you eat, you may want to think twice before hitting the local organic farmers market this weekend.
New research shows that organic food makes people more judgmental and less likely to help others. The study, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science Journal comes from an author working hard to uncover the link between food and mood. Neurofeedback, The $5,000 Videogame That Permanently Cured My Clinical Depression. I was first diagnosed with depression when I was six years old.
My family thought I would outgrow it, but a combination of life events (like having to visit my addict mother at an increasingly scary stream of rehabs and funny farms, her death, having a year of my life taken away by a massive car accident that put me in a coma, the death of my adoptive parents), neurological trauma (the aforementioned coma, several serious concussions), and wonky hormones ensured that the depression stayed with me.
Over its course, I tried everything possible to treat it: psychologists, psychiatrists, spiritual cleansing, self-medication, meditation, hospitalization, diets, exercise, occult rituals and more. You will notice medication is not on that list. Researchers Conclude SSRI Antidepressants Do More Harm than Good. Saturday, May 12, 2012 By: Byron J.
Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist Researchers from Canada and the U.S. have published a bombshell article on the commonly used SSRI antidepressants, concluding they do far more harm than good. Unfortunately, due to misleading and illegal marketing of these drugs over the past 15 years,10 percent of the U.S. population, a majority of whom were not being treated for depression, have been placed on these brain-injuring drugs. Over the past few years it has been exposed that Big Pharma selectively and intentionally suppressed negative SSRI studies in a way that created a false picture of benefit for marketing purposes. This was combined with illegal off-label marketing. This new study is interesting because it did not deal with the marketing scam, but rather with a rather stunning side effect profile of SSRIs that is still not well understood by doctors or the general public.
Synaptic Plasticity – The Key to Your Brain’s Future. Friday, August 31, 2012 By: Byron J.
Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist How does your brain bounce back from intense stress? When will your subconscious brain start believing you should actually be that weight you desire? And why is it you just can’t seem to break that bad habit? The answers may lie in how flexible or “plastic” your brain structures are. Depression, dopamine and dextroamphetamine. BDNF-The new form of cognition enhancement. Your right. The U.S. Military is Designing Anti-Suicide Spray. A scientist from the Indiana University School of Medicine has been awarded a grant from the U.S.
Army to design a nasal spray that should suppress thoughts of suicide. Unfortunately, it makes perfect sense that the military would be looking into alternative methods to keep soldiers from killing themselves. According to RT, 116 U.S. soldiers have died of suspected suicide in 2012, and the army currently has the highest recorded rate of suicide in its history. Developed by Dr. Stories About Mind-Altering Substances from the Archive. “Drugs offer a shortcut; they promise transcendence on demand,” writes Oliver Sacks in his essay on his experiments, during his thirties, with cannabis, LSD, morphine, and other mind-altering substances.
Sacks cites a long tradition of writing on the subject, including works by Thomas De Quincey, Aldous Huxley, and Havelock Ellis. A number of New Yorker contributors have also explored this terrain. One of the earliest accounts was by Meyer Berger, whose “Tea for a Viper” described a visit to a marijuana party in Harlem in 1938. (“Viper” was then a common term for a marijuana smoker, and “tea” was one of many slang terms for the drug. Nicknames abounded in this demimonde: the host of the party was a fellow known as Chappy; his customers included a man named Big Boo and woman who called herself Fruits.) Effects of Growth Hormone–Releasing Hormone on Cognitive Function in Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Older AdultsResults of a Controlled TrialEffects of GHRH on Cognitive Function in Adults.
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Baker, PhD, Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, GRECC-S182, 1660 S Columbian Way, Seattle, WA 98108 (ldbaker@uw.edu). Accepted for Publication: May 24, 2012. Published Online: August 6, 2012. doi:10.1001 /archneurol.2012.1970 Author Contributions: Dr Baker had full access to all of the data and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis, which was conducted without input from the supporting institutions.
Top 40 Nootropic Supplements. Court documents shed light on night of Genna Ayup's death - KGUN9.com. The Nootropics Guide. Nootropics. Please enable JavaScript for proper rendering of mathematical equations.
A record of nootropics I have tried, with thoughts about which ones worked and did not work for me. These anecdotes should be considered only as anecdotes, and one’s efforts with nootropics a hobby to put only limited amounts of time into; for an ironic counterpoint, I suggest the reader listen to a video of Jonathan Coulton ’s I Feel Fantastic while reading. Your mileage vary. There are so many parameters and interactions in the brain that any of them could be the bottleneck or responsible pathway, and one could fall prey to the common U-shaped dose-response curve (eg.