Images of Being Loved, Cared for Reduce Brain’s Response to Threat Articles, RelationshipsBy The RanchDecember 31, 2016The brain’s fear-generating capacity is a vital mechanism of protection that allows humans to respond appropriately to potential threats to their safety. From a biological perspective, the brain’s threat response is mediated by the limbic system via a pair of rounded appendages known as the right and left amygdalae.
How to Help the Family of an Alcoholic Alcoholism, ArticlesBy The RanchDecember 31, 2016Among the many tragic aspects of alcoholism is that it doesn’t only affect the alcoholic. The disease extends its tentacles into the lives of all those who surround the addict until the entire family is ill. Years of living with an alcoholic can plunge the family, as well as close friends, into their own morass,…
