Lucie Schnitzer
@lucie
Lucie Schnitzer
But to make yourself feel nothing, so as not to feel anything, what a waste.
Memoirs of an addicted brain - Marc Lewis
Alcohol- GABA and glutamate
Cough syrup - limbic systems (glutamate)
Weed- cannabinioids
PCP- NMDA antagonist
Excitatory (glutamate) neurons and inhibitory neurons(GABA)- alcohol enhances GABA and quenches glutamate
Limbic system- hypothalamus and amygdala stores the memory and anticipation and keeps telling th... See more
Alcohol- GABA and glutamate
Cough syrup - limbic systems (glutamate)
Weed- cannabinioids
PCP- NMDA antagonist
Excitatory (glutamate) neurons and inhibitory neurons(GABA)- alcohol enhances GABA and quenches glutamate
Limbic system- hypothalamus and amygdala stores the memory and anticipation and keeps telling th... See more
Letter from a stranger
Do you know what causes wind ? Low pressure meeting high pressure. Hot meeting cold. Change. Change causes wind and the bigger the change the stronger the wind blows - Mitch Albom
The collector
The metamorphasis
1984
The metamorphasis
1984
Addiction is a neural mistake, a distortion, an attempt to shortcut to get more of what you need by condensing „what you need” into a single, monolithic symbol. The drug stands for a cluster of needs— warmth, safety, freedom, self sufficiency - Mark Lewis
Strange order of things - Antonio Damasio
Homeostasis ensures that life is regulated within a range that is not just compatible with survival but also conducive to flourishing, to a projection of life into the future of an organism or species — we can think of feelings as mental deputies of homeostasis
Nervous systems make minds not by themselves bu... See more
Homeostasis ensures that life is regulated within a range that is not just compatible with survival but also conducive to flourishing, to a projection of life into the future of an organism or species — we can think of feelings as mental deputies of homeostasis
Nervous systems make minds not by themselves bu... See more
In order to learn you also need to forget, to make room, to stop seeing something one way so you can start seeing it another way - Mark Lewis
But there are so many times our lives are altered invisibly. The flip of a pencil, from written to erased - Mitch Albom