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		<title>&#8220;Stir up your own DNA at home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many of you I always wondered what my DNA looked like. Check out this image of DNA  to get an idea of how your DNA repairs itself (http://preview.tinyurl.com/89jffu2). This is an automatic process that is stimulated by having a healthy bio-terrain. A healthy environment for the body to grow and repair itself is supported [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like many of you I always wondered what my DNA looked like.</p>
<p>Check out this image of DNA  to get an idea of how your DNA repairs itself <a href="http://compmed.com/family-care/genetics/stir-up-your-own-dna-at-home-2/attachment/230px-dna_repair/" rel="attachment wp-att-1878"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1878" title="230px-DNA_Repair" src="http://compmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/230px-DNA_Repair-150x150.jpg" alt="230px DNA Repair 150x150 Stir up your own DNA at home" width="150" height="150" /></a>(<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/DNA_Repair.jpg/230px-DNA_Repair.jpg"><strong>http://preview.tinyurl.com/89jffu2). </strong></a><strong>This is an automatic process that is stimulated by having a healthy bio-terrain</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>A healthy environment for the body to grow and repair itself is supported by whole foods, proper sleep and</strong><strong><a href="facebook/energyguaranteed "> exercises</a> and doing activities we love.</strong></p>
<p>DNA is considered the building blocks of life that house the photon light in each body cell and helps coordinate most biochemical activity in the body.</p>
<p><em>Now with a few normal household items you too can spin out the stuff your cells are made of.</em></p>
<p><em>Send us your videos and pictures of what your made of &#8211; if you dare!!!</em></p>
<p><strong><em>How to see your own DNA Video</em></strong><br />
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DaaRrR-ZHP4" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Resources</strong></p>
<p><strong>Video</strong> courtesy of  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaRrR-ZHP4">UTUBE and NOVA</a></p>
<p><strong>Image</strong> courtesy of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/DNA_chemical_structure.svg">wikimedia.org/wikipedia</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Will organic farmers slew the Giant? Help needed!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 31, 2012, a judge in the Southern District Court of New York will decide whether a class action lawsuit &#8211; Organic Seed Growers &#38; Trade Association (OSGATA) et al.vs.Monsanto &#8212; representing some 300,000 organic farmers against biotech giant Monsanto can proceed to trial. Will you help set farming on a safer healthier soil? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On March 31, 2012, a judge in the Southern District Court of<a href="http://compmed.com/munchie-squad/food-drink-safety/food-supply/agriculture/will-organic-farmers-slew-the-giant-help-needed/attachment/people-organic-farming/" rel="attachment wp-att-1860"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1860" title="people-organic-farming" src="http://compmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/people-organic-farming-150x150.jpg" alt="people organic farming 150x150 Will organic farmers slew the Giant? Help needed!" width="150" height="150" /></a><br />
New York will decide whether a class action lawsuit &#8211;</p>
<p>Organic Seed Growers &amp; Trade Association (OSGATA)<br />
et al.vs.Monsanto &#8212; representing some 300,000 organic farmers<br />
against biotech giant Monsanto can proceed to trial.</p>
<p><strong>Will you help set farming on a safer healthier soil?</strong></p>
<p>Watch the video produced by Food Democracy Now, and find out<br />
how you can get involved locally, to help America&#8217;s Farmers<br />
grow their crops in peace, without being sued for &#8220;infringing<br />
on Monsanto&#8217;s patented seed&#8221;, of which trace amounts were<br />
detected under inspection, and which pollinated naturally.<br />
<a href="http://www.nextworldtv.com/page/9614.html  "><br />
Please watch this video and share.</a></p>
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<p><strong>Image</strong> courtesy of  <a href="http://progressivetimes.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/people-organic-farming.jpg">progressivetimes</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Moderate intensity exercise best for health&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moderate physical activity is best to maintain your energy and health, what does this mean for the average healthy person? Moderate-intensity physical activity totaling a minimum of 150 minutes per week is the “current nationally recognized standard for physical activity.” What is moderate activity? San Diego State University researcher Simon Marshall and his colleagues recruited [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moderate physical activity is best to maintain your energy and health, what does this mean for the average healthy person?</p>
