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KVC Health Systems Releases 2016 Annual Report and Honors Alliance CEO Susan Dreyfus

October 17, 2016

At Annual Celebration, KVC Health Systems marks a record year of helping children, adults and families.

Posted in KVC News, Neuroscience | Tags: Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, annual report, celebration, change in mind, outcomes, results, Susan Dreyfus

Addiction Is Not A Moral Failure… It’s a Brain Disorder

April 26, 2016

Dr. Nora Volkow, neuroscientist and Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse

Addiction has been widely viewed as the result of poor self-control and personal behavioral choices. In this TEDMED talk, Dr. Volkow discusses how images of the human brain provide insight into the role of the chemical dopamine.

Posted in Neuroscience | Tags: addiction, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, brain, brain science, change in mind, cohort, dopamine, Dr. Nora Volkow, front lobe, grant, initiative, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, NIDA, NIH, obesity, public policy, resiliency, rewards, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, stigma, substance abuse

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Posts Tagged ‘Alliance for Strong Families and Communities’

KVC Health Systems Releases 2016 Annual Report and Honors Alliance CEO Susan Dreyfus

Addiction Is Not A Moral Failure… It’s a Brain Disorder

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