- WATCH: Healing the Addicted Brain
Overcoming addiction -- to drugs, alcohol, sex, junk foods -- by looking at it differently. - Brain damage on purpose? "Sniffing/Huffing"
Dr. Richard Besser examines the dangers of huffing and its growing popularity among kids -- making dangerous inhalants more popular than marijuana, cocaine, and all other drugs.
Healing supplements vs. Food allergies
It's the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent disease -- yet you've probably never heard of it. It's the secret to prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia, and more, and necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer's disease. There are more than 89,000 medical articles about it -- but your doctor doesn't know how address the epidemic deficiency of this critical life-giving molecule: glutathione.
I Feel Your Brain (Tricycle)
Sharon Salzberg speaks with Daniel Goleman about altruism, mirror neurons, and how the human brain is wired for compassion. In his latest book, Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, author of the best-seller Emotional Intelligence, illustrates how new clinical results in the fields of neuroscience and biology show that humans are in fact wired for empathy — that without any conscious effort, we feel the joy, pain, anger, and other emotions of the people around us.