<p>Moderate-intensity physical activity totaling a minimum of 150 minutes per week is the “current nationally recognized standard for physical activity.”</p>
<p>What is moderate activity?</p>
<p>San Diego State University researcher Simon Marshall and his colleagues recruited 97 women and men to define the range for moderate activity. Each volunteer walked on a treadmill four times at four different speeds—from 2.4 miles per hour to 4.1—while a machine measured the amount of energy he or she was expending. The volunteers also wore pedometers to count their steps.<br />
Walking at a speed of at least 100 steps per minute fulfilled the lower limit of moderate-intensity exercise according to American Journal of Preventive Medicine, May 2009 issue.</p>
<p>You can use a pedometer, a watch, a notebook, and a pencil to find out how to pace yourself while walking to achieve the 100+ steps per minute.<br />
For an even more accurate individual estimate, walk for five minutes, and divide the number of steps you took by five.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lusk says women walkers who picked up the pace and walked briskly had a lot better chance of holding off the weight gain that typically comes as women get older. Not so for other walkers:</p>
<p>&#8220;The women tended to gain more than 5 percent of their baseline body weight if they slow-walked.&#8221; (6 seconds)</p>
<p>For bikers, as little as five minutes more a day helped with weight control.</p>
<p>The study in Archives of Internal Medicine was supported by the National Institutes of Health</p>
<p><strong>Resource </strong></p>
<p><strong>Excerpts </strong>courtesy of<strong> <a href="http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch? .rand=610910753&amp;action=compose&amp;To=&amp;Subj = Exercise:%20A%20program%20you%20can%20 li ve%20with&amp;Body=http://www.health.harv ard .edu/special_health_reports/Exercise ?utm _source=HEALTHbeat&amp;amp;utm_medium=e mail&amp; amp;utm_campaign=021709">http://tinyurl.com/795z8wt</a></strong><a href="http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch? .rand=610910753&amp;action=compose&amp;To=&amp;Subj = Exercise:%20A%20program%20you%20can%20 li ve%20with&amp;Body=http://www.health.harv ard .edu/special_health_reports/Exercise ?utm _source=HEALTHbeat&amp;amp;utm_medium=e mail&amp; amp;utm_campaign=021709">.</a></p>
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<p>http://www.health.harvard.edu/special_health_reports/</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Intuition infants when does it begin?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We believe that infants are born with the ability to form expectations and they use these expectations basically to predict the future,&#8221; Kristy vanMarle, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science.. &#8220;Intuitive physics include skills that adults use all the time. For example, when a glass [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We believe that infants are born with the ability to form expectations and they use these</p>
<div id="attachment_1836" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 160px"><a href="http://compmed.com/consciousness/intuition-growing-in-infants/attachment/crystalballbaby_b5x1491/" rel="attachment wp-att-1836"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1836" title="crystalballbaby_B5X1491" src="http://compmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/crystalballbaby_B5X1491-150x150.jpg" alt="crystalballbaby B5X1491 150x150 Intuition infants when does it begin?" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Baby&#39;s Intuitional Skills</p></div>
<p>expectations basically to predict the future,&#8221; Kristy vanMarle, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences in the College of Arts and Science.. &#8220;Intuitive physics include skills that adults use all the time. For example, when a glass of milk falls off the table, a person might try to catch the cup, but they are not likely to try to catch the milk that spills out. The person doesn&#8217;t have to consciously think about what to do because the brain processes the information and the person simply reacts. The majority of an adult&#8217;s everyday interactions with the world are automatic, and we believe infants have the same ability to form expectations, predicting the behavior of objects and substances with which they interact.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Kristy vanMarle &#8220;We believe that infants are born with expectations about the objects around them, even though that knowledge is a skill that&#8217;s never been taught. As the child develops, this knowledge is refined and eventually leads to the abilities we use as adults.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In a review of related scientific literature from the past 30 years, vanMarle and Susan Hespos of Northwestern University found that the evidence for intuitive physics occurs in infants as young as two months – the earliest age at which testing can occur.&#8221;</p>
