Axion NeuroTherapy, Inc.

02/16/2021

Confidence comes from practice to where you can demonstrate competence in three stages:
1. Competence to yourself
2. Competence to a judge
3. Competence under fire

Stage 3 gets us out of the fight-or-flight mode and into flow, engaging our frontal lobes.

How do YOU practice?

01/13/2021

Personalized treatment of in the requires us to view it through a new lens. The NMDA receptor appears to be a good target for treatment of the cognitive impairment that comes with depression.

Cognitive dysfunction is a principal determinant of functional impairment in major depressive disorder (MDD) and often persists during periods of euth…

01/12/2021

"Writing Frees Your Mind: The Fundamental Success Strategy.
Six Neuroscientific Principles."

By Sean C. Orr, M.D. and Drew Edwards, EdD, MS. December 21, 2020 Writing Frees Your Mind: The Fundamental Success Strategy. Six Neuroscientific Principles.

01/11/2021

"Workforce Support: Brain Science and Your Business: How to improve your company with Neuroscience."

By Sean C. Orr, M.D. and Drew Edwards, EdD, MS November 7, 2020 Workforce Support: Brain Science and Your Business How to improve your company with Neuroscience Behind the curtain of hiring talent. In this day of uncertainty, businesses are challenged more than ever to stay afloat and remain competi...

01/10/2021

"Welcome to the NeuroEconomy: The Emerging NeuroEconomy and Brain Building."

By Sean C. Orr, M.D. and Drew Edwards, EdD, MS September 23, 2020 The Emerging NeuroEconomy and Brain Building For all of human history, economies have been set up so that the majority of people would earn a living by brute force. Personal income depended largely on how much one could lift or physic...

01/09/2021

Intervention
• What to do--What not to do.
• How to help someone struggling with .

By Drew Edwards, EdD, MS and Sean C. Orr, M.D. August 31, 2020 In his best selling book, I’ll Quit Tomorrow, the late Dr. Vernon Johnson wrote that the hallmark of addictive disease is denial, which from a clinical perspective is not the same as lying. To avoid the internal dissonance between thei...

01/08/2021

The Hungry .
• Why your stomach is full but your brain is starving.

Why your stomach is full but your brain is starving. By Drew Edwards, EdD, MS and Sean C. Orr, M.D. July 3, 2020 This is the first installment in a three-part series about brain function and its relationship to body weight. Obesity & Misperception: Genetics, sedentary lifestyle, and poor dietary hab...

01/07/2021

The gut serves the brain by helping to process our emotions when we're under stress. Traumatic Brain Injury interferes with this and can compound the secondary effects of brain injury.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in trauma patients. The primary focus of treating TBI is to prevent add…

01/06/2021

The Power of Forgiveness in Recovery.

• Recovery from is marred by feelings of resentment, hurt, and unforgiveness.
• Forgiveness activates the prefrontal cortex and is a powerful Strategy.

By Dr. Drew Edwards and Sean C. Orr, M.D. May 25, 2020. The neuroscience of forgiveness and how it can contribute to recovery. Unforgiveness is the inability to reconcile unresolved feelings of anger and hurt, and recovery from addictive disease is marred by unforgiveness. Brain science shows how fo...

01/05/2021

Addiction by any other name...

By Sean C. Orr, M.D. May 18, 2020 "What is in a Name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - Shakespeare In previous posts, we've discussed how Reward Deficiency Syndrome, or RDS, is a brain disorder characterized by a clinically significant deficiency of Dopamine in the brain's Reward Ce...

01/04/2021

In the , we are developing a new understanding that addiction is better thought of as .

This unlocks a new level of compassion, I think, for people who struggle with addictive behaviors.

By Drew W. Edwards, EdD, MS and Sean C. Orr, M.D. April 5, 2020 "I could watch the sunset or see the rainbow, but I could never experience their warmth or beauty." - Amanda 33 Reward Deficiency Syndrome, or RDS, is brain disorder characterized by a clinically significant deficiency of the essential....

01/03/2021

Dealing with Depression—Brighter Days Ahead.
Advances in our understanding of make it more treatable than ever before in the .

Advances in our understanding of depression make it more treatable than ever before.