Dr. Todd Carran 2 of 6 Lectures: Pathophysiology of the Brain
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2015
- The brain in addiction. In this lecture we are going to talk about how the actual structure of the individual brain cells changes that explain why the disease of addiction is and must be progressive. The way to show that is by looking at what happens with a mood altering substance at the individual brain cell level. We will specifically be looking at a couple of brain cells in the Nucleus Accumbens aka the “pleasure center”.
Thank u!! thank u!! thank u!!! These lectures are so informative.
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This video helped me better understand the functions of the brain. This lecture gave me better understanding of how the brain is function when a person is addicted. I wish there was more information about the brain.
Very informative lecture. I liked how after watching this, I now have a better understanding on disorders. Feels great to gain more knowledge on this topic.
Again…thanks for sharing ✌️
i find it interesting that the brain changes the funtional structure when a person has a drug addiction, i find it interesting that addiction affects the pleasure area of our brain, and that even if our frontal lobes tell our brain that the drugs are bad our pleasure part of our brain overrides thosewarning signs therefore prrompting the individual to keep seeking the drugs
You say that people don't have a choice...Are you saying they have zero control over this impulse? I would have considered myself an alcoholic a year and a half ago, I was drinking more than 8 and up to 25 drinks, 3 or 4 nights a week. And having at least 2 or 3 drinks every day minus some stints of swearing off drinking that would tend to last from 2 or 3 days to a week. I have managed to change to more of a moderate drinker, I don't have any cravings and I've never had what I would call a relapse. i just knew it was bad for me and I managed to gradually reduce the amount I was drinking. I drink 4 or 5 beers a day now usually, over an 8-10 hour period. I rarely drink anything other than beer, and mix most of my beers with almost half water+ice. I never get drunk anymore, I get to the point of buzz sometimes, or just about drunk occasionally, but not where I turn into an idiot, become uncoordinated, blackout or get out of control, during the time I am drinking I consume more water than beer. If I was helpless against this as you say and so vulnerable to a relapse, why was I able to transition from having a significant problem with alcohol to still using alcohol daily and not having a problem with it?
Also I have no problem waiting until 5 or 6 pm to have my first drink. I rarely crave a drink and it's never anything I need so badly that I can't wait. Sometimes I'll have a drink or 2 in the afternoon, but it's not like I need it so badly, it's just not a big deal
How's it going now?
I hope all is still well with you David?
Do let us know.
The answer to your very reasonable question is that not everyone is an addict.
The addicted mind functions differently to the non-addicted mind.
As Dr Todd says in his lectures the Nucleus Accumbens or Limbic system is dominant. In Freudian language our pleasure centres dominate our Orbito Frontal Cortex & mood alteration becomes more important than hydration. Our perception of what is most important is fed by sensation; what fells pleasant becomes what is most important, we become hedonistic, we become hedonists & a sub-culture is firmed.
If you were never addicted you (along with multiple millions around the world) would be able to change your behaviours because your frontal lobes never went totally offline, they were still engaging. You therefore always had choice you just chose to drink excessively because you wanted to. You then changed your mind & your behaviours followed, you were always in control you were just choosing to get drunk because you were wanted to.
Where addiction becomes difficult & tragic is when a person wants to change but can’t, that is clearly not you. Millions change their habits daily around the world but similarly millions don’t too & those who don’t retrospectively are the addicted of this world. Nobody knows why they just know how. Whilst we can all follow the ‘how’ if addiction there is no understanding of the ‘why’ that comes anywhere near our knowledge of the ‘how’. We are addicted to the how but miles from finding adequate explanations as to the why. Which is why it is, rightly in my opinion, described as a malady of the soul, or as the Anonymous organisation terms it, a “hole in the soul’.
Carl Jung famously commented “ show me an alcoholic & I’ll show you someone in search of God”.
Let us know how you are David Benes, there are people out here who care about you.
Because the he's representing the disease model which is the way people are scapegoated and controlled by the therapeutic state. Society needs to legalize and regulate drugs and stop criminalizing people so people do not die from overdoses and struggle further in life.., however, disease model folks are not interested in that! Just mickey mouse science...
Hope to find more videos like this, great topic.