mirror neurons

Neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti, MD, and his colleagues at the University of Parma were mapping the brains of monkeys to see how specific areas of the brain function“They were monitoring a cell,” Goleman says, “that only fired when the monkey lifted its arm. One day, the cell fired even though the monkey hadn’t lifted its arm …

neurology of addiction

oh, so that’s it .. addiction is an electro-chemical neurological brain impulse!  What I need is an “internal dependency shift” to achieve “neurological pacification”. In a recent Harvard lecture, “Drug Addiction: the Neurobiology of Disrupted Free Will,” the strong connection between memory and craving suggests  more effective treatments might focus on disrupting memory rather than …