Other Benefits of Spiritual Practices or Retreats

Initially, your memories stay in the hippocampus and the areas connected to the neocortex, the outer part of the cerebral cortex.

As memories age, different brain areas start to manage your memories. The frontal, temporal and parietal lobes are in charge of the oldest memories.

Most dreams are actually less bizarre than people think. When we dream, the logic centres of our brain – the frontal lobes – go dark, and chemicals associated with self-control, like serotonin and norepinephrine, drop. At the same time, the emotion centres light up: we have a perfect chemical can...

• Dopamine is a neuromodulator – influences the communication of many neurons at once.
• There are 2 main neutral circuits used by dopamine to exert effects: (1) mesocortical limbic pathway – responsible for reward, motivation, craving; (2) nigrostriatal pathway