<p>Testing could begin prebirth by assessing the changes in the mother&#8217;s food, behavior and music choices.  If a mom after she conceives craves vegetables and she never did before this craving may be the baby&#8217;s needs being expressed.</p>
<p>While the intuitive physics knowledge is believed to be present at birth, vanMarle believes parents can assist skill development through normal interaction, such as playing and talking with the child and encouraging him/her to interact with objects.</p>
<p>Human intuition or knowing does not begin or end each life. According to Murshida Vera Corda, PhD, whos&#8217; life work was dedicated to helping parents and caretakers develop the ability to attune to their children. Parents are taught to work with their children from conception on. Talking, becoming aware of their child&#8217;s needs through observing what is happening in their five developmental bodies: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and ethical/moral, regardless of their chronological age.</p>
<p>In her book <a href="http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000243653/Cradle-of-Heaven.aspx"><em>Cradle of Heaven,</em></a> she shows how motherhood and fatherhood consists of a series of skills we relearn in life’s greatest challenge — parenting.</p>
<p><strong>Resources</strong></p>
<p><strong>Excerpts</strong> courtesy of <a href="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-babies-born-intuitive-physics-knowledge.html">medicalxpress.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Image</strong> courtesy of <a href="http://harvardmedicine.hms.harvard.edu/m agazine/autumn2010/images/baby_B5X1491.j pg">http://tinyurl.com/7ubln7h</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Infant formula-more dangerous than vaccines?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Pediatricians spend much time frightening parents with something like a 1 in 100,000 combined risk from vaccine-preventable diseases when parents question the utility and safety of vaccines…. Yet these very same professionals offer formula samples with the other hand – when the magnitude of health risks associated with the use of formula is 500 times [...]]]></description>
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<div>&#8220;Pediatricians spend much time frightening parents with something like a 1 in 100,000 combined risk from vaccine-preventable diseases when parents question the utility and safety of vaccines…. Yet these very same professionals offer formula samples with the other hand – when the magnitude of health risks associated with the use of formula is 500 times greater.&#8221; ~ <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/infant-formula-disaster?utm_source=www.GreenMedInfo.com&amp;utm_campaign=64be7f8e12-Greenmedinfo&amp;utm_medium=email">Dr. Linda Folden Palmer, excerpted from The Deadly Influence of Formula&#8221;</a></div>
<div><em>Remember: Infant protection must be monitored on all levels to raise health kids. Is formula more dangerous than vaccines?  Nothing canned ever produced something alive.</em></div>
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		<title>&#8220;Photon energy -chicken health&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After treating laying hens with Chiren photon energy they lived healthier, longer and laid more eggs longer than regular untreated hens.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poultry is subject to a widespread vaccination regime. While some of the vaccinations are <a href="http://compmed.com/family-care/environment/photon-energy-chicken-health/attachment/chicken-eggs-612989/" rel="attachment wp-att-1817"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1817" title="Chicken-Eggs-612989" src="http://compmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Chicken-Eggs-612989-150x150.jpg" alt="Chicken Eggs 612989 150x150 Photon energy  chicken health" width="150" height="150" /></a>mandatory by law, most vaccinations are given under the assumption that it can’t hurt to give the chickens some extra protection. Diseases are then dealt with mostly through the use of antibiotics.<br />
Vaccinations are known to produce a reaction that will inflict harm on the chickens, visible in the number of deaths, disturbances in the digestive tract and breathing problems to name a few. And there is evidence suggesting that not only bacteria from mother chickens are present in chicks hatched from their eggs, but that the effects of the vaccinations in the mother chickens seem to be present in their offspring as well. Antibiotics are a further strain on the chickens. Also, laying hens are known to suffer from burn out, where the chicken will keep producing eggs while depleting any reserves it has, causing chickens to die suddenly at the end of the laying period.</p>
