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To understand this dark side of video games, lets review what we have learned about ADHD and drugs. A stimulant drug floods the brain with higher than normal levels of dopamine. This overstimulation causes dopamine receptor sites to downregulate causing a dependence on the stimulant. In the case of video games, this stimulation increases blood flow to the “nucleus accumbens” or pleasure center in the middle of the brain. At the same time blood flow decreases to the prefrontal cortex.29 Activity in the prefrontal cortex is associated with decision-making and control over impulses.
Staying Focused in a Hyper World
John Gray
And Tokyo, too, has its monolithic views—but it only has two of them: the Imperial Palace and the Diet Building. Otherwise, there are no views at all. Everywhere you look it is a chaos, but what a fascinating chaos it is. It is a mosaic city, a melange city. It has no center. It has no outside. It seems to lack even the structural supports we know from other cities.
A Lateral View
Donald Richie
The second transbiographical domain of the new cartography can best be called transpersonal, because it contains matrices for a rich array of experiences in which consciousness transcends the boundaries of the body/ego and the usual limitations of linear time and three-dimensional space. This results in experiential identification with other people, groups of people, other life forms, and even elements of the inorganic world. Transcendence of time provides experiential access to ancestral, racial, collective, phylogenetic, and karmic memories.
Holotropic Breathwork
Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof
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