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The Neurological Model for Food Addiction – How the Overconsumption of Food Causes Addiction-Like Changes to the Brain
NIDA researchers explain food addiction by showing how overeating can lead to changes in the dopamine pathways of the brain, and showing how these changes alter our ability to regulate impulses to eat
John Lee · 3/24/2015
Understanding Addiction - What You Need to Know
Want to understand addiction? Here are the straight facts from the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
John Lee · 4/16/2012
Mindfulness Meditation – Research Says It Changes Your Brain in Just 8 Weeks
A growing mountain of evidence points to meditation’s effectiveness in controlling and reversing conditions as varied as anxiety and depression to high blood pressure and diabetes, but new research out of Massachusetts General Hospital shows that just 8 weeks of meditation training and practice actually results in physical grey matter changes in the hippocampus.
John Lee · 9/25/2011