PPT-The Hijacked Brain

Addiction and the Brain Bob Wolford Vermont Law School November 13 2015 Fun facts about Neurons Here are some interesting statistics about neurons in humans and other animals remember that these are averages because there is a lot of variability in the nervous system. The Dynamic Tension Theory Of Drug Use And Dependence Introduction The term Hijacked Brain does not originate in medical or other scientific journals. This term comes to us from a popular PBS televi in Recovery. New Mexico Highlands University 3. rd. Annual Conference. Presented By:. Cynthia Moreno Tuohy. , BSW, . NCAC II, CCDC III, SAP. Location of the Limbic System. Your . Limbic System. is located approximately in the . Brain Stem. Oldest and smallest region. Controls life itself. Governs basic, but critical survival needs. Heart actions. Digestion. Circulation. Breathing. Deeply instinctual and ritualistic. Executes the flight, fight, or freeze response. First we’ll talk about the normal brain…. . …then we’ll talk about the brain on drugs. The VIPs of Brain Function. The Human Brain. The . Brain Stem. Connects the brain and the spinal cord.. Team 2. Stephen, Josh, Anna. . & Kristian. Introduction. Our brain is divided into two halves, as most of us know: the left and right side. Each side processes information very differently than the other, and . Bob Wolford. Vermont Law School. November 13, 2015. Fun facts about Neurons. Here . are some interesting statistics* about neurons in humans and other animals (remember that these are averages because there is a lot of variability in the nervous system!):. -. The Importance of the Gut Brain Connection-. With Dr. . Todd Singleton. We Live an Addictive Lifestyle, and We Don’t Even Know It. Addictive Behaviors That Happen Throughout the Day…. Any questions about this?. Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Now available in paperback, it uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since segregation\'s dismantling, intense anxiety has surrounded interracial encounters, and a movement has arisen to engineer social relations through the specification of elaborate codes of conduct. Diversity Training in business, multicultural education in schools, and cross-cultural psychotherapy have created a world of prescriptions. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of these self-appointed experts and offers a bold and searching analysis of the origins of their ideas in the human potential movement and the radical milieu of the 1960s. Casting race primarily as an issue of etiquette or therapy, rather than of justice or equality, has had dire consequences for American life, diverting attention from the deeper problems of poverty, violence, and continued inequality and discrimination. In this sobering analysis, Race Experts illuminates how far away we are from the issues that deserve our attention. Controversial and strikingly original, Race Experts looks at how we capsized racial progress in the quest for self-esteem. Now available in paperback, it uncovers the hidden trajectory and terms of our thinking about race relations since the 1960s. Since segregation\'s dismantling, intense anxiety has surrounded interracial encounters, and a movement has arisen to engineer social relations through the specification of elaborate codes of conduct. Diversity Training in business, multicultural education in schools, and cross-cultural psychotherapy have created a world of prescriptions. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn carefully examines the teachings of these self-appointed experts and offers a bold and searching analysis of the origins of their ideas in the human potential movement and the radical milieu of the 1960s. Casting race primarily as an issue of etiquette or therapy, rather than of justice or equality, has had dire consequences for American life, diverting attention from the deeper problems of poverty, violence, and continued inequality and discrimination. In this sobering analysis, Race Experts illuminates how far away we are from the issues that deserve our attention. Every year, more than a million men undergo painful needle biopsies for prostate cancer, and upward of 100,000 have radical prostatectomies, resulting in incontinence and impotence. But the shocking fact is that most of these men would never have died from this common form of cancer, which frequently grows so slowly that it never even leaves the prostate. How did we get to a point where so many unnecessary tests and surgeries are being done? In The Great Prostate Hoax, Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen (PSA), was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multibillion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer, and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventurally approved by the FDA in 1994. Now, doctors and victims are beginning to speak out about the harm of the test, and beginning to search for a true prostate cancer-specific marker. In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature\'s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil\'s bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet\'s. In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Against the Grain, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature\'s. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil\'s bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet\'s. By: Michelle Coy. EDCI545 Brain Science and Learning. La Sierra University – Dr. Caviness . Part One >. The Brain. 1. 3. 2. http://fresh.spiffystores.com/products/grapefruit. http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Brain-in-hand.jpg. It is estimated to be only about 3 pounds, which is usually around 2 percent of your body’s weight.  . Unbelievably, given that it is the bedrock of your personality, some think even your soul, it is 85% water!   .