In the context of pruning and the “use it or lose it” model, addiction is like a pathway. It may start out as a mere amble through the woods, a poorly defined trail, but can end up like a super highway with few exits. Drugs are the vehicles that drive that road, and every new […]
by Erich Engelhardt M.A. and Joseph Shrand, MD It never made sense what my teachers in medical school were telling me back in the late 1980’s about the brain: that brain cells did not replicate and once dead were therefore not replaced. Practically all other parts of the body have some way of reproducing. From […]