<p>After being treated for vaccinations effects with the Chiren&#8217;s photon energy, the feed intake changed, as did the growth of the chickens. To briefly set the standard: A ‘normal’ growth patterns means that a chicken being raised as a laying hen will grow no more than about 9 to 10 grams per day, 14 or 15 grams for exceptional farmers and chickens.</p>
<p>The limited growth for laying hens is caused by the cross breeding that has taken place to maximize the laying capabilities of chickens. A byproduct of that cross breeding is that it is difficult to get the chickens to eat enough.</p>
<p>After the first treatments with the Chiren, the chickens not only grew between 18 and 25 grams per day, but ate and drank more than before. The chickens grew faster than the normal, and ate less than they should have according to the accepted norm: 5.7 kg/chicken instead of 6.3 kg/chicken in feed intake over a period of time. And this was for chickens that were already 12 weeks old when we started with the treatment.</p>
<p><strong>Second experiment</strong> <strong>-older hens</strong></p>
<p>Currently, we monitoring and treating a new flock of chicks the same farmer is raising. In the first two weeks, the chicks grew according to the accepted norm, but used almost 35% less feed to achieve that. So far, we can only assume that the feed intake may possibly drop to the almost 10% lower feed intake the slightly older laying hens are currently showing.</p>
<p>Next, the production flock of laying hens was treated. After several weeks, the death rate dropped from 2 to 4 chickens per week to 0 to 1 chickens per week. The industry norm of 12  deaths in flocks of the same size.</p>
<p>Usually after 42 weeks, laying hens are past their prime and normally show a decrease in the number of eggs laid. This Chiren treated flock,showed an increase in the egg production overall, and is producing 1.5% more eggs than before treatment.</p>
<p>Conclusions:</p>
<p>Chickens overall health and production increased after treatment with Chiren/photon energy.</p>
<p>This all was possible after the effects of the vaccines were eliminated.</p>
<p><em>What are the implications for human health and longevity?</em><br />
<strong>Reprinted with permission</strong> from <strong>Sander Lourens and Paul Mak</strong> from the <strong>Wageningen University</strong> and <strong>Lively Research for Health Angel Foundation</strong></p>
<p><strong>Image</strong> courtesy of <a href="http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20080213/Chicken-Eggs-612989.jpg">featurepics.com</a></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Harvard med. students demand change&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s about time! From the beginning of a student doctor’s medical education is taught by professors with deep financial ties to the traditional pharmaceutical industry. One might say that these young doctors in training are brain washed into the belief that there is only one way to practice medicine. As the Harvard Medical Student Organization [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>It&#8217;s about time!</em></p>
<p>From the beginning of a student doctor’s medical education is taught by professors with deep <a href="http://compmed.com/inspiration/harvard-med-students-demand-change/attachment/new-class-harvard-medical-school/" rel="attachment wp-att-1812"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1812" title="New Class, Harvard Medical School" src="http://compmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Harvardmedschoo-150x150.jpg" alt="Harvardmedschoo 150x150 Harvard med. students demand change" width="150" height="150" /></a>financial ties to the traditional pharmaceutical industry. One might say that these young doctors in training are brain washed into the belief that there is only one way to practice medicine.<br />
As the <strong>Harvard Medical Student Organization</strong> discovered, the clinicians and researchers who lead preclinical medical education at US medical schools are usually drawn from affiliated medical centers and therefore are likely to have financial ties to industry.3  Out of Harvard&#8217;s 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that they or a family member have ties to drug companies that could bias their teaching or research.<br />
• The pharmaceutical industry contributed more than $11.5 million to Harvard in 2008 for “research and continuing education classes.”</p>
<p>In the context of physician education, financial relationships to the subject matter have been shown to induce selective presentation of data and definitely created the medical mantra that the only good and safe medicine is the Big Pharm. one.<br />
