Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Revised and Expanded Edition: The breakthrough programme for conquering anxiety, depression, anger and obsessiveness

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So sudden outbursts of anger, not connecting or able to "read" others non-verbal language all have a possibility of physical brain problems. How touching brings about physical responses - stirring the limbic system, why couples bond beyond their emotional connection, and casual sex really isn't. Speaking of underlying biological factors, a good brain-health doctor will ask questions about your medical history and scan for any existing brain injuries.

The author outlines a method of study, diagnosis, and treatment where a doctor scans parts of the brain while they are in use to determine whether they are "functioning normally" or not. All medical disciplines other than psychiatry have made fantastic progress over the past decades, using technology to refine diagnostics and find better suited treatments.

He uses anecdotes, metaphors, analogies, and humor to illustrate his points and to keep the reader’s attention. Part of that includes being aware of external societal factors that are harming our brains and doing the best you can to keep your brain out of harm’s way.

If you poison your brain you poison your mind, so not much alcohol, no illegal drugs, including marijuana, stop smoking, limit your caffeine intake, and stop using cleaning products without good ventilation.However, I couldn't overlook the fact that the author is just kind of an old-fashioned, close-minded douchebag. The SPECT approach challenges the perception that individuals with mental illness have a certain degree of control over their condition. The biggest lesson I have learned from our brain-imaging work is that you are not stuck with the brain you have.

How you eat and the kind of professional help you receive can make or break your brain-health improvement journey. He also provides case studies of his patients who have successfully changed their brains and their lives by following his recommendations. In his study, Bratman found that participants who had gone for a 90-minute walk in a quiet, tree-lined neighborhood reported experiencing less morbid rumination and showed less blood flow to the subgenual prefrontal cortex than those who had walked along a busy highway for the same amount of time. Whatever useful scientific information a reader could have gleaned from Amen, it is overshadowed by the author's personal, biased opinion. White matter is the tangle of nerve fibers that conduct electrical signals between neurons and connects nerve cells to each other, while in the gray matter information is processed.I ate lots of fast food, lived on diet sodas, would often get by on 4-5 hours of sleep at night, I worked like a nut and didn’t exercise much. Perfection in combining leading-edge brain science technology with a proven, user-friendly, definitive, and actionable road map to safeguard and enhance brain health and functionality. In times of extreme stress, relaxation techniques such as deep breathing and meditation can be beneficial. The diagnoses comes with sending some sort of radioactive dye through the brain, which lights up those areas unusually active or not active enough. On the other hand, there are enough nuggets of interest to have allowed me to read it through (mostly).