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Attention, Interrupted: The Chemical Life of ADHD (Part 1)
A detailed analysis of how the chemistry of ADHD breaks the Volition Equation, and why we just can't keep our %$#! together.
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The Chemistry of Making Choices
Decisions, motivations, and the difference between "liking" and "wanting"
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It All Began with a Faba Bean
The History of Dopamine, a snippet from the work-in-progress Dopamine book
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The Volition Equation Podcast: Episode 1
How the brain calculates rewards and makes your choices, with Rose and Nicholas Kircher
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Brains at the Brink: Left Neglect (Part 1)
What is it like when you lose an entire dimension of space?
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The Volition Equation
Does laziness actually exist? Free Will, Motivational Salience, and how our neurochemistry defines decision-making.
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Brains at the Brink - Split-Brain Consciousness
Does slicing the brain in half create two minds? Exploring the wild worlds of the split brain.
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(Personal) Walking through the valley of the shadow
It is not evil I fear; it is the shadow itself. Notes on Mental Illness.
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Brains at the Brink: Bruce Willis & FTD
Exploring FTD and its links to Parkinsons and Prion diseases
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Minds Eyes Part 2: Visions
"I was consumed by this presence, like the presence of a God. That's not an experience you can forget."
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Rock. Hard place. Unstoppable force. Immovable object.
Everything is hard.
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What is it like to be a duck?
Our consciousness deceives us. Being a duck is actually quite easy. What is it like to be a digital camera, though?
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A Chemical Mind
A Chemical Mind
Your guide to the chemistry of your mind; How to use science and the Volition Equation to steer your own brain in the right direction.
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