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Molecular Neurobiology of Addiction Recovery : the 12 Steps Program and Fellowship.
Humans are biologically programmed to seek out pleasurable experiences. These experiences are processed in the mesolimbic system, also referred to as the 'reward center' of the brain, where a number of chemical messengers work in concert to provide a net release of dopamine in the Nucleus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2013.
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| Colección: | SpringerBriefs in neuroscience.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 ... Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotic Anonymous; References; 2 Molecular Neurobiology of Recovery with the Twelve Steps; 2.1 ... Step 1: We Admitted that We were Powerless Over Alcohol
- that Our Lives had Become Unmanageable; 2.1.1 Loss of Control (Powerlessness) and Molecular Neurobiology; 2.1.2 Unmanageable; 2.2 ... Step 2: Came to Believe that a Power Greater than Ourselves Could Restore Us to Sanity; 2.2.1 Genospirituality; 2.2.2 Sanity; 2.2.3 Development of a Genetic Map to Identify Individuals at Risk for Impaired Judgment.
- 2.3 ... Step 3: Made a Decision to Turn Our Will and Our Lives Over to the Care of God as We Understood Him2.3.1 Will/Control; 2.4 ... Step 4: Made a Searching and Fearless Moral Inventory of Ourselves; 2.4.1 Brain Reward Circuitry Impairment During Protracted Abstinence; 2.5 ... Step 5: Admitted to God, to Ourselves, and to Another Human Being the Exact Nature of Our Wrongs; 2.5.1 Understanding the High Mind; 2.5.2 Insights into the Mystery of Anxiety and Aggressive Behavior of the Alcoholic; 2.6 ... Step 6: Were Entirely Ready to have God Remove All These Defects of Character; 2.6.1 Honesty.
- 2.7 ... Step 7: Humbly Asked Him to Remove Our Shortcomings2.8 ... Step 8: Made a List of All Persons We had Harmed, and Became Willing to Make Amends to Them All; 2.8.1 Friendship; 2.8.2 Families; 2.8.3 Happiness; 2.9 ... Step 9: Made Direct Amends to Such People Wherever Possible, Except When to do so Would Injure Them or Others; 2.10 ... Step 10: Continued to Take Personal Inventory and When We were Wrong Promptly Admitted it.
- 2.11 ... Step 11: Sought Through Prayer and Meditation to Improve Our Conscious Contact with God, as We Understood Him, Praying Only for Knowledge of His Will for Us and the Power to Carry that Out2.12 ... Step 12: Having had a Spiritual Awakening as the Result of These Steps, We Tried to Carry this Message to Alcoholics, and to Practice These Principles in All Our Affairs; References; 3 Conclusions; References; Index.