Drug companies were the greatest influence on doctors’ decisions of which drugs to prescribe. Further, about 70 percent of doctors regarded drug representatives as an efficient way to obtain new drug information! One professor’s disclosure list had 47 company affiliations!</p>
<p>Drug companies spend $4 billion each year on direct-to-consumer ads in the United States, but 400% more, a massive $16 billion, to influence your doctor. That is $10,000 per year per doctor   in the United States.</p>
<p>Two hundred Harvard Medical School students have challenged their school’s administration, demanding an end to pharmaceutical industry influence in the classroom. These organic changes will take years to unwind and reeducation of staff to open their eyes to safer natural ways to care for people.</p>
<p>Harvard received the lowest possible grade, an “F,” from the American Medical Student Association, a national group that rates how well medical schools monitor and control drug industry money.</p>
<p>The students were joined by Dr. Marcia Angell, a faculty member and former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, who has vigorously advocated for an end to liaisons between academia and Big Pharm.</p>
<p><em>Go Students!  Become educated and aware so more consumers can receive quality well informed integrated health care.</em><br />
<strong>Resources</strong><br />
<strong>Excerpts</strong> courtesy of<a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/306/9/991.extract"> jama.ama-assn.org</a><br />
<strong>Excerpts</strong> courtesy of <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/18/Harvard-Medical-Students-Rebel-Against-Big-Pharma-Ties.aspx">mercola.com</a><strong></strong></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Special gift of love and health&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the American College of Rheumatology annual conference in Chicago this week, &#8220;Losing a moderate amount of weight can mean big pain relief to sufferers of knee arthritis. 5-10 percent loss of body weight can result in upwards of a 50% increase in mobility and a significant drop in pain levels.&#8221; For more information click [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;Losing a moderate amount of weight can mean big pain relief to sufferers of knee arthritis.</p>
<p><em>5-10 percent loss of body weight can result in upwards of a 50% increase in mobility and a significant drop in pain levels.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<title>&#8220;Addiction related to brain wiring&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists pinpoint the brain circuitry linked to making healthy or unhealthy choices (Medical Xpress) &#8212; What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved? Drug Dependence Quiz &#8211; Identify substance abuse problems Confidential, free online survey &#8211; TurnToHelp.com Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed [...]]]></description>
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<p>(Medical Xpress) &#8212; What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved?<br />
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<p>Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have pinpointed the exact locations in the brain where calculations are made that can result in addictive and compulsive behavior.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley researchers have found how neural activity in the brain&#8217;s orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortex regulates our choices. These astonishing new findings could pave the way for more targeted treatments for everything from drug and alcohol abuse to obsessive-compulsive disorders.</p>
<p>&#8216;The better we understand our decision-making brain circuitry, the better we can target treatment, whether it&#8217;s pharmaceutical, behavioral or deep brain stimulation,&#8221; said Jonathan Wallis, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at UC Berkeley and the principal investigator of the study to be published in the Oct. 30 online issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.</p>
<p>Wallis was inspired to look into the brain mechanism behind substance abuse when he observed the lengths to which addicts will go to fulfill their cravings, despite the downside of their habit: He asked, &#8220;What has the drug done to their brains that makes it so difficult for them not to make that choice? What is preventing them from making the healthier choice?&#8221;</p>
<p>In the new study, he and fellow researchers targeted the orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex –- two areas in the frontal brain &#8212; because previous research has shown that patients with damage to these areas of the brain are impaired in the choices they make. While these individuals may appear perfectly normal on the surface, they routinely make decisions that create chaos in their lives. A similar dynamic has been observed in chronic drug addicts, alcoholics and people with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.&#8221;</p>
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