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The scientific field specializing in the study of the body’s nervous system. Here we will discuss how the study of neuroscience can benefit the recovery process.

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Addiction Half-Truths: What Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Know About Neuroscience

Written By: Dr. Kevin Fleming Date: August 5th, 2010. Topic: Neuroscience.

As appeared on BehavioralHealthCentral.com, May 4, 2010
In this thought-provoking series, I will share the stuff of addiction that is in between the lines — the afterhours thoughts, if you will, the bubbles above our heads. Not that training, education and all sorts of counseling are not helpful. Of course they are. But in the understanding [...]

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The Medium is the Message

Written By: Dr. Kevin McCauley Date: October 16th, 2009. Topic: Neuroscience.

Once a month I set aside a day to read the latest research about addiction in the leading medical journals. For the last ten years I’ve watched this knowledge expand. What was once a trickle, then a stream, is now a flood, and the research is pouring out so fast that it is difficult to [...]

The Integration of Neurofeedback and Shamanic Approaches in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

Written By: Stephen I. Sideroff, Ph.D. Date: February 5th, 2009. Topic: Neuroscience.

Substance abuse behavior appears to have multiple interrelated causes. Predisposing genetic and neurobiological factors interact with family environment dynamics and early trauma to create a personal internal milieu that is primed and sensitized for craving and addictive behaviors. This is compounded by frequent concurrent psychiatrically significant diagnoses resulting in what is referred to as dual [...]

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Retraining the Brain for Substance Abuse

Written By: Steve Orenstein, LMFT Date: September 25th, 2008. Topic: Neuroscience.

Using Neuro-Imaging Techniques and a Biopsychosocial Model for Healing
The focus of this article is to explore and introduce recent work in the field of addiction recovery as it relates to the neuro-cognitive dimension. This article is the first of a series of articles focused on identifying and then developing a treatment program for addiction [...]

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Neuroscience

Addiction Half-Truths: What Your Brain Doesn’t Want You to Know About Neuroscience

The Medium is the Message

The Integration of Neurofeedback and Shamanic Approaches in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

Retraining the Brain for Substance Abuse

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