The video recommended meditation as a means of strengthening the prefrontal cortex control. I recently just revived my meditation practice per this suggestion to aid my use of TSM. Hopefully it will be effective.

Cool. What type of meditation are you using?

I watched the whole thing and found it interesting. They did suggest that dopamine was the leading cause of all the problems but as we all know, as Dr. Sinclair's rats, the endorphin is what's at stake for us. But none the less a lot of the mechanisms are the same and the scary part about that video is how he describes that there really is no predisposition in our evolution to be drinkers however there is for procreation so the Internet is like the perfect storm. Definitely not good for the young mind. I am old enough to remember..er umm... having to use my imagination. I can't imagine what it would be like to be 15 years old and have the Internet at my beck and call.

I was just on vacation in beautiful Colorado with my niece and nephew and all they wanted to do was plug into their electronic devices, sad really. There is a reason why Steve Jobs would not allow his children to have iDevices!

Check out this artwork i just came across the other day which is sort of on topic: http://banoosh.tv/25-shocking-images-il ... yday-life/

The type of meditation I do it's very simple. I sit for 20 minutes with good posture and focus on The present moment. When I notice my mind wanders I bring it back to Center without judgment.

You're both right, Ocean. The response to endorphins results in dopamine release in the Nucleus Accumbens and the Striatum. Endorphins are at the front end of the process and dopamine is at the back end. Dopamine is what does the actual programming, as I understand it. Without the endorphins released by drinking, there isn't the subsequent blast of dopamine.

For anyone interested in an instructional video on a basic meditation technique as a means of strengthening their will power neural pathways, I think the following is helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wirV265ZYSw