Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effects
Karla Kauntheconversation.com
Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effects
It's been shown that with 2-6 months of abstinence, social/casual drinkers can rewire their neural circuits and revert damage to their prefrontal cortex. Drinking can cause the prefrontal cortex and circuits that control memory to shut down, so chronic alcohol users are likely to feel long-lasting effects.
Andrew Huberman • What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
Neuroscientist Nora Volkow and colleagues have shown that heavy, prolonged consumption of high-dopamine substances eventually leads to a dopamine deficit state. Volkow examined dopamine transmission in the brains of healthy controls compared to people addicted to a variety of drugs two weeks after they stopped using. The brain images are striking.
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Memoirs of an addicted brain - Marc Lewis
Alcohol- GABA and glutamate
Cough syrup - limbic systems (glutamate)
Weed- cannabinioids
PCP- NMDA antagonist
Excitatory (glutamate) neurons and inhibitory neurons(GABA)- alcohol enhances GABA and quenches glutamate
Limbic system- hypothalamus and amygdala stores the memory and anticipation and keeps telling th... See more
Alcohol- GABA and glutamate
Cough syrup - limbic systems (glutamate)
Weed- cannabinioids
PCP- NMDA antagonist
Excitatory (glutamate) neurons and inhibitory neurons(GABA)- alcohol enhances GABA and quenches glutamate
Limbic system- hypothalamus and amygdala stores the memory and anticipation and keeps telling th... See more
drug. Exercise causes the brain to release many of the same neurochemicals as addictive substances, including dopamine, noradrenaline, endocannabinoids, and endorphins. With repeat exposure, running also flips the molecular switch of addiction. In laboratory studies with rats, running ten kilometers a day for one month had an effect on dopaminergic
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Meditation is not the only way in which you can use attention to change your neurophysiology and experience, but at present, these practices are the best understood, most accessible, and most clearly beneficial regimens.
Winifred Gallagher • Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health | Huberman Lab Podcast #86
youtu.beFortunately, the brain is good at learning. Once we start to shift more of our time and energy toward brown rice and potato activities, especially if we can make it through the first month or so, we start to feel pretty good. This effect is compounded if we undertake the journey with others*— a big part of why groups like alcoholics anonymous are s
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