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Adjust Your Brain |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Kym Kuenning |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,653 Words, 11,219 Characters |
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Adjust Your Brain:
A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health
By Paul J. Fitzgerald
O Books, October 2007.
Correcting an imbalance in brain chemistry requires little more than an observation of your daily behavior. Contemporary research implies our personalities, preferences, and moods are largely regulated by the brain stem’s production of its three major neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephine. Trumping the theories of such psychiatric giants as Sigmund Freud and Victor Frank are a team of bio-theorists who embrace the sciences over the humanities as a means to describe human personality and its occasional maladaptive behavior.
One such scientist is Paul J. Fitzgerald, Ph.D., a former researcher of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. His recent title, Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health (O Books, October 2007), describes human personality and mental health based upon the quantities of the brain’s three major neurotransmitters, the Big Three Triangle, as well as their ratios to one another, and the sensitivity of the brain’s...
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...illnesses with the hope that such a framework will lead to much more effective drug treatment and a higher quality of life for a large number of people,” says Fitzgerald, a resident of West Lafayette, Indiana. In addition, Fitzgerald delivers a message that the use of psychiatry is no longer limited to sick people, but to anyone who wants to enrich their lives and reach their full potentials.
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