Alcoholism

• I got the idea for the course when I was writing a chapter on the temperance movement in American literature for my doctoral dissertation.
• I thought it would be fun to teach a class that surveyed American literature through a booze-themed lens.
• I pair my course with a medical doctor who teaches a course on the biology of addiction.
• In the biology course, students learn about the biological and physiological effects of diseases of addiction, substance use and abuse, dependency and recovery.

• The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UW-Stevens Point) will begin offering ICARE's CRPC training as a specialty to board certified coaches.
• The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UW-Stevens Point) will begin offering ICARE's CRPC training as a specialty to board certified coaches.
• "The accreditation of ICARE's online program by the National Board is excellent news for those in the health and wellness profession," said UW-Stevens Point Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Wellness, Brian Krolczyk.
• This new curriculum will attract NWHBC coaches seeking to add a Recovery Coach specialty to their health and wellness coaching practice.

• Simply by living among sawdust and woodchips, you learn to distinguish the different smells of wood.
• Years after my father retired, I was walking through the underbelly of a hospital when, completely by chance, I stumbled upon the maintenance room.
• Suddenly and unexpectedly, I was transported back to my native Toledo (in Spain), to my father’s carpentry workshop.

Smells that revive past emotions

• The scent of freshly baked cakes or bread, the chlorine of a swimming pool in summer, a salty sea breeze, coffee, and rain are smells that cause our minds to recover memories and emotions that we thought long forgotten.
• Memory is the brain’s ability to compile, store and recover information based on past experiences.
• Numerous scientific studies have tried to discover how we can recover memories and sensations from the past through a particular smell.

A direct line to emotional memory

• For this reason, a familiar smell activates the same areas of the brain as those related to emotional memory.
• In fact, scent induced memories tend to be connected to past experiences with a greater emotional significance than other senses.

The loss of smell, a sign of neurological illness

• Many of us experienced this first hand during the covid-19 pandemic, when millions of people lost their sense of smell.
• Intriguingly, many disorders linked to a loss of smell are neurodegenerative, where one of the associated symptoms is memory loss.
• LH, this reads as though all loss of smell ends up with Alzheimer’s, which i don’t think is what is meant, given the next paragraph.

Olfactory gymnastics to rehabilitate your memory?

• Consequently, in recent years there has been interest in determining the therapeutic potential of scents to stimulate and rehabilitate memory in patients with neurological disorders.
• Olfactory enrichment –smelling a range of different scents– can reverse loss of smell caused by an infection, craneal trauma, Parkinson’s and aging.
• Obviously, more research is needed to definitively conclude that regular olfactory stimulation helps to protect the brain and prevent cognitive decline or impairment.

• The "Cannabis Beverages: Global Strategic Business Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• The global market for Cannabis Beverages estimated at US$1 Billion in the year 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of US$3.9 Billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 17.7% over the analysis period 2022-2030.
• The global market for cannabis beverages is experiencing significant growth, with sales expected to increase steadily from 2022 through 2030.
• The market encompasses a range of products, including non-alcoholic and alcoholic cannabis beverages, as well as those containing Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabidiol (CBD).