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The human brain controls nearly every aspect of the human body ranging from physiological functions to cognitive abilities. However, much of this knowledge is scattered across scientific journals and books in a diverse group of specialties. The 100 billion ne urons that humans are born with make connections through synapses, wiring the brain for action. Brain imaging studies of people with addiction show physical changes in areas of the brain that are critical to judgment, decision making, learning and memory, and behavior control. This was a widely held view of the relation between reason and emotion, in mental and neural terms. Over the past two decades, scientific knowledge about the structure and function of the brain and nervous system and understanding of brain based disorders have increased exponentially. The brain mechanisms of conscious access and introspection. Yet we only gain conscious access to one, or just a few, of these elements of infor.
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