A limerick a day hopefully keeps the neurologist away

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 15, 2020

– Hat tip to Bar­bara Arrow­smith-Young Mark Rosenzweig’s clas­sic 1996 paper on neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty: Psy­chobi­ol­o­gy of plas­tic­i­ty: effects of train­ing and expe­ri­ence on brain and behav­ior (Behav­iour­al Brain Research): Abstract: Sup­port­ing Heb­b’s 1949 hypoth­e­sis of use-induced plas­tic­i­ty of the ner­vous sys­tem, our group found in the 1960s that train­ing or dif­fer­en­tial expe­ri­ence induced neu­ro­chem­i­cal changes in cerebral…

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Study issues warning: Opioid inhibitor naltrexone (often used to treat addictions) can reduce feelings of social connection

By Greater Good Science Center | August 15, 2017

_________ Sci­ence has long known that hav­ing pos­i­tive social con­nec­tion is impor­tant to a hap­py and healthy life. But less is under­stood about how our brains sup­port and encour­age con­nect­ing with oth­ers. While pri­or research has sug­gest­ed oxy­tocin plays a role in nur­tur­ing and trust­ing oth­ers, there­by strength­en­ing social bonds, many researchers also sus­pect that…

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