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	<description>Recovery From Destructive Habits Using Modern Psychology &#38; Buddhist Philosophy</description>
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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: &#8220;When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! Febuary 15, 2010 The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption—that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: ADHD, Bullying, and the Destruction of American Childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! November 24, 2010 A spike in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications to treat children, with long-term effects that remain unknown. We speak with Canadian physician and best-selling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. He argues that these responses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Status Quo Bias</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in &#8216;status quo bias&#8217; in the human brain. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at the decision-making of participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Use Associated with Dulled Thinking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kara Gavin Originally published by UMHS Public Relations October 17, 2005 Smokers often say that smoking a cigarette helps them concentrate and feel more alert, but years of tobacco use may have the opposite effect, dimming the speed and accuracy of a person&#8217;s thinking ability and bringing down his IQ, according to a study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction &amp; Brain Development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to a lecture given by Dr. Gabor Maté to a Canadian First Nation group. He gives a great overview of some of the science behind substance addiction. He also gets to the root of passing the behavior to our children. This lecture is very educational and explains some of the &#8220;causes [...]]]></description>
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