Gabor Mate

Close Encounters with Addiction

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Close Encounters With Addiction is a lecture Dr. Gabor Maté gave in Los Angeles in April 2011. He talks about his experience as a physician and how many of his patients suffer from mental illness, drug addiction and HIV, or all three.
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59 printed pages
Original publication
2011
Publication year
2011
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    stress. And if you look at the personalities or the life histories of people on that side of the spectrum you can see the correlation. I
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    There is a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, which is engaged in memory and in emotional processing. That organ is smaller in people with a strong right-wing perspective. I’ll tell you something else, what shrinkss the hippocampus is high levels of cortisol and
  • Carina Olsenhas quoted3 years ago
    In such rats there are more receptors for the brain’s natural tranquilizing chemicals so they are not as stressed as the rats that are not so well-licked by the mother. It’s not genetic, because if you take the rats of mothers that don’t lick so well and put them with mothers that do, they grow up to be normal, and vice versa.

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