Alcohol and the development of adolescent brain

Binge drinking, defined as more than five drinks on one occasion, has become a common and more extreme pattern of drinking among young Australians.
Recognising that adolescence is a critical period for brain development, we are conducting research into how excessive drinking affects the teenage brain. This research will be crucial to informing our alcohol licensing laws and public health advice.

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About our research 

In adolescence, the brain undergoes active rewiring of circuitry that is necessary for successful development of ‘adult’ adaptive patterns of behaviour and cognitive functioning, with particular focus on the frontal lobe and its connections. Prof Lindy Rae is examining this connectivity in the brains of binge drinkers and comparing these ‘tracts’ to those from control (abstaining) participants. We are also studying the size of brain regions known to be affected by alcohol, such as the hippocampus, to see whether brain structure is altered by binge drinking.
We are using questionnaires, cognitive testing and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look for changes in structure and connectivity as well as chemical differences in the brain.
Alcohol is thought to induce a state where the glutamate system – the major excitatory system in the brain – becomes unbalanced. We have found significant elevations in frontal lobe glutamate in boys who binge drink. Binge drinkers showed impaired neuro-cognitive function, with significantly slower responses and greater errors on the tests of inhibition and poorer emotional face recognition compared to non drinkers. These changes were positively correlated with binge drinking episodes and alcohol consumption.

7 STEPS TO ABSOLUTE EMPOWERMENT

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Life is filled with learning lessons. With these lessons, we need instructions that will help us to absolute empowerment. Having easy steps to self empowerment will bring the result of absolute love of self and sense of completeness and wholeness. 

  

1	SELF LOVE/REALISATION	needs never to be defended or protected for there is nothing to protect only the illusionary needs protection when it feels threatened and only the ego can feel threatened.
2	ABILITY TO LOVE	is based on the ability to love yourself.
3	SELF WORTH	is the totally related to your thoughts and negative feelings, behaviour and other people’s behaviour toward you. By loving yourself totally, rejection or approval from others can never affect you.
4	FORGIVENESS	is ceasing from making a perfect situation wrong. Because you forgot who you once were (love and perfection), you judged someone or something as bad or wrong.
5	SELF RESPOSIBILITY	is taking charge of your life and living it the way you really want, independent of how others or society says you should.
6	EXPRESSION	is the ability to say how you feel and think and act without feeling bad, anxious or fearful. It is the ability to be assertive in the running of your own life and overcoming timidity.
7	SELF ACCEPTANCE	acceptance of nonacceptance      self acceptance vs. indifference acceptance of physical body acceptance of your intelligence acceptance of your emotions acceptance of your uniqueness acceptance of self as well as others self acceptance vs. guilt self acceptance without complaint

Complete = Absolute Empowerment

 

 Never place anyone or anything
above your own self

7 Steps to Absolute Empowerment ©- Article By: Jean Sheehan,

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