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...fade but of helping the addict learn a new form of conditioning, one that allows the brain's cognitive power to shout down the amygdala and other lower regions. "What has to happen for that cue to extinguish is not for the amygdala to become weaker but for the frontal cortex to become stronger," says Vocci...
...frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease caused by the rapid deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which Mackey injured on a goal post in his football days...
...Psychosis, for one, can never be ruled out. Russell Weston, a 41-year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic...
...brain that generates spatial imagery. That made sense: if you can't create pictures in your mind, how are you going to dream? It was the circumstances of the remaining nine patients that fascinated Solms. They had damage to the white matter of the ventromesial quadrant of the frontal lobes, an area linked to the transmission of the chemical dopamine and crucially involved in motivation, urges and cravings. These patients still experienced REM sleep but reported having lost both the capacity to dream and all sense of spontaneity, drive and love of life. They did what they were told...
...showing it to anybody under the age of 18, maybe even 21,” says the actor of the racy FX series. Despite the show’s reputation, he clarifies that “Nip/Tuck” cannot show “frontal nudity, some certain side nudity, [and] the only word[s] we’re allowed to say on that show is ‘shit’ and a couple blasphemous-type words.” Still, he notes, “having constraints gives you different ideas about things...it gives...