Sober Powered: The Neuroscience of Being Sober

E183: To Drink or Not to Drink? How Your Brain Decides


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Not drinking requires you to exert cognitive control over your impulsive system, but it’s difficult to develop the pause between the urge to drink and drinking. In this episode you’ll learn how your brain makes decisions, how working memory can impact how much you drink, and how this can help you stay sober. You may hear a few meows in this episode hehe. That's Rudy. He wanted to help me record this episode

What to listen to next:

E162: what to expect cognitively when you quit drinking

E163: can we learn to moderate our drinking

E154: keep coming back relapse is not the end


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