Lesson 2: Addiction And Mental Health - Slide  6

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Your Brain

Is a 3 pound bundle of nerves that controls every thought and feeling in the human experience

  • Is a 3 pound bundle of nerves that controls every thought and feeling in the human experience
  • Has 100 billion neurons that have 100 trillion synaptic connections with each other
  • Fills roughly the volume of a quart
  • Each person has a unique set of connection strengths that determine how their brain:
  • Reacts to sensory information it receives
  • Responds to emotional states
  • Plots its future behavior

Notes:

Pg. 34, “Depression, How it happens, How it’s healed” John Medina, Ph.D.Pg. 4-5, Pg. 167, “The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul,” Paul M. Churchland, A Bradford Book, The MIT Press, 1995

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