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Daniel Amen: “When you hurt your frontal lobe, so think of hitting soccer…”

Featuring: Daniel Amen, Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics | National

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So the elephant is your emotional brain and the writer is your prefrontal cortex. It has to control or break your emotional brain. So the four year old in you is not always in control. And When you hurt your frontal lobe, so think of hitting soccer balls with your forehead repeatedly, that'll hurt your frontal lobes. Or playing tackle football. Now all of a sudden, free will goes from perhaps 80% to 40%. And then when you get stoned now it's at 10% or you get drunk. (1:15:30–1:15:38)

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Asserts that repeatedly hitting soccer balls with your forehead can damage the frontal lobes.

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