Addiction: A Disease or a Choice?
Like many of the issues we have been looking at recently that involve the brain, this is going to be a complicate issue but I will try to tackle it the best tha...
Category: Disease
Addiction: A Dopamine Story
Addiction is a neurological disorder that affects the reward system in the brain. In a healthy person, the reward system reinforces important behaviors that are...
The Resilient Brain
We live in a world where tragic headlines cover the front page of every newspaper and early morning news segments are filled with stories of violence and hate. ...
Erasing Memory as Potential Treatment for Anxiety and PTSD
Should scientists be able to prevent memory formation? If you could have one of your memories erased, would you? Do you think that there is a place for this in ...
Anxiety: What Can You Do?
According to the ADAA, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illnesses in the United States, affecting about 40 million adults. I commonly hear people ta...
Connecting Stress, Inflammation, and Depression
Stress has been associated with Depression for a long time. The occurrence of major negative events over life, especially early life, has been shown to be stron...
Exercise’s Influence on Anxiety
Exercise is a familiar phenomenon when it comes to living a healthy lifestyle. The general population understands the idea of exercising for 30 minutes per day ...
The Stigma Surrounding Anxiety
What I see when I look at my daily schedule is a full day with a helping of fun, a dash of not so fun, a handful of hard and a sprinkle of stress. However, to o...
‘Intruders’ in the Brain!!
In a book titled, Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients and Providers, Dr. Edwin. Fuller Torrey, M.D., expertly highlights the confusion and ...
The Dangers of Misdiagnosis of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mysterious disease, and although we seem to gain deeper knowledge into its quirks and idiosyncrasies, this only seems to lead to more questio...