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Social media, eating and gambling are just some of the things that can trigger a release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in our brain’s reward system that has a huge influence on our behaviours and habits. In The Dopamine Brain, addiction expert and clinical psychologist Dr Anastasia Hronis lifts the lid on dopamine – what it is, how it works inside our brain and how it drives our daily choices – so we can take back control.

Two neuroscience experts explain how their 4-Step Method can help break destructive thoughts and actions and change bad habits for good. A leading neuroplasticity researcher and the coauthor of the groundbreaking books Brain Lock and The Mind and the Brain, Jeffrey M. Schwartz has spent his...

A podcast about getting through life with a differently shaped brain. My Good Bad Brain aims to build a space of solidarity and validation for the neurodiverse. We do this with honest explorations of life with mental health challenges, especially depression, anxiety, ADHD, and the general existential dread of being alive today. Soomehow, from this, a sense of invisible connection, community, and possibility arises.If you're thinking about killing yourself: do not.Self - care, hydrate, be well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big Bad Beautiful Brains is a podcast about the messy brilliance of how our minds work. Honest conversations exploring how different brains think, work, and thrive — celebrating neurodiversity, neurodivergence and thinking differently, one story at a time. Hosted by James Kindred, designer, creative founder and proudly neurodivergent human, each episode is a space for open, thoughtful dialogue about the many ways our brains shape who we are and how we show up in the world. From light-hearted anecdotes to hard-won lessons, guests share how their minds help and hinder them — the coping tools...

Radically simple experimental tools to help anyone tap into a high-energy brain state to fire up innovative potential and shape their lives with intention—by the founder of a Harvard biomedical engineering innovation lab. In an age of convenience and information overload, it’s easy to go...

Read by the author. "A heartfelt invitation for grieving readers...An excellent resource for those working their way through loss." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to...

An award-winning psychologist and director of the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior shows everyone how to make real, lasting change in their lives in this exciting work of popular psychology that goes beyond The Power of Habit with science and practical strategies that can alter their problem...

To Break Free of Addictions, Optimize Your Brain, Drinking, smoking, drugs, food, gambling, web-surfing, sex: to break free of any addiction, willpower alone rarely works. The key, Doctors Daniel Amen and David E. Smith have found, lies in understanding your brain’s specific needs—and then...

Are we our brains? How can you map the mind? Can brain scans read our minds? Based on Rob Newman’s live stand-up show and new BBC Radio 4 series, his thought-provoking new book explores the scientific breakthroughs that have turned received ideas of brain science upside down. After imagining...

A psychologist confronts our pervasive misunderstanding of anxiety and presents a powerful new framework for reimagining and reclaiming the confounding emotion as the advantage it evolved to be. We taught people that anxiety is dangerous and damaging, and that the solution to its pain is to...