Close Encounters with Addiction

stress. And if you look at the personalities or the life histories of people on that side of the spectrum you can see the correlation. I

There is a structure in the brain called the hippocampus, which is engaged in memory and in emotional processing. That organ is smaller in people with a strong right-wing perspective. I’ll tell you something else, what shrinkss the hippocampus is high levels of cortisol and

In such rats there are more receptors for the brain’s natural tranquilizing chemicals so they are not as stressed as the rats that are not so well-licked by the mother. It’s not genetic, because if you take the rats of mothers that don’t lick so well and put them with mothers that do, they grow up to be normal, and vice versa.