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EP15: Neuroeducation: Using "Brain Talk" to Normalize Client Distress and Enhance Your Work with Raissa Miller

The Thoughtful Counselor

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Neuroplasticity, Brain Structures and Function, and Memory Mena

Neuro plasticity is just the way the brain changes in response to experiences. We are all born with certain genetic predispositions, but it's really through this epigenetic process in which experiences allow for certain genes to be turned off or on. This has been brought to my attention in clinical practice through my work in the last couple of years with relapse ention groups and addiction. Many of my clients there started using substances during adolescence. And so they never really developed the milan sheath, so to speak, to connect between the pre frontal cortex,. ti traditionally considered the thinking, o executive functioning as part of the brain. So these adults had an stunted brain development because of their

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