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Opioids R Us

With the current opioid addiction epidemic, you may wonder what the existence of endogenous opioid systems serves. Endogenous opioids manufactured in our brains right from the day we are born are the very same opioids being chemically manufactured. They are … Continue reading

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Seeking Paradox

Jaak Panksepp in his encyclopedic “The Archeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins” discusses Seven Primary Affective (intense emotional) Systems: 1. SEEKING or expectancy 2. RAGE 3. FEAR

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